‘Milkshake’ singer Kelis has been sharing some of the dirty details about her marriage to legendary rapper Nas. It turns out he wasn’t just a cheat. Their whole relationship was toxic. His rampant infidelity was just the tip of a particularly nasty iceberg.
Kelis Exposes Nas For His Cheating and Toxic Behavior
The 38-year-old singer-songwriter, opening up in a rare interview, explained how her marriage was plagued with intense highs and lows that revolved around money. It was all good times as long as the dollars came in. However, when they didn’t, chaos descended and their lives lacked any sort of normalcy as excessive drinking and drug use took over.
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Kelis, real name Kelis Rogers, was born in Harlem. Her father, Kenneth, was a jazz musician. Kelis got together with Nas in 2002 when she was 22. Nas was 28. She admits to being naïve but also to being head over heels in love. They married in 2005 and divorced in 2009. She claims he had already been sleeping around for 2 years by then. But there were other things too, such as his toxic behavior. There was mental and physical abuse on both sides and she confessed to violent fighting.
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Kelis Said Nas Was ‘Angry and Dark’
At the time, Kelis put the toxicity down to Nas’s drinking. The ‘Trick Me’ singer claimed he would often blackout and wake up with no recollection of the events. According to her, Nas was ‘angry and dark’ then, and she added that he had not changed at all since they split.
The final straw came when Rhianna made headlines after a domestic violence incident with Chris Brown in February 2009, the night before the Grammy’s. He assaulted her in a Lamborghini. Pictures of Rhianna’s bruised and battered face quickly went around the world.
Kelis and Nas’ Divorce and Custody Battle
Although Kelis was herself covered in bruises, she recalls she had no plans to leave Nas then. That came a few weeks later, in April. She was seven months pregnant with their son, Knight. The divorce was finalized within a year. She admits she still loved Nas even then, and would likely have stayed longer ‘because we were married’, but for being pregnant.
The divorce was bitter, with a continuous battle over custody of Knight, now a teenager. When Kelis moved with him to Columbia in 2019, Nas claimed it was without his consent. He also accused her of denying him scheduled visits such as on Father’s Day. She accuses him of lying and only wanting Knight for ‘photo-ops’ and that, as a devoted mother, she did nothing wrong. He was not an ‘active’ father.
Kelis Said Nas Will ‘Never Admit to Abuse’
Kelis moved on and received recognition at the Brit Awards, Q-Awards, NNE Awards and the Grammy’s. She married a real estate agent in 2014 and they had two children, before he sadly passed away in 2022.
As for Nas, according to Kelis, he’s still obsessed with his image and will ‘never admit to abuse’. Kelis is adamant, ‘That man is exactly the man I married. He has changed not one iota’.
