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Under Construction

Missy Elliott · 2002

Under Construction is a deliberate act of sonic architecture — not revival, not pastiche, but reassembly. It uses old school samples as structural elements, not decoration. Its success is factual: 2.1 million US sales, Grammy wins, critical top billing. Its limits are factual too: one scrapped single, one withdrawn remix. It rewards attention to how sound is built — not how it feels.