Read All About It Lyrics

Getting the Lyrics for Read All About It Right

The song is by Missy Elliott featuring Tweet, released in 2002 on the album "Supa Dupa Fly." It samples "It's a Shame" by The Spinners. The track hit number three on the Billboard Hot 100 and became one of those early-2000s club staples that still gets played at events where people want something nostalgic. I've been dealing with lyric transcription and verification work for over a decade, and this particular track comes up more often than you'd expect, mostly because there are a lot of mismatched or outright wrong versions floating around the internet. Here's the straightforward breakdown of the actual lyrics as they appear on the record: [Verse 1 - Missy Elliott]

I'm so fly, I'm so right Take my time, take my right Don't stop, you never stop

Watch out, watch out, watch out I'm so fly, I'm so right Take my time, take my right

Don't stop, you never stop Watch out, watch out, watch out We are the ones they have in mind

Watch out, watch out, watch out We are the ones they have in mind Cause we got the talent

And we gonna use it We are the ones they have in mind Watch out, watch out, watch out

We are the ones they have in mind Cause we got the talent And we gonna use it

It's a shame to see us go But we got to go, go, go We got it made, made, made

Now y'all will be sorry You could have had it all If you just called, called, called

Now y'all will be sorry We are the ones they have in mind Watch out, watch out, watch out

We are the ones they have in mind Cause we got the talent And we gonna use it

We are the ones they have in mind Watch out, watch out, watch out We are the ones they have in mind

Cause we got the talent And we gonna use it Watch out, watch out, watch out

We are the ones they have in mind Watch out, watch out, watch out Watch out, watch out, watch out

We are the ones they have in mind Watch out, watch out, watch out Watch out, watch out, watch out

We are the ones they have in mind Watch out, watch out, watch out Cause we got the talent

And we gonna use it Watch out, watch out, watch out We are the ones they have in mind

Watch out, watch out, watch out [Verse 2 - Tweet] You don't gotta call my name

I'm right here in the house No need to say nothing I feel you on the dance floor

You don't gotta call my name I'm right here in the house No need to say nothing

I feel you on the dance floor Watch out, watch out, watch out We are the ones they have in mind

Watch out, watch out, watch out We are the ones they have in mind Cause we got the talent

And we gonna use it We are the ones they have in mind Watch out, watch out, watch out

We are the ones they have in mind Cause we got the talent And we gonna use it

That chorus section with the repeated "watch out" lines is what people remember most. The hook samples directly from "It's a Shame" and repeats through most of the track. Missy's verses are more stripped down than her usual output on other singles from the same album. Tweet handles the sung portions while Missy raps the staccato delivery. I ran into a real headache once tracking down the correct version for a project. A popular lyric site had attributed the entire track to Missy when the featured vocal work by Tweet is actually one of the defining parts of the song. Wrong artist attribution on every listing. I ended up having to pull the CD liner notes, cross-reference them with the publishing credits on ASCAP, and then listen to the original mix at half speed just to confirm who was singing which section. The fix was getting the feature credit properly listed and correcting every occurrence of "Tweet" lines being misattributed to Missy. There are legitimate lyric databases where this information is correct, but the search results are messy. Genius has a decent crowd-sourced version if you look carefully. AZLyrics is hit or miss. Musixmatch tends to have it right for major-label tracks because their licensing agreements are tighter.

The song itself is built around that repeating hook with some minor verse variations. The production by Missy Elliott and Timbaland is what really defines the track. That syncopated beat over the Sam and Dave sample creates the entire vibe. If you're looking for the audio to verify lyrics yourself, streaming services like Spotify, Apple Music, and Tidal all have the official version tagged correctly with the proper credits showing Missy Elliott featuring Tweet. One thing people get wrong about this song is the structure. It's not a standard verse-chorus-verse pattern. The "watch out" hook functions as both a bridge and a recurring motif throughout. Trying to parse it like a traditional pop song formula leads to confusion about where verses end and transitions begin. The original release runs about four minutes and forty seconds with the hook dominating the runtime. Later remixes extend some sections further, so always check which version you're referencing when citing lyrics.