"Gossip Folks" by Missy Elliott

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Just saw the vid for this and I think it's pretty amazing, and I generally don't care for this stuff too much. Your thoughts on it?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 23 January 2003 15:21 (twenty-three years ago)

This is one of my favorite tracks on her album. The video isn't as great as I wanted it to be, but I still love it. (I also love that she quotes "Funky Fresh Dressed" in the middle for absolutely no reason.)

Alex, you might want to check out this album if you like this song and "Work It".

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 January 2003 15:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, it's an awesome video. It has a similar feel to 'Work it" video.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 23 January 2003 15:41 (twenty-three years ago)

What are the lyrics?

― jm (jtm), Thursday, 23 January 2003 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Might have to, Dan.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 23 January 2003 16:01 (twenty-three years ago)

the little bit they slip in w/ Ms. Jade in the middle sounds nice, what track is that?

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 24 January 2003 03:28 (twenty-three years ago)

The video version seems to remove the best parts of the song... feels almost unresolved without the trash-talk at the end.

― gazuga (gazuga), Friday, 24 January 2003 04:45 (twenty-three years ago)

That's "Funky Fresh Dressed" and is another kiler track on that album.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 24 January 2003 04:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I LOVE that funky white girl!!! And the AZN girl!!!!!

AND THE HOT TEACHER THAT IS MEANT TO ACT LIKE SHE WOULD ACTUALLY LET LUDA DO HER!!!

― Vic (Vic), Friday, 24 January 2003 05:00 (twenty-three years ago)

is this the one with the 'double dutch bus' sample?

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 24 January 2003 05:03 (twenty-three years ago)

`Tis the track that makes me actually love Ludacris, by gosh!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 24 January 2003 05:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Could someone please put me out of my misery and tell me where the chorus is sampled from?

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 24 January 2003 05:30 (twenty-three years ago)

mark p i have this nagging feeling that it's from sesame street (but don't know at all really) - i have half remembered visions of an old musician teaching a child how to scat.

― minna (minna), Friday, 24 January 2003 06:29 (twenty-three years ago)

it's frankie smith's "double dutch bus"

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 24 January 2003 06:53 (twenty-three years ago)

hehe the idea of timbaland watching sesame st. was a bit weird

― minna (minna), Friday, 24 January 2003 07:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I could totally see Missy and Tim popping up on Sesame Street.

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 24 January 2003 07:17 (twenty-three years ago)

i wish they'd write one of those number or alphabet skits for it, hype williams could direct it

― minna (minna), Friday, 24 January 2003 07:29 (twenty-three years ago)

it's frankie smith's "double dutch bus"

my GOD this song is cool. "Wizzaaaaaaat!?"

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 24 January 2003 09:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Yo, yo, move out the way we got Missy Elliott commin' through
Girl that is Missy Elliott, she lost a lot of weight,
I heard she eat one cracker a day!
Girl, what I heard the bitch was married to Tim,
and started fuckin' with Trina
Well I heard the bitch got hit by three zebras and a monkey
I can't stand the bitch no way

When I walk up in the peace
I ain't gotta even speak
Im a bad mamma jamma god damnit muthafucka
You aint gotta like me
I aint sweatin these hoes
Need to talk, what ya know
Stop talking bout who
Im stickin im lickin
You just mad it aint yours
I know yall poor
Yall broke
Yall jobs just hangin up coats
Step to me get burnt like toast
Muthafucka adios amigos
ah ha, pose pose
I don't brag I mostly boast
>From the VA to the LA coast
Izzy Kizzy Lizzy Go

[Chorus:]
Musi ques
I sews on bews
I pues a twos on que zat
Pue zoo
My kizzer
Pous zigga ay zee
Its all kizza
Its always like
Its all kizza
Its always like
Na zound
Wa zee
Wa zoom zoom zee

When I pull up in my whip
Bitches wanna talk shit
Im drivin im blinding them upside these muthafuckas ass
"Did you see it?"
Im drippin these curves
Skuuurrrrt!!
Did ya heard?
my lova's, my fellas my furs
Ah I fly like a bird
Chickenheads on the prowl
Who you tryda fuck now
know you aint getting loud
Better calm down before I smack ya ass down
I need my drum bass high
Has to be my snare strings horn
Yes I need my Tim sound
Right left
Izzy Kizzy look at him

[Chorus:]
Musi ques
I sews on bews
I pues a twos on que zat
Pue zoo
My kizzer
Pous zigga ay zee
Its all kizza
Its always like
Its all kizza
Its always like
Na zound
Wa zee
Wa zoom zoom zee

Now I don't go out my house shorty you just waitin to see
Who im roll up in the club with and report that next week
Just wanna see who I am ******* or sniffin some coke
I know by the time I finish this line ima hear this on the radio

[Ludacris]
Once upon a time in Kyla park
Where they live life fast and they scared of dark
There was a little n*gga by the name of 'cris
Nobody paid him any mind
No one gave a shit
Knowing he could rap
No one lend a hand
So he went about his business
And devised the plan
Made a CD then he hit the block
Fifty thousand sold, seven dollars a pop
Hold the phone, three years later
Steped out the swamp with ten and a half gators
Now all around the world on the microphone
He leaves the booth smellin like Burberry cologne
Still ride the chrome
Got bitches in the kitchen
Never home alone
And hes on the grind
Please let me know if hes on your mind
And respect youll gimmie
Ludacris, I live loud like timmy
Had to clear these rumors
I got a headache and its not a tumor
Get up on my lap get my head tucked tight
Sprayed so I never let the bed bugs bite
Im hard to the core
Core to the right
You drop down turn around pick up hella clip (yaaaa)
echo: yahh!

[Chorus:]
Musi ques
I sews on bews
I pues a twos on que zat
Pue zoo
My kizzer
Pous zigga ay zee
Its all kizza
Its always like
Its all kizza
Its always like
Na zound
Wa zee
Wa zoom zoom zee

Yo straight up, Missy killed that shit tonight fo' real
I know I don't really care bout her being pregnant by Micheal Jackson
You know what we should do?
We should go get her album when it come out, what she gon do she gon do, shh
Hi Missy!
Hi Missy???!!!
Wusup fools!
You think I aint knowin yall broke Milli Vanilli Jay Jay fan wannabes aint
over here gossipin' bout me?
Yo how bout you buff these Pumas for 20 cents or your lights wont get cut
off
You saggy breasts, cow stomachs
Yo take those baby GAP shirts off, too
You just mad cuz Payless ran out of plastic pumps for the after party
Yo by the way, go get my album..
DAMN!

Musi ques
I sews on bews
I pues a twos on que zat
Pue zoo
My kizzer
Pous zigga ay zee

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 24 January 2003 09:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah Ludacris' cameo on "One Minute Man" might be topped by his contribution here.

― Vic (Vic), Friday, 24 January 2003 11:43 (twenty-three years ago)

THANK YOU JAMES BLOUNT

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 24 January 2003 14:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I love when Ludacris does Stuart Scott (referring to Tim Hardaway) doing Timmy.

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 24 January 2003 15:00 (twenty-three years ago)

can anyone tell me what this means:

I pues a twos on que zat
Pue zoo
My kizzer
Pous zigga ay zee

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 24 January 2003 16:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I love the Kindergarden Cop ref! ("I've got a headache and it's NOT A TUMAH")

― original bgm, Friday, 24 January 2003 17:14 (twenty-three years ago)

That ref is great - he slips it in perfectly. This makes the second song I love off of Under Construction, which means it's time to check out the rest of the album.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Friday, 24 January 2003 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

"Kyla park"? College Park, surely?

I love it (the song and the video) lots more than Work It. The video in particular has made me want to buy the album. And I love the sassy little white girl. And the sassier still little asian girl. And all the cameos (Eve's being the smoothest).

― Adrian Langston (Adrian Langston), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I pues a twos on que zat

It's Aztec for Fremme Neppa Venette.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:59 (twenty-three years ago)

gd dat dis is dee single tho pussycat more o a masterpiece but y'know "pussy" dat ain't gonna b playd even post-lesbian scoring.

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Saturday, 25 January 2003 00:12 (twenty-three years ago)

i thought it was "my gizirl!" and "it's o-kiza!".

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Saturday, 25 January 2003 00:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Mitch is right. It's that kind of pig latin type of speaking where one inserts Zs in each word (before the last syllable?). I still can't figure out what most of it is saying though. There's "It's okay" "It's alright" and "my girl!" but the rest is harder.

― Dan I., Saturday, 25 January 2003 05:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, I can't figure it out either (and neither could anyone else, based on "Double Dutch Bus" lyrics I've found on the Web).

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 31 January 2003 18:49 (twenty-three years ago)

asa nisi masa

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 31 January 2003 20:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Non significa nulla!

― Dan I., Friday, 31 January 2003 20:21 (twenty-three years ago)

asa nisi masa

I appreciate and respect that reference Mr. Blount.

― jm (jtm), Friday, 31 January 2003 21:09 (twenty-three years ago)

nine months pass...

can anyone tell me what this means:

I pues a twos on que zat
Pue zoo
My kizzer
Pous zigga ay zee

i got this from maxlyrics.com

[Chorus]
(from Frankie Smith's 1981 track "Double Dutch Bus")
Frankie: Milzee-gilzz-I silzum billz I-killza dilzzouble-dilzzutch!
(something about a million bills and he kills the double dutch)
Girl: Whoozoo?
(Who?)
Frankie: My gizzurl!
(My girl!)
Girl: Wilzinga izzat?
(Who's that?)
Frankie: It's okizzay!
(It's okay!)
Girl: It's alrizzight!
(It's alright!)
Frankie: It's okizzay!
(It's okay!)
Girl: It's alrizzight! Nizzow wizzee wizzill silzzee!
(It's alright! Now we will see!)

― jed (jed_e_3), Thursday, 6 November 2003 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Nizzow wizzee wizzill silzzee!

― jed (jed_e_3), Thursday, 6 November 2003 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

asa nisi masa!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 6 November 2003 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

this is one of my favourite hip hop tracks ever
i think its even better than work it

― robin (robin), Thursday, 6 November 2003 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

i think so too robin ...now come and buff these puma's for 20 cents so ya lights sont get cut off..

― jed (jed_e_3), Thursday, 6 November 2003 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Blount you just made my cinema universe

― ModJ (ModJ), Thursday, 6 November 2003 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)

"Who?"
"My girl."
"We'll see."
"It's okay."
"It's okay."

I forget what the rest of the dialogue goes like. HELP!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 7 November 2003 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)

It's all about Luda on this, really it is.

― Nick H, Friday, 7 November 2003 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

mister snub see above, non?

or see here

http://www.maxlyrics.com/songView/18182

― jed (jed_e_3), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

blount is on the funny

― s1utsky (slutsky), Saturday, 8 November 2003 03:34 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

Is the vid version the Fatboy Slim remix? I think it is, Normo kills that shit.

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

the vid version is the album version. the fatboy remix is terrible.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

no it isn't, it's much more danceable. not that it's much different, but...

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

it's only a Normo remix by name remember

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Could you explain that Steve? I like the remix. I'd rather listen to the original but I'd rather dance to the remix.

― Nick H (Nick H), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

well something that never occurred to me until fairly recently when pointed out by professional practitioners and acquaintances of mine in the remix bizness was how many people at the top of the pile end up just lending their name to a remix at the request of the label for a nominal fee but leave the bulk (if not entirety) of the production to a studio bod keen to buckle his remix belt for peanuts and boost his own profile within the inner circle of studio techs perhaps. certainly the last few Cook remixes suggest this may be the case. another slightly different example would be the concept of Dr Dre as Exec Producer - it's not something i can vouch for sure but it does make good business sense i guess.

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I have heard of this practice, although it was from someone trying to convince me that Dre has hardly produced any of his own stuff in the last 15 years or so. The "Gossip Folks" remix does sound a little housey compared with Fatboy's normal remix jobs.

― Nick H (Nick H), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

This is like the best song of the decade.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Saturday, 20 May 2006 22:51 (twenty years ago)

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