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Miss E... So Addictive
Universal acclaim
Based on 16 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 51 votes
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Album Info
Label: Elektra/Asylum
Release Date: 15 May 2001
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Rap
Summary
This is the third album for Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, and it again features the acclaimed production work of Timbaland. Guests include Busta Rhymes, Redman, Method Man, Ludacris, Eve, Jay-Z, and Ginuwine.
Also By This Artist: The Cookbook This Is Not A Test! Under Construction
Also On The Web: Official Missy Elliott Site at Elektra Records
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
The Wire
A thousand times more exciting in every way than most everything in the air at the moment.... Timbaland's production is frontier staking stuff... [#208, p.58]
Ink Blot Magazine
She has conjured the dirty rawness of funk and the smooth, hyper-articulation and commanding, ass-shakin' beats of hip hop and coated them with her own strange, space-age gloss. It is brilliant.
Read Full Review >Dot Music
It's hard to believe a better advertisement for music's capacity to be simultaneously adventurous and entertaining, funny and moving, leftfield and mainstream will be released all year.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine
What's most exciting about Miss E is its sense of playfulness: It's the rare hip-hop album in which unabashed joy -- rather than acquisitiveness or grimacing gangsterism -- is the main ingredient.
Read Full Review >Sonicnet
Miss E... So Addictive shows another side of Missy Elliott, yet unlike the calculations of other artists who morph themselves mainly as a marketing scheme, her dancing-sex-queen moves come through more like revelation than reinvention.
Read Full Review >Wall of Sound
Miss E is a Top 40 radio breakthrough waiting to happen, while staying solid and true to its hip-hop roots.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly
Elliott spends too much time dissing detractors, but the hooks come as fast as the reefer references, and for the first time since her debut, she sounds as if she's having a blast... [25 May 2001, p. 80]
E! Online
Elliott keeps her sharp raps relatively slow-moving over the space-age production and allows room for the long list of guests like Ludacris, Busta Rhymes and Da Brat to shine.
Read Full Review >Pitchfork
Opens with a six-track attack that's rare for any genre, especially contemporary R&B.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone
Miss E is a mess, of course, and not all the experiments work as brilliantly as the single. But if you prefer risky messes to tidy formula, tracks like "Scream a.k.a. Itchin' " and "Step Off" will freak you up something fierce.
Read Full Review >Spin
A kind, weird club crunker, Ecstasy references included. [Jul 2001, p.128]
Blender
"Get Ur Freak On," the frenetic lead single, relies on boilerplate hip-hop braggadocio, but the beats are something else: head-snapping electro-funk spiced with tablas that herald Missy and [Timbaland's] return as the rulers of the hip-hop avant-garde. [Jun/Jul 2001, p.106]
Armchair DJ
Now if only the duo could deliver an LP that's consistently rather than merely frequently brilliant, we could stop fast-forwarding through the second-string tracks and soggy ballads that clutter up side B.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club)
Like its predecessors, the disc drags in spots but generally delivers, proving that emotionally and artistically, contentment suits Elliott just fine.
Read Full Review >Playlouder
It's not so much her actual rapping skills but her keen ear for a devastatingly simple track structure that makes her stuff so satisfying.
Read Full Review >New Musical Express
It's a blessing that the surrogate mum to the hip-hop youth of America is out there pushing for sounds as deranged, commercial, newly kinetic, and socially risque as those licking your ears in 'X-tasy' and 'Slap! Slap! Slap!'.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 7.9 (out of 10) based on 51 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
neb b gave it a1:
Just bad, and not because it's rap. Please stop spamming with "rock n roll 4 life!!!11"
Anna R gave it a9:
This is an amazingly packed CD. Brilliant. Well Done, Missy! Hats down.
Danilio gave it a10:
I refuse to let anyone say rock is better than hip hop, i don't care how many (Anonymous') and mikika PJs there are.
[Anonymous] gave it a0:
I refuse to let anyone say hip hop is better than rock, i don't care how many critics like this album.
mikika PJ gave it a1:
Rap it's bad!!!! if you love music listen to rock n roll !!
Richi T gave it a10:
You will not believe this Miss E, hip hop fan or not
modi di gave it a10:
its very nice
