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Missy Elliott 2002 1) Intro/Go To The Floor
2) Bring The Pain (Featuring Method Man) 3) Gossip Folks (Featuring Ludacris) 4) Work It 5) Back In The Day (Featuring Jay-Z) 6) Funky Fresh Dressed (Featuring Ms. Jade) 7) P***ycat 8) Nothing Out There For Me (Featuring Beyonce Knowles) 9) Slide 10) Play That Beat 11) Ain't That Funny 12) Hot 13) Can You Hear Me (Featuring TLC) 14) Work It (Remix) |
MISSY THANK YOUS//
To my best friend who stayed the same today, yesterday and forever more. Who loved me when I was wrong and loved me when I was broke! Who took care of me when I was sick. Who made me who I am. Dear God the best blessing is to you THE FATHER, SON & HOLY GHOST. TO MY MOM PATRICIA, each album all that writing on my walls that you fussed me out for, paid off! You are my everything and I work hard to make sure you never have to work again. You are the best mom and you keep my taxes paid! (I love you!) Aunt Evelyn, you have always kept me grounded. Beating me for throwing those eggs away in the trash. Scooping them out and making me eat it. Showing me there are people out there who need food! And never take anything for granted. Love ya! All my uncles and cousins, Harrell, Epp's and Elliott family. MONA AND CHRIS, I really feel like y'all are my brother and sister I never had. Sometimes Mona your your Barry White voice is annoying at 10am. Chris those tight Freddie Jackson slacks can be annoying at 1am in the club. But, I love y'all niggas, 4real! JAMES CRUZ, I love you man. I wish I could staple your lips together. You can talk a whole class of hyperactive kids to sleep! But, I love that mouth because you have the gift to get my records played. JAY BROWN, there is no one like you. You've been there for me since day one. Whenever I call, you're right there. I love you and I love you enough to get you a good dentist. If he quits after doing your mouth, you'll know why! ☺ DRE, 1 magic, I love you. You always support me and you're so humble. Magic Johnson you've raised a great kid! He just can't play ball! MERLIN BOBB AND SYLVIA, even when I get mad, I love it here. Ya'll spoil me and I know. Anywhere else I would feel like a stepchild. Now that I said that, can y'all cut me another check! Haha, no honestly thank you for understanding my music and me. RICHARD NASH, A, MIKE KELLY, JOE HECHT! I know ya'll hate my ass. Calling you every 5 minutes to find out where my spins are. Hey, a chic gotta do what she gotta do. I love y'all though. Keep up the good work. Notice I said good! ☺ THE WHOLE VIOLATOR AND ELEKTRA STAFF, together you better make me sell records like Garth Brooks sells. I'm trippin right!? Okay Michael Jackson then! Haha! 1. FRIENDS WHO NEVER LET ME DOWN: Eve, Trina, Janet Jackson. 2. NUT-NUT (Go to the gym! Stop being a weak bird) love ya nigga! 3. FRIENDS WHO TOOK ME IN WHEN I HAD NOTHING. WHO GAVE ME ADVICE THAT HELPED ME THROUGH THE STORMS: Mary J. Blige, Faith Evans, Louise West, Rev Russell. 4. BUISNESS PEOPLE WHO HAVE BECOME MY EXTENDED FAMILY: Tia, Anne Kristoff, Al Branch, Steve Shapiro, Drew Lablank, special thanks to Gail Hanson Claudine Joseph (thank you for everything!) and Donna Moore. 5: PRODUCERS WHO WASN'T AFRAID TO MIX THEIR FLAVOR WITH MY CRAZY ASS IDEAS: Rockwilder, Nisan, Craig, Rapture, The Neptunes, and Eve. 6. ARTISTS I GIVE RESPECT TO NO MATTER HOW HOT OR COLD: Lil' Kim, Foxy, Lauren, MC Lyte, Latifah, Nas, Maxwell, Clark Sisters, TLC, Destiny's Child, Michael Jackson, Brat, Prince, Nelly, The Clipse, Nicole Wray, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Ja Rule. 7. ARTISTS WHO WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN: the late great Biggie, Tupac, Bun, Freaky Tah, Lisa Lopes and Marvin Gaye. 8. RECORD EXECS I WANT TO BE LIKE: Kevin Liles, Lyor Cohen, Clive Davis, Tommy Mottola, LA Reid, Puffy (I love you) and Andre Harrell. 9. THE WHOLE VIRGINIA AND ESPECIALLY P-TOWN. We dirty, dirty for show! We the real chittlings and fried pork chops! 10. TO MY GODDAUGHTER, Madison and GODSON, Lil' Jay. Godmommy loves you! 11. THE GLAM SQUAD: June Ambrose, Timothy White, Gloria Elias, Annette Coleman & Toni Swann. TIMBALAND: we been through hell and back together and nothing can separate us. Not even your big ass feet. I love you so much even though you be passing gas in the studio making me feel nauseated. Can't focus sometimes. You are a genius nigga. Let's keep banging those people in the head. GINUWINE: I love you! I love you! I love you! Don't change because your heart is special and your gift is from your mother and God. I know your pops is proud of you! MAGOO AND PLAYA: I love y'all undoubtedly! Magoo thanks for giving me the name "Misdemeanor." JIMMY DOUGLASS: thanks for helping us get out of the hell we were in. I love you. THE HAUGHTON FAMILY: Robert, Diane, and Michael, I love you. Aaliyah is not here in body but her spirit will see you through your pain. TO THE ONES WHO MADE THIS ALBUM A MASTERPIECE: JAY-Z - there's only one of you! There's no comparison! I love you! METHOD MAN - your voice - goodness, so sexy - I love you! LUDACRIS - I feel like we were born together. We think so much alike. Your style is unique. Don't ever change baby. I love you! BEYONCE - girl, your voice couldn't be fucked with when you were 16, now you're grown making all that money. Can I get a loan? I know you're rich off that Austin Powers movie. I love you! 50 CENTS - I don't know you that well except when you told me to put them hot dogs down (haha). I got on the treadmill for you baby. Thanks for the remix! Love ya! TWEET - I love you lil' sis. I feel like if I ever did anything right in my life that's signing you! I love you sweetie. You're the best artist a label can have. MY STUDIO FAMILY: CARLOS - thanks for trying to get drunk to stay up with my late robot working ass til 8/9am in the morning. TREVOR - I love you. Good looking on my bedroom upstairs. Let no butt cheeks lay on my sheets while I'm gone. DEMO - thanks for the bags of funk. MARCELLO - good looking, you're a sweet gal! MARC - take those old Doc Martins off. Dag on! It's 2003. They still make those?? To all the Radio Stations, Program Directors, Mixshow DJ's, Magazine folks, TV Stations who wasn't scared 2 bang the world in the head with my shit and the street teams who wasn't scared 2 put up Missy Elliott posters and get fined for doing it. Thanks for your dedication and loyalty 2 me. This album is dedicated to someone who was the first to take a chance on a new sound with unknown producers. Who didn't care about how many hits we had. She just knew that the sound was something fresh and new. If she could take a chance, she would take it with us. I thank you for that chance. Even now "you're more than a woman" because you were always "1 in a million" and I could write you a "4 page letter" to tell you "how I care for you." But we don't need a "resolution" to know that "you be that somebody" and that somebody is "Aaliyah." Rest in peace baby girl! I love you! |