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This album is very good. There are some less then extraordinary songs on the album, but hey, this is a Missy Elliott album. The extraordinary songs, though, are easily the best she's ever released, all culminating in "Can't Stop", the "All Alone" of this album. A song that bangs so hard, it's potentially dangerous. It's got some incredible guest turns from Mike Jones (MIKE JONES, Mike Jones, MIKE JONES), Slick Rick, M.I.A. and Mary J. Blige.
And can we just talk about the last twenty seconds of "We Run This" where she takes that old, I think maybe it's the "Comanche" sample from the Sugar Hill Gang and has a full marching band play it? All that you love about Drumline without the pesky Gabrielle Union/Nick Cannon relationship drama. You wish it could go on for another twenty minutes.
Anyway, it's out Tuesday and is situated quite nicely between the release of "Be" and, if "Gold Digger" is any indication, the new Kanye, to create a Hip Hop Hat Trick of proportions unheard of since Kwest The Madd Ladd dropped the same time as "Stakes Is High" and "Illadelph Halflife". (I know I just made that up.) |
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