House, R&B, Soul & Rap > E House, R&B, Soul & Rap > East Coast Rap > up to 5 GBP

Advantages: Great catchy tunes, lots of colaborations
Disadvantages: not much timbaland, not as good as past albums

From album to album missy elliot has alway been able to improve her craft and has alway been able to stay ahead of the game; with new styles, new experimental beats and who can forget her talented rapping skills. So in her sixth and maybe best album "The Cookbook" be sure to find a new variety of music recipies, waiting to hit those musical taste buds!!. With guest producers and collaborations, giving the added ingrediants to an overal meal that ...
...Track Reviews: 'Lose Control' - This is the jump-off single, which no doubt was a hit in the charts, with the House andTechno beats mixed with hip-hop sounds, makes this a huge standout track. This track took some techno samples from from theEighties group Cybotron, showing just how experimental missy really is when it comes to producing tracks, and making hits. The single also feats vocals from new RnB senstation Ciara, which gives that added ... Read review

Advantages: truly wonderful album style, lyrics, and flow
Disadvantages: apart from a couple of the tracks nothing

Missy Elliott has always demanded, and received respect, from the moment she released her first tune. Fat female with a dress sense as big as her personality she took on the hip hop world and demanded it accepted her. This album reminds me that even though she's been through it all 'the entourage tales, funny clothing lines' she might not be the best at everything but the one thing you can't take away from her is that when it comes down to laying ... Read review

Advantages: Colourful video, risque lyrics
Disadvantages: Gets boring toward the end, not a patch on the orioginal version

...nothing to do with flies, supa dupa or otherwise. Since hearing the Missy Elliott version of the song, I have of course realised it's by her. I've also seen the video, which is fine, with the blow-up black bin liner outfit, and plenty of body parts seeming to undergo a strange blow-up process at the drop of a hat. It's all a little surreal, with a bright coloured (stark primary colours especially) Teletubbies-style landscape. I got a little bit ...
...sure if it was the video, the song, or both. The lyrics are a tiny bit rude, but, to be honest, only a tiny bit - things like "can we get kinky tonight?" and "when I play my yoyo". Funny that, I've read a lot about Missy being a sexually-upfront feminist icon, but "can we get kinky tonight" sounds a little on the polite, even perhaps a little submissive, side. Maybe that's just my take on it. So, overall, The Rain (Super Dupa Fly) is not my kind ... Read review

Advantages: More Fantastic beats from Timbaland and great collaborations
Disadvantages: None

...Track 1 Baby Girl Interlude/Intro: This is a suprising intro where as Missy ussaly talks on her intros and interludes this intro has a fantastic beat and features the extrodinary vocals of the talented Mary J Blige. Part of this intro also features on Missy fisrt single off this album ' Pass That Dutch'. Track 2 Bomb Intro/ Pass That Dutch: This intro just features Missy talking about her music. After the bomb drops the fantastic beat and heavy ...
...released a fantastic album for this track. Track 3 Wake Up (Featuring Jay Z): This track has great lyrical content which is quite thought provoking. Again Missy works with the great Jay Z and as shown before they work very very well together. Track 4 Keep It Movin ( Featuring Elephant Man): This track sounds different to Missy's usual sound but t sounds different in a good way. This track shows that Missy is able to create new sounds and make them ... Read review

Advantages: Great dance tunes, original beats and instrumentation
Disadvantages: none

...and full of attitude. Da Real World is Missy’s second album, the first being the brilliant ‘Supa Dupa Fly’, which itself was an album of hip-hop/soul that had a sound I for one had never heard before. Ever since hearing ‘Sock it to me’ in 1997 I knew this was a sound that was going to be big, and it was. The Timbaland-inspired skippy beats and unusual synth sounds were (and still are) heard everywhere. Producers everywhere ...
...to make it big. Da Real World is a cross between the more soulful 'Supa Dupa Fly' and the harder, more pure hip-hop album, 'Miss-E So Addictive'. It is a combination of beautifully sung soul songs and hard-hitting rap tracks. 1. Intro. The album starts with a big intro, an electronic voice telling us all that the sounds of Missy and Timba are not from the year 2000, but from the future, from the year 3000. 2. Beat Biters. We are then thrown into ... Read review