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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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Missy Elliott
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Melissa Arnette Missy Elliott, often known professionally as Missy Misdemeanor Elliott, is an American rapper, dancer, and record producer. Following several collaborations and guest appearances, she launched her career in 1997 with her debut album Supa Dupa Fly. The album debuted at three on the Billboard 200, the highest-charting debut for a female rapper at the time. Elliotts following album Da Real World, produced the singles Shes a Bitch, All n My Grill, with the release of Miss E. So Addictive, Under Construction, and This Is Not a Test, Elliott established an international career that yielded hits including Get Ur Freak On, One Minute Man,4 My People, Gossip Folks, and Work It. The latter won her a Grammy Award for Best Female Rap Solo Performance, Elliott went on to win five Grammy Awards, melissa Arnette Elliott was born on July 1,1971, in Portsmouth, Virginia. She is the child of mother Patricia Elliott, a power-company dispatcher, and father Ronnie. Elliott grew up in a church choir family, and singing was a normal part of her youth. At the age of four in 1975, she wanted to be a performer, in later years, she feared no one would take her seriously, because she was always the class clown. While her father was an active Marine, the family lived in Jacksonville, North Carolina, Elliott blossomed during this part of her life. She enjoyed school for the friendships she formed though she had little interest in school work and she would later get well above average marks on intelligence tests, and she was advanced two years ahead of her former class. Her move in grades caused isolation, and she purposely failed, when her father returned from the Marines, they moved back to Virginia, where they lived in extreme poverty. Life in Virginia saw many hardships, Elliott tells of domestic abuse by her father. She refused to stay over at friends homes out of fear that, on her return home, when Elliott was eight, she was molested by a cousin. In one violent incident, Ronnie Elliott dislocated his wifes shoulders and, during another, at fourteen, Elliotts mother decided to end the situation, she fled with her daughter under the guise of taking a joyride on a local bus. In reality, the pair had found refuge at a members home where their possessions were stored in a loaded U-Haul truck. Elliott tells that she feared her father would kill them both for leaving and she later stated, When we left, my mother realized how strong she was on her own, and it made me strong. It took her leaving to realize, Elliott graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Portsmouth, Virginia, in 1990
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Hip hop music
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It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements, MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching with turntables, break dancing, and graffiti writing. Other elements include sampling beats or bass lines from records, while often used to refer solely to rapping, hip hop more properly denotes the practice of the entire subculture. Hip hops early evolution occurred as sampling technology and drum machines became available and affordable. Turntablist techniques such as scratching and beatmatching developed along with the breaks and Jamaican toasting, rapping developed as a vocal style in which the artist speaks or chants along rhythmically with an instrumental or synthesized beat. The Sugarhill Gangs 1979 song Rappers Delight is widely regarded to be the first hip hop record to gain popularity in the mainstream. The 1980s marked the diversification of hip hop as the genre developed more complex styles, prior to the 1980s, hip hop music was largely confined within the United States. However, during the 1980s, it began to spread to scenes in dozens of countries. New school hip hop was the wave of hip hop music, originating in 1983–84 with the early records of Run-D. M. C. The Golden age hip hop period was a period between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s. Notable artists from this era include the Juice Crew, Public Enemy, & Rakim, Boogie Down Productions and KRS-One, EPMD, Slick Rick, Beastie Boys, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Ultramagnetic MCs, De La Soul, and A Tribe Called Quest. Gangsta rap is a subgenre of hip hop that often focuses on the violent lifestyles, in the West Coast hip hop style, G-funk dominated mainstream hip hop for several years during the 1990s. I. G. In the 1990s, hip hop began to diversify with other regional styles emerging, such as Southern rap, at the same time, hip hop continued to be assimilated into other genres of popular music, examples being Neo soul and nu metal. Hip hop became a pop music genre in the mid-1990s. The popularity of hip hop music continued through the 2000s, with hip hop influences also increasingly finding their way into mainstream pop, the United States also saw the success of regional styles such as crunk, a Southern genre that emphasized the beats and music more than the lyrics. Starting in 2005, sales of hip hop music in the United States began to severely wane, during the mid-2000s, alternative hip hop secured a place in the mainstream, due in part to the crossover success of artists such as OutKast and Kanye West. Creation of the hip hop is often credited to Keith Cowboy, rapper with Grandmaster Flash. However, Lovebug Starski, Keith Cowboy, and DJ Hollywood used the term when the music was known as disco rap. Cowboy later worked the hip hop cadence into a part of his stage performance, the first use of the term in print was in The Village Voice, by Steven Hager, later author of a 1984 history of hip hop
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Atlantic Records
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Atlantic Recording Corporation is an American major record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson. In 2004, Atlantic Records and its sister label Elektra Records merged into Atlantic Records Group, craig Kallman is currently the chairman of Atlantic Records. Ahmet Ertegün served as founding chairman until his death on December 14,2006, the brothers had become ardent fans of jazz and rhythm & blues music, amassing a collection of over 15,00078 RPM records. He convinced the family dentist, Dr Vahdi Sabit, to invest $10,000 and recruited Herb Abramson, Abramson had worked as a part-time A&R manager/producer for the jazz label National Records, signing Big Joe Turner and Billy Eckstine. He founded Jubilee Records in 1946, but had no interest in its most successful artists, so, in September 1947, he sold his share in Jubilee to his partner, Jerry Blaine, and invested $2500 in the new Atlantic label. When interviewed in 2009 she attributed her reputation to the companys chronic cash-flow shortage, most of the problems we had with artists were that they wanted advances, and that was very difficult for us. We were undercapitalized for a long time, the labels original office in the Ritz Hotel, Manhattan proved too expensive so they relocated to an $85 per month room in the Hotel Jefferson. In its early years Atlantic focused principally on modern jazz although it released some country and western and spoken word recordings. The union action forced Atlantic to use almost all its capital to cut and stockpile enough recordings to last through the ban, Ertegun and Abramson spent much of the late 1940s and early 1950s scouring nightclubs in search of talent. Ertegun composed many songs under the alias A, in early 1949 a New Orleans distributor phoned Ertegun trying to obtain Stick McGhees Drinking Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee, which was unavailable due to the closure of McGhees previous label. Ertegun knew Sticks younger brother Brownie McGhee, with whom Stick happened to be staying, so he contacted the McGhee brothers, Ertegun asked about artists royalties, which he paid, which surprised Columbia executives, who did not, which scuttled the deal. On the recommendation of broadcaster Willis Conover, Ertegun and Abramson went to see Ruth Brown at the Crystal Caverns club in Washington and she was badly injured in a car accident en route to New York but Atlantic supported her for nine months and then signed her. Her first release for the label So Long, cut at her second Atlantic session on May 25,1949 with the Eddie Condon band, was a major hit, reaching #6 on the R&B chart. Brown went on to more than eighty songs for the label, becoming the most prolific. So significant was Browns success to Atlantics fortunes that the label became known colloquially as The House That Ruth Built. The Clovers Dont You Know I Love You became the labels first R&B #1 in September 1951 and she hit #1 again in March–April 1952 with 5-10-15 Hours. After she left the label in 1961 Browns fortunes declined rapidly - within a few years was reduced to working as a cleaner and bus-driver to support her children. Brown eventually received a payment of $20,000 and founded a charity
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Songwriter
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A songwriter is an individual who writes the lyrics, melodies and chord progressions for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music. A songwriter can also be called a composer, although the term tends to be used mainly for individuals from the classical music genre. The pressure from the industry to produce popular hits means that songwriting is often an activity for which the tasks are distributed between a number of people. For example, a songwriter who excels at writing lyrics might be paired with a songwriter with a gift for creating original melodies, pop songs may be written by group members from the band or by staff writers – songwriters directly employed by music publishers. Some songwriters serve as their own publishers, while others have outside publishers. The old-style apprenticeship approach to learning how to write songs is being supplemented by university degrees and college diplomas, a knowledge of modern music technology, songwriting elements and business skills are necessary requirements to make a songwriting career in the 2010s. Several music colleges offer songwriting diplomas and degrees with music business modules, the legal power to grant these permissions may be bought, sold or transferred. This is governed by international copyright law, song pitching can be done on a songwriters behalf by their publisher or independently using tip sheets like RowFax, the MusicRow publication and SongQuarters. Skills associated with song-writing include entrepreneurism and creativity, songwriters who sign an exclusive songwriting agreement with a publisher are called staff writers. In the Nashville country music scene, there is a staff writer culture where contracted writers work normal 9-to-5 hours at the publishing office and are paid a regular salary. This salary is in effect the writers draw, an advance on future earnings, the publisher owns the copyright of songs written during the term of the agreement for a designated period, after which the songwriter can reclaim the copyright. In an interview with HitQuarters, songwriter Dave Berg extolled the benefits of the set-up, unlike contracted writers, some staff writers operate as employees for their respective publishers. Under the terms of work for hire agreements, the compositions created are fully owned by the publisher. In Nashville, young writers are often encouraged to avoid these types of contracts. Staff writers are common across the industry, but without the more office-like working arrangements favored in Nashville. All the major publishers employ writers under contract, songwriter Allan Eshuijs described his staff writer contract at Universal Music Publishing as a starter deal. His success under the arrangement eventually allowed him to found his own publishing company, so that he could. keep as much as possible, songwriters are also often skilled musicians. In addition to selling their songs and musical concepts for other artists to sing, songwriters need to create a number of elements for a song
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Eve (rapper)
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Eve Jihan Jeffers-Cooper is an American rapper and actress from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is also the winner of the Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration in 2002, for the song Let Me Blow Ya Mind. Eve was number 48 on VH1s 50 Greatest Women of the Video Era list and she has also achieved success in fashion, with her clothing line, Fetish. Eve was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Julie Wilch, a publishing company supervisor, and Jerry Jeffers, a chemical plant supervisor. She adopted the name Gangsta in high school as part of a group called EDGP During her early years in Philadelphia. Eves first musical interest was singing and she sang in many choirs and even formed an all-female singing group with a manager. This group covered songs from En Vogue and Color Me Badd, the groups manager suggested that the group should rap after seeing ABC, and Eve stuck with it. She then went on to form a rapping group, after the group split, Eve began working on a solo career under the name Eve of Destruction. Eve has lived in Los Angeles, New York City, in 1999, she was featured on Princes album Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic, and she was to co-star on the eventually cancelled Hot Wit U single from that same album. Eve is featured on the song You Got Me by The Roots, the song won a Grammy Award in 2000, which should have been Eves first. She stated on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon in 2009 that she did not receive a Grammy for the track, questlove, from The Roots, had brought his Grammy to the show that night and showed shes not even credited on the award plaque. She also provided vocals on the song Aint Sayin Nothin New from the same album. In the albums notes, she is referred to as Eve of Destruction. Eve first appeared on the Bulworth soundtrack as Eve of Destruction while signed to Dr. Dres Aftermath Entertainment, Billboard Hot 100 peaking at 29. Her 1999 debut, Let There Be Eve, two singles were released from the album, Gotta Man and Love Is Blind featuring Faith Evans. The first one peaked at number 26 on the Billboard Hot 100, in November 1999, Eve featured on Missy Elliotts single Hot Boyz along with Nas, Lil Mo and Q-Tip. The song became a hit, spending 18 weeks at one on the Hot Rap Singles from November 16,1999 to March 7,2000. The follow-up to Ruff Ryders First Lady, Scorpion, was released in 2001 and its first single, Whos That Girl guaranteed the rapper first international success
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Lil' Kim
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Kimberly Denise Jones, known by her stage name Lil Kim, is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, model, and actress. She was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, living much of her adolescent life on the streets after being expelled from home. In her teens, Jones would freestyle rap, heavily influenced by actress/singer Diana Ross, performing a freestyle rap for The Notorious B. I. G. got her music career start in 1995 with his group Junior M. A. F. I. A. Whose debut album Conspiracy generated two top 20 singles in the United States and her following albums, The Notorious K. I. M. and La Bella Mafia, were certified Platinum, making her the only female rapper besides Missy Elliott to have at least 3 Platinum albums. In addition, the remake won two MTV Video Music Awards including Video of the Year, and a Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals at the 44th Grammy Awards in 2002. In 2005, she served a prison sentence for lying to a jury about her friends involvement in a shooting four years earlier. During her incarceration, her fourth album The Naked Truth was released and she returned to the public eye in 2009 with an appearance on Dancing with the Stars. Throughout her career, Jones has sold over 15 million albums and 30 million singles worldwide. Jones has earned many accolades and honorific titles for her work including the Queen of Hip-Hop. Her songs No Time, Big Momma Thang and Ladies Night were listed on Complex Magazines The 50 Best Rap Songs By Women, at number 24,13 and 7, respectively. Crush On You, Its All About the Benjamins and Money, Power, in 2012, Lil Kim was honorably listed on VH1s 100 Greatest Women In Music list at number 45, the second highest position for a solo female hip-hop artist. Jones was born in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, the child of Linwood Jones, a former U. S. Marine. She has one brother named Christopher. As a child, Jones attended Queen of All Saints Elementary School in Brooklyn, at the age of 9, her parents separated, and Jones was raised by her father, with whom she had a tumultuous relationship. After being kicked out of her house by her dad, Jones dropped out of high school, while still a teen, Jones met The Notorious B. I. G. Jones attended Sarah J. Hale Vocational High School for two and a half years, many of her friends also went there and she would often skip school to hang out with them. Since her school work wasnt being completed, the decision was made for her to transfer to Brooklyn College Academy to finish her remaining year and it was the same school that fellow rappers Nas and Foxy Brown also attended. In 1994, B. I. G. was instrumental in introducing and promoting the Brooklyn-based group, which included Jones, who was only 19 at the time. Wallace wrote most of the albums material, Three hit singles came from Conspiracy, Players Anthem, I Need You Tonight, and Get Money
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Trina
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Katrina Laverne Taylor, better known by her stage name Trina, is an American rapper. Trina first gained notoriety in 1998 with her appearance on Trick Daddys second studio album www. thug. com on the single Nann Nigga, since then, she has released five moderately successful studio albums. XXL Magazine calls her the most consistent female rapper of all time, source Magazine celebrated Trinas career for the 2012 Womens History month. In 2013, Complex Magazine ranked Pull Over #27 in their Top 50 Best Rap Songs by Women, in 2014, Trina was included in Billboards list of the 31 Female Rappers Who Changed Hip-Hop. Her father is from the Dominican Republic, and her mother is from The Bahamas, Trinas parents were separated while she was growing up. She lived in Liberty City and in Pembroke Isle, Florida and she attended Miami Northwestern Senior High School. In her spare time, Trina wrote rap rhymes, which caught the attention of Miami rapper Trick Daddy whom then approached her in 1998 to be featured on his song Nann Nigga. The song was released as the lead single from his second studio album, www. thug. com. The single later became a hit as it reached number sixty-two on the US Billboard Hot 100, thanks to the success of the single, Trina gained popularity and signed a record deal with Slip-n-Slide Records with distribution from Atlantic Records. Trina subsequently began work on her debut album, in an interview for Crusade magazine online, Trina commented that on this album, much of the work was done for her, she did not have creative control, but simply delivered lyrics. Everybody was like we got beat, we got this, we got that, we want you to get in there and write to this track, write to this song. On January 1,2000, Trinas debut album Da Baddest Bitch was released, the album debuted at number 33 on the US Billboard 200 and number 11 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Da Baddest Bitch was certified Gold in November 2000 by the RIAA and it stayed on the Billboard 200 chart for thirty -nine weeks and on the Hip-Hop/R&B album chart for forty-nine consecutive weeks. The album was preceded by the lead single Da Baddest Bitch in February 2000, the single failed to chart on any chart but the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, on which it reached number sixty-four. After promotion for her debut album ended in mid-2000, Trina began recording music with Missy Elliott to create her second studio album, recording sessions lasted from 2000 to 2002. Trina was able to choose her own production, name of the songs and she told TheCrusade. net, Its more what Trinas about, how Trina looks, how Trina feels, the things that Trina consists of. On August 27,2002, Trina released her second album Diamond Princess, the album debuted at number fourteen on the Billboard 200 and number five on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It sold 67,000 units in its first week, the lead single, Told Yall, featuring Rick Ross reached number sixty-four on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart
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Billboard Hot 100
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The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for singles, published weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales, radio play and online streaming, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday, when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but was changed to Friday to Thursday in July 2015. Radio airplay, which, unlike sales figures and streaming data, is available on a real-time basis. A new chart is compiled and officially released to the public by Billboard on Tuesdays, as of the issue for the week ending on April 15,2017, the Hot 100 has had 1,061 different number one hits. The current number one song is Shape of You by Ed Sheeran, prior to 1955, Billboard did not have a unified, all-encompassing popularity chart, instead measuring songs by individual metrics. At the start of the era in 1955, three such charts existed, Best Sellers in Stores was the first Billboard chart, established in 1936. This chart ranked the biggest selling singles in retail stores, as reported by merchants surveyed throughout the country, Most Played by Jockeys was Billboards original airplay chart. It ranked the most played songs on United States radio stations, as reported by radio disc jockeys, Most Played in Jukeboxes ranked the most played songs in jukeboxes across the United States. On the week ending November 12,1955, Billboard published The Top 100 for the first time, the Top 100 combined all aspects of a singles performance, based on a point system that typically gave sales more weight than radio airplay. The Best Sellers In Stores, Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes charts continued to be published concurrently with the new Top 100 chart. The week ending July 28,1958 was the publication of the Most Played By Jockeys and Top 100 charts. On August 4,1958, Billboard premiered one main all-genre singles chart, the Hot 100 quickly became the industry standard and Billboard discontinued the Best Sellers In Stores chart on October 13,1958. The Billboard Hot 100 is still the standard by which a songs popularity is measured in the United States, the Hot 100 is ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data compiled by Nielsen Soundscan and streaming activity provided by online music sources. There are several component charts that contribute to the calculation of the Hot 100. Charts are ranked by number of gross audience impressions, computed by cross-referencing exact times of radio airplay with Arbitron listener data. Hot Singles Sales, the top selling singles compiled from a sample of retail store, mass merchant and internet sales reports collected, compiled. The chart is released weekly and measures sales of commercial singles. With the decline in sales of singles in the US
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Billboard (magazine)
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Billboard is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries. It publishes pieces involving news, video, opinion, reviews, events and it is also known for its music charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200, tracking the most popular singles and albums in different genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows, Billboard was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegens interest in 1900 for $500, in the 1900s, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows. It also created a service for travelling entertainers. Billboard began focusing more on the industry as the jukebox, phonograph. Many topics it covered were spun-off into different magazines, including Amusement Business in 1961 to cover outdoor entertainment so that it could focus on music. After Donaldson died in 1925, Billboard was passed down to his children and Hennegans children, until it was sold to investors in 1985. The first issue of Billboard was published in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 1,1894 by William Donaldson, initially, it covered the advertising and bill posting industry and was called Billboard Advertising. At the time, billboards, posters and paper advertisements placed in public spaces were the means of advertising. Donaldson handled editorial and advertising, while Hennegan, who owned Hennegan Printing Co. managed magazine production, the first issues were just eight pages long. The paper had columns like The Bill Room Gossip and The Indefatigable, a department for agricultural fairs was established in 1896. The title was changed to The Billboard in 1897, after a brief departure over editorial differences, Donaldson purchased Hennegans interest in the business in 1900 for $500, to save it from bankruptcy. That May, Donaldson changed it from a monthly to a paper with a greater emphasis on breaking news. He improved editorial quality and opened new offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London and he also re-focused the magazine on outdoor entertainment like fairs, carnivals, circuses, vaudeville and burlesque shows. A section devoted to circuses was introduced in 1900, followed by more prominent coverage of events in 1901. Billboard also covered topics including regulation, a lack of professionalism, economics and it had a stage gossip column covering the private lives of entertainers, a tent show section covering traveling shows and a sub-section called Freaks to order. According to The Seattle Times, Donaldson also published articles attacking censorship, praising productions exhibiting good taste
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The Fader
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The Fader is a New York-based music magazine launched in 1999 by Rob Stone and Jon Cohen, covering music, style and culture. It was the first print publication to be released on iTunes, the Fader won the Folio magazine Gold Eddie awards for Best Consumer Entertainment Magazine in 2011 and 2008. It is owned by The Fader Media group, which includes its website, thefader. com, Fader films, Fader Label. The Fader Fort is an annual event at Austin Texas’s South by Southwest founded in 2002. The four-day party features live performances and is sponsored by Fiat, Fader Fort NYC is a party produced during the annual CMJ Music Marathon. I. G. The OMMA Awards, “Nike Sportswear + FADER Presents Pitch Perfect” - Apparel, Fashion - Integrated Online Campaigns
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YouTube
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YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005, Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, YouTube now operates as one of Googles subsidiaries. Unregistered users can watch videos on the site, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos deemed potentially offensive are available only to registered users affirming themselves to be at least 18 years old, YouTube earns advertising revenue from Google AdSense, a program which targets ads according to site content and audience. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, Hurley had studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Karim could not easily find video clips of either event online, Hurley and Chen said that the original idea for YouTube was a video version of an online dating service, and had been influenced by the website Hot or Not. YouTube began as a venture capital-funded technology startup, primarily from an $11.5 million investment by Sequoia Capital between November 2005 and April 2006, YouTubes early headquarters were situated above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California. The domain name www. youtube. com was activated on February 14,2005, the first YouTube video, titled Me at the zoo, shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video was uploaded on April 23,2005, and can still be viewed on the site, YouTube offered the public a beta test of the site in May 2005. The first video to reach one million views was a Nike advertisement featuring Ronaldinho in November 2005. Following a $3.5 million investment from Sequoia Capital in November, the site grew rapidly, and in July 2006 the company announced that more than 65,000 new videos were being uploaded every day, and that the site was receiving 100 million video views per day. The site has 800 million unique users a month and it is estimated that in 2007 YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000. The choice of the name www. youtube. com led to problems for a similarly named website, the sites owner, Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, filed a lawsuit against YouTube in November 2006 after being regularly overloaded by people looking for YouTube. Universal Tube has since changed the name of its website to www. utubeonline. com, in October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in Google stock, and the deal was finalized on November 13,2006. In March 2010, YouTube began free streaming of certain content, according to YouTube, this was the first worldwide free online broadcast of a major sporting event. On March 31,2010, the YouTube website launched a new design, with the aim of simplifying the interface, Google product manager Shiva Rajaraman commented, We really felt like we needed to step back and remove the clutter. In May 2010, YouTube videos were watched more than two times per day. This increased to three billion in May 2011, and four billion in January 2012, in February 2017, one billion hours of YouTube was watched every day
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Supa Dupa Fly
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Supa Dupa Fly is the debut studio album by American rapper Missy Misdemeanor Elliott, released July 15,1997 on The Goldmind and Elektra Records. The album was recorded and produced solely by Timbaland in October 1996, guest appearances on the album include Busta Rhymes, Ginuwine, Nicole, Keith Sweat, Magoo, Queen Latifah, Da Brat,702, Lil Kim, K-Ci & JoJo and Aaliyah. The album debuted at three on the Billboard 200 and topped the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It sold 1.2 million copies in the United States, while in high school, Elliott formed a group called Fayze—later to be renamed Sista—with three of her friends. The group attracted the attention of record producer DeVante Swing, who was part of the R&B group Jodeci, after being signed the Swing Mob record label, Sista recorded an album in New York, but was never released. This led to subsequent termination of Sistas recording contract, Elliott returned to Portsmouth, Virginia, where she and record producer Timbaland began writing songs and contributed to singer Aaliyahs album One in a Million. In 1996, Elliott was signed to Elektra Records and was given her own record label, chairmen and chief executive officer of Elektra at the time, Sylvia Rhone encouraged Elliott to embark in a solo career. Recording sessions of the Supa Dupa Fly took place at the Master Sound Studios in Virginia Beach, the album was produced solely by Timbaland. The first single released from the album was The Rain, as part of the promotional drive for her album, Elliott took part of the 1998 Lilith Fair tour, she became the first female rapper to perform at the event. She also joined rapper Jay-Zs Rock the Mic tour, Supa Dupa Fly contains elements of alternative hip hop, hip hop, dance, R&B, and soul. The albums opening track, Bustas Intro, features rapper Busta Rhymes as a town crier warning of an event about to unfold. The Rain contains a sample of Ann Peebles 1973 song I Cant Stand the Rain, Pass da Blunt is partly based on the song Pass the Dutchie by Musical Youth. Upon its release, Supa Dupa Fly received acclaim among music critics, writers lauded record producer Timbalands production as unique and revolutionary, whose lean, digital grooves are packed with unpredictable arrangements and stuttering rhythms. Elliotts rapping, singing and songwriting also received much acclaim, mulholland called the album a key prophecy of the dominant 21st century black pop, noting Elliotts ability to avoid the whole east vs. west, playas vs. gangstas mess. With the release of Supa Dupa Fly, Elliott became one of the most prominent female rappers, the album is credited for redefining hip hop and R&B. Steve Huey of AllMusic felt that the album was arguably the most influential album released by a female hip-hop artist. Spin magazine ranked the album at nine on its Top 20 Albums of the Year. In 1998, four out of five music critics from The New York Times ranked the album as one of their top ten albums of 1997
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The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)
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The Rain is a 1997 hit song recorded by American rapper Missy Misdemeanor Elliott. The song was released to U. S. radio stations on May 20,1997, the song entered the Hot R&B Airplay chart in mid-June, and peaked at #6 the week of August 9,1997. It peaked at #51 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart the following week, the song was released as the albums lead single on July 2,1997, and reached the top twenty in the United Kingdom and New Zealand. VH1 ranked the song 99th on VH1s 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s, and in 2010 Pitchfork Media included the song at number 33 on their Top 200 Tracks of the 90s. In 1998, The Rain was named the fourth-best single of 1997 by the The Village Voices annual-year end Pazz & Jop critics poll, the songs moans are used as a sample in Method Man & Redmans The. The breakout music video was the first of Missys career directed by Hype Williams, the most notable aspect of the video is the inflated trash bag that Missy wears during a fisheye lens shot. Timbaland, Tamara Taj Johnson-George of SWV, Yo Yo, Lil Kim, Total,702, Da Brat, Lil Cease, the video was nominated for Best Rap Video at the 1997 VMAs. S
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Sock It 2 Me
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Sock It 2 Me is a song recorded by American rapper Missy Misdemeanor Elliott. The song is based on a sample from the 1968 single Ready or Not Here I Come by the Delfonics. The track peaked at number 12 on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100, and reached the top ten on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks, the Rhythmic Top 40, and on the Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales charts. The music video was directed by Hype Williams and is inspired by the Mega Man video game series. It takes place on a planet where Missy Elliott & Lil Kim are wearing red. Towards the end of the video, Missy and Kim are rescued by Da Brat who starts to rap her verse and is wearing a black, one notable moment in the video is when Elliott and other dancers are in a space ship doing Michael Jacksons Smooth Criminal dance. These are the formats and track listings of major single-releases of Sock It 2 Me. com — official site Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Beep Me 911
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Beep Me 911 is a song recorded by American rapper Missy Misdemeanor Elliott, featuring vocals by R&B trio 702 and rapper Magoo. It was written and composed by Elliott, Melvin Barcliff and Tim Timbaland Mosley for her debut album Supa Dupa Fly, the lyrics describe Elliott insisting that, if her lover intends to leave her, he should tell her so before going, by any means necessary. The video premiered in February 1998 and starts at a pink dollhouse where Elliott is wearing a yellow sparking dress dancing, along the girls of 702 in the background while singing their verses, in another scene, other dolls are in a big cage dancing with Elliott. Sampled the Drum machine part from Beep Me 911, as well as several ad-libs from Elliott and these are the formats and track listings of major single-releases of Beep Me 911. U. S.12 promo single Side A Beep Me 911 -4,58 Beep Me 911 -4,57 Side B Beep Me 911 -6,27 Beep Me 911 -4,16 U. S. com — official site Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Hit Em wit da Hee
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Hit Em wit da Hee is a single by singer/rapper Missy Misdemeanor Elliott. The track is found on her album, 1997s Supa Dupa Fly. The single was not eligible to chart in the U. S. and it was a success overseas, reaching No.25 in the UK, the music video edit of the song contains sampled strings from the Björk song Jóga. In The U. S. the album version was released to radio and it received minor mainstream urban radio airplay, the music video for this song takes place in a dark castle on a hill and it was shot on March 31,1998. Missy is seen in a suit dancing with other dancers, when the song changes to the Jóga beat, Missy is seen walking with a magic chalice and three objects floating beside her, specifically a teapot, a metal egg holder and a metal gauntlet. Cameo appearances are made by Magoo, Nicole Wray, Ginuwine, Playa, Mocha, the song ends with the metal horse moving rapidly almost as if Missy had something to do with it. The remix of the song was used for the video, instead of featuring Lil Kim, the remix features Kelly Price, Mocha and Timbaland. Danny. would later pay homage to Elliott by rapping the verse to his song Evil in the same cadence as the final verse in Hit Em wit da Hee. The rap was performed over a sample from Jóga
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Da Real World
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Da Real World is the second studio album by American hip hop recording artist Missy Misdemeanor Elliott, that was on released June 22,1999, by EastWest Records America. The album is noted for adding a raunchier and darker style to Missys music, the album also featured a revival by female rapper Lil Kim, whose career was on a hefty toll from the untimely death of mentor The Notorious B. I. G. in 1997. The album also added a bit of controversy when Elliotts former protégé Danja Mowf was omitted from the album and replaced by Redman on the track, Dangerous Mouths. The album includes the singles, Shes a Bitch, All N My Grill, Elliott said that the album was dedicated to the victims of the Columbine High School massacre of April 20,1999. On March 4,1999, Shes a Bitch was sent to radio stations all over the United States as the lead single for the album. Da Real World was released on June 22,1999 and it sold an estimate of 131,000 copies within its first week, and debuted at number 10 on the Billboard 200, making it Elliotts second top ten album in a row. Elliott went on to two additional singles, All N My Grill and Hot Boyz, featuring Eve, Nas. In February 2000, the album was certified Platinum by the RIAA, as of November 2015, it has sold 1,068,000 copies domestically. Da Real World received acclaim from music critics, entertainment Weekly felt that Da Real World marks steps in several right directions — both for rap and for understanding the never-ending battle of the sexes. The concept is more interesting than the execution and he added that even if Da Real World isnt a successful one, the album, somewhat, recalls Queen Latifah. List of number-one R&B albums of 1999 Missy Elliott discography, forum, and marketplace at Discogs
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She's a Bitch
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Shes a Bitch is a song recorded by Missy Misdemeanor Elliott for her second album, Da Real World. Written by Missy Elliott and Tim Timbaland Mosley, Shes a Bitch set the tone of Da Real World, featuring Elliotts angry lyrics. The song made use of the word bitch as a double-edged commentary on its different meanings. It is used in both the sense that Elliotts critics would label her as a female dog, and also in a sense intended by Elliott to be self-empowering. The Shes a Bitch video was directed by Hype Williams on May 1,1999, similar to his other clips for Elliott, Williams makes extensive use of effects, costuming. Highlights of the video include Elliott and her dancers being raised from underwater on a giant hydraulic M, although EL lighting is cheap and readily available today, in 1999 it was not. Experts had to be flown in from Germany to construct the set, costuming for the video was also unconventional. For much of the video, Missy Elliott and her dancers can be dressed in rubber suits with bald heads. The production cost of the video was over $2 million, making it one of the most expensive videos of all time, assistant mixing engineer, Darren S. Moore Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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All n My Grill
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All n My Grill is the second single from Missy Misdemeanor Elliotts 1999 album, Da Real World. The song featured Big Boi of Outkast and vocal ad-libs from her former protégé, the song had more success than the first single, Shes a Bitch. In European markets, another version of the song featuring French rapper MC Solaar was released adding French rap lyrics performed by MC Solaar and this bilingual English/French version became a charting hit in Belgium, France, Netherlands, Germany and Sweden. This version had appeared as a track on the album Da Real World as an alternative to then main version featuring Big Boi. The song was a hit in the UK as well with the single featuring MC Solaar being mixed by Boy George. The video was directed by Hype Williams and featured Nicole Wray, the video starts with Elliott in a car singing. She gets out of the car and starts singing the rest of the walking down a street. Nicole Wray is singing in a car for most of the video, there are people dancing around in yellow rain coats in the rain. At the end, Big Boi raps in the middle of the street, the video premiered on TV in August 1999
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Hot Boyz (song)
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Hot Boyz is a song by rapper Missy Misdemeanor Elliott featuring Lil Mo. The remix version of the song was a hit featuring Nas, Eve. The song also reached number 5 on the US Hot 100 on January 15,2000, in the UK, the song became the biggest hit from the Da Real World album, it peaked at #18, being Missys sixth top 40 and fourth top 20 solo success. Hype Williams directed the video from October 13–14,1999. Williams also used a vast amount of pyrotechnics, primarily used in the fast cuts to important figures in the video, cameos include Mary J. Blige, Ginuwine, and Timbaland. Nas and Eve were featured, but Q-Tip did not appear in the video and his section was replaced with Elliotts rap verse from the original version
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Miss E... So Addictive
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Miss E… So Addictive is the third studio album by American rapper, Missy Misdemeanor Elliott. The album garnered two Grammy Awards for Get Ur Freak On and the non-single Scream a. k. a, itchin for Best Rap Solo Performance and Best Female Rap Solo Performance, respectively. The album was certified Platinum by the RIAA, so Addictive was widely acclaimed from music critics. On Metacritic, the album holds a score of 89 out of 100 based on 16 reviews, the album is also ranked 70th on the sites list of best-reviewed albums. Q listed the album as one of the best 50 albums of 2001, john Bush from AllMusic felt that Elliott was sounding more assured of her various strengths than at any time since her startling debut and called her best album so far
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Get Ur Freak On
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Get Ur Freak On is a song by American recording artist Missy Misdemeanor Elliott. It was written and produced by Elliott and Timbaland for her studio album Miss E. Released as the albums first single in 2001, the reached number seven on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. Internationally, Get Ur Freak On became a top ten success in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, the song is also heard in The Rundown starring Dwayne Johnson and The 40-Year-Old Virgin starring Steve Carell. In December, the song was listed 14th on Rolling Stones Best Songs of the Decade ranking, in 2002, Get Ur Freak On was named the best single released in the year 2001 by The Village Voices Pazz & Jop annual year-end critics poll. The song also lists at number seven on Pitchfork Medias Top 500 Songs of the 2000s, in 2011, NME placed it at number 17 on its list 150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years. In April 2014, the song was remixed with The Black Keys song Keep Me for the soundtrack to Neighbors. On the Billboard magazine issue dated February 21,2015, Get Ur Freak On re-entered at #40 and this re-entry was spawned by Missy Elliotts performance at the Super Bowl XLIX halftime show that occurred earlier in the month. At the beginning of the song, a man says in Japanese, translated into English, it means, Everyone start dancing together wildly now. Lets make some noise, lets make some noise, before the second chorus, the song samples German artist Karunesh’s song “Solitude” from the album Glolabl Spirit. The outro of the features the man who speaks Japanese saying Ichi, ni, san, shi, translating to One. This last lyric might be a reference to the Kraftwerk song Numbers from their 1981 album Computer World, the music video was directed by Dave Meyers. Rappers Ludacris, LL Cool J, Timbaland, Ja Rule, Busta Rhymes, Master P, Spliff Star, Lil Romeo, Eve, Nate Dogg and this tune was also utilized in Bubba Sparxxxs debut single Ugly, in whose video Elliott makes a cameo. In 2005, Scottish acoustic rocker KT Tunstall released her version of Get Ur Freak On performed for BBC Radio Live Lounge on certain versions of the single for Suddenly I See, shawn Lees Ping Pong Orchestra released a surf rock rendition on the 2007 album Hits the Hits. American rock band Eels also released a version of Get Ur Freak On on Meet the Eels, Essential Eels Vol. I, having frequently performed it live during the Shootenanny. On the comedy show Fonejacker, the track was parodied by Kayvan Novak as he tried to get a record shop owner to identify the track by singing the tune with nonsensical lyrics. In Britney Spears Britney, Piece of Me revamped Vegas residency show and these are the formats and track listings of major single-releases of Get Ur Freak On. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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One Minute Man
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One Minute Man is a song written by American recording artist Missy Misdemeanor Elliott. It was written and produced by Elliott and Timbaland for her studio album Miss E. So Addictive and features guest vocals by rapper Ludacris, incorporating elements of oriental music, the song deals with premature ejaculation. Elliott, a rapper, also sings on the record, the track was released as the albums second single in 2001 and peaked at number 15 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. In the United Kingdom, the reached number 10 and became Elliotts second consecutive song to reach the top ten. Elsewhere One Minute Man failed to chart within the top 20, rapper Trina appears alongside Elliott and Ludacris in the video version remix of the song. A third version featuring Jay-Z was included as a track on Miss E. Elliott performed One Minute Man and Get Ur Freak On at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards as a medley,2001 in music Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Take Away (song)
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Take Away is a song by American recording artist Missy Misdemeanor Elliott. It was written by Elliott and Timbaland for Elliotts third studio album Miss E, so Addictive and features production by Elliott, Timbaland and Craig Brockman along with guest vocals from R&B singer, Ginuwine. While the album version credits background vocals by 702 member, Kameelah Williams, the song and its accompanying music video is dedicated to Elliotts close friend Aaliyah, who was killed in a plane crash on August 25,2001. The remainder of the video features a snippet of Elliotts single,4 My People. The track was released via radio airplay as the third single on October 18,2001. On September 29,2014, the version of the song was sampled by Elliotts protégée Sharaya J for her single. Directed by Dave Meyers, the video begins with a message from Missy Elliott, Elliott is then shown singing her verses in a Fantasy Kingdom–themed palace, decorated with angelic statues, Tweet is then spotted singing the chorus with Elliott while holding an umbrella under showering flower petals. The following scene then shows Ginuwine singing his verses in two differing locations—one being a cave, and the other being steps of the palace. During his verses, Ginuwine along with Elliott glance at the sight of waterfalls where pictures of Aaliyah are reflecting from the water, Tweet is then shown singing the chorus with Elliott, while playing the harp as people dressed in white begin to dance. The video then transitions to Elliott performing 4 My People with an American crowd in a dedication to the 9/11 victims
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4 My People
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4 My People is a song by American recording artist Missy Misdemeanor Elliott. It was written by Elliott, Timbaland, Eve Jeffers, Nisan Stewart, Craig Brockman, so Addictive, featuring production by Nisan and D-Man. The song also peaked at eight in Denmark, and within the top forty of the charts in Germany, Switzerland, France. A music video for the single was released on March 9,2002, the Basement Jaxx remix has been voted as one of 1001 Best Songs Ever by Q. There was a music video that was released as the remaining half of the video for Take Away. The short video features Elliott dancing with a big American crowd in honor of the victims of the 9/11 attacks,2001 in music Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Under Construction (Missy Elliott album)
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Under Construction is the fourth studio album by American rapper Missy Elliott, released by The Goldmind Inc. and Elektra Records on November 12,2002 in the United States. The album was produced by Timbaland, with additional production from Craig Brockman, Nisan Stewart, Errol Poppi McCalla. Upon release, Under Construction received universal acclaim from music critics, under Construction received Grammy Award nominations for Best Rap Album and Album of the Year. The albums fourth single was intended to be a newly recorded remix of Pussycat with guest vocals from Janet Jackson, elliotts label felt the song was too explicit to release, and plans were withdrawn. A sequel album, Under Construction, Part II, was released the year by Missys close affiliates and producers, Timbaland. The album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
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Work It (Missy Elliott song)
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Work It is a hip hop song written by American rapper Missy Elliott and her producer Tim Timbaland Mosley for Elliotts fourth studio album Under Construction. The songs musical style, and production by Timbaland, were inspired by old school hip hop from the 1980s. The beginning of the song samples Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Threes Request Line, released as the albums first single in September 2002, the track reached the number two position on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming Missy Elliotts most successful single to date. A remix of this song features 50 Cent, the end of the song samples Take Me to the Mardi Gras by Bob James, and the synth pattern in the rhythm track samples the intro of Heart of Glass by Blondie. The music video to Work It was directed by Dave Meyers, Timbaland, Eve and Tweet make cameos in the video, as well as a brief appearance by actress/dancer Alyson Stoner. Aaliyah and Lisa Left Eye Lopes, who at the time had recently died, are commemorated in the music video with their images airbrushed on a cars hood. It also features an appearance by dancer and graffiti writer Mr. Wiggles from Rock Steady Crew, there is another music video that features 50 Cent rapping the first verse on the remix. In shooting the video, director Myers shot the scene with live honey bees. Additionally, he forgot to replace a glass of wine with a glass of water when filming the restaurant scene, the video won the award for Video of the Year at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards. In a 2010 interview with Dance Spirit Alyson Stoner revealed that she almost didnt go to the audition for Work It, a portion of the songs lyrics helped popularize the slang term badonkadonk with mainstream audiences. During the chorus, the lyric I put my thing down, flip it, and reverse it is played backwards. In the middle of the song, after the lyric Listen up close while I take you backwards and this vocal reversing trend made it to several of her productions during the following years. In the songs chorus, an elephant trumpeting is heard to hide a sexual reference. There is no version of the song replaces the elephant sound with a word it is meant to hide, there is no word to hide. In both the explicit and edited versions, the song uses onomatopoeia such as ra-ta-ta-ta and buboomp buboomp boomp to refer to sexual bodily moves, rolling Stone ranked Work It 25th in its list 100 Best Songs of the 2000s. In 2003, The Village Voice named Work It the best single of 2002 on their annual year-end critics poll Pazz & Jop, Get Ur Freak On, Work It debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 on chart issue dated September 14,2002, at number 75. In its second and third week, it leaped up to number 42 and number 24, respectively, within five weeks, it reached the top ten, at number 8, and gradually rose from there. On the chart issue dated November 16,2002, the reached number 2
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Gossip Folks
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Gossip Folks is a song by American hip-hop artist Missy Elliott, featuring Ludacris. The song appears on her 2002 album Under Construction and was chosen as single release. It peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #9 in the UK, Gossip Folks also went to number one on the dance charts. The song is Missys response to rumors about her. The refrain of Gossip Folks samples the 1981 song Double Dutch Bus by Frankie Smith, the music video for Gossip Folks was directed by Dave Meyers. In the beginning Elliott is walking through the hallway when students start announcing her entrance, as Missys verse starts, Missy and the students begin dancing through the chorus. The second verse starts in the cafeteria where Missy has her group of students have a fight with another group. Also in the cafeteria are Tweet, Eve, and Trina cheering while sitting on a cafeteria table, in the middle of the video a clip of Funky Fresh Dressed featuring Ms. Jade was played. The Funky Fresh Dressed segment of the video features Elliott and Ms. Jade with green skin in a classroom, Missy begins to aggravate the teacher Faizon Love while Ms. Jade takes over the class with a yardstick as a symbol of power. Ludacriss verse begins directly after the Funky Fresh Dressed segment and he appears to be the principal. The Bus Driver, that appears in the last ten seconds, is Darryl McDaniels, toward the end of the video a mural dedicated to the late R&B/hip hop stars Aaliyah, Lisa Lopes, and Jam Master Jay is shown. The video features young dancers, including Monica Parales of the former girl group School Gyrls, and Alyson Stoner. & Royal Garden Remix Extended Mousse T, & Royal Garden Remix Instrumental Mousse T
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This Is Not a Test!
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This Is Not a Test. is the fifth studio album by American rapper Missy Elliott, released by The Goldmind Inc. and Elektra Records on November 25,2003 in the United States. It was primarily produced by Timbaland, with production from Craig Brockman, Nisan Stewart. The album received favorable reviews from critics and debuted at number thirteen on the Billboard 200. It has sold 705,000 copies in the United States and has been certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, reviews for the album were generally favorable. Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone gave the four out of five stars, saying. Dan Martin of NME gave the album eight out of ten stars, saying the album was all about the beats and not a lot else. Nick Catucci of Blender gave the three out of five stars, saying the album lacks feeling and asked, besides beats. John Bush of AllMusic gave the three out of five stars, saying the album is an effective argument for song-by-song downloads. Placed on Slant Magazines list of best albums of the 2000s at number 87, the album debuted at number thirteen on the Billboard 200, selling 183,600 copies in the first week of release. It has sold 705,000 copies in the United States and has been certified Platinum by the RIAA
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Pass That Dutch
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Pass That Dutch is a song by American recording artist Missy Elliott. Released as the lead single in October 2003, the song reached number 9 on Billboards Rap Songs chart. In addition, it peaked at ten in United Kingdom and reached the top 20 in Finland. The song was ranked first in MuchMusics Top 50 MuchVibe Videos of All Time countdown, Pass That Dutch was also featured in the movie, Mean Girls, but is not on the soundtrack. This is the song where Elliott references Aaliyah, as her picture is on Elliotts desk in the beginning of the music video. The song also features the first verse and chorus of Wake Up alongside cameo appearances from former 106 & Park personality Free and Elliotts former protégé Lil Brianna. The song was predated by Pass the Dutchie, released by Musical Youth in 1982 and it was briefly used in an episode of The Catherine Tate Show where Lauren Cooper gets married, the censored version was used. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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I'm Really Hot
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Im Really Hot is a song by American recording artist Missy Elliott. It was written and produced by Timbaland and Elliott for her studio album This Is Not a Test. Released as the second and final single from the album, it reached the top 20 of the Danish Singles Chart, the accompanying music video makes reference to the Quentin Tarantino movie Kill Bill, Volume 1, and includes a dance break over Hot Music by Soho
