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So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.

In fashion and in attitude, wearing massive bleached afros and oily, glittery body makeup, Kelis seemed to self-alienate from the prevailing dogma of the decade she performed in. She presented as an Afrofuturist, one who eschewed monochromatics and old lines, one who styled herself like a raunchy, strong superhero out of ’70s blaxploitation. Her throaty singing, which she could subdue enough to register as rhythmic talking, avoided the melisma and runs that defined many of the black female singers who were her contemporaries. The era was prone to experimentation: The mid-’90s to the mid-aughts were a rebuilding era for hip-hop and R&B, and the construction dissolved divisions, both in themes and in production. The Neptunes were instrumental in that restructuring. Ultimately, though, the sound was about pushing genre, not skirting it.

What's the craziest thing you've ever done with a guy ?