Food is the sixth studio album by American recording artist
Kelis, released on April 18, 2014, becoming her first album released under
Ninja Tune Records. In 2007, Jive dropped Kelis, and she later signed to
Interscope and
will.i.am Music Group in 2009, through the label she released her fifth studio album,
Flesh Tone, which saw Kelis experiment with a
dance sound. In 2011 Kelis began work on the follow up to Flesh Tone, however she left Interscope and signed to Federal Prism, before officially signing to the British independent label
Ninja Tune for the release of
Food.