Missy Elliott's "Work It" with Punkie Johnson

One Song

Hartbeat

Music Commentary, Music Interviews, Onesong, Comedy, Music

4.9 • 876 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

On this special re-run, Diallo and LUXXURY are joined this week by comedian and friend of the pod, Punkie Johnson. Together, they go on a quest to flip it and reverse it and unpack the many layers of samples and interpolations that went into Missy Elliott’s 2002 banger, Work It. Come for the badonkadonk, stay for the obscure Paul Simon sample. The song Work it is the first single from Missy Elliot's 2002 album Under Construction. Stems, interpolations and sampled songs from Peter Pipe by Run-D.M.C, The Request Line by Rock Master Scott and more. Music genres: Hip hop, R&B, progressive rap, Female Rappers.

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0:00.0	One Song Nation, what's going on? Diallo here. Listen, Luxury and I are back in the lab,
0:04.9	cooking up some new episodes of One Song that we'll be sharing with you real soon.
0:08.6	Including an episode all about one of the biggest R&B hits of the 1990s. I'm talking about
0:13.9	1994's Creep by TLC off that epic album, Crazy, Sexy Cool. So while we get our hot takes,
0:22.6	breakdowns, and hidden gyms ready for you, we wanted to share with you an earlier episode that we really enjoy.
0:26.8	It's a classic from one of the most creative, out-of-the-box rappers from the 90s and 2000s.
0:31.6	She was the one who put her thing down, flipped it, and reversed it,
0:34.5	only to forever change the rap game for women, and actually all rappers,
0:38.7	if you think about it. And there's no doubt it introduced you to the word badonga-dunk.
0:42.8	Oh, and this episode also features the hilarious comedian stand-up and star of Saturday Night Live,
0:48.4	Punky Johnson. So now, from the one-song vault, we give you Missy Elliott's Work It.
0:56.4	I'm actor, writer, director, and sometimes DJ Diallo Riddle.
1:00.0	And I'm producer, DJ, and songwriter Luxury, also known as the guy who talks about interpolation on TikTok.
1:06.7	And this is One Song.
1:08.6	The show where we deconstruct and celebrate
1:11.0	some of your favorite songs from the past 60 years in music history
1:14.6	and tell you why they deserve one more listen.
1:17.6	You'll never hear these songs the same way.
1:19.9	Again, will you be all?
1:21.0	No, you will not.
1:37.7	Music Okay, so today's show is going to be quite different because, number one, we're recording in New York City. New York City.
1:38.3	I love it here.
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