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The Neptunes

January 2023

  • Pharrell Williams in New York, 2022

    The reader interview
    Pharrell Williams: ‘Life without music would be like a human being without sense’

    The singer and producer on his devotion to De La Soul, his bad acceptance speeches – and the secret to his pearly whites

December 2022

  • Pharrell Williams.

    The reader interview
    Post your questions for Pharrell Williams

    Do you want to know more about the huge hat he wears, the secret to that perfect skin or what it’s like working with Snoop Dogg? Get your questions in for the rapper and producer extraordinaire

August 2022

  • Kelis perched atop a massive ice cream sundae.

    Ranked
    Kelis’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

    After doing battle with Beyoncé and before her new album, Dirt, we rate the best of Kelis’s career, from the ragers to the musical recipes

September 2021

  • Britney Spears

    Ranked
    Britney Spears’ 30 greatest songs – ranked!

    As she celebrates her engagement and fights for her autonomy, we celebrate the best of an artist who helped to define 21st-century pop

February 2021

  • ‘His talent lies in subtle touches’ ... SG Lewis.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    SG Lewis: Times review – soaring, subtle disco for kitchen dancefloors

    Given the British producer’s skill for emotionally attuned nightclub elation, his debut shouldn’t suffer from the shutdown of its natural habitat

September 2014

  • Pharrell Williams iTunes festival 2014

    Pharrell Williams review – dazzlingly executed songcraft

    The late-period rebirth of the former Neptune, NERD and super-producer Pharrell is resplendent, writes Kitty Empire

March 2014

  • Pharrell Williams

    Pharrell Williams: 'My music is so much bigger than me, and what I am'

    Pharrell Williams wrote three of 2013's biggest tunes, and has made music with everyone from Daft Punk to Miley Cyrus. So why does he think he'll never be as big as Jay Z? Simon Hattenstone meets the man with the golden touch (and the very big hat)

February 2014

  • Pusha T

    Pusha T: 'I talk about things other rappers don't want to go into'

    As half of Clipse, Pusha T would perform for drug dealers' birthdays. But these days his raps dwell on his parents or friends in jail, he tells Paul MacInnes

December 2013

  • Kelis

    Music blog
    Kelis signs with UK indie label Ninja Tune - and it suits her

    The US R&B singer has moved on from major labels, and it's a shrewd move for an artist who has always been an outsider

July 2013

  • alunageorge

    AlunaGeorge: Body Music – review

    Kitty Empire welcomes a masterclass in twisted R&B from London's hottest duo

November 2011

  • Gloria Estefan

    Tom Ewing on music
    Let's hear it for the middle-aged female popstar

    Tom Ewing
    There's nothing undignified about women in middle age such as Gloria Estefan making dance-pop – in fact, they're perfect for it, writes Tom Ewing

September 2010

  • Pharrell Williams

    Soundtrack of my life
    Pharrell Williams: Soundtrack of my life

    The N*E*R*D and Neptunes frontman tells Luke Bainbridge why he owes his existence to Earth, Wind and Fire

November 2008

  • Pharrell Williams

    My sporting life
    My sporting life

    The rapper and car-lover Pharrell Williams on skateboarding, sports fashion and the day that Lewis Hamilton asked him for a race

May 2008

  • Santogold, Casablancas and Pharrell record track for Converse

    Shoe in: The rap sensation collaborates with Strokes and Neptunes' men for the brand. Expect trainers to feature prominently in the video

March 2008

  • New band of the week
    No 293: Kenna

    This Ethiopian-born, Virginia Beach-bred protege of the Neptunes creates brilliant new wave hip hop-synthpop electro-R&B. But are we ready for it?

August 2003

  • The Neptunes: Present... Clones

    (Star Trak)

May 2003

  • I'm a celebrity, get me noticed!

    This week Caroline Sullivan discovers there is such a thing as a free Robbie Williams concert and enjoys cocktails compliments of the Neptunes.

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