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Miss E... So Addictive Image
Metascore
89

Universal acclaim - based on 16 Critic Reviews What's this?

User Score
8.6

Universal acclaim- based on 85 Ratings

  • 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.

Top Track

Get Ur Freak On
Headbanger hit me, hit me, hit me, hit me, hit me (Yeah) Gimme some new shit (Yeah) Gimme some new shit (Yeah) Gimme some new shit (Yeah) Gimme some... See the rest of the song lyrics
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. 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]
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Opens with a six-track attack that's rare for any genre, especially contemporary R&B.
  5. 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!'.
  6. 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.
  7. Spin
    80
    A kind, weird club crunker, Ecstasy references included. [Jul 2001, p.128]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 27 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 31
  3. Negative: 4 out of 31
  1. StephanieG.
    May 23, 2001
    10
    I love missy I think she is a great Aruist.
  2. Mar 1, 2016
    10
    Missy Elliot has an ear for production and knows how to make music you can boogie to. this here is another fine piece of work by an awesomeMissy Elliot has an ear for production and knows how to make music you can boogie to. this here is another fine piece of work by an awesome artist that knows how to get down. fine production work by Timbaland. Expand
  3. TinaP.
    Jul 31, 2001
    10
    it rocks
  4. AdamL.
    Jan 17, 2002
    10
    Missy is the bomb, and everybody else needs to stop hatin' on my girl.
  5. modidi
    Jul 21, 2005
    10
    its very nice
  6. Jarrod
    Apr 21, 2005
    9
    Coming from a guy who rarely listens to hip hop... This album kicks ass! :)
  7. JennaS.
    Sep 14, 2001
    0
    Hip-Hop has lost its damn mind. Thank God for Blackalicious.

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