Missy Elliott

On her second solo LP, Missy enlists more of her platinum pals, such as Eminem, Redman, and Da Brat. A quality follow-up to her much-loved debut, with more of Timbaland's signature soundscapes backing her highly original microphone approach. Standouts include the hits "Hot Boyz" and "She's A Bitch."

The very idea of Missy Elliott is tantalizing: a daring young woman from the Dirty South --
currently hip-hop's most innovative region -- who can sing soulfully and rhyme forcefully,
who can write and produce hit songs, who's smart enough to be sonically innovative and
yet keep it mainstream, who's ambitious and original enough to create her own style of
dancing and mix a sci-fi twinge into her aesthetic to invoke the feeling that she's... More >