Who Is Missy Elliot

Melissa Arnette Elliot was born on July 1, 1971 in Portsmouth, Virginia. She is a versatile woman who won the Grammy awards for five times in her career. She is an American rapper, singer, record producer and a songwriter. Her talents can be guessed from the fact that she is the sole rapper to have one double platinum albums and six platinum albums certified by the RIAA. She is credited for some extraordinary productions and lyric writings along with her co-producer Timbaland. She also wrote and produced songs for Aaliyah, Monica, Ciara, Janet Jackson and Mariah Carey.

Elliott and Timbaland worked in collaboration to create songs for SWV and 702(Steelo and the remix). The most notable of the production duo's work features track creation for Aaliyah. Composing for Aaliyah includes the composition of nine tracks for Aaliyah's album "One In A Million" in the year 1996. Elliott also gave background vocals and guest raps to their composed tracks. Some of such tracks where Elliott worked with Timbaland are "If Your Girl Only Knew", "One In A Million" and "Hot Like Fire" and "4 Page Letter".

Missy Elliott is such a great singer that she continues to mesmerize her fans with her singing and continues to reinvent the definition of hip-hop. Likewise her new album, "Miss E…So Addictive", scratches dip down to our pre conceived notion about the hip-hop and pop culture in the world. She and Tweet did their hit album "Southern Hummingbird" together. The collaborative production of Tweet, Timbaland and Elliott called "Sound' showed the world of music a new direction and are labeled "soul-driven" and "mellow". Her second album "It's Me Again" is reputed for the merging of the old and new school attitude of hip-hop music under the production of Elliott and Timbaland.

Timbaland Teams With Justin Timberlake

Timothy Z Mosely who is better known in the music world as Timbaland is a famous American producer, singer and a rapper. He ventured in the music industry in the 90s' and worked as a protege of Devante from Jodeci. His production style is marked by an individualistic uniqueness, unorthodox music arrangements and his instrumentation has a sense of space and rhythm. Timbaland is such a producer who has spread his musical influence on every genre of music and made a successful career as a pop music producer mainly. Timbaland is also a very good performer and has solo and duets to his credit. He also gave vocals to many of the songs sung by him as well as other contemporary singers.

Timbaland worked in collaboration with many of the famous singers and producers like Magoo, Petey Pablo, Beck, Jay-z etc. During the period around 2001, Timbaland produced three tracks for Tweet's debut collection, Southern Hummingbird and produced tracks for singers like Lil Kim and Southern rapper, Pastor Troy. In collaboration with producer Scott Storch, he worked on the production of a number of tracks by the former NSYNC singer Justin Timberlake. This smash album was entitled, "Justified". Another of the massive hits of the album includes "Cry Me a River". This song, however, helped Timberlake to establish himself as a mature singer and helped him to wipe out his teeny bopper image. Timbaland's talents to do rap and his appearance in the music video of "Cry Me A River" made him hugely famous. However, after the release of this album, Timbaland broke up with Scott over some financial problems. In the year, Timbaland produced album "Future, sex, love, sounds" was nominated got the Grammy awards in the "album of the year" category.