Miss E... So Addictive - Missy Elliott
Metascore
89 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 16 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
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  1. Pitchfork
    82
    Opens with a six-track attack that's rare for any genre, especially contemporary R&B.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    83
    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]
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  3. Dot Music
    90
    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.
  4. The Wire
    100
    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]
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  5. E! Online
    83
    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.
  6. Sonicnet
    90
    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.
  7. Wall of Sound
    87
    Miss E is a Top 40 radio breakthrough waiting to happen, while staying solid and true to its hip-hop roots.
  8. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    90
    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.
  9. Ink Blot Magazine
    100
    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.

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User Score
7.9 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 53 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 33 out of 39
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 39
  3. Negative: 6 out of 39
  1. nebb
    1
    Just bad, and not because it's rap. Please stop spamming with "rock n roll 4 life!!!11"
  2. AnnaR
    9
    This is an amazingly packed CD. Brilliant. Well Done, Missy! Hats down.
  3. Danilio
    10
    I refuse to let anyone say rock is better than hip hop, i don't care how many (Anonymous') and mikika PJs there are.
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