The Cookbook

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The Cookbook

Studio album by Missy Elliott
Released	July 5, 2005
Recorded	2005
Genre	Hip-Hop/R&B
Length	63:13
Label	Goldmind/Atlantic
Producer(s)	Missy Elliott Timbaland Craig X. Brockman Qur'an H. Goodman Scott Storch Pharrell Rhemario Webber The Avila Brothers Rich Harrison Warryn Campbell Associates & Keith Lewis Bangladesh Saint Nick
All Music Guide Image:4 stars.svg link musicOMH.com link Pitchfork Media (6.8/10) 07/07/05 PopMatters (6/10) link Rolling Stone Image:3 stars.svg link
Missy Elliott chronology
This Is Not A Test! (2003)	The Cookbook (2005)	Respect M.E. (2006)

The Cookbook is a the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Missy Elliott, released in the United States on July 5, 2005. The album includes the hit lead single "Lose Control" (which samples "Clear" by Cybotron) featuring Ciara and Fatman Scoop. The second single lifted off of the album, "Teary Eyed", never saw much success, hold a few appearances on TRL, peaking at number forty-seven on the U.S. R&B chart. The third single, "We Run This," was released in 2006 while its video was filmed in mid-December of 2005.

The album debuted at #2 on the Billboard chart, but ended up being a sales bust, barely managing to sell 600,000 copies in the U.S. Nonetheless, it received positive reviews and was nominated at the Grammy Awards of 2006 for Best Rap Album, though it lost to Kanye West's Late Registration.

1 Track listing
2 Production
3 Charts
- 3.1 Trajectory

[edit] Track listing

#	Title
1.	"Joy" (featuring Mike Jones)	4:49
2.	"Partytime"	3:04
3.	"Irresistible Delicious" (featuring Slick Rick)	4:15
4.	"Lose Control" (featuring Ciara & Fatman Scoop)	3:47
5.	"My Struggles" (featuring Mary J. Blige & Grand Puba)	2:52
6.	"Meltdown"	4:16
7.	"On & On"	4:45
8.	"We Run This"	3:25
9.	"Remember When"	4:18
10.	"4 My Man" (featuring Fantasia)	5:10
11.	"Can't Stop"	3:49
12.	"Teary Eyed"	3:49
13.	"Mommy"	2:58
14.	"Click Clack"	2:54
15.	"Time And Time Again"	3:49
16.	"Bad Man" (featuring Vybz Kartel & M.I.A.)	7:44

[edit] Production

Executive producers: Missy Elliott
Producer: Timbaland, Craig X. Brockman, Qur'an H. Goodman, Scott Storch, The Neptunes, Rhemario Webber, The Avila Brothers, Rich Harrison, Warryn Campbell, Associates, Keith Lewis, Shondrae "Bangladesh" Crawford, El Loco, Saint Nick
Vocal assistance: Tweet
Engineers: Carlos "El Loco" Bedoya, Andrew Coleman, Michael Eleopoulos, Paul J. Falcone
Assistant engineers: Marcella Araica, Chris Brown, Vadim Chislov, Hart Gunther, Eric Jensen, Patrick Magee, Rayshawn Woolard
Coordination: Kimberly Mason, Larry Sims
Mixing: Carlos "El Loco" Bedoya, Jimmy Douglass, Paul J. Falcone, Serban Ghenea
Mastering: Chris Gehringer
A&R: Jay Brown, Darrale Jones
Design & Art Direction: Greg Gigendad Burke
Photography: Saint Warwick