Detailed item info | Track listing | 1. Baby Girl Interlude/Intro - Elliott, Missy & Mary J. Blige
2. Bomb Intro/Pass That Dutch
3. Wake Up - Elliott, Missy & Jay-Z
4. Keep It Movin' - Elliott, Missy & Elephant Man
5. Is This Our Last Time - Elliott, Missy & Fabolous
6. Ragtime Interlude/I'm Really Hot
7. Dats What I'm Talkin' About - Elliott, Missy & R. Kelly
8. Don't Be Cruel - Elliott, Missy & Monica/Beenie Man
9. Toyz Interlude/Toyz
10. Let It Bump
11. Pump It Up - Elliott, Missy & Nelly
12. It's Real
13. Let Me Fix My Weave
14. Spelling Bee Interlude/Spelling Bee
15. I'm Not Perfect - Elliott, Missy & The Clark Sisters
16. Outro - Elliott, Missy & Mary J. Blige
| | Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Producer: | Jay Brown | | Recording type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Cinram Logistics | | Recording mode: | Stereo |
| | Album notes | Personnel includes: Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, Mary J. Blige, Jay-Z, Elephant Man, Faboluous, Nelly, R. Kelly, Monica, Beenie Man, The Clark Sisters.Producers: Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, Timbaland.With THIS IS NOT A TEST, Missy Elliott, Virginia's reigning queen of hip-hop, raises the bar once again. Working with producer and partner-in-crime Timbaland, Elliott continues to develop her signature style, which pays tribute to the hip-hop pioneers of yesteryear, while flying forward into a sonic solar system of her very own. The album's tracks--and skits--effortlessly bounce between genres, styles, and tempos, ranging from dancehall ("Keep It Movin" with Elephant Man) to R&B ("I'm Not Perfect" with the Clark Sisters) to straight-up rap ("Wake Up" with Jay-Z).However, it is on the up-tempo tracks where Elliott truly shines. On the record's first single, "Pass That Dutch," the freewheeling MC sprays lyrics like a scatterbrained genius. "Pump It Up," featuring Nelly, is a hilarious ode to oversized Southern women. And "Let Me Fix My Weave" is the Elliott/Timbaland super-tandem at its most exhilarating. THIS IS NOT A TEST is even more proof that Missy Elliott is a pop music marvel.
| | Editorial reviews | 4 stars out of 5 - ...She still sounds as hungry and driven as ever, refusing to repeat past successes, pushing on to newer and weirder realms...Why anybody would choose to spend their life without a copy of THIS IS NOT A TEST is a mystery...Spin (01/04, p.95) - ...Ridiculously, abstrusely , hyper-generously funky....It's both consistently catchy and consistently weird in all the right ways... - Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly (11/28/03, p.124) - ...Elliott [is] full of vim and vinegar, especially when she's rapping or singing about sex....[On a couple of tracks] Elliott sets out to compete with the champagne-and-silk-underwear crowd of foxy, urban chanteuses... - Rating: BQ (2/04, p.100) - 4 stars out of 5 - The sexiest, most ear-popping, jaw-dropping fusion of old-school rap tribute, sparse R&B, mutant bhangra, and beat innovation...Mojo (1/04, pp.96-7) - 3 stars out of 5 - 'Wake Up' is mesmerising....'Push It' and live hip hop deconstruction 'I'm Really Hot', both inject the set's ruthless minimalism with some fresh sonic ingredients.
Rolling Stone
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