‘You newcomers better sit back and take note’
Missy is warming up for her first album release in seven years by flexing her bravado and reasserting her place in hip-hop on two new releases titled, “Triple Threat” and “Ninth Inning”.
With some help from Timbaland on the production and contributing verse, Missy gets aggressive while reminding us that her ability to rap, dance and sing makes her a force to be reckoned with:
Guess who’s back. Yup, I’m the best/I’m that chick cuz I’m a triple threat/ 250 mill. Who can top that? I slap whoever say I’m irrelevant/ God, I’m pissed, mad and upset. Music is dead. We make it resurrect.
Meanwhile, On 9th Inning, Missy and Timbaland continue slaughtering the new music of today while boasting about what they’ve done in the music industry. Missy yells over the track, ‘How many of y’all got a catalog this long? Don’t worry, I’ll wait. Did y’all forget? I think y’all forgot. They think we done. All we do is make hits’ while Timbaland says in his verse:
Ain’t no real artist… [...] All you hear in music is the chorus, but that’s okay Timmy’s back. End of story.
Take a listen to both tracks below:
Okay, here goes the honesty. There is something about ‘Triple Threat’ that sounds a little dated, like it could have been made about 6-8 years ago and then resurrected, however, I appreciate Missy’s wordplay. Especially, considering the type of Hip Hop that is getting played on the radio nowadays. Her flow is sick!
One of the things that is noticeably missing from both records is Missy’s signature vocals. Some of her hottest records featured her singing, and even though we got a taste of it on J. Cole’s “Nobody’s Perfect, she decided to focus solely on her lyrical ability on both of these tracks. (…Which is fine because she definitely had a lot to say].