Missy Elliott
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Missy Elliot: Under Construction (Elektra)
Review by Toby Manning, Jockey Slut, February 2003
PRE-EMPTING UNCHIVALROUS jokes, Missy Elliott describes herself in an intro as a project "under construction". ...
Missy Elliott: Da Real World (Elektra)
Review by Amy Linden, The Source, 1999
THERE ARE cultural watershed moments. Blips in the radar screen that make you anticipate what lies ahead and forget what came before. One of those ...
Rhymes & Misdemeanours: Missy Elliott Gets Her Freak On
Interview by Amy Linden, XXL, July 2001
The expression "It takes a village to raise a child" has quickly morphed from sage African proverb to the Have a Nice Day of social ...
Album of the Year: Never mind Talvin Singh, here's the bollocks...
Interview by Toby Manning, Jockey Slut, December 1999
High above central London, Jockey Slut assembled an illustrious panel to debate, Mercury Prize-style, the album of the year in the plush environs of Home's ...
Missy Elliott: This Is Not a Test!
Review by Nick Southall, Stylus, 1 December 2003
Miss E… So Addictive, spearheaded by the epochal 'Get Ur Freak On', marked a zenith for Missy Elliott and her long-term conspirator Tim Mosley, as ...
Yancey Strickler's Favorite Recordings Of 2002
Retrospective by Yancey Strickler, Neumu, 31 December 2002
In terms of great music, 2002 is as good a year as I can remember. It says a lot that when making this list, and ...
Missy Elliott: NIA, Birmingham
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 6 October 2006
IT IS an inspiring testament to the broad church of pop that a comically eccentric, musically adventurous, downright surreal figure such as Missy Elliott can ...
Missy Elliott: All Made Up, Ready to Go
Profile and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 1 February 1998
There's no stopping Missy 'Misdemeanor' Elliott as she shakes up the male-dominated hip-hop world. ...
Profile and Interview by Bethan Cole, i-D, January 1998
AT THIS moment she's so far out, floating in her own self-programmed audiogalactic, that no one else in hip hop or R&B can touch her. ...
Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott: Da Real World (Gold Mind/EastWest)
Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 1999
JUST TWO albums into her solo career, Missy Elliott understands all too well that trying to keep one step ahead of the Zeitgeist isn't easy. ...
Report by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 1998
Rap hasn't merely survived the shocking deaths of hip-hop leaders Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. It's thriving now, thanks to a fresh infusion from today's ...
Missy "Misdemeanour" Elliott: Supa Dupa Fly (EastWest)
Review by Lloyd Bradley, MOJO, January 1998
Hip hop's hottest singer/rapper/producer cuts her own album. Mixes original music, samples, beats, big name guest rappers and singers. Result: modern urban black music of ...
Shania Twain: Up!; Missy Elliott: Under Construction; Hil St Soul: Copasetik & Cool
Review by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 22 November 2002
Why settle for the pleasantly inoffensive tunes of Shania Twain when Missy Elliott and her posse are busy rewriting the hip-hop rulebook. ...
Timbaland and Missy Elliott: Partners in the Engine Room of Rap
Comment by Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 1 August 1999
POP-MUSIC history tends to focus on glamorous vocalists and visionary songwriters, but the evolution of black pop is another story: it's as much about changes ...
Missy Elliott: Miss E... So Addictive (The Gold Mind Inc/Elektra 7559626392)
Review by Ian Penman, The Wire, June 2001
Ian Penman gets out of his head on Miss E ...
Interview by Andy Crysell, New Musical Express, 6 December 1997
She writes Number Ones! Makes "wacky" videos! Is, like, totally fly! And MISSY "MISDEMEANOR" ELLIOTT, rap's brightest new talent, has come to save us… ...
Built To Last: Missy Elliott: Under Construction (East West) ****
Review by Dorian Lynskey, Q, January 2003
Saluting hip hop's past while embracing the future. ...
Missy Elliott: The Cookbook (Atlantic/Goldmind)
Review by Dan Gennoe, Yahoo! Music, 2005
IN HER nine year career, Missy Elliott's barely put a foot wrong. And she's not about to start with album number six. ...
Review by Angus Batey, MOJO, January 2004
Virginia's avant-garde hip hop twosome are still on the right track on their respective new LPs, but have they started to run out of steam? ...
Review by Chris Roberts, Melody Maker, 25 October 1997
MISSY "Misdemeanour" Elliott has been an invisible but insistent pivot of the pop world. ...
Overview by David Bennun, Hot Air, 1999
A LITTLE over two minutes into The Fugees' 1996 hit 'Ready Or Not', the voice of Lauryn Hill is thrown into relief by a brief ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, The Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music, 2001
b. Melissa Elliott, 1 July 1972, Portsmouth, Virginia, USA ...
Missy in Action: Missy Elliott
Profile and Interview by Ted Kessler, The Observer, 5 August 2001
As a child, Missy Elliott sent daily letters and tapes to her heroes Michael and Janet Jackson, asking them to save her from abuse and ...
Destiny's Child: Survivor (Columbia)***; Missy Elliott: Miss E…So Addictive (Elektra)*****
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, August 2001
Two blasts of future freak-funk ...
Missy Elliott: This is Not a Test
Review by Ben Thompson, The Observer, 16 November 2003
WAY BACK IN 1997, when Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott launched her debut album Supa Dupa Fly with the touching dedication "To my mom... I would not ...
Missy In Action: The Divine Ms. Elliott
Interview by Ben Thompson, Daily Telegraph, May 1999
MISSY "MISDEMEANOR" Elliott is an infamously snappy dresser, so when she emerges from a discreet recess in her LA hotel room wearing nothing more elaborate ...
see also Timbaland
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