Work It ( Missy Elliott song ) - wikipedia Work It ( Missy Elliott song ) `` Work It '' Single by Missy Elliott from the album Under Construction Released September 13, 2002 ( 2002 - 09 - 13 ) Format CD single maxi single 12 '' Recorded 2002 ; The Hit Factory Crteria ( Miami, Florida ) Genre Old school hip hop dirty rap Length 4 : 53 ( album version ) 4 : 25 ( promo version ) 5 : 04 ( remix ) Label Goldmind, Elektra Songwriter ( s ) Melissa Elliott Timbaland Producer ( s ) Timbaland Missy Elliott Missy Elliott singles chronology `` Crew Deep '' ( 2002 ) `` Work It '' ( 2002 ) `` Honk Your Horn '' ( 2002 ) `` Crew Deep '' ( 2002 ) `` Work It '' ( 2002 ) `` Honk Your Horn '' ( 2002 ) `` Work It '' is a hip hop song written by American rapper Missy Elliott and her producer Tim `` Timbaland '' Mosley for Elliott 's fourth studio album Under Construction ( 2002 ). The song 's musical style, and production by Timbaland, were heavily inspired by old school hip hop from the 1980s, and includes a portion which samples Run - D.M.C. 's `` Peter Piper ''. The beginning of the song samples Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three 's `` Request Line ''. Released as the album 's first single in September 2002, the track reached the number two position on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming Missy Elliott 's most successful single to date. A remix of this song features 50 Cent. The end of the song samples `` Take Me to the Mardi Gras '' by Bob James and was also sampled in one of Missy 's first features The Things You Do, and the synth pattern in the rhythm track samples the intro of `` Heart of Glass '' by Blondie. Contents 1 Music video 2 Lyrics 3 Critical reception 4 Chart performance 5 Live performances 6 Formats and track listings 7 Charts and certifications 7.1 Weekly charts 7.2 Year - end charts 7.3 Decade - end charts 7.4 Certifications 8 Compilation appearances 9 References 10 Literature 11 External links Music video The music video to `` Work It '' was directed by Dave Meyers. Timbaland, Eve, Tweet and Halle Berry make cameos in the video, as well as a brief appearance by actress / dancer Alyson Stoner. Aaliyah ( 1979 -- 2001 ) and Lisa `` Left Eye '' Lopes ( 1971 -- 2002 ), who at the time had both recently died, are commemorated in the music video with their images airbrushed on a car 's hood. It also features an appearance by dancer and graffiti writer Mr. Wiggles from Rock Steady Crew. There is another music video that features 50 Cent rapping the first verse on the remix. In shooting the video, director Myers shot the opening scene with live honey bees ; only one crew member was stung. Additionally, he forgot to replace a glass of wine with a glass of water when filming the restaurant scene, so Elliott was heavily drunk after production. The video won the award for Video of the Year at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards. In a 2010 interview with `` Dance Spirit '' Alyson Stoner revealed that she almost did n't go to the audition for `` Work It '' and her dancing is featured in a clean part of the video. Lyrics A portion of the song 's lyrics helped popularize the slang term `` badonkadonk '' with mainstream audiences ( `` Love the way my butt go bum - bump - bum - bump - bump / Keep your eyes on my bum - bump - bum - bump - bump / And think you can handle this badonk - a-donk - donk '' ). During the chorus, the lyric `` I put my thing down, flip it, and reverse it '' is simply played backwards, a part many mistakenly assumed to be gibberish. In the middle of the song, after the lyric `` Listen up close while I take you backwards '', the lyric `` Watch the way Missy like to take it backwards '' is also played in reverse. This vocal reversing trend made it to several of her productions during the following years. In the song 's chorus, an elephant trumpeting is heard to hide a sexual reference ( `` If you got a big ( elephant trumpet ), let me search it '' ). There is no version of the song that replaces the elephant sound with a word it is meant to hide ; there is no word to hide, as it is meant to be left to the listener 's imagination. In both the explicit and edited versions, the song uses onomatopoeia such as `` ra - ta - ta - ta '' and `` buboomp buboomp boomp '' to refer to sexual bodily moves. Critical reception John Bush of AllMusic described the song as `` turn ( ing ) the tables on male rappers, taking charge of the sex game, matching their lewdest, rudest rhymes, and also featuring the most notorious backmasked vocal of the year. '' Bush cited the song as an example of Elliott 's `` artistic progression, trying to push hip - hop forward... neatly emphasizing her differences from other rappers by writing tracks for nearly every facet of the female side of relationships. '' Rolling Stone ranked `` Work It '' 25th in its list 100 Best Songs of the 2000s. In 2003, The Village Voice named `` Work It '' the best single of 2002 on their annual year - end critics ' poll Pazz & Jop ; `` Get Ur Freak On '', a previous Elliott single, topped the same poll a year earlier. Chart performance `` Work It '' debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 on chart issue dated September 14, 2002, at number 75. In its second and third week, it leaped up to number 42 and number 24, respectively, taking the Airplay Gainer title in both weeks. Within five weeks, it reached the top ten, at number 8, and gradually rose from there. On the chart issue dated November 16, 2002, the song reached number 2, but because of the massive success of `` Lose Yourself '' by Eminem, it never reached number one. Instead, the song stayed at number two for ten weeks, a record that it shares with `` Waiting for a Girl Like You '' by Foreigner from 1981. Despite the song never topping the Hot 100 chart, the song topped the Billboard Hot R&B / Hip - Hop Songs chart for five weeks. On the Billboard magazine issue dated Feb. 21, 2015, `` Work It '' re-entered at # 35, more than a decade after its original chart run. This re-entry occurred as a result of Elliott 's performance at the Super Bowl XLIX halftime show earlier in the month ; Elliott 's other single, `` Get Ur Freak On '' also re-entered the Billboard Hot 100 the same week. Live performances In Britney Spears ' Britney : Piece of Me revamped Vegas residency show, `` Work It '' was performed as a medley along with other Elliott songs. Formats and track listings CD single `` Work It '' ( Album Version ) `` Pussycat '' ( Album Version ) `` My People '' ( Basement Jaxx Remix ) ( video ) Charts and certifications Weekly charts Chart ( 2002 -- 15 ) Peak position Australia ( ARIA ) 6 Belgium ( Ultratop 50 Flanders ) 22 Belgium ( Ultratip Wallonia ) Denmark ( Tracklisten ) 11 France ( SNEP ) 60 Germany ( Official German Charts ) 32 Ireland ( IRMA ) 19 Italy ( FIMI ) 23 Netherlands ( Dutch Top 40 ) 19 Netherlands ( Single Top 100 ) 12 New Zealand ( Recorded Music NZ ) Norway ( VG - lista ) 16 Scotland ( Official Charts Company ) 17 Sweden ( Sverigetopplistan ) 15 Switzerland ( Schweizer Hitparade ) 14 UK Singles ( Official Charts Company ) 6 UK R&B ( Official Charts Company ) US Billboard Hot 100 US Mainstream Top 40 ( Billboard ) US Hot R&B / Hip - Hop Songs ( Billboard ) US Hot Rap Songs ( Billboard ) Year - end charts Year Chart Position 2002 US Billboard Hot 100 54 2003 Australia ( ARIA ) 36 US Billboard Hot 100 36 Decade - end charts Chart ( 2000 -- 09 ) Rank US Billboard Hot 100 96 Certifications Region Certification Certified units / Sales Australia ( ARIA ) Gold 35,000 Italy ( FIMI ) Gold 25,000 United Kingdom ( BPI ) Silver 200,000 United States ( RIAA ) Platinum 2,000,000 shipments figures based on certification alone Compilation appearances All That `` Hip Hop '' ( 2005 ) References Jump up ^ `` Images for Missy Elliott - Work It ''. Discogs.com. Retrieved 2014 - 05 - 12. Jump up ^ Moss, Corey ( November 12, 2002 ). `` Missy Elliott Speaks Gibberish To Janet Jackson On ' Work It ' Set : VMA Lens Recap ''. MTV. Archived from the original on December 1, 2002. Jump up ^ Sanneh, Kelefa ( August 29, 2003 ). `` A Win for Missy Elliott at Music Video Awards ''. New York Times. Retrieved December 24, 2012. Jump up ^ Hip - Hop Teen Alyson Stoner Jump up ^ `` 63. Missy Elliott `` Work It '' ( 2002 ) ``. The 100 Best Songs of The Complex Decade. Complex.com. Retrieved December 24, 2012. Jump up ^ Guins, Radford ( 2009 ), Edited Clean Version : Technology and the Culture of Control, University of Minnesota Press, p. 152, ISBN 081664814X Jump up ^ Bush, John. `` Under Construction : Review ''. AllMusic. Retrieved December 24, 2012. Jump up ^ 25 : Missy Elliott, ' Work It ' Jump up ^ `` The Hot 100 - The Week of September 14, 2002 ''. Billboard. Retrieved 13 November 2015. 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Australian Recording Industry Association. ^ Jump up to : Cite error : The named reference http :. 2F. 2Fwww. aria. com. au. 2Fpages. 2Faria - charts - accreditations - singles - 2003. htm was invoked but never defined ( see the help page ). Jump up ^ `` RIAA Gold, Platinum and Multi - Platinum Awards from 1 / 1 / 2015 to 1 / 31 / 2015 '' ( PDF ). Recording Industry Association of America. Archived from the original ( PDF ) on 13 February 2015. Jump up ^ `` British single certifications -- Missy Elliot -- Work It ''. British Phonographic Industry. Enter Work It in the search field and then press Enter. Jump up ^ `` American single certifications -- Missy Elliot -- Work It ''. Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Single, then click SEARCH Literature Keazor, Henry ; Thorsten Wuebbena : Video Thrills The Radio Star. Musikvideos : Geschichte, Themen, Analysen. 3rd. edition, Bielefeld 2011 ; ISBN 3899427289, pp. 83 -- 113 Michael Rappe, Under Construction. 2 Vols., Cologne 2011 External links `` Work It '' music video on YouTube Billboard chart data for `` Work It '' Full lyrics of the song at Allmusic Preceded by `` Luv U Better '' by LL Cool J Billboard Hot R&B / Hip - Hop Singles & Tracks number - one single November 23, 2002 - December 21, 2002 Succeeded by `` Love of My Life ( An Ode to Hip - Hop ) '' by Erykah Badu featuring Common Missy Elliott singles Discography Production discography Awards and nominations Supa Dupa Fly `` The Rain ( Supa Dupa Fly ) '' `` Sock It 2 Me '' `` Beep Me 911 '' `` Hit Em wit da Hee '' Da Real World `` She 's a Bitch '' `` All n My Grill '' `` Hot Boyz '' Miss E... So Addictive `` Get Ur Freak On '' `` Lick Shots '' `` One Minute Man '' `` Take Away '' `` 4 My People '' Under Construction `` Work It '' `` Gossip Folks '' `` Back in the Day '' This Is Not a Test ! `` Pass That Dutch '' `` I 'm Really Hot '' The Cookbook `` Lose Control '' `` Teary Eyed '' `` We Run This '' Other singles `` Fighting Temptation '' `` Ching - a-Ling '' `` Shake Your Pom Pom '' `` WTF ( Where They From ) '' `` Pep Rally '' `` I 'm Better '' Featured singles `` That 's What Little Girls Are Made Of '' `` Brand New '' `` Ooh, Ooh Baby '' `` The Things That You Do ( Bad Boy Remix ) '' `` Steelo '' `` Do Thangz ( Main Pass Remix ) '' `` You Do n't Have to Worry ( Remix ) '' `` Cold Rock a Party '' `` Can We '' `` Not Tonight ( Remix ) '' `` Up Jumps Da Boogie '' `` What About Us ? '' `` Make It Hot '' `` 5 Minutes '' `` Trippin ' '' `` I Want You Back '' `` Here We Come '' `` I Like Control '' `` Ya Di Ya '' `` Take That '' `` Is That Yo Chick '' `` Son of a Gun '' `` Bootylicious ( Rockwilder Remix ) '' `` Oops ( Oh My ) '' `` The Knoc '' `` Burnin ' Up ( Remix ) '' `` Crew Deep '' `` Honk Your Horn '' `` Cop That Shit '' `` Party to Damascus '' `` Tush '' `` Turn da Lights Off '' `` 1, 2 Step '' `` Car Wash '' `` Touch It ( Remix ) '' `` Love Me or Hate Me ( Remix ) '' `` Let It Go '' `` Do It ( Remix ) '' `` Bad Girl '' `` Need U Bad '' `` Whatcha Think About That '' `` Let 's Just Do It '' `` Work '' `` Fakin ' It '' `` Get Involved '' `` Nobody 's Perfect '' `` Bad Girls ( N.A.R.S & Switch Remixes ) '' `` How Ya Doin ' ? '' `` Without Me '' `` Niliria '' `` I Deserve It '' Promotional singles `` Best, Best '' `` Last Friday Night ( T.G.I.F. ) ( Remix ) '' `` 9th Inning '' `` Triple Threat '' `` Burnitup ! '' MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year ( 2000s ) 2000 Eminem -- `` The Real Slim Shady '' Christina Aguilera, Lil ' Kim, Mýa and P ! nk -- `` Lady Marmalade '' 2002 Eminem -- `` Without Me '' 2003 Missy Elliott -- `` Work It '' OutKast -- `` Hey Ya ! 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Question: when was work it by missy elliott made
Answer: September 2002