Missy Elliot - Classic or Dud?

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Supa Dupa Fly is good but song for song may actually be her weakest albums (worst rhymes, least distinctive melodies etc.). Da Real World is maybe my favourite - I can't believe how severely people underrate it, I mean how could you not adore an album with "Mr. DJ", "Sticking Chickens", "Smooth Chick" and "U Did It" on it?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 01:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

I really don't believe she exists without Timbaland.

I really don't see her flow as anything particularly original. She suffers from Janis Joplin syndrome wherein a dirty Southern Rapper (bluesman) inhabits the body of a dumpy little girl (Missy/Janis). If I want to listen to off axis dirty rhymes I'll listen to Luda.

I've never heard her freestyle.

Associations with Nelly (Furtado)

Token blackgirl associations with Lilith (Fair)

I prefer Jean Graye.

― jm (jtm), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 03:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

six months pass...

bump so there won't be so many goddamn dud votes.

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 08:26 (twenty years ago) link

some interesting points here
i think definitely classic,based on some of the best tracks i've ever heard,and the fact that it seems so ridiculous she can get away with releasing such amazing,fucked up singles,but there are certainly some tracks i'm ambivalent about
also she probably isn't the best mc around
i don't really care though,she's done some amazing stuff and i don't really care if everything she does isn't amazing,enough of it is a laugh for her to be classic in my book

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:02 (twenty years ago) link

Thought she was a dud when she first hit the big time in the US but she endeared herself to me through her cameo on Lil Kim's 'Ladies Night' and the sheer genius that is 'Beep Me 911'. Was nearly converted by Da Real World but gave it up for 'Get Ur Freak On' in a big way. Missy co-producing Under Construction is a big thing for her-'Gossip Folks' is the shit and 'Work It'! Heck, her remix of 'American Life' was the best thing about that single (the worst being that it was 'American Life').

Classic for her singles alone, more classic for the above-mentioned, 'All N My Grill' and 'Hot Boyz Remix', and she may yet sustain her future on her own merits.

― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:43 (twenty years ago) link

ten years pass...

http://www.mediafire.com/listen/hb6q55h623u7uu2/Lose%20CTRL.mp3

Here is a really crazy remix of Lose Control I did a few years ago.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 7 December 2013 21:13 (ten years ago) link

Sorry to drop a direct file link here please don't ban me, if it's against rules you can take it out.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 7 December 2013 21:13 (ten years ago) link

one year passes...

The new single has been blowing my mind all morning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO_3Qgib6RQ

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 19:26 (eight years ago) link

one year passes...

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— Dirty Glove Bastard (@DGBastard) September 13, 2017

― Spottie, Thursday, 21 September 2017 19:13 (six years ago) link

one year passes...

Ranking her five best.

― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 19 October 2018 02:00 (five years ago) link

da real world robbed

― ANU (sisilafami), Friday, 19 October 2018 09:03 (five years ago) link

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