Missy without Timbo: singles, features, and songwriting/production credits

Monica - "So Gone" (2003)
Keyshia Cole featuring Missy Elliott & Lil' Kim - "Let It Go" (2007)
Jazmine Sullivan - "Need U Bad" (2008)
Tweet featuring Missy Elliott - "Turn da Lights Off" (2005)
Faith Evans featuring Missy Elliott - "Burnin' Up" (2002)
Ciara featuring Missy Elliott - "1, 2 Step" (2004)

^^ could be a list of my favorite R&B singles of the decade

spotify or grooveshark playlist? pls?

i have only the faintest idea of what the former is and have never heard of the latter, so somebody else will have to help you with that. i'm sure most of these songs are on youtube though.

raven-symone gonna take this

did Tim produce "Take Away"? I feel like that might've been one of the handful of tracks on So Addictive that were done by other producers but I can't figure out for sure online. but that can be the 'other' in the unlikely case that anyone thinks that's better than all these songs.

702 "Steelo"?

wasn't that produced by Timbaland?

think it comes down to "no panties" vs "bad girl", though "lose control" really is a jam and has one of the best videos of the last decade

haha the melanie b one isn't actually bad at all

"Bad Girl"? really?

yeah, i love the twitchy production and harmonies zooming off everywhere - a good 2/3 of that danity kane album was really awesome.

"lose control" video - choreography and costumery amazing and inventive at every turn

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

i love the bit where ciara levitates up to the wall

"Lose Control" or "Turn Da Lights Off".

and it's corny but I looove "Teary Eyed".

i'm gonna vote Wyclef Jean featuring Missy Elliott - "Party To Damascus" (2003) just cause that's one of my fave underrated naughties "indian" hip hop jams. plus missy's verse is like totally random yet great:

"W-Y to the Clef (c'mon)
Boy I keep it realer than the titties on my chest (yeah)
"Milk does your body good," come on take a sip
Like [3 slurping noises], it taste good don't it"

you really gotta hear the slurping noises to get the full effect

"No Panties"!!!

lose control or 12step

Lil Kim, Da Brat, Left-Eye, Missy Elliott & Angie Martinez - "Not Tonight (Remix)" (1997)
Wyclef Jean featuring Missy Elliott - "Party To Damascus" (2003)
Beyoncé, Missy Elliott, Free and MC Lyte - "Fighting Temptation" (2004)
Ciara featuring Missy Elliott - "1, 2 Step" (2004)
Missy Elliott featuring Fatman Scoop and Ciara - "Lose Control" (2005)
Missy Elliott - "Ching-a-Ling" (2008)

I am voting for one of these.

"1, 2 Step" is one of my favorite songs ever

These are all dope as fuck:

MC Lyte featuring Missy Elliott - "Cold Rock a Party" (1997)
Lil Kim, Da Brat, Left-Eye, Missy Elliott & Angie Martinez - "Not Tonight (Remix)" (1997)
Missy Elliott - "Pussycat" (2002)
Monica - "So Gone" (2003)
Ghostface featuring Missy Elliott - "Tush" (2004)
Tweet featuring Missy Elliott - "Turn da Lights Off" (2005)
Missy Elliott featuring Fatman Scoop and Ciara - "Lose Control" (2005)
Keyshia Cole featuring Missy Elliott & Lil' Kim - "Let It Go" (2007)
Missy Elliott - "Ching-a-Ling" (2008)
Jazmine Sullivan - "Need U Bad" (2008)

^^add "Steelo" and "On & On" to that list

i was thinking a bit about missy's underexamined producer chops the other day listening to that new monica ('everything to me') - it's a little thin but is basically characteristic of the good things about the stuff she's become vaguely/predominantly known for, ie a huge dose of sentimentalism (usually of the boogie/soul/light electro variety) and an easy, populist way with a chunky sample. sorta like a cross between jackie brown & jr rotem i suppose.

as the 'steelo' confusion above illustrates (discogs says it's the unrelated chad elliott btw) concrete credits are harder to ascertain pre-2000-something, with a lot of co- and additional production, as well as a generally familial timbaland style. some good bits though, particularly on the lowslung moodily sensual side of things (adina howard 'crank me up', the total songs). she has only ever produced for girls; i hesitate to over-speculate on the big sisterly vibe running through all her work.

far as this poll goes: don't trip, you know it's 'so gone', and don't even make me bring 213 'so fly' and the busta remix into it. ('no panties' is tempting though.)

oh actually no, go on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTgq-1yKgRs&fmt=18

MC Lyte featuring Missy Elliott - "Cold Rock a Party" (1997)

literally have not heard this in aeons - no one plays it! ever!

Did Timbaland have anything to do with Ciara's "Work"?

hmm yeah i dont think so, that was danja looks like

Really love the MAW remix of "I Want You Back."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bCVujTeNMg

never heard that mix before, it's pretty dope!

Wish I could find the awesome awesome awesome drum & bass version of "I Want You Back" I used to have back in the day.

"But how can you BEEP BEEP... With no KEY?!??!" (cue massive drums)

girl in the room next to me in college halls played this all the time and it did my head in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDd6HtU6JHg

cos i didn't like rnb much at that point and thought missy was annoying until sock it 2 me (the rain actually passed me by a bit)

yeah! that MAW mix - haven't heard it for a years! still sounds great.

Keyshia Cole featuring Missy Elliott & Lil' Kim - "Let It Go" (2007)

^^grand hustle remix & gets my vote

haha, didn't realise 'things you do' remix wasnt on the original list (didn't realise gina even had a 2nd album either). wouldnt vote for it in this particular poll anyway, classic 90s rnb canon though it is.

literally have not heard this in aeons - no one plays it! ever!

literally have not heard this in five days

great song to have on loop next door btw blueski, you dont know how lucky you were

xp yeah i figured results may vary on that but here in england at least i remember it being ubiqitous and then never again. perhaps i am just a hideous shut-in though.

I have the cassingle for 'Cold Rock..'

"Turn Da Lights Off"

That whole album is underrated as hell.

nah, I just played it myself!

- fighting between these myself:
Trina featuring Tweet - "No Panties" (2002)
Ghostface featuring Missy Elliott - "Tush" (2004)
Missy Elliott featuring Fatman Scoop and Ciara - "Lose Control" (2005)
Missy Elliott - "We Run This" (2006)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAdFHBAEgek&feature=related

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

the song with Missy on Biggie Duets is better than the one on Born Again imo. but neither was a single so not in the poll.

I'm going with "We Run This" but I haven't heard most of these, tbh.

you've still got a couple hours to listen to the two dozen songs that are better than "We Run This" before the poll closes.

lol was kind of thinking that

Haha- sorry, I can't do it now - maybe I'll do it this evening just for grins.

I picked Lose Control. I almost called blasphemy when I found out it was not a Timbaland production (I was too into Timbo and his crew when I was younger). This was released around 2005 right? Was electro gaining footing at this point in urban music or was Missy one of the first to put this at front for the rest of the decade?

would have been "can't stop" if that had been a single

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

jus right

hmph.

btw any goons still reeling from j stalin calling himself j stalin should have themselves a little look at the featured artist on track 4 here

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FAYZE-FIRST-MOVE-TAPE-SEALED-MISSY-ELLIOT-1ST-1991-RAP_W0QQitemZ250574219823QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_Cassettes?hash=item3a57632a2f

didn't we already do the "OMG! Missy worked with Hitler" thing in the fruity swag thread?

never saw that before! hilarious! yrs goony mcgoon

yes, apparently you did do the "OMG! Missy worked with Hitler" thing in that thread. my bad.

feeling very foolish that i neglected to make 702's "Where My Girls At" an option

Lose Control is still one of my favorites. It was epic at the time and continued the Fatman Scoop party that was taking over radio in '05.

i don't remember this poll at all!

'where my girls at' is the shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnU4PqMym9o

considered this 1 long and hard and have to put it down to a genuine tim/missy coproduction; bit of both in there but not enough/too much to be solely either (don't have the cd/12 but afaict it is regarded as a missy)

sick tune

must gif the last 20 secs of that vid sometime, amazing