Missy Elliott - Work It (Lyrics)
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Artist/Group: Missy Elliott
Album: Under Construction
Released: 2002
Label: Goldmind/Elektra
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"Work It" is a hip hop song written by American rapper Missy Elliott and her producer Tim "Timbaland" Mosley for Elliott's fourth studio album Under Construction (2002). The song's musical style, and production by Timbaland, were heavily inspired by old school hip hop from the early 1980s. It samples Run-D.M.C.'s "Peter Piper" and Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three's "Request Line".
Released as the album's first single on September 16, 2002, the track reached the number two position on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming Missy Elliott's 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 was also sampled in one of Missy's first features "The Things That You Do", and the synth pattern in the rhythm track samples the intro of "Heart of Glass" by Blondie.
A portion of the song's lyrics helped popularize the slang term "badonkadonk" with mainstream audiences ("Love the way my butt go bum-bump-bum-bump-bump/Keep your eyes on my bum-bump-bum-bump-bump/And think you can handle this badonk-a-donk-donk").
During the chorus, the lyric "I put my thing down, flip it, and reverse it" has literally been reversed, a part many have assumed to be gibberish. In the middle of the song, after the lyric "Listen up close while I take you backwards", the lyric "Watch the way Missy like to take it backwards" is also played in reverse. This vocal reversing trend made it to several of her productions during the following years.
In the song's chorus, an elephant trumpeting is heard to hide a sexual reference ("If you got a big, let me search it"). There is no version of the song that replaces the elephant sound with a word it is meant to hide; there is no word to hide, as it is meant to be left to the listener's imagination. 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.
In 2015, 13 years after "Work It" came out Alyson Stoner reunited with her former co-stars to release a tribute dance video of "Work It" for Missy Elliott. This was done after people had been asking her why she didn't dance with Missy Elliott and Katy Perry during the 2015 Super Bowl.
John Bush of AllMusic described the song as "turn the tables on male rappers, taking charge of the sex game, matching their lewdest, rudest rhymes, and also featuring the most notorious backmasked vocal of the year." Bush cited the song as an example of Elliott's "artistic progression, trying to push hip-hop forward...neatly emphasizing her differences from other rappers by writing tracks for nearly every facet of the female side of relationships."
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", a previous Elliott single, topped the same poll a year earlier.
"Work It" debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 on chart issue dated September 14, 2002, at number 75. In its second and third weeks, it leaped up to number 42 and number 24, respectively, taking the Airplay Gainer title in both weeks. 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 song reached number 2, but because of the massive success of "Lose Yourself" by Eminem, it never reached number one. Instead, the song stayed at number two for ten weeks, a record that it shares with "Waiting for a Girl Like You" by Foreigner from 1981. Despite never topping the Hot 100 chart, the song topped the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for five weeks.
On the Billboard magazine issue dated February 21, 2015, "Work It" re-entered at number 35, more than a decade after its original chart run. This re-entry occurred as a result of Elliott's performance at the Super Bowl XLIX halftime show earlier in the month; another Elliott single, "Get Ur Freak On," also re-entered the Billboard Hot 100 the same week.
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20 plus years later and i still didnt know what missy was saying in reverse until i finally checked the lyrics since forever >.
What is it😭😭
@@LevLawrence She repeats the verse she sings before backwards peep the lyrics and pause it
SAAAME! I only caught wind of it when FLO's song Fly Girl came out and that line was also in there. Geeez I can never pronounce it now lol
@@LevLawrence I love ❤qaa
Thanks. You answered my question before I thought to ask
There were 4 samples in the song:
‘Work It’ by Missy Elliot’ (2002)
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1. ‘Heart Of Glass’ - Blondie (1978) (Which is the Roland CR-78 drum machine sound looped throughout the song.)
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2. ‘Request Line - Rock Master Scott and the Dynamic Three (1984) (Which is the vocal sample in the beginning saying: “DJ please, pick up your phone! I’m under request line.”
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3. Peter Piper’ - Run D.M.C (1986) (Which are the record scratching sounds used throughout the song.)
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4. ‘Take Me to the Mardi Gras’ - Bob James (1975) (Which is the drum beat and chimes used at the end of the song right before Missy Elliott’s interlude.)
I can't listen to this song without hearing Honey G
Jesus this went hard. I feel bad for kids nowadays. I don’t think they have found soul in music. Everything is regurgitated
Finally I know the reverse part!!
How?
@@eblopez1288 because I read the lyrics it’s the hook words but played backwards
@@jjvega256 PLEASE EXPLAIN
@@t33arn3_nauer3basically it is saying "put my thing down, flip it and reverse it" in reverse so "Ti esrever dna ti plif nwod gniht ym tup" is "put my thing down, flip it and reverse it"
It’s still just as hard to pronounce! 😮
Never been deep into rap, but Missy was one rap artist I did like a lot!!! She's SUPER-talented!
The beat didn't have to go that hard... 🤣🤣🥰
I love at 2:13 she says watch the way missy like to take it backwards ( but says it backwards) i remember telling people she was doing it backwards in a couple parts and now i can say now HAHA I WAS FREAKN RIGHT!!
And i thourt she was sayin... "Is ur girlfriend nickers werein yet"... kinda hahah my bad.... who thinks the same
Looooooooooooove this song and the ending speech.
What she’s saying, is put my thing down flip it and reverse it
Missy Elliott is an innovator ❤
Favourite song
Gen V introduced me to this catchy song!
Tek knight when he sees a hand dryer
Flip it and reverse it... ti esrever dna ti pilf
One of my goddamn college years anthems at the bar.... loved hearing this, and a bunch of her shit around this time, when I was all fired up and wasted and iiisshh at Safari Bar on Union Tpke, or Shooters, also on Union lol, etc etc... hit the dance floor immediately, get my crotch grind on
You in queens NY?
Ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gnaht ym tup i
Sdrawkcab ti ekat ot ekil yssiM yaw eht hctaw
This song is amazing and very very beautiful.❤❤❤❤
It’s a cool song but you didn’t listen to it if you think it’s “beautiful”
I was in fifth grade when this came out back in 2002
Had to reverse on Snapchat
She tells you the Lyrics are in reverse which is backwards. You must un scramble the words and still you may not understand the meaning 🙏🏽😇. 4:59
Jazlyn you are very beautiful this song for you Work it
Jazlyn you are very beautiful this song for her Work it
Who came after watching gen V episode 4
Me😂
Anyone else realize there wasn’t the lambo line in the song until just recently?
awesome forever
This always got a good reaction. Brought out the freak in everybody.
90's music
She said girl finna wear mayo
Chantal
Amen
Who came here from tik tok
Not me
not me
not me
Hell nah
Not me
"When i come out, you wont even matter"?