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Contents 1 Weight loss 2 Hip-Hop producer? 3 Mixed Response To Supa Dupa Fly? 4 improving the article 5 Child dancer 6 Not best selling female rapper or one of best song writers 7 Year of birth? 8 Missy Raps "Britney Spears" 9 i'm sorry 10 New Album Talk

[edit] Weight loss

I think there should be a discussion about her weight loss, because Missy has become an inspiration to people who have weight problems and want to start living healthy. --84.188.190.239 15:48, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

I disagree. I think this page should focus more on career/biography. Unless you can poll people to see if she really is an inspiration, how do you know who she affects? (MaytrixInk)

I don't know about how inspiring she is but I think the sudden weight loss is noteworthy 198.6.46.11 20:35, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hip-Hop producer?

What hip-hop production has Missy Elliott done outside of her own (which she just recently assued from Timbaland)? Nearly every track I can think of that she's produced (and there are a lot) is an R&B record. --FuriousFreddy 14:43, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Reply: Well, for one, she produced "Lose Control" on her own. Also, she produced two tracks for Trina (No Panties and Rewind That Back). While the songs may feature some singing, the main 'method of expression' is rapping, which I would call hip hop production. But yes, indeed, she does produce more R and B songs than hip hop. Tonprince 04:12, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mixed Response To Supa Dupa Fly?

I've only read a few reviews of the album, but the ones I read said it is the best female hip-hop album ever released.

[edit] improving the article

The article is interesting but it reads too muchlike a list of what she did. Can someone who knows about this say something ( from interviews perhaps) of WHY she produced this sort of music on this sort of theme, and/or what the critics thought at different stages... Johncmullen1960 09:09, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Child dancer

Who is that white girl who appears in a few of Missy's videos? She looks to be 10 or so, and appears in "Gossip Folks", "I'm really hot", "Work it" and usually has pigtails? I thought she might be the director's kid or something, but they're by different directors... Is she a friend of Elliott's? Also, Elliott seems to use kid dancers in her videos often, is there a reason? Identity0 12:11, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

her name is Alyson Rae Stoner and shes so sick with it if youv seen her break it down24.77.69.29 03:36, 25 January 2007 (UTC)hope

Wow. She's so "sick with it". That's an insanely ridiculous response to the above question. The name would've sufficed. (MaytrixInk)

[edit] Not best selling female rapper or one of best song writers

[edit] Year of birth?

The article says 1971, but the infobox states 1975. Which is the correct one? __meco 19:02, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Personal life? Is she marrid, have any children?

[edit] Missy Raps "Britney Spears"

Ever since missy did the remix of the wisper song with the Ying Yang twins, every guy record she raps on(when its a remix or a singal like timbalands bounce) she refers to britney why? SKUZZY —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.11.235.11 (talk) 15:06, 3 October 2007 (UTC) thats the only 2 songs i hear her say that which other ones?

[edit] i'm sorry

i became devilish and vandalised this page to freaking hell. i'm very sorry. please forgive and forget. 204.145.129.189 (talk) 20:28, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New Album Talk

The new album has been confirmed to the called Block Party

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003814246 Lmarumahoko (talk) 09:02, 11 June 2008 (UTC)