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Track Listing
1. Baby Girl Interlude/Intro - (featuring Mary J. Blige)
2. Bomb Intro / Pass That Dutch
3. Wake Up - (featuring Jay-Z)
4. Keep It Movin' - (featuring Elephant Man)
5. Is This Our Last Time - (featuring Fabolous)
6. Ragtime / I'm Really Hot - (interlude)
7. Dats What I'm Talkin About - (featuring R. Kelly)
8. Don't Be Cruel - (featuring Monica/Beenie Man)
9. Toyz / Toyz - (interlude)
10. Let It Bump
11. Pump It Up - (featuring Nelly)
12. It's Real
13. Let Me Fix My Weave
14. Spelling Bee / Spelling Bee - (interlude)
15. I'm Not Perfect - (featuring The Clark Sisters)
16. Outro - (featuring Mary J. Blige)
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, Mary J. Blige, Jay-Z, Elephant Man, Faboluous, Nelly, R. Kelly, Monica, Beenie Man, The Clark Sisters.
Producers: Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, Timbaland.
With THIS IS NOT A TEST!, Missy Elliott, Virginia's reigning queen of hip-hop, raises the bar once again. Working with producer and partner-in-crime Timbaland, Elliott continues to develop her signature style, which pays tribute to the hip-hop pioneers of yesteryear, while flying forward into a sonic solar system of her very own. The album's tracks--and skits--effortlessly bounce between genres, styles, and tempos, ranging from dancehall ("Keep It Movin" with Elephant Man) to R&B ("I'm Not Perfect" with the Clark Sisters) to straight-up rap ("Wake Up" with Jay-Z).
However, it is on the up-tempo tracks where Elliott truly shines. On the record's first single, "Pass That Dutch," the freewheeling MC sprays lyrics like a scatterbrained genius. "Pump It Up," featuring Nelly, is a hilarious ode to oversized Southern women. And "Let Me Fix My Weave" is the Elliott/Timbaland super-tandem at its most exhilarating. THIS IS NOT A TEST! is even more proof that Missy Elliott is a pop music marvel.
Industry Reviews
3 stars out of 5 - 'Wake Up' is mesmerising....'Push It' and live hip hop deconstruction 'I'm Really Hot', both inject the set's ruthless minimalism with some fresh sonic ingredients.
Mojo (01/01/2004)
4 stars out of 5 - The sexiest, most ear-popping, jaw-dropping fusion of old-school rap tribute, sparse R&B, mutant bhangra, and beat innovation...
Q (02/01/2004)
...Elliott [is] full of vim and vinegar, especially when she's rapping or singing about sex....[On a couple of tracks] Elliott sets out to compete with the champagne-and-silk-underwear crowd of foxy, urban chanteuses... - Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly (11/28/2003)
...Ridiculously, abstrusely , hyper-generously funky....It's both consistently catchy and consistently weird in all the right ways... - Grade: A-
Spin (01/01/2004)
4 stars out of 5 - ...She still sounds as hungry and driven as ever, refusing to repeat past successes, pushing on to newer and weirder realms...Why anybody would choose to spend their life without a copy of THIS IS NOT A TEST! is a mystery...
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