Come anticipate Missy Elliott's Block Party album in 2012

i like both of these. 9th inning does sound way better & triple threat is pretty cool. kinda funny to see them doing the houston thing (pimp c quoting, still tippin nodding) but it sounds pretty unique

Gahhh, am at work and can't hear these yet. So excited.

xp keep in mind that Timbo produced the song he quotes!

Triple Threat is good. 9th Inning, not so good.

I'm not exactly blown away by either of these, but if you have a problem with them you're a fucking asshole

goddamn, Triple Threat

Triple Threat is good. 9th Inning, not so good.

― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, September 18, 2012 12:08 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cautiously enthusiastic about these, i think the direction is welcome and she sounds way less clunky than on anything else she's done since the cookbook, but i don't feel like they're quiiiiiiite at the level that i can really really get hyped. something still a bit effortful about them.

timbaland's verse on "9th inning" is so unwanted

basically i kind of feel like both of these are on the level of say "on & on", which is...fine, i like it, nothing against it, but it's hardly peak missy

who is this comeback for exactly

It is for me. All for me.

(And the fact that she's working with MikeQ is proof.)

timbaland's verse on "9th inning" is so unwanted

― lex pretend, Tuesday, September 18, 2012 1:42 AM Bookmark

Ha, no. Tim coming back on some "Can I talk my shit again?" is so much better than...well, whatever the hell else he's been doing lately.

http://i.imgur.com/IU3pj.gif

it's not peak missy clearly, but that's a pretty unfair measure. good rap music tho.

whatever happened here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=8VjE4RHZAaI

now that she's been really good on radio hits in the past year or two by J. Cole and Fantasia i kinda wish she'd just do a full-on R&B record with zero Timbaland input, i think that would be so much better than any of that "9th Inning"/"Triple Threat" type shit.

Any day now, you know.

to quote Ronnie Milsap.

Exactly. I would be fine with Missy reworking Ronnie Milsap.

Yes

Exactly. I would be fine with Missy reworking Ronnie Milsap.

― Ned Ragget

I wouldn't have missed it for the world!

She seemed so happy to be there last night. Like, "hi everybody, remember me? No? Well, I'm happy to be here all the same!" (waves) Her stuff sounded so cool compared to Perry product and Kravtiz crap.

Not a football fan, so I only watched a few minutes of the game. I looked in at halftime to see what Katy Perry was wearing. I liked this line from the The Guardian: "Wearing a startling, waist-length hair weave, her salvo of 'Get Ur Freak On,' 'Work It' and 'Lose Control' almost steal the slot from under Perry’s nose: almost 15 years since they were released, these songs still sound like the future."

15 years? pfff - they were the best of times

i read last night that missy has graves disease? i didnt know that. damn girl welcome the fuck back

Yeah, her VH1 'Behind the Music' a few years ago covered that (and was also otherwise great and informative). You should hunt it down.

yeah she started talking about the Graves Disease in 2011 and how that was part of why she hadn't been releasing new music. then she said she was doing better and released two singles in 2012, but they didn't really take off, so now we are 3 years later with still no news about the album. hope she's doing better healthwise.

I thought she denied the Graves Disease thing at some point

Maybe, but articles in recent years keep mentioning it

I don't remember that. I remember Exene saying she didn't have MS after all, so maybe you're mixing up the two?

I thought Missy had lupus.

Oh, wait, Graves it is, but I guess you can have both?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO_3Qgib6RQ

how come "stickin out your tongue" like so slightly off beat? ahh it's driving me mad!

did NOT expect this to be any good!

aaaah no one makes videos like missy tho

this is great!

rules, almost effortlessly, only I know how much hard work goes into seeming effortless

Pharrell seems like an afterthought, but he doesn't fuck it up. Big song, love it!

hot damn this delivers

Great video.

this might be my high point of the day

"pharrell doesn't fuck it up" + "effortless" + "great video" = all otm
i hope this gets huge

Pharrell seems like an afterthought, but he doesn't fuck it up. Big song, love it!

Pharrell is so all over the beats that the song feels like an alternate physical embodiment of him at times, which Missy is holding by the ankles and whirling around her head like it's nbd, this is just her motherfuckin' show

hoverboards fit missy's aesthetic so perfectly

speaking as a huge missy fan this song is not too good, she def sounds like shes been on the shelf for the better part of a decade and pharrells rapping is typically awful

o well

get out

i guess i cldve saved that post for later in the day when ppl had moved on to the forgetting stage of freaking out abt something mediocre then immediately forgetting

this is what extended exposure to Drake and Future is doing to our leaders of tomorrow