Artist: Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott
Best Album: This Is Not a Test
Best Song: Get Ur Freak On
Why I’m Writing About This Artist: Because, ridiculously, of Katy Perry and the Super Bowl. Because discovering that Missy Elliott had been part of the Super Bowl halftime show made me regret not watching the Super Bowl. Because that third video down there is staged, but is still how everyone who was listening to hiphop in the mid-to-late nineties reacted upon learning that Missy Elliott was in the Super Bowl.
“Wait. Is that–”
“No way.”
“That’s Missy Elliott.”
“No fucking way. God does not love me that much.”
“That’s Missy Fucking Elliott.”
And then, all at once, everyone in America yelled the same word at the same time:
“HOLLA!!!!!!!”
We done forgot, y’all. Never again.
(Do not sleep on the video for The Rain. Yes that is a motherfucking trash bag she’s wearing. And she rocks it. Because she’s Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott, and don’t you ever forget it again.)
(Also: there’s a fun little visual reference to Ol’ Dirty Bastard during the Super Bowl clip. See if you can find it.)
Have a video!:
(YouTube link of the halftime show went bad on me. Click here.)
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I’m not a musical person at all, and I know hip hop is heavily criticized for sampling, but it amazes me what Missy (and probably Timbaland) did with Ann Peebles’ “I Can’t Stand the Rain”. They took that sample, kept the true essence of it, and used it to create such a good new song. Similarly (interestingly enough) to what Dre did with the sample of the Sylvers song “Misdemeanor” for D.O.C.’s “Funky Enough”.
Missy had some crazy videos and beats, which overshadowed her lyricism. I think she’s a bit underrated there.
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