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"One Minute Man" - Missy Elliott with Ludacris

from the album Miss E...So Addictive (2001)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #15 (three weeks)

Weeks in the Top-40: 16

 

Today's song comes from rapper/singer/producer Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, whose third album Miss E...So Addictive had landed her a second top ten pop hit with "Get Ur Freak On" in the summer of 2001. On the album's release, another track from the set, "Lick Shots", was released as a 12" single for the clubs and got enough airplay to land on Billboard magazine's R&B Singles chart at #63. 

The second song promoted heavily to radio was the song "One Minute Man" which featured rapper Ludacris (aka Chris Bridges), who had just had his mainstream breakthrough, scoring two top-40 crossover hits with "What's Your Fantasy" and "Southern Hospitality" in 2000 through the beginning of 2001. The record takes a sample from an obscure soft-rock song, "Greyhound Mary" from an obscure artist, David Pomeranz, who received writing credit along with Missy, Ludacris, and producer Tim "Timbaland" Mosley. The lyrics are what you'd think from a song with that title, with Elliott pulling no punches on men who are done in a flash. Ludacris comes in with his own sexual braggadocio, but it's really her show, and such woman-positive yet in your face lyrics, so rare in the rap world at the time, brought the attention it deserved, bringing them back on the pop and R&B charts. Timbaland makes an appearance in the video, along with rapper Trina, who spits rhymes but isn't credited on the label...

"One Minute Man" became the second top-40 pop hit from Miss E... in September of 2001, while climbing to #8 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart. On the radio, the song went to #30 on the Mainstream Top-40 airplay chart, #8 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay list, and #5 on the dance-oriented Rhythmic format. Internationally, the single was Elliott's second top ten British hit at #10, and reached the top-40 in Belgium (#25W/#30F), Sweden (#26), France (#31), and Germany (#38). At the Grammy Awards in 2002, "One Minute Man" received a nomination for Best Short Form Music Video, losing to Fatboy Slim and his Christopher Walken dance opus "Weapon Of Choice". 

Missy's follow-up single, "Take Away", slowed the pace down a little, for a rare "slow love jam" track for her, and featured singers Ginuwine and Tweet (who replaced 702's Kameelah Williams on the single version). The song missed the Hot 100 top-40 but only a few notches at #45, while getting to #29 on the Rhythmic airplay chart, and #12 on the R&B Airplay list, and got to #13 on the main R&B Singles chart. That was followed by the dance banger "4 My People" (which appears at the end of the previous video, which sports a cameo from rapper Eve. It wasn't promoted as a single in the States (perhaps Eve's record company wouldn't allow it), but overseas it was a big success, reaching the top ten in the Netherlands (#2), Belgium (#3F/#13W), the United Kingdom (#5), Denmark (#8), and Hungary (#9). Missy (and Ludacris) will be back to the series.

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Along with the solo version on the album, there was a "remix" that had rapper Jay-Z doing the bragging before she brought in Ludacris for the single...

Missy performed "One Minute Man" live in this German/MTV broadcast...

Up tomorrow: Aussie country songstress ponders the heavens.