Missy Elliott

Wait - so what is the thing with this Big Draws, Little Panties thing? Am I just totally late to this game? is it a hoax?

DEETS, pleaz

its a collection of b-sides + album tracks

I thought she was having a new album freals

she is

http://youtube.com/watch?v=J6sw5x6ryiM

that's kinda dull, even that that ching a ling thing was more interesting to me

I keep checking Wiki for updates, because I'm not seeing anything anywhere else: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Party_%28album%29

Since Chinese Democracy finally came out, I figure it's a race between Block Party and Detox to see which eventually takes the longest to complete.

Dre has a six-year headstart on Missy, or vice versa, depending on whether you win by taking longer or vice versa

sorry I'm tired, you get what I mean

honestly i just don't want this to come out at all - the last few things she appeared on she just sounded like she'd just run out of both ideas and desire. there's no shame in great careers coming to a natural conclusion.

yeah true

she played here a few months ago and is still terrible live too :(

^^^^^

I stopped caring sometime after Under Construction. Still a great run of first four albums though.

with ghosts of early '00s pop rap like Nelly and Eminem making comebacks, I could totally see Missy being successful again, but it probably wouldn't be very good. I'd like to see her teach Minaj how it's done, though. she seems like she's given up on putting out Block Party and is just coasting along doing production on R&B albums.

i have the exact opposite feeling w/missy than i had w/lauryn hill - i always wanted lauryn to rap more, but i always wanted missy to sing more

Missy Elliott has revealed that she's been suffering with Graves' disease -- an autoimmune disease that affects the thyroid -- as of 2008.

Missy reportedly shared details of the diagnosis with People Magazine, saying that the symptoms -- including mood swings and weight loss --- affected her quickly and unexpectedly.

"I was [driving and] trying to put my foot on the brake, but my leg was jumping. I couldn't keep the brake down and almost crashed," Elliott said. "I couldn't write because my nervous system was so bad -- I couldn't even use a pen."

Elliott has been going through radiation and exercising, which fortunately has improved her condition. "I'm 30 pounds lighter because I've been exercising." Elliott continues. "My thyroid is functioning, so I haven't had to take medication in about nine months. [But] you live with it for the rest of your life."

As Missy continues as a champ, fighting through her disease, which unfortunately has no cure as of yet, she's working on new music with long time friend and collaborator, Timbaland. Elliott will be featured on VH1's 'Behind the Music,' further discussing her battle with Graves' disease, weight issues, and being sexually molested as a child.

You can catch Elliott's 'Behind the Music' special on Wednesday, June 29 at 10 PM.

http://www.billboard.com/#/column/the-juice/missy-elliott-diagnosed-with-graves-disease-1005248022.story

Glad that her condition has improved, Missy is one of the best ever.

Didn't know! Hoping for a full recovery.

aw man. kinda explains a lot. get better Missy!

Genuine feelings for this woman.

Yeah, wishing her all the best!

Yes

^^^^^^

Missy's Behind The Music is on tonight, for anyone that's interested

Is that at 10 edt? Thanks for the reminder.

yeah 10 EST

New bit they played from the studio was grebt!

Also, are there Fayze mp3s out there somewhere?

I was wondering the same thing!

The new track did sound good.... I had no idea her upbringing was THAT awful/traumatic :(

oh, Fayze is the same as Sista... I have the Sista album, it's dope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCBDhjrg-fo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gfquJItFcc

oh shit Supa Dupa Fly was recorded in TWO WEEKS?!?!

I've heard the Sista album. Just thought there may be some earlier songs out there somewhere.

Supa Dupa Fly was recorded in TWO WEEKS?!?!

Yeah, WUT?!! Amazing.

So:

http://www.missinfo.tv/index.php/missy-elliott-9th-inning-triple-threat/

already talking about them here Come anticipate Missy Elliott's Block Party album in 2012

excuse me what

At midnight tonight I’m dropping a collection of new songs! Let’s #ThrowItBack to a time when music just felt good and made us want to dance! Sincerely, Dr. Melissa “Missy” Elliott #ICONOLOGY pic.twitter.com/rv2eVYGy1J

— Missy Elliott (@MissyElliott) August 22, 2019

Hmmm

Loved her popping out of a trunk in that latest lizzo video

What!?? Me and the kids were just blasting Missy.

I WAS WONDERING WHY ALL HER NEW PRESS DIDN'T MENTION NO DATES OR ANYTHING. HERE WE GO.

A vital cultural resource:

ok in honour / anticipation of Missy's first new project in 14 years it's time for a thread of Missy videos. https://t.co/gANxMN07RW

— Alexander (@purplechrain) August 22, 2019

personally went on a marathon of missy videos recently when her (well deserved) mtv vanguard award was announced

New release is live -- an EP, five songs, the last of which is an acapella of the fourth.

And new video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rOKdATrV4g

Like her last few singles, I really wish I liked this more

It's ...ok.

is "Sum1" a pseudonym for a well known singer?

I hope that’s her actual stage name.

Fell asleep halfway through Throw It Back.

am hearing "Cool Off" as "Culo" which improves it a bit but not much. otherwise, nothing on the EP is grabbing me immediately.
Still standing with WTF as a best of track

"Throw It Back" is okay

her rapping is good on it but the production, as sic pointed out, is boring

video's great, rapping is great, the beat is uhhhhh

na-na na-na, na-na na-na

(sorry)

thx Master P

(or Master Don Committee, I suppose)

pretty much everything about that song is middling unfortunately :\

Missy made such an amazing run of singles/albums probably all the way up to cookbook. It does feel like her inventiveness largely dissipated, seemingly overnight. It's a strange mystery, but nothing from the last ten years has a hint of that manic unbridled energy of her classic stuff. I would be disappointed except that there's such an insane abundance of stuff to go back to.

This is like okay but nothing to really get excited about. There have been times I've really tried to make myself feel it, but I've given up.

I think WTF and I’m Better are both excellent, not remotely a drop off from the previous decade. But yeah the new EP is just ho hum.

those are my two favourite as well, but her singles used to shoehorn in the hook from another album track, and they often felt like they jumped around all over the place. I'm Better in particular is much more "minimal" than she ever used to be. I don't think the new stuff is terrible, but it doesn't have that giddy boundlessness. i guess she is also like middle-aged now although she looks basically the same age.

Totally agree about "WTF."

I like "WTF" almost as much as anything she's ever done. In a perfect world, that would've been the "September" on her greatest hits LP.

oooh

I hate the pharrel verse on it so much though. Pharrel is just ghastly now.

I'm a nice dude
With a nice hat
I got nice kids
Got a nice cat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9I-ut1TXoA

^^this ruled <3

the amount you guys like WTF is mind boggling

there's like 300 pharrell/neptunes songs that sound like that

I like "WTF" almost as much as anything she's ever done

this might be the single craziest opinion i've ever seen on ILX

i think i recall you saying the same thing when it came out and i recall my opinion being the opposite
strangely, passions have not cooled either way

I mean, I said "almost," even if I didn't mean it.

that's true i forgot we went thru this at the time xp

Jordan, why don't you like WTF

i agree with ico that pharell ""rapping"" on WTF is its most glaring weak point but years of practice with timbaland allows me the fortitude to disassociate through that verse

i relistened to just in case

no

weird how the new video is cribbed from richard mosse (?) also

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

Jordan, how do they do it where you're from?

I wanted 2 cry happy tears getting back in a patent leather blow up suit such a great memory! It took me back to when I 1st was in it & they had 2 blow me up at a gas station and then it was 2 big to get in a car so I had 2 walk in the streets of Brooklyn looking like this😩🤦🏾‍♀️😂 pic.twitter.com/SoQQHuWQUX

— Missy Elliott (@MissyElliott) September 2, 2019

she's a god