Who's Missy missing? (NOT a Work It thread!)

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On my copy of the new Missy Elliot album the first track starts with just her talking. You'd think anyone could talk for a minute without studio trickery but there seems to be and edit at 38 seconds in.

If you listen carefully there's an click and it sounds to me like the words before and after just sound wrong, like she's moved her head slightly or changed the tone of her voice a bit. Which you would do when talking anyway, but it just seems to jump.

The click could just be down to my copy (off someone in my A level class) but I don't think I'm imagining the change in tone. Even if I edit the click out it still sounds unnatural. If this is on the original (can someone please confirm this?) then why wasn't edited with more care? I'd probably think it was just my dodgy copy but I want to believe that it has been cut because of where the edit is.

Missy is bemoaning the fact that churches are for mourning as well as
celebrating and she lists some recently dead people, mostly hip-hoppers:

world trade families

the left eye family
big pun family
biggie family
pac family

What's going on here?
A few different possibilities:

- some boring PC rubbish

- missy had someone lined up to be 'hit' but the hitman/woman screwed up and they're still alive

- re-issues: Missy listed loads of famous people connected with the hip hop community and at time of release edited it down to only those who were dead. On successive re-issues she can leave in more and more of the people on the list as they die.

What do you think? Is it just a dodgy copy or is the something more sinister?

― mei (mei), Monday, 13 January 2003 10:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I noticed it, too. I figured it was just a blown take on the spoken bit. Interesting theory about the re-issues, though.

― JS Williams (js williams), Monday, 13 January 2003 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

by all accounts isnt under construction - as released not the finished mastered copy but a pre-mixing down version - hence every track has that annoying "miss-e elliot ex-clu-sive" on it

might be a rummour but this might explain the poor quality you have found

― james (james), Monday, 13 January 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I noticed this also, I think she was probably rambling on for a while and it was edited for time/interest reasons. I'm guessing the edit was done quickly the first time and simply got overlooked thereafter.

― Brian Miller, Monday, 13 January 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

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