“He was tired and ready to leave, so he just started hitting anything on the keyboard. I was like: ‘that’s it right there!’ Then I just went in the booth and did the record”: The story of Get Ur Freak On, the bhangra-sampling hit that almost didn’t happen

Missy.

Missy Elliott’s Get Ur Freak On is one of the wildest pop songs to come out of the early ‘00s.

A lean, mean, speaker-rattling ode to freakdom, the song obscured some genuinely innovative musical make-up behind an insatiably catchy hook and a chorus that’s nothing more than name of the song repeated thirteen times. It’s also just been named Rolling Stone’s Greatest Song of the 21st Century.