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Riff: Missy Elliott – “WTF (Where They From)”

Nov 18, 2015

The dance that you doing is dumb/How they do where you from?/Stickin’ out your tongue/Girl, but you know you’re too young

from WTF (Where They From) lyrics by Missy Elliott

Big booty bass crafted specifically for the queen of bugged out raps. She sounds at ease and in top form like she had never left. Sure the beat is not a Timbaland product but it is close enough in that it embraces all the sounds that accentuate Missy’s voice. She’s redlining the groove and breathing new life into a style that she christened. A return to form that we all need to be excited about.

Riff by Jeff Min

Jeff Min is a Chicago-based writer at SONGLYRICS. His work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Hi-Fructose, Wax Poetics, SLAM, and HOOP.

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