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Saturday, August 24, 2019

Missy Elliott - Pass That Dutch (Part II - video & selected YouTube discussion thread comments)

Edited by Azizi Powell

This is Part II of a two part pancocojams series on Missy Elliot's 2003 video "Pass That Dutch".

Part II showcases the same YouTube video of Missy Elliott's "Pass That Dutch" record that was featured in Part I of this series. Selected comments from that video's discussion thread are also included in that post.

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/08/missy-elliott-pass-that-dutch.html for Part I presents information about Missy Elliott and showcases a censored official YouTube video of that Hip Hop artist's record "Pass That Dutch". Although that video features three songs from Missy Elliott's album This Is Not A Test!, this post only presents the lyrics for the "Pass That Dutch" record. Information about that song from https://genius.com/ is also included in this pancocojams post.

The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Missy Elliott for her musical legacy and thanks to Timbaland, Hype William, and all those who were associated with this record, album, and/or this video. Also, thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.

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SHOWCASE VIDEO: #THROWITBACK
Missy Elliott - Pass That Dutch [Official Video]



Missy Elliott, Published on Jan 19, 2017
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This is the “clean” [censored] version of this video. This video doesn't include a curse word and also (for whatever reason) doesn't include a portion that Pop artist featured Michael Jackson.

"Throw it back" = showcase a record from the past, usually a record that is now considered a classic

This record/video was first released in 2003.

Statistics as of August 24, 2019 at 11:13 AM
total # of views - 2,166,282
total # of likes - 23K
total # of dislikes - 529
total # of comments - 839

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SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THIS VIDEO'S DISCUSSION THREAD
(with numbers added for referencing purposes only, and a few added notes for informational purposes)

2017
1. Pablo Sergio Rivera
"This is one of the greatest rap songs ever recorded. It's up there, it's truly remarkable. Dat beat, dat flo, dat video, everything about this is PERFECT. Absolutely legendary."

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2. Pablo Sergio Rivera
"And of course, the shoutout to Aaliyah (BabyGirl, R.I.P.) is beautiful. I miss her. I was a true stan."
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Click https://genius.com/Missy-elliott-baby-girl-interlude-intro-lyrics for the lyrics to the spoken word (poem) entitled "Baby Girl" which features Mary J Blige. The title for that song is "Baby Girl", a referent for beloved R&B singer Aaliyah who died in a plane crash August 2001 as well as tributes to some other deceased R&B and Hip Hop artists.

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3. SHARE H!S V!S!0N
"Even after the song starts... Im singing mary j's part of the intro. Love this whole video, these 3 songs were FIREEEEE!!!!!"

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4. James Del Rey
"I like that when she swears she usually reverses it. That's so creative!"
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"reverses it" = reverses her dance moves and other dancers' moves

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5. Ognjen Pavlovic
"So does the Dutch have to do anything with the Dutch people or is it some slang word for something?"

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6. Azizi Powell
"@ Ognjen Pavlovic
From https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pass%20the%20Dutch
"Pass the Dutch
A "dutch" in this context, is a spliff, or hand rolled marijuana cigarette. The phase is used when requesting that a comrade lend you his for a sample toke.
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Here's the rest of that entry from urbandictionary.com
"(Thanks, Missy Elliot!)
Cmon, pass the dutch baby!
by Gordon October 03, 2003"

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"pass the dutch
drugs
Pass the Blunt to someone
That song..."Pass the dutchie on de left han side..."
by Mel & Kris November 05, 2003
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Here's the link for the "Pass The Dutchie" Reggae video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFtLONl4cNc [1982]
Musical Youth Pass the Dutchie
B MOORE, Published on Feb 11, 2008"

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7. Patrick Douglas
"The ending: "wake up ..wake up ..wake up!". Truth !!!"

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8. RCH 32
"What's wake up from at the end"

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9. Azizi Powell
"@Rch32, Dap screaming, “Wake Up!” at the end of Spike Lee's film School Daze (1988)"

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10. Azizi Powell
"Here's what "woke" ["stay woke", "get woke"] means in African American Vernacular English and elsewhere by extension:
https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/woke/
"Woke means being conscious of racial discrimination in society and other forms of oppression and injustice. In mainstream use, woke can also more generally describe someone or something as being "with it." "

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11. Aisha
"Bow down to the queen yoooo!!!"

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12. John Vermette
"This is real rap slay missy 👸"

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13. Blanca
"Missy elliott has the most creative videos ever"

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14. Nicole Newsome
"Blanca I agree. That's one a lot of the reasons I love her. Her videos are dope."

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15. Carolina Murtha, 2018
"Her music is amazing, her lyrics are brilliant, and her videos are what won me over completely. I've always loved hip hop but all the videos were very similar. Missy brought a much needed creative surge. Her, Ludacris and Busta Rhymes are the trifecta of creative hip hop videos."

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16. Dreaxil, 2019
"Real talk. She out there with it."

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17. Karin Melón, 2019
"So true! Love her creativity in her music too."

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18. Michael Scott, 2019
"You can thank Hype Williams for that..he is THE man when it comes to creative videos like this"

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19. Jessie Fraser
"I wish Missy Elliot wud make a HUGE!!! come back. I miss Missy💔😕"

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20. One Word Away, 2019
"Jessie Fraser she’s dropping an album in 2019"

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21. taz zed, 2019
"Dropped last night!🤗
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August 23, 2019 "Missy Elliott took a page from Beyoncé's book overnight by dropping a surprise five-track album called "Iconology."

It's the rapper's first album in 14 years, and she let everyone know about it at midnight with a tweet saying, "Let's #ThrowItBack to a time when music just felt good and made us want to dance!"
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Click https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/23/entertainment/missy-elliott-new-album-video-trnd/index.html. Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rOKdATrV4g for the YouTube video of Missy Elliot's 2019 video "Throwitback".

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22. MurvMuzik
""U aint got a celluar phone. Its all right" Nowadays impossible"

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23. Sunny North
"The little kids dancing lol"

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24. Sunny North
"2:09"

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25. Dengee
"Love the part where Missy the scarecrow drops in with the dancers!!! DAYUM GO GURL!!! or whoever created this!!! ;-)"

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26. Its_just_chris 1990
"this beat is beyond hard"

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27. JKF23
"Actually this video came out back in 2003. It was on TV back then but Youtube was only created in 2007 so it was never officially uploaded till now."
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Actually, YouTube started February 2005.

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28. Fabienne Boughton
"That intro gives me goosebumps every damn time... it's so profound, it doesn't get the credit it deserves. Such a beautiful, melancholy tribute."

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29. Jamel Watson
"This comment right here. I'm here just playing back the beginning over an over smh"
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"smh" = shake my head"

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30. tochiRTA
"yeah. it's crazy - never paid much attention to it and I've been into Missy for decades. It's hitting me now in 2018, lol. I think it's because I got new headphones and I'm hearing something I never heard: the girl softly humming in the background of the beat. It's just gorgeous and sad."

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31. Dallas Delgado
"tochiRTA y’all know that it’s a separate standalone song on that album, right?

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32. Ana Clara
"I loved the tribute to Aaliyah"

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33. Shannon Curtis
"wasn't she lisa from TLC in that tribute along with 2Puc, Biggie, jam Master, and Pun ?"

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34. Diana Mojanoff
"@Shannon Curtis It was all of them, she addresses Aaliyah when she says "Aaliyah, Baby Girl, I've learned to love those who are still awake. Sleep, Sleep" while having her face from the We Need a Resolution video. So many talented people lost.. may they continue to rest in peace"

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35. Shannon Curtis
"@Diana Mojanoff
Yeah I figured that out a while later

I just thought she meant the TLC sister but I figured she meant that goddess who died on the plane crash 😣😢😭"

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36. tochiRTA
"man... when this came out.... there was nothing like it. Felt like the club walls were trembling."

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37. jtsbbsps8000
"oh man, that micheal jackson balcony reference, that's some old school epicness"
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A commenter noted that part of the clip that featured Michael Jackson was deleted from this video.

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38. backcue
"Scarecrows, locking dance, King Kong, aliens this music video has it all including Missy Elliot! Missy how do you make your videos so crazy lol? Keep up the good work!

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2018
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40. Carlo J. Morisset III
"backcue What about the Barbie dolls in the video?"

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41. s m b x
"backcue in the beginning the white guy who grabs her x takes her away was the music video director x creative assistant to MissE on this video x pretty much all her videos during her career; Dave Meyers! he also did Ludacris’ videos! genius, to say the least."

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42. Michael Scott, 2019
"Hype Williams!"

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43. B Gray
"YOO #Missy been WAAAY ahead of the game before we were woke lol"

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43. Jasmine Espy
"Iconic - Afrofuturism"

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44. Nicholette Casey's Trains
"Love that the video is a nod to Close Encounters of the Third Kind"
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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_Encounters_of_the_Third_Kind
Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 American science fiction film written and directed by Steven Spielberg... It tells the story of Roy Neary, an everyday blue-collar worker in Indiana, whose life changes after an encounter with an unidentified flying object (UFO)."...

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45. Ignasty
"This was like 14 years ago, and i am still memorized by the idea of having a bunch of dancers dutch clogging in a cornfield under a UFO searchlight to a bass heavy chorus singing pass that dutch.... just amazing, I miss original music videos like this."

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46. Tip Aly
"Just shows how much we need the old school queen mc's to come back and preach it. Tired of the drama queen rapers....."

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47. Carolina Murtha
"Her music is amazing, her lyrics are brilliant, and her videos are what won me over completely. I've always loved hip hop but all the videos were very similar. Missy brought a much needed creative surge. Her, Ludacris and Busta Rhymes are the trifecta of creative hip hop videos."

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48. Dreaxil, 2019
"Real talk. She out there with it."

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49. Karin Melón, 2019
"So true! Love her creativity in her music too."

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50. Michael Scott, 2019
"You can thank Hype Williams for that..he is THE man when it comes to creative videos like this"

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51. Manny Shaikh
"Everything about this song is art."

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52. OhtheSuffering
"I remember being so excited for the release of this video. Sadly, it didn't stay on MTV that long due to them censoring "Dutch" and essentially screwing up the flow of the song."

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53. East Fun
"The details are what makes this video so right. From the moving resolution photograph on the desk to the dream Missy has where everyone is wearing an Aaliyah shirt while planes surround the city, Mary J Looking up towards the skyscrapers who planned their Illuminati.. Not to mention-Missy lookin snatched while dance crew on pointe. Iconic Jeep scene. Choreography Masterclass. Lyrical ganja etiquette. Legends only"

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54. prefershe
"So this is where Kevin Hart from his movie Soul Plane got the "hootie ho!" call from, I'm guessing, lol!"

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55. Munkle
"who's the 5th guy in the portraits?"

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56. The Prince of Cookies
"big pun was a rapper but did more spanish rap than anything"

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2019
57. shadowfallenable
"The most creative female in hip-hop history!!!"

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58. jumbeeTV
"shes literally the only person that would have two or three songs in one video and it always flow..."

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59. Balbi Francesca PY
"When this hit in the club we all went wild! Oh the teen years were so much fun! Also when the song came up in mean girls i screamed in the theater ❤️they just don’t make moments like this anymore 🔥🔥💖"
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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_Girls
Mean Girls is an American teen comedy film directed by Mark Waters, written by Tina Fey, and released in April 2004

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60. Hatsune miku
"This opening monologue is actually so deep, the lyrics she says really hit you. Love Missy."

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61. Jordan Anderson
"The dancing the effects the bratz dolls the ending and beginning what not to love about missy Elliott💓💓"

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62. Davon Loftin
"Straight fire!!! This Joint is TIMELESS"

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63. Nathaniel Marion
"The first minute in this video is the greatest piece of work I know that Missy has ever made."

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64. devans00
"Appreciate the calligraphy shoutout. ✌🏾

This video was a whole fashion show. I’m here for the sexy black leather shorts outfits near the beginning. 😬"

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65. G.A.E.E GUNS AMMO and EVERYTHING ELSE
"Missy is a beast....happy shes back at it...best female mc of all time"

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This concludes Part II of this two part pancocojams series.

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