What Missy Elliott was actually saying in “Work It" has made us lose our minds
- Publish date
- Saturday, 25 Mar 2017, 12:15PM

Missy Elliot's "Work It" is a straight BANGER.
But we've now discovered that Missy's song wasn't just a straight jam, it was also secretly GENIUS.
In the video below, skip to 0:35.
What do you hear? That line that sounds like "ityerpripenipetzwaaahhnyeeeeehhh".
But, if like us you've spent all these years thinking that it was a made-up string of noises that had no meaning whatsoever, then you are wrong.
What Missy has done is literally reverse the lyric: "I put my thing down, flip it and reverse it."
Missy ya clever thing you!
Following this discovery, the internet is understandably freaking the f out:
Missy Elliot is a damn genius.... had everyone out here mumbling for years
— Yolanda(: (@yolandaestrello) March 22, 2017
EPIPHANY: THE GIBBERISH MISSY ELLIOT SPEWS IN WORK IT IS ACTUALLY "put my thing down flip it and reverse it" BACKWARDS pic.twitter.com/CI1fr83g7B
— Sydney Finchum (@sydneyfinchum) March 24, 2017
Missy, we bow down to you.
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