Writing and Recording
"Knock Knock" was one out of three new Elliott-produced additions to partially re-worked After the Storm, commissioned by J Records head and executive producer Clive Davis after Missy Elliott's 2002 success with her own studio album Under Construction and the delay of Monica's original third studio album All Eyez on Me the year before. It was conceived during a studio session week in the Goldmind recordings studios in Miami, Florida in early 2003, and was produced as a sequel to the album's first single: "'Knock Knock' is ... like a follow-up to 'So Gone,' just saying that, 'All right, we went through all that stuff, now it's time for you to get lost," Monica said in an interview with MTV News at the 2003 BET Awards. "'This is the end of the road for you.' So, it's kind of like a 'get back' record." "She doesn't have any fear,". "When she goes in the studio, her goal is to be creative and to give something new and she could care less what else is current. And she creates new trends by doing that."
For the track's finalization Elliott consulted Kanye West. The newcomer brought in a sample from The Masqueraders' 1976 song "It's a Terrible Thing to Waste Your Love", an excerpt he had previously used in his demo recording "Apologize" and that was eventually released on his 2005 mixtape Freshmen Adjustment. While West also provided vocals for a remix version of the song, Missy Elliott's voice appears allienatedly at the beginning of the song, whose intro starts with dogs barking and the song's protagonist's ex-boyfriend pounding on the door and shortly after he gets no reply the song begins.
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