Get your freak on van Miss Elliott is door Rolling Stone uitgeroepen tot beste nummer van deze eeuw tot nu toe.
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Missy Elliott dropped “Get Ur Freak On” just in time to rule the radio in the long, hot summer of 2001 — and nothing was ever the same. It was more than just the latest mind-bending Missy smash — it was a challenge, a dare, the sound of Miss E and Timbaland defying everyone else to keep up with the future or get left behind. The dynamic duo from Portsmouth, Virginia, were music’s most radically innovative team, ever since they flipped hip-hop upside down with their 1997 debut hit,
But Get your Freak On was one step beyond, riding a crazed space-bhangra beat. Timbaland warps a tabla hook into head-spinning Dirty South avant-funk, playing the six-note motif on the tumbi, a one-string Punjabi guitar, while the party people go off in Japanese and Hindi. Missy yells her epic “ Hollaaaaa!, ” commands all freaks to the dance floor, hocks a loogie, and boasts, “I know you dig the way I sw-sw-switch my style!” It was a nonstop freak manifesto that made the musical future sound limitless. And after more than two decades, “Get Ur Freak On” still sounds like the future — everything vibrant and inventive and cool about 21st-century pop is in here somewhere. Holla, forever. —R.S.