WOAH: After 15 Years Someone Finally Decoded The Gibberish In Missy Elliot’s Work It!

by | Mar 28, 2017 | Funny | 0 comments

15 years ago Missy Elliot was lighting up the charts with her hit Work It and if it came on in the club today some of us worn out olders would be getting down (no doubt there would be a bunch of young uns wondering wtf was going on!).

But part of that song was always just pure gibberish, something like ‘Ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gniht ym tup I.’, it came just after the line ‘Is it worth it, let me work it I put my thing down, flip it and reverse it.’

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So what the hell does she say…. No, it isn’t welsh or Hungarian, it’s plain English…. In reverse and of course, of damn course it is! Seeing as it comes after the “and reverse it” line.

She says “‘I put my thing down, flip it and reverse it” IN REVERSE. Mystery solved!

As to who finally saw over all our stupidity, the credit seems to goto TweetsByTyler… Although as this is hardly international news breaking stuff many others probably knew for years (just this idiot here had no clue!).

And for a bit of nostalgia, here is the song:

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