A year after Nelly Furtado dropped her now acclaimed debut album, 2000’s Whoa, Nelly!, she gifted us another fated release: a remix of Missy Elliott’s “Get Ur Freak On.” With rapid-fire verses from Furtado and rapper Twista, the song showed us that the singer from British Columbia wasn’t ready to be boxed into any genre — and that she had found a kindred spirit in producer Timbaland.
“I’m pretty much rapping; it’s totally me and Tim coming together and creating some kind of electricity,” Furtado told the Fader in 2016, remembering their work together on the single.
It was the beginning of an incredibly successful collaborative relationship, as Timbaland would go on
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