What Missy Elliott was actually saying in “Work It" has made us lose our minds

Publish Date
Saturday, 25 March 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, we bow down to you. 

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