In her 13 years as a solo artist, Missy Elliott has never before made fans wait this long for an album. The release date for Block Party, her follow-up to 2005’s The Cookbook, has been pushed back so many times that any leaked track seems like a tease. This is especially true for “All 4 U,” an unfinished potential single from Block Party featuring Lil Wayne. Over a highly danceable beat, Missy declares, “We gon’ keep it sexy, y’all,” and proceeds to sing enticements to a guy at a party, exchanging her signature sound for more R&B-style vocals. Weezy keeps up the sex theme with a characteristically dirty verse that, despite gliding along with the music, feels too sleazy. Overall the results are just like a tease—intriguing, but not fully satisfying. As of now the last two minutes are instrumental, so we’re going to have to wait to hear the finished product on the album. Hopefully by then, Missy and her guest star will have done something a little more interesting with this hot beat.

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