Missy Elliott is a 4 time Grammy successful artist and prolific songwriter and producer who has labored with a number of the largest R&B stars during the last three many years, together with Mariah Carey, Ciara, Mya and extra.
Elliott took to Twitter on Wednesday (Aug. 31) to reminisce on working with Future’s Youngster to put in writing and produce their collaboration, “Confessions,” off the woman group’s 1999 sophomore album, The Writing’s on the Wall.
“I used to be simply listening to my earlier writing/producing fashion & I noticed I used to color an image when writing for the R&B listener i wrote in story teller kind [thinking emoji] This Future Youngster tune was a very good instance,” Elliott tweeted alongside a snippet of the tune, which incorporates some severe confessions within the lyrics earlier than delving into the refrain: “I’m simply confessing concerning the issues I did/ I’d-as-well come clear / What you are feeling about that child?”
I used to be simply listening to my earlier writing/producing fashion & I noticed I used to color an image when writing for the R&B listener i wrote in story teller kind🤔 This Future Youngster tune was a very good instance🙌🏾🔥 pic.twitter.com/mXTV1Wp7FX
— Missy Elliott (@MissyElliott) August 31, 2022
“And it’s humorous once I suppose again on it since you hardly ever get girls having to admit. It’s at all times the man who finally ends up having to admit,” Elliott instructed Related Press of the tune again in 2019. “That was a distinct type of twist for a feminine to be like, ‘Look, I principally kicked it with Mike whenever you was gone, this went down and that went down.’”
The Writing’s on the Wall peaked at No. 5 on the all-genre Billboard 200 albums chart dated Could 6, 2000, and spent 99 complete weeks on the chart. The album options some beloved Future’s Youngster hits together with “Payments, Payments, Payments,” “Say My Identify” and “Jumpin’, Jumpin’.”