Missy Elliott

Lyrical longevity: One year, as an outgrowth of her performance poetry and singing Style similarity: Outkast and Missy Elliott, says Taylor, who describes her style as a throwback to '80s "boom bap" Studio status: Working on a...

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After his breakout album, he went on to tour over a dozen nations on 2 continents, and has since worked with artists like De La Soul, Missy Elliot, and Gang Starr. His music pays homage to the ways of Afrika Bambaataa, whose old school...

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...feathered coat midway through to reveal a tiny leather corset and his very pasty buttocks. Audiences were shocked (especially Missy Elliott, whose reaction shot is absolutely priceless), but Manson (of course) never apologized, and went on...

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by Troy Rogers After two albums and collaborating with the likes of Nas, Missy Elliott, Saukrates, Choclair, Esthero, Destiny's Child, and Sean Paul, Toronto born R&B diva, Jully Black, is back and at the top of her game with the November...

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...professionally with Napoleon for 15 years (11 of those as husband and wife). The pair, who has worked with stars like Beyonce and Missy Elliott, is known for an innovative lyrical hip-hop style that has garnered them quite a following since...

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...dancing going on this Saturday night: On the main floor, it's Mixtape, the monthly compilation of Miike Snow, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Missy Elliott, the Noisettes, Tiga and Passion Pit in original and remixed form. (Too bad the night is having...

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...childhood was spent honing her songwriting listening to calypso, '50s London post-Motown, Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, Lauryn Hill, Missy Elliott and Alanis Morissette. Like Morissette, Anjulie has a penchant for unrequited-love songs. She's...

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...Giants are groups everyone has heard of, if not heard. Yoko Ono has a new record out at 76! Mika Miko "Wild Bore" From Missy Elliott's sex-positive "Get Ur Freak On" to M.I.A.'s post-colonial feminist take on "Third World democracy" in...

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HOT OR NOT: MISSY ELLIOTT & TEYANA TAYLOR - "PUT IT ON YA" Missy Elliott originally was supposed to drop her long awaited seventh studio album, Block Party after the tracks "Ching-A-Ling" and "Shake Your Pom Pom" dropped at the top of last...

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