AlexdeParis said:

Yeah she did say that, lol. I get it but that was still a weird lyric to me. Oh well.

Timmy84 said:

I always thought Patti was an interesting example to use since she isn't known for her guest appearances -- I can only think of Fourplay's cover of "After the Dance" off the top of my head -- but I always interpreted it as, "I don't wanna just sing; let me rap, too."

AlexdeParis said:

Well, I got something totally different from "You ain't gon use me to just be singing hooks, what I look like Patti Labelle or somebody nigga?" Still don't make sense to me to mention Patti it's not apples to apples.
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AlexdeParis said:

She could've said Chaka Khan then. Or someone lesser known like Shirley Murdock, lol.
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AlexdeParis said:

I get it too. I hear it as a compliment to Patti Labelle. Up to that point on the song, Missy was only singing the hook, so she's basically saying that she wants to rap, too.

I mean, yeah, I get it, "why you got me singing hooks?"

I'm not trying to be sensitive that she used Patti's name like that, it could've been very well a compliment.

Who knows? But I don't know if she was on enough hooks as a singer then she was as a rapper. In fact, the only thing I remember about her guest appearance on a song by someone named Gina Thompson, she wasn't singing but she was going "yee-hee-hee-hee, ya" or something like that. That's the ONLY thing people remembered and then she got on songs basically rapping. She only sung on occasion ("Cold Rock a Party" and this song).

Timmy84 said:

Oh, she had plenty of guest appearances. Let's see...

That's What Little Girls Are Made Of - Raven Symone [OK, let's not mention this one]
The Things You Do - Gina Thompson
Steelo - 702
Cold Rock a Party - MC Lyte
Do Thangz (Main Pass Remix) - Men of Vizion
You Don't Have to Worry (Remix) - New Edition

She rapped on all of those but most of the singing was backing vocals.

Of course, she was all over most of Aaliyah's One in a Million

AlexdeParis said:

Yeah that's what I meant. I just realized this year that she was SINGING in the background on the Do Thangz remix in the beginning of the song! I don't think she sang on Raven's track or Gina's or 702's or New Edition's tho.

Timmy84 said:

Well, a little singing in the NE track ("hit 'em with the hee"), but yeah, you're right. She didn't really start singing a lot (well, since the Sista days) until her debut album. Let's stroll down memory lane. Missy had a pretty busy '96 for someone without an album:

The Things You Do (Bad Boy Remix)


Steelo (Remix)


Do Thangz (Main Pass Remix)
http://www.youtube.com/wa...BYDTyGuWVQ

You Don't Have to Worry (Bad Boy Remix)


Amazingly, the remix of "Cold Rock a Party" isn't on YouTube at all.

AlexdeParis said:

She sure did. That's how I heard about her. People kept saying "when's her album coming out" then when it did come out, everybody had to have it! That video made me get it. I realized who was the original sample like a year or two afterwards, lol.

Timmy84 said:

which remix are you talking about here?

Cinnie said:

No not the remix:



Now name the sample.

I guess you meant to address to DaPrettyMan:

http://www.imeem.com/hiph...ing-missy/

Timmy84 said:

"I Can't Stand the Rain" by Ann Peebles? That's too easy.

AlexdeParis said:

I thought you were talking about "Cold Rock A Party (Remix)" and the Diana Ross loop, I'm like daamn, don't tell me Timmy84 Motown expert didn't know "Upside Down" until Puffy jacked it

Cinnie said:

Nah we weren't talking about that. And the day I don't know a Motown sample is the day the devil sits in the freezer.

Timmy84 said:

I was hoping for a story when 1996 was when you went into the Hitsville vaults after hearing Missy

Cinnie said:

Nah I first got the knowledge when I was 13. In '97, that's when Puffy started just sampling as if he was PASTING the motherfucking songs on there. It was hard to NOT know what track was sampled from "My Life" on down! That's when I began my dislike of Puff the Un-Magic One. I got really pissed when he sampled Led Zeppelin and I didn't even know Led Zep like that! Missy wasn't on a song with a R&B sample as far as I know besides "Cold Rock" until "Supa Dupa Fly".

I like how everyone missed the fact that Angie Martinez dropped 2 albums. But it's cool. The more successful one spawned the single "If I Could Go". Has a video and all. Then she resumed her successful DJ/hosting career.

Timmy84 said:

omg I think we might have to refer to excessive sampling as "PASTING" from now on.

as in,

Timmy84 said:

Cinnie said:

Good one.

Cinnie said:

"I wanna go outsiiiiide in the raiiiiin..."

Just had to take a second there for the KING PASTE JOB

Timmy84 said:

Mary can't dance worth a goddamn,,,,she up there fuckin' around doing the cobra twist I love her 2-bits, man

Harlepolis said:

You know she don't even give a damn.

Harlepolis said:

Hell, you know Mary was high as kite back then and that's ALL she could do.

MuthaFunka said:

I think she was drunk in that video. She quit coke cold turkey a few months before making this video.