Singer Kelis cooks up some Geechee-style rice, speaks on food and culture | GMA

Grammy-nominated artist Kelis opens up about food being the most communal and universal way to connect.
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[@TaureanDreams]

She looks so happy and free!!!!!!

[@newjerseylove1373]

Definitely looks and sounds free!!!

[@shawandahoward5648]

She does

[@barbarasaunders2160]

Yes she does!! Her energy and spirit, is beautiful!! Everything about her is beautiful!

[@TaureanDreams]

@@barbarasaunders2160 100% agree!!!

[@msteach3082]

“…As a black woman you’re accustomed to ignorance all the time …” Facts Kelis, and thank you for demonstrating through your artistry, that we are multidimensional. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@RealRoyaltE]

💯 No lies detected.

[@ilovegoodsax]

"No person in America is more disrespected than the black woman." ~ Malcom X

[@msteach3082]

@Dem Moore She didn’t say “filled with”, she said “accustomed to”, meaning, being exposed to other people’s ignorance in how they perceive the lives and experiences of black women.

[@glw5166]

The older I get the more true this statement becomes.

[@bj1959]

If we weren't multidimensional we wouldn't have been brought here. We are the ones who don't believe it.

[@lalakuma9]

Her rice brings all the boys to the yard.

[@williamfulgham2010]

Thanks Lala, I didn't want to be the only 1 on this channel to say that.

[@BOOM.SHOPPERS]

Man I love 😘 kelis. She is beautiful, dope and very knowledgeable. She's beyond a musician in my eyes she's multi-talented.

[@honeybdream]

I love how Kelis refers to the Netflix doc:High on the Hog‼️✔️🌟🍽

[@bijoubijou7500]

Love Kelis!

[@darrenkcork9476]

I swear I can listen to her talk for HOURS on end. I knew she was intelligent but the way she conveys her ideas is flawless. Who would have thought all the years ago, the lady who had me screaming how much I hate you right now, was adept in so many facets not just music. Kelis is LEGEND.

[@tmoore7049]

Kelis is so Zen now!

[@SharonDuke1]

Who knew she was so smart? So proud of her😊

[@tiffanieburns9465]

She hit the nail on the head! Ox tails, neck bones, ham hocks and turkey necks are extremely expensive now. These meats were sold for pennies when I was a kid. And I'm quite sure these were the unwanted peices of meats that were given to American slaves. We made these scraps work and turned them into a delicious dish and now they're $10.00 a pound. I still have price shock everytime I go to the market

[@timeandplace4114]

Yes, we are constantly having to teach, define and demonstrate the broad and diverse dimension of our beautiful and resilient race and it's multi-cultures.

[@mrstiffanella]

So beautiful ! I loved listening to you ,you truly are an inspiration to so many young black girls out there that here NO you can't . Well we just heard YES we can loud and clear !!! Thank you for that and my 3 black daughters thank you!!!!! Xoxo

[@SS-yl4wy]

I'm so impressed with here.

[@dafnenoel9825]

💯💯💯

[@deacondavis5098]

One Word; YUMM

[@vimbaigowo4333]

I love the shirt!

[@l.a.davenport7605]

❤

[@tjloosebooty8499]

Im gullah ghegee ....from my great grand father side

[@indriadrayton1132]

Red rice with scrimps!!!

[@kisha4040]

Shout out to the Gullah Geechee Nation!

[@jamiAkos]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@tieonneyvonne1222]

Yes! ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@FireMadeFleshII]

Dem boy ain't know nothin' bout dat 😉

[@CashFlowKweezy]

🌴🖤

[@naenaesmithe8766]

Her energy is just so infectious..I love her as artist, a songwriter, a chef, and a woman!! Very good person!!

[@lovelyp.8529]

Artist? What songs has she done???

[@haute03]

@@lovelyp.8529 I recommended googling her name because her discography is pretty extensive. She's been making music for 20+ years. :)

[@CSmith-tn8nv]

I’m still mad about oxtails and chicken wings being so expensive now. I mean furious. All because some bougie set discovered how good they are. They done gone and “discovered” greens now too…..

[@NT-fq8sk]

Yeah it's crazy. My aunt always talks about having a meltdown one day when she was young because she had to have chicken wings again because my grandma could only afford that part at the time.

[@omggiiirl2077]

Gentrification of our food. It's highly irritating. It's what we get for sharing our food....

[@fmfdocbotl4358]

Beef tongue prices are crazy now also. Makes me mad because the gentrifyersdont even know how to cook oxtails or tongue

[@RealRoyaltE]

Me too...furious 😡 about these high oxtail prices!

[@omggiiirl2077]

@@RealRoyaltE we should blow up chitlins and watch them eat all that shit! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@benjaminstokes5737]

she's a joy to listen to ~knowledgable and passionate

[@Pikachu-qr4yb]

Shes articulate and has a sexy voice

[@benjaminstokes5737]

@@Pikachu-qr4yb and a great laugh and sense of humor ! the list goes on !

[@Pikachu-qr4yb]

@@benjaminstokes5737 yeah I can listen to her forever. I want her to have her own show (I heard she's making a cooking show with Netflix!)

[@benjaminstokes5737]

@@Pikachu-qr4yb that would be amazing! hope it happens too

[@valeo3508]

Yes I've always loved her voice,so seductive and sultry

[@mikeadrian7737]

This lady has grown, can't stop watching her.

[@FaonVoireArtistique]

Kelis is the original trend setter for today’s pop stars

[@anamartin4150]

Very true

[@hunniedtea]

All facts

[@natoshiapurnell5652]

FACT

[@NellieKAdaba]

Yes

[@odvf]

Period

[@ancestralabundance]

Wait is that a plantain shirt? She is the dopest.

[@NT-fq8sk]

I need one of those shirts ASAP. I love her style!

[@annbesthangingout2010]

INDEED!!!!!!! THIS YOUNG LADY IS BOMB!!!!!!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@spencophany2307]

Cause she’s ‘bossy’

[@renatta2559]

It's a Farmrio dress

[@NT-fq8sk]

@@renatta2559 thank you!!! going to look for it now!

[@calvinlewis4344]

I've bought her goldmine boxes and her rubs,dressings,and sauces are extremely DELICIOUS!!!

[@zap4980]

Thanks for sharing ❤️

[@nicolew6904]

Where can we buy them?

[@Pikachu-qr4yb]

I wanna get it

[@Timmyjl25]

@@nicolew6904 go to her ig

[@Yoishalhal]

🤤thank for sharing

[@klomax7089]

Yeah I thought we were gonna see the finished dish, but anyhoo… Kelis is a joy bcuz she truly lives a joyful life 😊

[@jasminejohnson4707]

It’s the historical context for me !!!!!! Come on Gullah Geechee !

[@ayefo7800]

I could listen to Kelis talk about food and life for HOURS!!!!!

[@briannamorin1563]

“Obviously as a black woman you’re accustomed to ignorance all the time…” So freaking accurate. Love her.

[@susantv]

For the 18 people with the thumbs down, we can only assume you have a feeding tube and we are sorry, so very sorry.

[@Timmyjl25]

🤣🤣🤣🤣👌🏾

[@037deejay]

Right.

[@ibukayov]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 the truth 😅

[@muxnod9857]

Funny.

[@Lafemmefutile]

😂 Damn, this is a curse!

[@sicarresupreme]

Im proud im apart of the geechee nation this dish is about of my culture

[@blinggirltv1658]

Mine too ✨

[@Cutay7BOOTAY]

Bonding over food my mother cooked is my top childhood memory. She was from Louisiana and had 13 younger siblings. She always cooked more than enough for the meal. She was the reason I loved vegetables at a very young age. In high school my friends loved to be invited to dinner. Kelis reminds me that my mother cooked from her heart and that’s why her food was so delicious. Rip Momma, I miss you a lot❤️

[@mrsbell7116]

❤

[@Smarterthanyew]

God bless you, God bless ya mama.

[@jazzb16]

This hit home for me, as a chef who’s a black woman I get the ignorance a lot and it’s mind blowing the things I’ve seen and encountered over the years. Yet I’m still pushing forward to learn more and get where I want to be as a chef.

[@RealRoyaltE]

Kelis is sooo dope! 💚 Her creativity is boundless. It’s often assumed that Black women only know how to cook soul food and not world class cuisine👩🏾‍🍳. Our Ancestors farmed this land, were given scraps and made them delicacies. She made me hungry for my fav oxtails and some jerk chicken & rice 🍛.

[@lemonsorlimes9406]

Bravo 👏 applause 👏 well said!!

[@JukuduB]

All of these rice dishes have their orgins in West Africa. Obviously because of all the stolen Africans throughout the Diaspora. ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

[@1lilymoca428]

In plain sight. Actually we had to run into West Africa from our motherland Jerusalem in 70 A.D. Because of our dark skin we blended in as Moses in Egypt. Remnants still are in Africa and all over this world soon to end. Shalom

[@jones2277]

is rice even a native crop of west africa?

[@malaikasdurbin8960]

She watched the document High On The Hog documentary. Best documentary thus far.

[@ezekel.4656]

I loved it! So good! Had no idea.

[@arykachrystana6937]

Yesssssss I loved it!

[@tieonneyvonne1222]

High on the Hog was an awesome documentary! ❤ Very informative

[@dorisgreen311]

I think it's a damn shame that oxtails have become somewhat of a delicatessen. Like Kelis said, it's something the wealthy would throw away, but black folks perfected and made them flavorful. It's a shame something that was thrown away, something poor folks found useful for consumption has become soooooo ef'n unaffordable now. Oxtails usually have a generous amount of meat on them, as well as sometimes larger bones. Because of their weight, and folks who could give two f@cks about eating them then, now desire them. Many people now can't afford them and/or like myself, refuse to pay the asking price per pound for them. Same applies to chicken wings, short ribs, and pot roast. Bougie folks would never be caught consuming such things. Now, the desire for these foods are making them overpriced. My, how quickly foods that were common for poor folks to eat have become outrageously over priced. It's a pity. The amount of money generated from the sale of these foods by those who have seen the opportunity for exploitation is just sinful. SMGDH!

[@k.c.5426]

FACTS!🎯

[@beemonique8466]

It's that way about everything. They never want it until WE make it look good, taste good, add swag to it and etc... with clothes, dance, music, style Periodt! But THEY do not like giving us credit for anything. It's sad and terrible how THEY steal from us and go upsell it times 10. Tell the real reason why!!!

[@merkabah8697]

@@beemonique8466 PLUS SHORT RIBS and HAM HOCKS!!!!! Damn when I was a kid (back in the 50’s-60) chicken was expensive so we had oxtails and short ribs, neck bones and other cheap cuts of meat and a hell of a lot of green, grits, beans, turnips, corn potatoes, okra peas and chicken once in a while, fried, or as chicken and dumplings were a special dish on special days, like Sunday, or a picnic. AND YOU better NOT leave no meat on that bone. My folks ate the Gristle, lol You could hear my aunt Clyde and grandma chewing that gristle from across the room!!!

[@oaklandmade007]

Real talk💯 not to mention that oxtails cost an arm and a leg these days!

[@jeffmays5434]

Right

[@Love_To_Be_Love]

Please make James Island and Charleston SC proud. That’s our precious history on the plate.

[@DJ-uq6bb]

Yesss only reason I clicked so fast, charleston native here

[@zariah5448]

Charleston, SC / James Island representing

[@Divineunlimitedenergy]

Yes 👏🏽

[@robinafrica3456]

@@tyestadams8867 3 of my grandparents are from there! After arriving here from Barbados 🇧🇧

[@mjohnson4568]

Geechee Girl.🖤✊🏿🥰

[@dreamjai7099]

She is beautiful she looks so happy and peaceful most over all blessed

[@jewelqueen5949]

So true on the Ox Tails. I remember being able go get for .99 a pound back in the day. At the market two days ago & 20.99!!

[@williamfulgham2010]

Jewelry Queen, I agree so many prices have almost doubled in less than 2 years

[@Gigi-ki5su]

You can feel her passion, pride for our shared heritage, total fulfillment for where she is right now. Such a joy to listen to. I need more of her.

[@amijana]

She’s absolutely right about the price of oxtails these days🤣

[@dustfreequeen5151]

💯😂😂😂

[@cass_666]

Such a beautiful person and love the whole homestead farm-to-table idea.

[@velvetice100]

NAS knew he lost a good woman!

[@meshab6049]

Damn! I was just thinking this

[@TheFeminineGuru]

Absolutely

[@jermaineandrews5913]

Why they break up?

[@csiistandard]

Lol

[@glindaconard4363]

Love so Much that Kelis is a Chef, she didn’t become a Chef she was always Chef, she just had to get the Paper ❤️

[@DemureDarlings]

Kelis's father is African-American, a jazz musician and minister, and her mother, a fashion designer, is of Puerto Rican and Chinese descent. 6 degrees of Mixed Asian:

[@zap4980]

Thanks for sharing ❤️

[@rhonda-malcom]

Putting all her business out there

[@DemureDarlings]

@@zap4980 You’re welcome ♥️

[@DemureDarlings]

@@rhonda-malcom Lol 😂

[@numerologicatarot3333]

“Mixed Asian”?? Yea… no… why choose Asian out of all the other thing?

[@ferdinandcarson6732]

As she talks about how OX TAIL IS NOW MAINSTREAM not to mention Fish & GRITS was made for BREAKFAST or SHRIMP & GRITS oh yea forgot to mention WAFFLES & CHICKEN.

[@noemizuniga-perez7601]

I love oxtail stew and it’s getting very expensive.

[@tisaligon-roman6353]

I like Kelis. Food is extremely important in our culture as it brings us together while telling the story to others as to who we are. Brilliant segment. Should be more of this although would have liked to see more of the food pre and post interview. Maybe Kelis should have a cooking show 🤔👍🏼✨

[@williamfulgham2010]

Tisa Ligon Roman, Kelis has had a cooking show. And you can still see vids showing how she performs her magic dishes.

[@JinxSAW]

I’m from Honduras and we eat all those meals that she just mentioned 🙌🏽.. So she knows the Culture 💯... so much better than any fast food.. Healthy and clean

[@sheilafernandez-garrett]

Yes... she reminds me of my Honduran cousins cooking on their stoves outdoors. I really miss that.

[@islandsaltwaterqueen7862]

I’m geechee born and raised and I’m waiting to see this rice

[@Ken-iu2zp]

What part of the south?

[@nyaluv143]

No makeup, all natural everywhere even with her food. I love her 🌱🤌🏾

[@mimirose3009]

The ARCHITYPE honey! My muse for hair since high school & ill be 33 in 10 days so what's that tell you?!! LEGENDARY. I mean.....bih had Nas fine ass obsessed with her, cmon now

[@bringpeacetoall5505]

I was just telling my boyfriend, I see why he was never the same after her 😩

[@dipthongthathongthongthong9691]

I'm thinking of all the amazing and trend-setting outfits and accessories Kelis wore during her musical career. And even here within the context of her culinary passion, she accents her story with this cool plantain shirt, matching green nail polish, hoop earrings. Older, more "mature", and less flamboyant perhaps... but still so creative and stylish.

[@earth2survival922]

This was a beautiful spot on her. Lovely woman.

[@newjerseylove1373]

It makes sense that Kelis is a Chef now. The creative, artistic types always overlap naturally between passions (Singers, Cosmetologists, Musicians are THE best chefs...naturally due to creativity). Such a great story on Kelis now! Thank you, GMA!!!

[@jannetsmall-francis1656]

Great explanation. Black history’s been hijacked. It’s beautiful ❤️.. the diasporas all have this in common.

[@preciousgem84]

I'm glad she was able to get that word in towards the end. I'm constantly sick of hearing how am I aware of something? Or how did I know that? Like seriously, black Americans can be informed, enlightened, educated and down right cultured.

[@kamischa4267]

I haven't seen her for like forever😅It's good to see her again! She so pretty💝💝💝💝

[@ANDTHEGODDESSSPEAKS]

Just, WOW!!! She is in her element. I luv it.

[@BrandonCiCi]

She’s such a humble and smart woman. She really has become a beautiful person after all these years.

[@dblhelping5186]

Love Kelis!!!! Love to see outdoor cooking. Such a rich interview! We're geechee gyals & cant wait to try your take on red rice! Learned the term "saucier" & now I must do research about my ancestors braiding rice into their hair ❤

[@da1stamericus]

I wonder if that documentary she quoted was high on the hog?

[@IntuitivelyDriven]

Yup!

[@bbrown333]

Her husband was already diagnosed with terminal cancer at this point and you'd never know. She is so strong and such a beautiful person.

[@LouLou-vk5xm]

Love Kelis! Wish she could team up with Pharrell again..they made such great music!!😔

[@AllBrightColors]

I think HE made so much money too…not her.

[@cfoBROOK.]

*Pharrell & Chad

[@Blueprintforauthors]

LOVE HER!!! She seems to be beautiful inside and out!

[@KishBish]

I have always loooved her speaking voice 😍🥰 gonna try taking shots every time she says "like" 😏😆 love me some Kelis! she is the total package 💖

[@hello_04]

First off .... everyone Black from South Carolina is NOT Gullah Geechee. Just cuz I eat bagels and whitefish if I live ina Jewish area or was exposed to that food culture doesn't make me Jewish. Anyone could watch high on the hog and be a sudden expert 🙄! Let the Gullah speak vfor themselves by giving THEM this platform and respect the culture enough to not even wanna take it from them when they are available!!!! Kelis is NOT Gullah Geechee and this platform could have gone to one who is actually fully a Black Descendant of American slavery. But straight up American Blackness with 4c kinky energy and wide broad noses and lips --- that's never as palatable I guess🤷🙄! That's just facts. Also being partial Black American, or just Black American period does not make you a Gullah spokesperson or Gullah. It's just funny show now that all this specific attention is being put on Gullah Geechee culture People wanna jump on this bandwagon. In the north growing up being called Geechee was an insult. They even speak on it in movie A Soilders Story 'the day of the Geechee is over'. The stigma. Black Americans have an issue with trying to make themselves an other....an exotical. So all these years all we heard from her ... even about her chef career is the exoticism of her Puerto Rican side and Chinese side. That she's not a ' regular black'. Now .....that Black Americans descendants of slaves are speaking up and demanding respect be put on their names.....all of a sudden it's black this and black that.🙄🙄🙄. Timely branding 🙄. If they cut a check to descendants of American slaves all of a sudden everyone will be one.

[@adella5085]

What a gifted woman 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@dipthongthathongthongthong9691]

"I'm a saucier..." Next single? I'm Saucy! lol

[@AngelLopez-kw3vt]

She still looks good af

[@mackw919]

Your just thirsty

[@msd4743]

She does though

[@dustfreequeen5151]

Love her energy! Such a positive soul!

[@bjsmith4310]

Kelis, your right, we are what we eat. We have to learn to eat much healthier so our bodies will be more healthier and making sure we are eating all foods in moderation.

[@Pikachu-qr4yb]

We need to eat healthier so our skin can look as clear and smooth as Kelis'

[@GenXsinglefree]

This was very insightful. I agree that there is a spirituality around food even more than music. Makes sense as food sustains life.

[@mmloverjm]

My bf is from Charleston and introduced me to red rice. It is soooo good!

[@plaintalk186]

She is a mixed black woman. What is the obsession with her being black or not. You look at her she is black. Afro-latina is still black. Now, let us move on. Geez.

[@paulaadkinson8628]

Correct because black folks is every where and if it was not for black folks the whole world would not be populated.

[@monilaninetynine3811]

It's really disturbing how black people want to discredit and dishonor the blackness of other black people. Black people are indigenous to this planet. We come from Everywhere, which is wonderful. I know that there are gatekeepers who want to stave off the Rachel Dolezals of the world, but they take it too far.

[@mdeborah827]

Working with many Afro Latinos has taught me how much they differentiate themselves from African Americans so we can't afford to play around with legacy of people who were so strong they stood up to this system and signed their last will and testaments before going on freedom rides and marching over slave built D.C. where ancestors were interred in concentration camps after slavery. I am half ADOS and Half Bahamian which sounds EXACTLY like Gullah Geechee and I acknowledge the differences and it matters. I am forever thankful to the Black American civil rights workers who GAVE THEIR LIVES. I invite you to work extensively with Afro Latinos and come back and tell me the same nonsense about why people differentiate between the groups. Black born Americans are Black when its inconvenient to be among racist colorist Latinos on the workplace and being reminded that resentful opportunistic slick people people don't have the nerve to call out Spain like our ancestors did with Britain and the the horror of America. I have never met a Latino who is absolutely inherently disgusted with Spain. When I mention this to them in conversations with it I get crickets. Everyone quiet and it was always with Black Latinas expressing resentment at Black Americans always speaking about their situatiin here. Then I have to explain to them the details for them to understand. Black Americans, protect your legacy. Black American women of ADOS descent, protect your legacy as you are the MOST hated. I would actually suggest you learn about Latinas and AFRO Latinas and their language in depth and help them start an Afro Latino liberation movement in their origin countries because I see what they're up to here and I will call it out each time. The same South Carolina that gives you Gullah Geechee and that sty,e of cooking will have others from the state that only cook Carolina White rice in upstate SC especially after some families fled the coastal areas and went upstate. Why they would shed their Gullah ways and that cooking tradition but I acknowledge their experience in that state was a terrifying one and none of it was wrapped up in anything Puerto Rican. Just wanted to add that I was a Harlem baby too and despite the Arthur Shomburg contribution Afro Latinos living in Slave built NY see themselves seperate from ADOS even when intermarried. Respect the differences and explore them but on the ground in the real world as a Black woman dealing with the multitudes of Latinos has been eye opening experience and has shown me to appreciate the Black born Americans who literally lost their lives for freedom HERE. Their sacrifice is sneered at and muttered about in Spanish in my NY and disregarded by far too many. Too many want to connect with the Gullahs while dismissing the other southern groups that don't cook this way. As I come from both cultures, I see the backhanded dis and I call it out.

[@damnpam4680]

She is me and I am her , doing what I love is my next step in life not sure if I will go to culinary school but self taught chef and if you put something new in front me I will conquer it if not the first time second time for sure love her journey and lover her spirit

[@OrganicallyLuxeLife]

Hi Pam

[@damnpam4680]

@@OrganicallyLuxeLife hey girl good to hear from you after Trump election I was tried to Facebook n IG now I forgot my passwords so I can’t get back on I don’t miss it but miss some things about it

[@Inunity2020]

My ancestors are Geechee, so cool!

[@linniepooh81]

Mine too!

[@RealTime048]

She hit the nail on the head with that oxtail part… y’all never wanna give us credit!!

[@NewscorpleftofcenterBlogspot]

I didn’t know that she was this awesome I love her even more.

[@jmhowlett]

She definitely needs her own lifestyle channel. I would support 100%

[@warriorgoddess1364]

LOVE Kelis! She should come out with a signature MILKSHAKE!!!😄😍🥰💋😘

[@williamfulgham2010]

Warrier Goddess, Kelis has finally done one for 'Milkshakes' on KZbin. I saw it recently.

[@chanta6116]

Kelis I’ve been rockin with you since the first 💿 … she is so versatile and I need to buy some of her sauces ASAP! I too cook for a hobby I should take it up.

[@ansn1989]

🗣make Oxtail cheap again!!!

[@shawnwickk8508]

She is glowing you can tell she has found her happy place it just shines through her I'm happy for her

[@just_janen_1196]

Funny how her green nails matches her outfit. I love it.

[@angelaalston971]

All Black Women Can Sing Dance Cook I had to tell a young man I'm bringing a fork not a dish to the party💁

[@sarabulic992]

I SWEAR- i had a dream about her, cooking in her kitchen, and this popped up the next day 😱

[@nobuhlekhumalo1903]

Back to her African roots...and lm loving it❤❤❤👍😅

[@mstaz1688]

*African-AMERICAN 🇺🇸

[@nobuhlekhumalo1903]

@@mstaz1688 lol..smart ass you are... But really fundamentally from African roots lovey😂👍🙈❤😘

[@hello_04]

But not her Gullah roots cuz she's not Gullah Geechee though 🙄

[@hello_04]

@@nobuhlekhumalo1903 No he corrected you right!!! This video and about Gullah Geechee culture which is American culture of the descendants of American slaves.

[@hello_04]

@Ibibo Ibiene first off ....she didn't make rice and beans so yeah um 🙄🙄🙄🙄. Red rice is not rice and beans. And as we were sold into American slavery by Africans for material gain by them.....we can call ourselves whatever we feel like calling ourselves. But what we are...those of us that are that is....are American descendants of slaves. We have our own unique culture which is based off the circumstances of being an amalgamation of all the various African tribes we were sold from to white slave traders (let me repeat again....sold to white slave traders by fellow Africans not captured like in Roots the movie). So depending on where we were forced into chattel slavery after being sold by people who looked like us for material gain🙄, we were not formally trained in English and so created the combined language that would only happen if people who weren't naturally supposed to be forced together were forced to communicate in English with various African languages as their mother tongue. That created it's OWN unique culture, language and food. Using ingredients here which are not African ingredients, combined from various experiences HERE. Y'all narcissist think everything is an applause back to Africa. Well just like American descendants of slaves are owed reparations for what happened here, Africans who profited from selling us into slavery owe us too. So I'd be much quieter about popping loud about things you chose not to educate yourself about. Trust we'll come around to y'all for y'all part soon enough.

[@LucienneintheDreaming]

I love the green.

[@DemureDarlings]

She is ADORED 🙏🏽🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@ZachVanHarrisJR]

*shout out to my Afro Latinas* ✌🏾❤️🤴🏾👸🏾

[@nicolemontgomery9463]

The farmers from down south would bring collard greens and watermelon WITH SEEDS yams turnips...in brooklyn we would always look for he truck😍

[@mstaz1688]

What does Kelis have coming out because this is like the 3rd or 4th video I've seen on social media with her and those green nails, talking about food.💀

[@WellDamn24]

I think a cookbook. I applaud her for creating and working that PR machine to her advantage.

[@erinwilliams57]

Lord, she's not lying about oxtails. My grandmother used to make succotash on the holidays and wish I would have seen her while she was in the kitchen making it. Damn!

[@indigenousvlogz5683]

Soul food is American food I’m happy she know her roots we are black Americans copper colored Arawak peoples . Geechee (n.) patois of coastal black communities in the southeastern U.S., from the Ogeechee River in Georgia. The name is from Muskogee and means River of the Uchees," referring to a neighboring people. Geechee is an American language created by indigenous black Americans

[@Cutay7BOOTAY]

The price of oxtails now is outrageous

[@AllBrightColors]

What’s the price where you are?

[@Cutay7BOOTAY]

@@AllBrightColors 6 to 8 dollars a pound, ridiculous

[@criola1340]

Side note: what a natural beauty 😍. She seems like someone you could just sit and chat all day with

[@tiffanieburns9465]

Yes! She's my good girlfriend....in my head