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Sheek Louch: 'Missy Elliott Masterminded 'It's All About The Benjamins''

Sheek Louch: 'Missy Elliott Masterminded 'It's All About The Benjamins''

Published Thu, July 27, 2023 at 1:17 PM EDT

On a recent episode of People Party with Talib Kweli, guest Sleek Louch revealed Missy Elliott's contribution to 1997's "It's All About The Benjamins" which featured The Notorious B.I.G., Lil Kim and The Lox.

After Talib pointed out that "All About The Benjamins" began on a DJ Clue mixtape, Sheek expounded further.

"A DJ named Super Mario leaked it on purpose," he said. "You weren't even supposed to that shit back then." Sheek then revealed that he didn't really like the track for the song originally. "That song just spread. I didn't even like the record when they played us the track," he explains. "I walked in and Missy was in the room and [I heard the track] and I was like, 'Whatever'. Missy was there dancing and doing the beatbox and we didn't even know who she was at the time. She had the 'hee hee haa' joint out with Gina Thompson at the time."

Sheek then explained Missy's hands-on contribution to the arrangement of the song. "She said let me hear something [and I said my verse from the song] then she asked everybody to rap and told us to write Puff's verse and which verses to keep. She started beatboxing and dancin' and I was like who is this?"

A remixed version of "It's All About The Benjamins" appeared on 1997's No Way Out compilation album credited to Puff Daddy and The Family, and contained a verse by him. The song reached #1 on Billboard Hot 100 and helped No Way Out debut at number one on the Billboard 200, selling over a half million copies in its first week of release.

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