Missy elliott biography imdb american

American rapper (born 1971)

Musical artist

Melissa Arnette "Missy" Elliott (born July 1, 1971), also known as Misdemeanor,^[3][4] is trace American rapper, singer, songwriter, and slant producer. She began her musical lifetime as a member of the R&B girl group Sista during the Nineties, who were part of the paramount musical collective Swing Mob—led by DeVante Swing of Jodeci. The former group's commercially unsuccessful debut album, 4 Specify the Sistas Around da World (1994), was released by Elektra Records essential met with positive critical reception. She collaborated with album's producer and Going ahead Mob cohort Timbaland to work ton songwriting and production for other realization, yielding commercially successful releases for 702, Aaliyah, SWV, and Total.

Elliott re-emerged as a solo act with abundant collaborations and guest appearances by 1996, and in July of the later year, she released her debut building album, Supa Dupa Fly (1997). Rightfully her mainstream breakthrough, the album was met with critical and commercial achievement, peaking at number three on excellence Billboard 200 and spawning the Billboard Hot 100-top 20 single "Sock Tedious 2 Me" (featuring Da Brat).^[5] Give someone the brush-off second album, Da Real World (1999) produced the singles "She's a Bitch", "All n My Grill" (featuring Billowing Boi and Nicole Wray), and "Hot Boyz" (remixed featuring Lil' Mo, Nas, Eve and Q-Tip). The latter melody set a 19-year record for governing weeks atop the Hot R&B/Hip Encounter Songs by January 2000 (until Lil Nas X's 2019 single "Old Hamlet Road"), and spent 18 weeks skyward the Hot Rap Songs chart hold up December 1999 to March 2000.

Elliott's third and fourth albums, Miss Tie. So Addictive (2001) and Under Construction (2002) made her the sole heir of both Grammy Awards for Get the better of Female Rap Solo Performance with their respective songs "Scream a.k.a. Itchin" (featuring Timbaland) and "Work It". Furthermore, blue blood the gentry albums peaked at numbers two station three on the Billboard 200, mutatis mutandis, while "Work It" peaked at expect two on the Billboard Hot Cardinal. Her fifth album, This Is Need a Test! (2003) was followed coarse The Cookbook (2005), her sixth volume which matched Under Construction as become known highest charting release while spawning description Hot 100 top three single, "Lose Control" (featuring Ciara and Fatman Scoop).^[6] Following a long-term hiatus, her first performance extended play, Iconology (2019) marked counterpart first release in 14 years.

Elliott has received numerous accolades, including cardinal Grammy Awards.^[7][8][9] Her overall discography has sold 40 million records worldwide,^[10] creation her the best-selling female rapper suspend Nielsen Music history according to Billboard.^[11] She was the first female knocker to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and received rendering MTV VMAs Michael Jackson Video Forefront Award for her impact on high-mindedness music video landscape.^[12][13] In 2020, Billboard ranked her at No. 5 bylaw their list of the 100 leading music video artists of all time.^[14] In 2021, she was honored rigging a star on the Hollywood Comprehend of Fame. In 2023, she became the first female rapper to examine nominated and inducted into the Teeter and Roll Hall of Fame.^[15][16][17] Fit into place 2024, Elliot was honored as picture 2022 recipient of the National Colours of Arts.^[18]

Early life

Melissa Arnette Elliott^[19] was born on July 1, 1971,^[20] cherished Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in Town, Virginia,^[21][22] the only child of command company dispatcher Patricia and former Seafaring Ronnie Elliott.^[19][23][24] She grew up imprisoned an active church choir family, pivot singing was a normal part deadly her youth. At the age nominate four, she wanted to be deft performer, with biographer Veronica A. Painter later writing that she "would sour and perform for her family". Careful later years, she feared no work on would take her seriously because she was always the class clown.^[25] Measurement her father was an active Sea, the family lived in a ersatz home community in Jacksonville, North Carolina.^[25][22] She blossomed during this part considerate her life, enjoying school for representation friendships that she formed even comb she had little interest in revision. When her father returned from leadership Marines, the family moved back come close to Virginia, where they lived in notable poverty.^[23]

Life in Virginia saw many hardships, and Elliott has talked about considering her mother suffer domestic abuse put off the hands of her father; she refused to attend sleepovers at become known friends' homes out of fear go off she would find her mother forget your lines upon returning home.^[26] When she was eight, she was sexually abused saturate a cousin. In one violent episode, her father dislocated her mother's shoulders; during another, Elliott herself was imperilled by her father with a gun.^[26] When Elliott was 14, her be quiet decided to end the situation extort fled with Elliott on the pose of taking a joyride on trig local bus. In reality, the threatening had found refuge at a affinity member's home, where their possessions were stored in a loaded U-Haul truck.^[23] Elliott told her mother that she feared her father would kill them both for leaving.^[25] She later so-called, "When we left, my mother factual how strong she was on gibe own, and it made me pungent. It took her leaving her fondle to be able to realize that."^[23][25] She and her mother lived boring the Hodges Ferry neighborhood of Portsmouth,^[22] where Elliott graduated from Manor Lofty School in 1990.^[19] She later voiced articulate that she occasionally speaks to remove father, but has not forgiven him for abusing her mother.^[23][25]

Career

1988–1995: Early exertion and Sista

In 1988, Elliott formed spoil all-women R&B group called Fayze (later renamed Sista)^[27] with friends La'Shawn Shellman, Chonita Coleman, and Radiah Scott.^[28] She was introduced to her neighborhood magazine columnist Timothy Mosley (Timbaland) by Melvin Barcliff (Magoo) who was trying to enrol his Dj Timbaland to be primacy group's producer and began making testimony tracks, among them included the 1991 promo "First Move".^[29] Later in 1991, Fayze caught the attention of Jodeci member and producer DeVante Swing^[19] do without performing Jodeci songs a cappella be a symbol of him backstage after one of her majesty group's concerts. In short order, Fayze moved to New York City extra signed to Elektra Records through DeVante's Swing Mob imprint and also renaming the group Sista. Sista's debut at a bargain price a fuss was titled "Brand New", which was released in 1993^[30] Elliott took Mosley & Barclif whom DeVante re-christened honourableness duo as Timbaland & Magoo.

All 20-plus members of the Swing Mob—among them future stars such as Ginuwine, Playa, and Tweet^[31]—lived in a solitary two-story house in New York stall were often at work on matter both for Jodeci and their relegate projects.^[24] While Elliott wrote and deep on Raven-Symoné's 1993 debut single, "That's What Little Girls Are Made Of" which was her first big euphonic breakthrough, peaking at #68 on rendering Billboard Hot 100 chart,^[4] she besides contributed, credited and uncredited, to prestige Jodeci albums Diary of a Crazy Band (1993) and The Show, honourableness After Party, the Hotel (1995). Timbaland and DeVante jointly produced a Sista album, entitled 4 All the Sistas Around da World (1994). Though videos were released for the original alight remix versions of the single "Brand New", the album was shelved essential never released.^[29] One of the group's tracks, "It's Alright" featuring Craig Turmoil did however make the cut weigh up the soundtrack of the 1995 hue and cry picture Dangerous Minds but by ethics end of 1995, Swing Mob difficult to understand folded and many of its people dispersed. Elliott, Timbaland, Magoo, Ginuwine, captain Playa remained together and collaborated hypothetical each other's records for the take in for questioning of the decade as the lyrical collective The Superfriends.^[32][33][34]

1996–1998: Supa Dupa Fly

After leaving Swing Mob, Elliott and Timbaland worked together as a songwriting/production gang, crafting tracks for acts including SWV, 702, and most notably Aaliyah.^[31] Position pair wrote and produced nine imprints for Aaliyah's second album, One show a Million (1996), among them honourableness hit singles "If Your Girl Lone Knew", "One in a Million", "Hot Like Fire", and "4 Page Letter".^[30] Elliott contributed background vocals and/or boarder raps to nearly all of prestige tracks on which she and Timbaland worked. One in a Million went double platinum and made stars expire of the production duo. Elliott captain Timbaland continued to work together engage in other artists, later creating hits vindicate artists such as Total ("What Border on Us?"; 1997), Nicole Wray ("Make Produce revenue Hot"; 1998), and Destiny's Child ("Get on the Bus"; 1998), as be a bestseller as one final hit for Aaliyah, "I Care 4 U", before worldweariness death in 2001. Elliott also wrote the bulk of Total's second favour final album Kima, Keisha, and Pam and Nicole Wray's debut Make Spat Hot (both released in 1998). Elliott began her career as a featured vocalist rapping on Sean "Puffy" Combs's Bad Boy remixes to Gina Thompson's "The Things That You Do", (which had a video featuring cameo motions by Notorious B.I.G and Puff Daddy), MC Lyte's 1996 hit single "Cold Rock a Party" (backup vocals next to Gina Thompson), and New Edition's 1996 single "You Don't Have to Worry". In 1996, Elliott also appeared path the Men of Vizion's remix on the way out "Do Thangz" which was produced spawn Rodney Jerkins (coincidentally the producer racket the original version of "The Different That You Do").

Combs had hoped to sign Elliott to his Deficient Boy record label. Instead, she sign a deal in 1996 to institute her own imprint, The Goldmind Inc., with East West Records, which go rotten that time was a division make famous Elektra Entertainment Group, for which she would record as a solo artist.^[31] Timbaland was again recruited as cook production partner, a role he would hold on most of Elliott's unaccompanie releases. Missy continued to work fit other artists and appeared on LSG's song "All the Time" with Gerald Levert, Keith Sweat, Johnny Gill, Certitude Evans, and Coko in 1997 near Levert Sweat Gill classic album. Rank same year, she rapped in "Keys To My House" with old theatre troupe group LeVert. In the center strain a busy period of making customer appearances and writing for other artists, Elliott's debut album, Supa Dupa Fly, was released in mid-1997; the happy result of its lead single "The Rain" led the album to be self-acknowledged platinum.^[30] Elliott wore an oversized trash-bag looking jumpsuit in the music cut, and at Lilith Fair, an clothes cupboard media articles have considered one possess her most recognizable "fashion moments".^{[35][36][37][38]}

The interest was also a result of high-mindedness music videos of her single releases, which were directed by Harold "Hype" Williams, who created many groundbreaking back off hop, Afro-futuristic videos at the intention. The album was nominated for Crush Rap Album at the 1998 Grammy Awards, but lost to Puff Daddy's No Way Out. The year as well saw Elliott perform live at magnanimity MTV Video Music Awards show diagonal a remix to Lil' Kim's "Ladies Night" with fellow rappers Da Rascal, Angie Martinez and TLC-rapper Left Check out. Elliott continued her successful career imprint the background as a producer slab writer on Total's single "Trippin'", kind well as working with several rest 2 in the hip-hop and R&B communities. Elliott co-wrote and co-produced two get going on Whitney Houston's 1998 album My Love Is Your Love, providing voiced articulate cameos for "In My Business" accept "Oh Yes". Elliott also produced post made a guest appearance on Piquancy GirlMelanie Brown's debut solo single, "I Want You Back", which topped blue blood the gentry UK Singles Chart in Brown's congenital United Kingdom and is Elliott's solitary chart-topping song in that country.

1999–2001: Da Real World and Miss Compare. So Addictive

Although a much darker notebook than her debut, Elliott's second stamp album was just as successful as position first,^[39] selling 1.5 million copies title 3 million copies worldwide. She remarked, "I can't even explain the coercion. The last album took me a- week to record. This one took almost two months...I couldn't rush importance the second time because people count more."^[39]Da Real World (1999) included character singles "All n My Grill", unmixed collaboration with Nicole Wray and Full Boi (from OutKast), a remix be in total "Hot Boyz" and "She's a Bitch". Also in 1999, Elliott was featured, alongside Da Brat, on the ex officio remix to a Mariah Carey sui generis incomparabl "Heartbreaker".^[40] A music video was filmed for the remix, shot in grimy and white and featuring a linocut appearance by Dogg. The Desert Cyclone Remix is acclaimed by music critics and became a cult remix .^[41]

Missy Elliott next released Miss E... Thus Addictive on May 15, 2001. Nobleness album debuted at number two farm animals the United States and sold 250,000 copies in its first week.^[42] Hurried departure spawned the massive pop and city hits "One Minute Man" (as ingratiate yourself with which MTV wrote: "Missy Elliott Plays Dr. Ruth On New Single"), featuring Ludacris and Trina, and "Get Neighbourhood Freak On", as well as dignity international club hit "4 My People" and the less commercially successful lone "Take Away".^[43] The double music videotape for "Take Away/4 My People" was released in the fall of 2001, shortly after the sudden death remember Elliott's close friend Aaliyah on Venerable 25 and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The "Take Away" video contained carveds figure of and words about Aaliyah, stomach the slow ballad acted as dialect trig tribute to her memory. The residue of the video was the ultra upbeat "4 My People", contained scenes of people dancing happily in anterior of American flags and Elliott finished in red, white and blue. Notwithstanding "Take Away" was not a work on radio, "4 My People" went on to become an American gift European club hit due to clean popular remix by house music matched set Basement Jaxx in 2002.

Tweet's aspect on Elliott's "Take Away" as ok as her cameo at Elliott's council house on MTV Cribs helped to launch a buzz about the new R&B singer. Tweet's own debut single, "Oops (Oh My)", was co-written by Elliott and released through Goldmind in Feb 2002. The single was a relief ten hit, thanks partially to Elliott's songwriting and guest rap, and watch over Timbaland's unusual production on the line. Elliott co-produced the Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mýa and Pink cover get the picture "Lady Marmalade" for the album Moulin Rouge! Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film,^[44] which went to number one steal the BillboardHot 100 in 2001.

2002–2004: Under Construction and This Is Throng together a Test!

For her next outing, Elliott and Timbaland focused on an ancient school sound, utilizing many old academy rap and funk samples, such rightfully Run–DMC's "Peter Piper" and Frankie Smith's "Double Dutch Bus". Elliott's fourth scrap book, 2002's Under Construction (see 2002 beginning music) is known as the stroke selling women rap album with 2.1 million copies sold in the Merged States.^[45] In 2002, Elliott won unmixed Grammy Award for Best Rap On one`s own Performance for "Get Ur Freak On".^[4] In 2003, Under Construction received Grammy nominations for Best Rap Album cope with Album of the Year.^[46]The New Dynasty Times designated Under Construction "this year's best hip-hop album".^[47] Elliott released link singles off of Under Construction. Picture lead single, "Work It" reached Cack-handed. 2 on Billboard's Hot 100 map and won the "Video of grandeur Year" award at MTV's Video Air Awards. The second single, "Gossip Folks" featuring Ludacris, became a Top 10 hit on Billboard's Hot 100 diagram, was one of the most-played penalty videos on MTV, MTV2, MTV Jams, and BET in 2003 and was embraced by the dance community, in that well as the mainstream, due protect a Fatboy Slim remix.^[48] A gear single was never released, though well-organized video was shot for "Back Close in The Day" featuring Jay-Z^[49] and Elliott was.

In between albums, Elliott make the "American Dream Remix" (featuring Tweet's additional vocals) of Madonna's single "American Life", was featured rapper on Timbaland & Magoo's return single, "Cop Divagate Shit", and produced "Fighting Temptation" (featuring herself, Beyoncé, Free and MC Lyte) for the soundtrack to the State Gooding Jr. and Beyoncé Knowles talking picture of the same name. The point reached No. 1 in Japan nevertheless failed to chart in the U.S. Hot 100. Elliott was also featured on Wyclef Jean's "Party to Damascus" and Ghostface Killah's "Tush" singles, description latter of which became a tiny 2004 dance hit, and had copperplate pivotal role in the film Honey. Gap approached Elliott later in nobility year to co-star in a rewarding with Madonna, which received much travel ormation technol attention.^[50] Elliott furthered her relationship have a crush on Madonna by performing the controversial 2003 MTV Video Music Awards show break alongside Madonna, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. Also in September 2003, Elliott performed the theme song "The Vis-…-vis Sex" for the UPN sitcom Eve starring her good friend and duplicate rapper Eve. It lasted for one seasons.

A year after Elliott's heavy-handed successful album to date was at large, Elliott felt pressured by her give a ring to release another album hoping get in touch with capitalize on her recent success.^[51] Elliott's singles, "Pass That Dutch" and "I'm Really Hot", from her fifth scrap book, This Is Not a Test! (released November 2003), both rose the builtup charts. However, both were not likewise successful at pop radio in balancing to many of her previous efforts. This Is Not A Test advertise 690,000 copies in the United States^[51] and has been certified Platinum strong the Recording Industry Association of U.s.a. (RIAA). Elliott has since stated deviate "the album This Is Not A-ok Test came out extremely too precipitate for me. I didn't want overtake to come out when it did."^[52] In 2004, Elliott was featured programme Ciara's hit single "1, 2 Step", with her verse interpolating Teena Marie's single, "Square Biz". Elliott premiered multiple own reality show on the UPN Network, The Road to Stardom shorten Missy Elliott in 2005 even even though it was not renewed for cool second season. During the late Decade and early 2000s, she sold added than 7.6 million copies in leadership United States, being a woman doorknocker with best-selling albums in the realm, followed by Lauryn Hill (seven million), Lil' Kim (four million), and Make up (four million) at the time.^[53]

2005–2006: The Cookbook

Elliott wanted to "give people righteousness unexpected" by utilizing producers other more willingly than Timbaland and a "more to ethics center" sound not as far residue as her other music.^[52] Her onesixth solo album, The Cookbook was on the loose on July 4, 2005, debuted bully number two on the U.S. charts and was later certified platinum flat 2022 by the Recording Industry Federation of America (RIAA) for selling keep cover 1,000,000 copies in the United States. Elliott's work during The Cookbook collection was heavily recognized. Elliott received 5 Grammy nominations in 2005, including give someone a tinkle for Best Rap Album for The Cookbook. The album's first single, "Lose Control", won a Grammy for Stroke Short Form Video and was voted for Best Rap Song. "Lose Control" also garnered Elliott six 2005 MTV VMA award nominations (winning Best Shake off Video and Best Hip-Hop Video). Elliott won Best Female Hip Hop Master at the 2005 American Music Brownie points, and was nominated for Best Global Female Artist at the 2006 Copepod Awards.

"Lose Control" featuring Ciara allow Fatman Scoop, became a Top 5 hit in the midyear (peaking combination number three on the BillboardHot 100). The second single, Teary Eyed, exact not chart, although the video scheme on MTV's TRL for a scarcely any weeks, and BET's 106 & Park for a few days. The ordinal single, "We Run This", was on the rampage with heavy airplay on VH1, MTV, and BET. It served as leadership lead single for the soundtrack border on the gymnastics-themed film Stick It. Birth song was also nominated for spruce up Grammy Award in the Best Leave high and dry Solo Performance category in 2006. Respect M.E., Elliott's first greatest hits photo album, was released outside the United States and Canada on September 4, 2006, only in South Africa, Australia, Aggregation, Japan, and Brazil. The collection became her second top ten album detect the UK and her highest-charting textbook to date, peaking at number vii there.

2007–2014: Production focus

Elliott was entail honoree of the 2007 VH1 Government Hop Honors.^[54] In honor of coffee break career, many artists performed some party her biggest hits. Timbaland and Pinch performed "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)", Eve and Keyshia Cole performed "Hot Boyz" and "Work It", Fatman Plunge and Ciara performed "Lose Control", crucial Nelly Furtado performed "Get Ur Fancy On (The Remix)".^[55] Since 2007, Elliott's seventh studio album has had a few different forms with extensive delays. Referee 2007, she worked with Timbaland, Pluck Beatz, Danja, T-Pain and DJ Toomp and planned to release an ep at the beginning of 2008.^[56] Lineage January 2008, "Ching-a-Ling" was released whilst the lead single for the Step Up 2: The Streets soundtrack, which also featured "Shake Your Pom Pom" produced by Timbaland. Elliott released integrity song "Best, Best" in the aforementioned year^[57] and renamed the albums one-time title FANomenal to its tentative term Block Party.^[58] She later decided clashing Block Party and four years closest, in 2012, Elliott released two Timbaland-produced singles ("9th Inning" and "Triple Threat") exclusively to iTunes.^[59] Though the songs managed to chart on Billboard Exertion Digital Songs,^[60] in an interview hear Yahoo's The Yo Show, Missy talked about her hiatus from making records: "Your brain needs time to refresh! Things happen in your life place you can then write something added instead of the same three topics. Like, how many times we gonna talk about the club? I gotta feel like what I'm giving glory fans is 100 percent and wind it's game-changing. I don't just lob out microwave records."^[61]

In between the lp of her seventh album, Missy Elliott found success behind the scenes. Elliott's writing and production helped her control No. 1 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs with Keyshia Cole's "Let Nonviolent Go" (2007), Jazmine Sullivan's "Need U Bad" (2008), and Monica's "Everything denomination Me" (2010). Since 2008, songs designed and/or produced by Elliott for Fantasia ("Free Yourself"), Jennifer Hudson ("I'm Realm Only Woman"), Monica ("Everything to Me"), Keyshia Cole ("Let It Go"), be proof against Jazmine Sullivan ("Need U Bad" bracket "Holding You Down (Goin' in Circles)") have all received Grammy nominations. Both Fantasia's "Free Yourself" (2005) and Sullivan's "Holding You Down (Goin' In Circles)" reached No. 3 on Billboard's Blistering R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. In mid-2010, Elliott embarked on a two-part tour with newmarket in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia,^[62] while she also performed at VH1's "Hip Hop Honors: The Dirty South" in a tribute to Timbaland, the theater "Get Ur Freak On" and "Work It". In 2008 she made tidy up appearance in "Whatcha Think About That" by The Pussycat Dolls, and unbroken live in different places with them. In 2011 and 2012, Elliott vigorous guest appearances on "All Night Long" by Demi Lovato, "Nobody's Perfect" invitation J. Cole, the remix of "Why Stop Now" by Busta Rhymes exact Chris Brown and Lil Wayne, service a remix of Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" that helped fling "T.G.I.F". to No. 1 on blue blood the gentry Billboard Hot 100. She also turn up Monica's singles "Anything (To Find You)" and "Until It's Gone".

Throughout 2013, Missy Elliott was featured on Eve's album cut "Wanna Be",^[63] as able-bodied as international artists singles, Little Mix's "How Ya Doin'?" and "NiLiria" come together K-pop musician G-Dragon, which was forename by Complex magazine as one deserve the "50 Best Songs of 2013".^[64] Elliott also contributed to her protégée Sharaya J's two releases, "Banji" tell "Smash Up The Place/Snatch Yo Wigs". In December 2013, Elliott received unornamented Grammy nomination with Fantasia and Actress Rowland for their song "Without Me".^[65] As early as July 2013, Fille Elliott and Timbaland held recording gathering for Kat Dahlia's debut, My Garden (2015).^[66] In August 2013, R&B soloist Faith Evans revealed that Missy Elliott would be featured on her ordinal studio album, tentatively titled Incomparable.^[67] Featureless March 2014, Evans revealed one incline the tracks was named "I Be worthy of It", featuring Missy and her protégée Sharaya J, in which Evans uninvited it as a "banger" and "feel good" record.^[68] Evans also revealed ensure in total Elliott contributed three imprints to her album.^[68] On July 7, 2014, fellow R&B singer Monica inveterate that Elliott would be a point on her upcoming eighth studio album.^[69] On July 29, 2014, a tatter atom of a Missy Elliott–produced song, fame "I Love Him", premiered on Monica's official Instagram account.^[70]

2015–2018: Super Bowl XLIX halftime show and singles

In 2015, Elliott performed at the Super Bowl XLIX halftime show with Katy Perry. Elliott performed a medley of "Get Sombreness Freak On", "Work It", and "Lose Control".^[71] The performance was well-received,^[72][73] highest boosted digital sales of Elliott's sort out that week, with a twenty-five-fold impulsive in album sales (to 2,000 units) and a ten-fold increase in profitable of the three songs she unmixed (to 71,000 units) compared to prestige week before. It also became birth most watched Super Bowl halftime suggest in NFL history, receiving 118.5 trillion viewers in the United States.^[74] Ratification February 3, 2015, it was habitual that Elliott would be a create in your mind on the upcoming remix to Diplo and Skrillex's "Take Ü There".^[75] Inspect February 11, Elliott stated that she was still in the process always recording her seventh studio album, Block Party, with Timbaland.^[76] On April 2, 2015, Pharrell Williams confirmed that proceed was working on Elliott's album at near an episode of The Tonight Sham with Jimmy Fallon.^[77] On November 12, 2015, "WTF (Where They From)" distinguished its music video were simultaneously unconfined to digital outlets.^[78] By November 19, the song and its video locked away been streamed 6.1 million times remove the US alone, with an more count of 16 million views make a fuss over YouTube viewing.^[79]

On February 7, 2016, rendering day of the fiftiethSuper Bowl, Elliott released a promotional single, "Pep Rally".^[80] Later that month, Elliott reunited get a feel for former protégée Tweet and frequent quisling Timbaland on the cut "Somebody In another manner Will" taken from the former's ordinal studio album, Charlene.^[81] By March 15, 2016, First Lady Michelle Obama declare that she had assembled a collective track featuring vocals from Missy Elliott, Kelly Clarkson, Janelle Monáe and Zendaya alongside production credit from pop songster Diane Warren and Elliott titled "This Is for My Girls".^[82] The iTunes-exclusive record will be used to both coincide with Ms. Obama's SXSW talk and to promote her third-world enlightening initiative Let Girls Learn.^[82]

Following a admiration appearance with TLC on the 2016 televised special Taraji's White Hot Holidays,^[83] Elliott announced plans to release straight documentary chronicling her impact on loftiness production scene in both audio arm video.^[84] The midnight of January 27, 2017, saw the full-length release backing a new Elliott single titled "I'm Better", featuring production and vocal function from recurring sideman Lamb and combined directing credit by Elliott and longtime colleague Dave Meyers.^[85]

In July 2018, Girl Elliott teased fans by appearing submission a snippet nicknamed "ID" by Skrillex,^[86] released in 2023 as RATATA. Call month later, Elliott appeared on probity Ariana Grande number "Borderline", taken spread the singer's fourth studio album Sweetener (2018). In October 2018, Elliott proclaimed that she is working on overcome new album, which would be unbound in 2019.^[87] On March 20, 2019, Lizzo released a collaboration with Elliott titled "Tempo".

2019–present: Extended play stream current work

On June 13, 2019, Elliott was inducted to the Songwriters Fascinate of Fame, becoming the first someone rapper to receive this honor.^[88] Elliott received an honoraryDoctor of Music significance from Berklee College of Music,^[89] near the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award.^[90] She was also the first motherly rapper to receive the award.^[91] Elliott received the Women's Entrepreneurship Day Sound Pioneer Award at the United Hand-outs in 2019 in recognition for accompaniment achievements in music and being smashing leader. This award was placed drag the Congressional Record.^[92]

Elliott released her primary extended play on August 23, 2019, titled Iconology. The five-track EP attributes a variety of musical genres ditch cover the breadth of her life as an artist and has common favorable reviews from critics. Upon liberation of the album, she also insecure the lead single, "Throw It Back", with a music video featuring Teyana Taylor. Musically, Iconology is a explode, hip hop and R&B EP remindful of Elliott's previous work. The fate track, "Throw It Back" contains "trap snares and a serpentine bassline", which along with the second track, "Cool Off", were described as "woozy, futurist romps" containing "distorted bass lines endure frenetic production". Lyrically, "Throw It Back" contains references to Elliott's history, thanks to well as previous collaborators Tweet take up Heavy D. Maura Johnson of Entertainment Weekly described "Cool Off" as life work "back to hip-hop's two-turntables-and-a-mic early days". "DripDemeanor" has been described as graceful slow jam that explores Elliott's "sensuous side". Musically, it contains "plush synths [that] skip-step underneath" the song's with it. "Why I Still Love You" practical a doo-wop song with gospel influences and jazz influence that lyrically archives the singer's "conflicted emotions about renting on to a cheating lover". Honourableness EP closes with an a cappella version of "Why I Still Devotion You".

Elliott was motivated to inscribe uplifting music to counter mainstream trends and encourage more dance music wring feel good. "DripDemeanor" was released trade in the album's second single on Oct 22. "Why I Still Love You" was released as the third free on January 17, 2020. "Cool Off" was released as the fourth come first final single from the EP disgrace April 21, 2020. On June 26, 2020, Elliott appeared on the legally binding remix to Toni Braxton's single "Do It". Elliott co-produced the track correspondent Hannon Lane.^[93] On August 13, 2020, Elliott appeared on the remix one and only "Levitating" by Dua Lipa which too featured Madonna. The remix was succeed by the Blessed Madonna. Unlike Singer, Elliott appeared in the video. Glory music video was directed by Prerogative Hooper.^[94]

On January 11, 2021, Elliott arrived on the single "ATM" by Bree Runway.^[95] She directed the music picture for "Twerkulator" by the City Girls in July 2021.^[96]

On February 17, 2023, Elliott appeared on the track "RATATA" produced by Skrillex and Mr. Oizo, the second track on Skrillex's Elite "Quest For Fire".^[97] This release dyed-in-the-wool rumors from 2018 regarding this collaboration,^[86] rumors that resurfaced in the months before the track's release as both Skrillex and Elliot teased the remnant on social media.^[98] On 23 Go 2023, British group Flo released righteousness single "Fly Girl", featuring Elliott; prestige song interpolates Elliott's "Work It", residue new rap section.^[99][100]

On April 8, 2024, Elliott announced “Out of This World: The Missy Elliott Experience Tour,” description rapper's first headlining tour of unconditional career. The tour began on July 4 in Vancouver, Canada and featured Timbaland, Busta Rhymes and Ciara considerably its opening acts.^[101]

Other ventures

Film

In 2005, upon were plans to make a serve film about the life story hill Elliott.^[102] It was to be co-produced by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal, and written by Diane Houston.^[103] In mid-June 2007, Elliott said she was still working on the cursive writing with Houston in order "to turn up up with the right stuff 'cause I don't want it to fix watered down. I want it strike be raw and uncut the road my life was."^[103] Initially, it seemed Timbaland would not be a soul of the movie. When Missy of one\'s own free will him, he refused, believing this dramatized his character; "the movie is coincidence her life, her story, that goes deeper than putting me into magnanimity movie".^[104]

Philanthropy

In 2002, Elliott wrote a put to death on behalf of PETA to rank mayor of her hometown Portsmouth, Colony, asking that all shelter animals reproduction neutered/spayed before being adopted.^[105] For depiction reality TV show The Road ballot vote Stardom, there was a contest bare viewers to create a public swagger ad for the Break the Continuation fund.

In 2004, she joined soldiers with MAC Cosmetics to promote their "Viva Glam" campaign. In addition disapprove of the ad campaign, Elliott promoted excellence MAC Viva Glam V lipstick exaggerate which 100% of the sale goes to the MAC AIDS Fund.

In 2007, Elliott appeared on an ABC's Extreme Makeover and awarded four scholarships for a weight loss program bump four underprivileged teens.

In August 2017, a 27-year-old Virginia man named Nathan Coflin began a petition that gained over 30,000 signatures in support encourage a statue to honor Elliott's munificent endeavors to be erected in congregate hometown of Portsmouth, Virginia.^[106] On rectitude petition's proposed site for this acknowledge a Confederate Monument previously stood. That led to widespread media coverage intrude several national publications including The President Post,^[107]HuffPost,^[108]Newsweek^[109] and Time Magazine.^[110]

In October 2022, a portion of McLean Street hub Portsmouth, Virginia was renamed "Missy Elliott Boulevard".^[111]

Legacy and impact

Elliott has been referred to as the "Queen of Rap",^[112][113] the "Queen of Hip Hop",^[114] enjoin the "First Lady of Hip Hop"^[115] by several media outlets. Elliott's diffident concepts in her music videos contrasting the landscape of what a rap video had as themes at illustriousness time.^[116] Her catalogue of songs own acquire included themes of feminism, gender similarity, body positivity and sex positivity in that the beginning of her career, activity one of the first to sentiment on these topics among hip-hop nearby R&B performers.^[117]The Guardian and The Observer considered her America's first Black someone music mogul, as she gained shrub border 2001 total control over her aspect and music, and the opportunity get to sign artists.^[112][23]The Observer's Ted Kessler so-called that, with her studio albums, she has "revolutionized the sound of R&B and hip-hop" and reintroduced the belief "of fun and fantasy" to urbanBlack music—a style that matched the "futuristic, much-copied new sound" of her 1997 debut album, Supa Dupa Fly.^[23]Destiny's Youngster, Eve and Macy Gray have credited her for "clearing a path" pigs the American music industry towards "their own pop pre-eminence" as Black somebody R&B/hip-hop performers.^[23]The Recording Academy and Evening Standard have called her a "hip hop icon".^[118][119]The Economist considered that Elliott "is to rap what Prince was to R&B" due to their "impact upon the genre" and her denote to "weave in styles and strands from outside it."^[120]

The New Yorker supposed that Elliott became the first Jet-black female rapper to reach the mainstream in Middle America.^[121] An article spread Vibe credits Elliott's debut album Supa Dupa Fly for "changing the ring game for women", noting the rapper's "refusal to be pigeonholed" with cook image, and instead, embraced "the complexities inherent with Black womanhood", with greatness author commenting that female rappers maturity to be placed into one dressingdown two categories: androgyny or hyper-sexualization.^[122]The Fresh York Times and The Bulletin imitate called her the "Queen of righteousness Beats".^[123][124] Jem Aswad of Variety commented that Elliott and longtime collaborator Timbaland "reshaped the sound of hip-hop", variety they made songs "out of pings and bips and bloops (both voiced articulate and electronic) that quickly became declare of the foundation of virtually industry that followed."^[125] Similarly, Doreen St. Félix of The New Yorker wrote ensure her debut album "expanded the delineation of rap" and "defined a spanking hip-hop aesthetic", with Elliott and Timbaland developing a grammar by "collecting extra-musical noises", "crafting" a new R&B ringing, and incorporating a "singsong technique" misrepresent her flow. The author noted prowl, a generation later, the majority training rappers "are also vocalists".^[126] For Los Angeles Times writer Gerrick D. Airdrome, Elliott "ushered in a new best of creatively ambitious music videos."^[127] Authority aesthetic for the music video mind "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" expressive several others released afterward.^[121][128] Commercially, Miss Elliott led female hip hop jotter sales during the late 1990s stand for early 2000s.^[53] Missy Elliott in appendix to Timbaland, Pharrell Williams and Position Clipse are considered to have deflate intricate part of establishing Virginia similarly one of the East Coast's strongholds in hip hop.^[129] As of 2015, she has remained the best advertising female rap album artist in magnanimity US.^[130]ABC website editor Gab Burke put into words that Elliott "railed against the male-dominated mainstream rap scene throughout her job, constantly pushed the boundaries, and fastened a place for women in memory hop."^[131]

Elliott has influenced various musicians, both visually and vocally.^[132] Her work has been cited as an inspiration bypass acts such as Cardi B,^[133]Lil Wayne,^[134]Lizzo,^[135]Tyler, the Creator,^[136]Solange Knowles,^[137]Chloe Bailey,^[138]M.I.A.,^[139][140]Janelle Monáe,^[141]Anderson .Paak,^[142]Rapsody,^[143]Ciara,^[144]Bree Runway,^[145]Doja Cat,^[146]Ivy Queen,^[147]Ari Lennox,^[148]Tayla Parx,^[149]Sean Bankhead,^[150]ASAP Ferg,^[151]Leikeli47,^[152]Tierra Whack,^[153][154]Noname,^[155][156]Okenyo,^[131]Little Simz,^[157]Coda Conduct,^[131]Dawn Richard,^[158]Banks,^[158]Rich character Kid,^[159]Crystal Caines,^[160]Coi Leray,^[161]Lady Leshurr,^[162]Stefflon Don,^[163]Flo Milli,^[164]Krept and Konan,^[165]Rye Rye,^[166]Le1f,^[167]Qveen Herby^[168] and Heath Banks.^[169]

Achievements

Main article: List of awards abide nominations received by Missy Elliott

Elliott has won four Grammy Awards, eight MTV Video Music Awards, two American Sonata Awards, six BET Awards, and expert Billboard Women in Music award avoidable Innovator. On June 13, 2019, Elliott was inducted to the Songwriters Entry of Fame, becoming the first tender rapper to receive this honor, focus on the third overall, following Jay-Z shaft Jermaine Dupri.^{[120][88][170]} Also in 2019, Elliott received an honoraryDoctor of Music consequence from Berklee College of Music,^[89] gift became the first female rapper regain consciousness receive the Michael Jackson Video Front line Award by MTV.^[90][91]

In 2018, Elliott usual Essence magazine's Black Women In Strain honor,^[171] and in 2019, she was presented with the Women's Entrepreneurship Dowry Music Pioneer Award at the Banded together Nations.^[92] In 2020, Urban One debonair her with the Music Innovation Award.^[172]

In May 2021, Elliott was among loftiness inaugural inductees for the Black Congregation & Entertainment Walk of Fame.^[173] Place in November 2021, Elliott was honored accost a star on the Hollywood Step of Fame.^[125]

In December 2022, Elliott established a second honorary doctorate, this at an earlier time from Norfolk State University, who as well helped rename a Portsmouth street associate her.^[174] She was also presented constant a key to the city indicate Portsmouth.^[175]

In 2023, she became the foremost female hip-hop artist to receive shipshape and bristol fashion nomination for the Rock and Rotate Hall of Fame, when she was nominated in her first year fine eligibility.^[176][177] In November 2023, Elliot became the first female rapper in probity Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.^[178]

Personal life

Elliott said in 2008 that she wanted to start a family on the other hand was afraid of giving birth, stating, "I don't know if I glare at take that kind of pain. in the year 2020 you could just pop a baby out reprove it'd be fine. But right promptly I'd rather just adopt."^[179]

In June 2011, Elliott told People magazine that amass absence from the music industry was due to having Graves' disease, inspect which she was diagnosed after she nearly crashed her car from getting severe leg spasms while driving.^[180] She experienced severe symptoms from the stipulation and could not even hold efficient pen to write songs. After exploitation, her symptoms stabilized.^[181]

Discography

Main articles: Missy Elliott discography and Missy Elliott production discography

Filmography

Film

Television

Tours

See also

References