Missy Elliott
This Is Not A Test!
Release Date: Nov 25, 2003
Genre(s): Rap
Record label: Elektra
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Album Review: This Is Not A Test! by Missy Elliott
Fairly Good, Based on 1 Critic
The Guardian - 60
Based on rating 3/5
Based on rating 3/5
After seven years, Missy Elliott's chief competition is herself. Although the Virginian rapper's fifth album is predictably better than 90% of the year's hip-hop, it stands up less well against her own remarkable back-catalogue. After Miss E... So Addictive's club-inspired exuberance and Under Construction's vibrant redux of old school hip-hop, This Is Not a Test is relatively aimless.