Track Listing
1. Baby Girl Interlude / Intro
2. Bomb Intro / Pass That Dutch
3. Wake Up
4. Keep It Movin
5. Is This Our Last Time
6. Ragtime Interlude / I'm Really Hot
7. Dats What I'm Talking About
8. Don't Be Cruel
9. Toyz Interlude/ Toyz
10. Let It Bump
11. Pump It Up
12. It's Real
13. Let Me Fix My Weave
14. Spelling Bee Interlude / Spelling Bee
15. I'm Not Perfect
16. Outro
17. Pass That Dutch
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Beenie Man, Elephant Man, Fabolous, Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, Monica, Nelly, R. Kelly, The Clark Sisters | | Distributor: | MSI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
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.
Digitally remastered japanese limited edition comes in miniature LP-style sleeve.
CD contains 1 bonus track.
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.
Editorial 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...
Rolling Stone
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