Track Listing
1. Baby Girl Interlude Intro
2. Bomb Into Pass That Dutch
3. Wake Up
4. Keep It Movin
5. Is This Our Last Time
6. Ragtime Interlude im Really Hot
7. Dats What im Talkin About
8. Dont Be Cruel
9. Toyz Interlude Toyz
10. Let It Bump
11. Pump It Up
12. Its Real
13. Let Me Fix My Weave
14. Spelling Bee Interlude Spelling Bee
15. Im Not Perfect
16. Outro
17. Pass That Dutch (Bonus Track For Japan)
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Beenie Man, Elephant Man, Fabolous, Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, Monica, Nelly, R. Kelly, The Clark Sisters | | Distributor: | Phantom Import Distributi | | 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.
The lovely Ms. Misdemeanor first gained notoriety as a producer (remember Timbaland?), but she's now considered one of the world's premiere hip-hop mavens. This Japanese edition of her 2003 smash features the bonus track "Pass The Duchie."
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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