Question: In what year was the rapper who wrote "Sock It 2 Me" born?
Context: Melissa Arnette Elliott (born July 1, 1971), better known as Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, is an American rapper, dancer, and record producer.  Elliott embarked on her music career with all-female R&B group Sista in the early 1990s and later became a member of the Swing Mob collective along with childhood friend and longtime collaborator Timbaland, with whom she worked on projects for Aaliyah, 702, Total, and SWV.  Following several collaborations and guest appearances, she launched her solo career in 1997 with her debut album "Supa Dupa Fly", which spawned the hit singles "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" and "Sock It 2 Me".  The album debuted at number three on the "Billboard" 200, the highest-charting debut for a female rapper at the time. Julie Ow is an American actress.  Born and raised in Oakland, California, Julie has appeared in television shows such as "The Master", "Hotel", "L.A. Law", "Tour of Duty", the revival series of "", "Hunter", "Living Single", "Temporarily Yours", "Melrose Place", "Babylon 5", "Cybill", "Hawaii", two episodes of "Lost", the Lifetime movie "Special Delivery", and the indie feature film Savasana.  Julie Ow is a ventriloquist.  Julie and her puppet, Sock, perform with the Screen Actors Guild Foundation children's literacy program, BookPALS.  Their webisode "Sock and Shu" is available on YouTube.  Julie Ow is the CEO and Founder of Planet Jelly Donut, an internet source for positive quotes and affirmations.  The organization was created after Julie wrote the self-help novella POPULATION OF 1, an inspirational adult fairy tale, published 2006. Shawntae Harris (born April 14, 1974), better known by her stage name Da Brat, is an American rapper and actress from Joliet, Illinois.  Beginning her career in 1992, Harris debut album "Funkdafied" (1994) sold one million copies, making her the first female solo rap act to receive a platinum certification, and the second overall female rap act (solo or group) after Salt-N-Pepa.  She has received two Grammy Award nominations. "Sock It 2 Me" is a song recorded by American rapper Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott.  It was written by Shawntae Harris, William Hart, Thom Bell and producer Timothy "Timbaland" Mosley for her debut album "Supa Dupa Fly" (1997) and released as the album's second single in a slightly re-recorded form.  The song is based on a sample from the 1968 single "Ready or Not Here I Come (Can't Hide from Love)" by the Delfonics. Supa Dupa Fly is the debut studio album by American rapper Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, released July 15, 1997 on The Goldmind and Elektra Records.  The album was recorded and produced solely by Timbaland in October 1996, and features the singles, "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)", "Sock It 2 Me", "Hit Em wit da Hee" and "Beep Me 911".  Guest appearances on the album include Busta Rhymes, Ginuwine, Magoo, Queen Latifah, Lil' Kim, and Aaliyah. Wilfried Sock (born July 2, 1944) is a German former ice hockey player, who competed for SG Dynamo Weißwasser.  He played for the East Germany national ice hockey team at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble. M.anifest (born Kwame Ametepee Tsikata, 20 November 1982) is an award-winning Ghanaian rapper, singer and songwriter.  He was crowned the King of Ghana Hip-Hop in 2017 when he won Best Rapper and Hip-Hop song of the year at the Ghana Music Awards.  He has worked with the likes of Damon Albarn, Flea, Tony Allen, Erykah Badu, and is featured on five songs on the "Rocket Juice and The Moon" album.  He is the grandson of one of Africa’s foremost ethnomusicogists and composers J.H. Kwabena Nketia.  In 2012, BBC’s arts program "The Strand" tipped him as one of four acts to look out for in 2012.  In 2015 M.anifest's single "someway bi" earned him a third place honor in the International Songwriters Competition (ISC).  In the same year The Guardian named M.anifest as "the foremost rapper on the continent." .  M.anifest currently lives in Accra (Madina) and Minneapolis. "The Murda Show" is a 1993 song by West Coast rapper Spice 1.  The song originally appeared on the album, "187 He Wrote".  It featured a guest appearance by fellow West Coast rapper MC Eiht, and this song would mark the beginning of a business relationship between the two rappers, and would be the first of many collaborations between the two over the years.  Released at what was arguably the height of Spice's career, the song peaked at #50 on the "Billboard" Hot Rap Songs chart.  A music video was made for the song and the song would be released as a 12-inch single.  A sequel song, entitled "The Murder Show, Pt. 2" was later recorded by the two rappers in 2004 for their first collaboration album entitled The Pioneers. Melanie Oudin (born September 23, 1991) is a former American tennis player and former world junior No. 2.  She was a member of the American Fed Cup team from 2009 to 2011 and winner of the 2011 US Open mixed doubles title, with fellow American player Jack Sock. Jens Pauli Heinesen (2 November 1932 in Sandavágur −19 July 2011 in Tórshavn) was a Faroese writer.  He was one of the most important novelists of the Faroe Islands.  Four times he received the Faroese Literature Prize and one time the Faroese Cultural Prize.  There were only a few Faroese novelists before him, there were several poets, but only a few novelists.  The Faroese literature was quite new; the first novel in Faroese language was published in 1909.  William Heinesen and Jørgen Frantz Jacobsen wrote in Danish, other Faroese writers, who wrote novels in Faroese were born thirty years before Jens Pauli Heinesen: Heðin Brú (1901–87) from Skálavík on Sandoy and Martin Joensen (1902–66) from Sandvík in Suðuroy.  Jens Pauli Heinesen wrote in his own way, more like the spoken Faroese and not so much like the Faroese from the dictionary.  As he said, he had to write in his own dialect, he couldn't write in the Sandoy dialect or in the Suðuroy dialect.  He wrote about the Faroese society on its way from the old society to a modern society.  He wrote critically about political issues.  Sometimes he wrote partially autobiographical like in the 7 volume series of novels "Á ferð inn í eina óendaliga søgu" (On a journey into a never ending story) from 1980–92.  Jens Pauli Heinesen was president of the Association of Writers of the Faroe Islands from 1968 to 1975 (Rithøvundafelag Føroya)
Answer: 1974