Missy Elliott - Da Real World
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Rolling Stone Rating: 3
The very idea of Missy Elliott is tantalizing: a daring young woman from the Dirty South -- currently hip-hop's most innovative region -- who can sing soulfully and rhyme forcefully, who can write and produce hit songs, who's smart enough to be sonically innovative and yet keep it mainstream, who's ambitious and original enough to create her own style of dancing and mix a sci-fi twinge into her aesthetic to invoke the feeling that she's a few ticks ahead of her time, which is probably the truth. And though she appeals to both sexes, wait till her girl fans hear the lead single from her second album, Da Real World: The song is a furiously celebratory, slyly feminist...
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