{"id":5970,"date":"2019-08-23T10:13:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T10:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=5970"},"modified":"2019-10-26T18:17:53","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T18:17:53","slug":"audiomissy-elliott-announces-last-minute-release-for-her-first-record-since-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2019\/08\/23\/audiomissy-elliott-announces-last-minute-release-for-her-first-record-since-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"AUDIO:Missy Elliott announces last-minute release for her first record since 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missy Elliott has announced a surprise release of her first record since 2005.<\/p>\n<p>The rapper revealed on her social media accounts that the Iconology EP will be unveiled at midnight and has suggested that the tracks will be a throwback to a more upbeat time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year has been a tremendous year for me,\u201d Elliott wrote on Instagram. \u201cI am humbled and grateful. THANK YOU for allowing me to smell the roses. You, my fans, and God are the reason I am here and have celebrated every milestone with me! So, I have a SURPRISE for you &#8230; let\u2019s continue the celebration at midnight tonight \u2026 I\u2019m dropping a collection of new songs! Let\u2019s #ThrowItBack to a time when music just felt good and made us want to dance!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It marks her first release since 2005\u2019s The Cookbook which featured the hit Lose Control. At the time she referred to it as her \u201cbest album\u201d and it went on to sell over 657,000 copies in the US before losing the Grammy for best hip-hop album to Kanye West\u2019s Late Registration. On the album, the Guardian\u2019s Alexis Petridis wrote that Elliott sounded \u201cas unique and startling and formidable as ever\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Since then she has appeared on songs with Ariana Grande, Little Mix and most recently Lizzo. At this year\u2019s MTV Video Music Awards, she will be honoured with the Video Vanguard award just months after she entered the Songwriters Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with Marie Claire, Elliott was asked what she wants fans to think when they hear her new album for the first time. She responded: \u201cThere\u2019s no one like Missy. No one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Missy Elliott - Why I Still Love You (Acapella) [Official Audio]\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wYS0QWD3J3s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>source:guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missy Elliott has announced a surprise release of her first record since 2005. The rapper revealed on her social media accounts that the Iconology EP will be unveiled at midnight and has suggested that the tracks will be a throwback to a more upbeat time. \u201cThis year has been a tremendous year for me,\u201d Elliott [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[11974,1374,1161,10552,4006,9026,1445,3270,8394,11493,2659,4445,6037,427,7815,5058,11900,11973,428,6431,5349,6348,8033,3954],"class_list":["post-5970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-album","tag-alexis","tag-ariana-grande","tag-dance","tag-ep","tag-fans","tag-god","tag-grammy","tag-instagram","tag-interview","tag-kanye-west","tag-lizzo","tag-marie-claire","tag-missy-elliot","tag-mtv","tag-music","tag-new-album","tag-one","tag-rapper","tag-release","tag-social-media","tag-us","tag-video","tag-will"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}