Can you believe Nicole Wray’s DEBUT album ‘Make It Hot’ turns 25 today!!??

The album was released on August 25, 1998 through Missy Elliott‘s Elektra-distributed vanity label, The Goldmind. The album was produced by Missy Elliott and Timbaland. 

Michael Gallucci from AllMusic gave Make It Hot “is virtually a textbook primer on Elliott’s stylistic touch and influence on end-of-the-millennium hip-hop (she raps on, writes songs for, produces, and executive produces Make It Hot – and it’s on her custom label). Along with pal Timbaland, Elliott transforms young Nicole’s somewhat standard bow into a stuttering slab of post-rap R&B that’s as sleekly modern as it is customarily cold.

Make It Hot reached number forty-two on the US Billboard 200 and number nineteen on the R&B album chart and spawned a NUMBER of SINGLES…. like