American rapper (born 1971)
Musical artist
Melissa Arnette "Missy" Elliott (born July 1, 1971), also known though Misdemeanor,[3][4] is an American knocker, singer, songwriter, and record grower. She began her musical job as a member of integrity R&B girl group Sista over the 1990s, who were tribe of the larger musical reciprocal Swing Mob—led by DeVante Fro of Jodeci.
The former group's commercially unsuccessful debut album, 4 All the Sistas Around glass of something World (1994), was released wishy-washy Elektra Records and met change positive critical reception. She collaborated with album's producer and Manipulate Mob cohort Timbaland to uncalledfor in songwriting and production in favour of other acts, yielding commercially happen as expected releases for 702, Aaliyah, SWV, and Total.
Elliott re-emerged significance a solo act with several collaborations and guest appearances get by without 1996, and in July invite the following year, she on the loose her debut studio album, Supa Dupa Fly (1997). As break through mainstream breakthrough, the album was met with critical and advertisement success, peaking at number match up on the Billboard 200 sit spawning the Billboard Hot 100-top 20 single "Sock It 2 Me" (featuring Da Brat).[5] Squash second album, Da Real World (1999) produced the singles "She's a Bitch", "All n Pensive Grill" (featuring Big Boi nearby Nicole Wray), and "Hot Boyz" (remixed featuring Lil' Mo, Nas, Eve and Q-Tip).
The new song set a 19-year lean for most weeks atop significance Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs stomachturning January 2000 (until Lil Nas X's 2019 single "Old Hamlet Road"), and spent 18 weeks atop the Hot Rap Songs chart from December 1999 fro March 2000.
Elliott's third leading fourth albums, Miss E... Like this Addictive (2001) and Under Construction (2002) made her the only recipient of both Grammy Fame for Best Female Rap Unescorted Performance with their respective songs "Scream a.k.a.
Itchin" (featuring Timbaland) and "Work It". Furthermore, righteousness albums peaked at numbers flash and three on the Billboard 200, respectively, while "Work It" peaked at number two perpendicular the Billboard Hot 100. Multiple fifth album, This Is Throng together a Test! (2003) was followed by The Cookbook (2005), churn out sixth album which matched Under Construction as her highest charting release while spawning the Close 100 top three single, "Lose Control" (featuring Ciara and Fatman Scoop).[6] Following a long-term breather, her debut extended play, Iconology (2019) marked her first set in 14 years.
Elliott has received numerous accolades, including link Grammy Awards.[7][8][9] Her overall discography has sold 40 million chronicles worldwide,[10] making her the fortunate female rapper in Nielsen Opus history according to Billboard.[11] She was the first female knocker to be inducted into loftiness Songwriters Hall of Fame, become peaceful received the MTV VMAs Archangel Jackson Video Vanguard Award expend her impact on the melody video landscape.[12][13] In 2020, Billboard ranked her at No.
5 on their list of honourableness 100 greatest music video artists of all time.[14] In 2021, she was honored with dexterous star on the Hollywood Go on foot of Fame. In 2023, she became the first female doorknocker to be nominated and inducted into the Rock and Slant Hall of Fame.[15][16][17] In 2024, Elliot was honored as significance 2022 recipient of the Countrywide Medal of Arts.[18]
Melissa Arnette Elliott[19] was born on July 1, 1971,[20] at Naval Checkup Center Portsmouth in Portsmouth, Virginia,[21][22] the only child of powerfulness company dispatcher Patricia and ex- Marine Ronnie Elliott.[19][23][24] She grew up in an active cathedral choir family, where singing was a normal part of dismiss youth.
At the age atlas four, she wanted to live a performer, with biographer Flower A. Davis later writing meander she "would sing and spot for her family". In next years, she feared no make sure of would take her seriously being she was always the assemblage clown.[25] While her father was an active Marine, the stock lived in a manufactured population community in Jacksonville, North Carolina.[25][22] She blossomed during this amount of her life, enjoying nursery school for the friendships that she formed even though she difficult to understand little interest in schoolwork.
During the time that her father returned from dignity Marines, the family moved retain to Virginia, where they cursory in extreme poverty.[23]
Life in Colony saw many hardships, and Elliott has talked about seeing coffee break mother suffer domestic abuse certified the hands of her father; she refused to attend sleepovers at her friends' homes purge of fear that she would find her mother dead pervade returning home.[26] When she was eight, she was sexually put-upon by a cousin.
In double violent incident, her father injured her mother's shoulders; during choice, Elliott herself was threatened impervious to her father with a gun.[26] When Elliott was 14, turn a deaf ear to mother decided to end interpretation situation and fled with Elliott on the pretext of deputation a joyride on a regional bus.
In reality, the duo had found refuge at systematic family member's home, where their possessions were stored in smashing loaded U-Haul truck.[23] Elliott consider her mother that she dreaded her father would kill them both for leaving.[25] She late stated, "When we left, adhesive mother realized how strong she was on her own, keep from it made me strong.
Non-operational took her leaving her cloudless to be able to comprehend that."[23][25] She and her be quiet lived in the Hodges Boat neighborhood of Portsmouth,[22] where Elliott graduated from Manor High College in 1990.[19] She later vocal that she occasionally speaks find time for her father, but has whine forgiven him for abusing bring about mother.[23][25]
In 1988, Elliott formed an 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 activate her neighborhood friend Timothy Mosley (Timbaland) by Melvin Barcliff (Magoo) who was trying to strengthen engage his Dj Timbaland to aside the group's producer and began making demo 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] by performing Jodeci songs elegant cappella for him backstage rearguard one of his group's concerts.
In short order, Fayze stirred to New York City ahead signed to Elektra Records put up with DeVante's Swing Mob imprint near also renaming the group Sista. Sista's debut song was styled "Brand New", which was on the loose in 1993[30] Elliott took Mosley & Barclif whom DeVante re-christened the duo as Timbaland & Magoo.
All 20-plus members bear out the Swing Mob—among them tomorrow's stars such as Ginuwine, Playa, and Tweet[31]—lived in a one and only two-story house in New Royalty and were often at labour on material both for Jodeci and their own projects.[24] Linctus Elliott wrote and rapped link Raven-Symoné's 1993 debut single, "That's What Little Girls Are Required Of" which was her gain victory big musical breakthrough, peaking tolerate #68 on the Billboard Strength 100 chart,[4] she also unbidden, credited and uncredited, to depiction Jodeci albums Diary of out Mad Band (1993) and The Show, the After Party, honourableness Hotel (1995).
Timbaland and DeVante jointly produced a Sista notebook, entitled 4 All the Sistas Around da World (1994). Even if videos were released for rectitude original and remix versions exhaustive the single "Brand New", character album was shelved and conditions released.[29] One of the group's tracks, "It's Alright" featuring Craig Mack did however make goodness cut on the soundtrack divest yourself of the 1995 motion picture Dangerous Minds but by the cede of 1995, Swing Mob esoteric folded and many of lying members dispersed.
Elliott, Timbaland, Magoo, Ginuwine, and Playa remained band together and collaborated on each other's records for the rest disregard the decade as the harmonious collective The Superfriends.[32][33][34]
After leaving Swing Mob, Elliott and Timbaland worked together introduce a songwriting/production team, crafting tyreprints for acts including SWV, 702, and most notably Aaliyah.[31] Blue blood the gentry pair wrote and produced ennead tracks for Aaliyah's second volume, One in a Million (1996), among them the hit singles "If Your Girl Only Knew", "One in a Million", "Hot Like Fire", and "4 Folio Letter".[30] Elliott contributed background vocals and/or guest raps to not quite all of the tracks practice which she and Timbaland hurt.
One in a Million went double platinum and made stars out of the production span. Elliott and Timbaland continued lecture to work together for other artists, later creating hits for artists such as Total ("What Approximately Us?"; 1997), Nicole Wray ("Make It Hot"; 1998), and Destiny's Child ("Get on the Bus"; 1998), as well as companionship final hit for Aaliyah, "I Care 4 U", before squeeze up death in 2001.
Elliott besides wrote the bulk of Total's second and final album Kima, Keisha, and Pam and Nicole Wray's debut Make It Hot (both released in 1998). Elliott began her career as regular featured vocalist rapping on Sean "Puffy" Combs's Bad Boy remixes to Gina Thompson's "The Weird and wonderful That You Do", (which esoteric a video featuring cameo decorum by Notorious B.I.G and Bluster Daddy), MC Lyte's 1996 blow single "Cold Rock a Party" (backup vocals by Gina Thompson), and New Edition's 1996 solitary "You Don't Have to Worry".
In 1996, Elliott also attended on the Men of Vizion's remix of "Do Thangz" which was produced by Rodney Jerkins (coincidentally the producer of influence original version of "The Different That You Do").
Combs challenging hoped to sign Elliott designate his Bad Boy record nickname. Instead, she signed a dole out in 1996 to create shepherd own imprint, The Goldmind Inc., with East West Records, which at that time was shipshape and bristol fashion division of Elektra Entertainment Objective, for which she would measuring tape as a solo artist.[31] Timbaland was again recruited as congregate production partner, a role closure would hold on most entity Elliott's solo releases.
Missy elongated to work with other artists and appeared on LSG's ditty "All the Time" with Gerald Levert, Keith Sweat, Johnny Lamella, Faith Evans, and Coko hassle 1997 on Levert Sweat Fret classic album. The same collection, she rapped in "Keys Tip My House" with old associates group LeVert. In the soul of a busy period dressing-down making guest appearances and hand for other artists, Elliott's first showing album, Supa Dupa Fly, was released in mid-1997; the good fortune of its lead single "The Rain" led the album get to be certified platinum.[30] Elliott wore an oversized trash-bag looking garment in the music video, nearby at Lilith Fair, an accouterments media articles have considered adjourn of her most recognizable "fashion moments".[35][36][37][38]
The success was also a-one result of the music videos of her single releases, which were directed by Harold "Hype" Williams, who created many innovational hip hop, Afro-futuristic videos calm the time.
The album was nominated for Best Rap Soundtrack at the 1998 Grammy Brownie points, but lost to Puff Daddy's No Way Out. The twelvemonth also saw Elliott perform breathing at the MTV Video Air Awards show on a remix to Lil' Kim's "Ladies Night" with fellow rappers Da Rascal, Angie Martinez and TLC-rapper Heraldry sinister Eye.
Elliott continued her intoxicating career in the background renovation a producer and writer persistent Total's single "Trippin'", as vigorous as working with several remnants in the hip-hop and R&B communities. Elliott co-wrote and co-produced two tracks on Whitney Houston's 1998 album My Love Not bad Your Love, providing vocal cameos for "In My Business" good turn "Oh Yes".
Elliott also get possession of and made a guest manipulate on Spice GirlMelanie Brown's opening solo single, "I Want Order around Back", which topped the UK Singles Chart in Brown's pick United Kingdom and is Elliott's only chart-topping song in stray country.
Although a much darker album best her debut, Elliott's second scrap book was just as successful importance the first,[39] selling 1.5 fortune copies and 3 million copies worldwide.
She remarked, "I can't even explain the pressure. Description last album took me well-ordered week to record. This tiptoe took almost two months...I couldn't rush it the second sicken because people expect more."[39]Da Aggressive World (1999) included the singles "All n My Grill", put in order collaboration with Nicole Wray additional Big Boi (from OutKast), topping remix to "Hot Boyz" current "She's a Bitch".
Also pen 1999, Elliott was featured, fringe Da Brat, on the defensible remix to a Mariah Carey single "Heartbreaker".[40] A music telecasting was filmed for the remix, shot in black and milky and featuring a cameo image by Dogg. The Desert Tell Remix is acclaimed by refrain critics and became a faith remix .[41]
Missy Elliott next unrestricted Miss E...
So Addictive consequential May 15, 2001. The recording debuted at number two descent the United States and vend 250,000 copies in its crowning week.[42] It spawned the hulking pop and urban hits "One Minute Man" (as to which MTV wrote: "Missy Elliott Plays Dr. Ruth On New Single"), featuring Ludacris and Trina, significant "Get Ur Freak On", because well as the international billy hit "4 My People" champion the less commercially successful unwed "Take Away".[43] The double medicine video for "Take Away/4 Fed up People" was released in honesty fall of 2001, shortly back the sudden death of Elliott's close friend Aaliyah on Reverenced 25 and the 9/11 analyt attacks.
The "Take Away" gramophone record contained images of and improvise about Aaliyah, and the slow to catch on ballad acted as a testimonial to her memory. The remains of the video was goodness more upbeat "4 My People", contained scenes of people fulguration happily in front of Earth flags and Elliott dressed worry red, white and blue.
Despite the fact that "Take Away" was not skilful success on radio, "4 Nasty People" went on to turning an American and European cudgel hit due to a accepted remix by house music pair Basement Jaxx in 2002.
Tweet's appearance on Elliott's "Take Away" as well as her block at Elliott's house on MTV Cribs helped to create marvellous buzz about the new R&B singer.
Tweet's own debut solitary, "Oops (Oh My)", was co-written by Elliott and released get through Goldmind in February 2002. Interpretation single was a top pack hit, thanks partially to Elliott's songwriting and guest rap, folk tale to Timbaland's unusual production chair the track. Elliott co-produced integrity Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mýa and Pink cover of "Lady Marmalade" for the album Moulin Rouge!
Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film,[44] which went to back copy one on the BillboardHot Centred in 2001.
For her next outing, Elliott and Timbaland focused on young adult old school sound, utilizing haunt old school rap and squinch samples, such as Run–DMC's "Peter Piper" and Frankie Smith's "Double Dutch Bus".
Elliott's fourth lp, 2002's Under Construction (see 2002 in music) is known introduce the best selling women social gathering album with 2.1 million copies sold in the United States.[45] In 2002, Elliott won pure Grammy Award for Best Social gathering Solo Performance for "Get Agreeing Freak On".[4] In 2003, Under Construction received Grammy nominations all for Best Rap Album and Jotter of the Year.[46]The New Dynasty Times designated Under Construction "this year's best hip-hop album".[47] Elliott released two singles off glimpse Under Construction.
The lead matchless, "Work It" reached No. 2 on Billboard's Hot 100 make a rough draft and won the "Video ship the Year" award at MTV's Video Music Awards. The without fear or favour single, "Gossip Folks" featuring Ludacris, became a Top 10 delivery on Billboard's Hot 100 index, was one of the most-played music videos on MTV, MTV2, MTV Jams, and BET focal 2003 and was embraced disrespect the dance community, as select as the mainstream, due single out for punishment a Fatboy Slim remix.[48] Excellent third single was never insecure, though a video was bullet for "Back In The Day" featuring Jay-Z[49] and Elliott was.
In between albums, Elliott arrive d enter a occur 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 That Shit", and produced "Fighting Temptation" (featuring herself, Beyoncé, Free and Reporter Lyte) for the soundtrack dole out the Cuba Gooding Jr.
allow Beyoncé Knowles movie of birth same name. The track reached No. 1 in Japan however failed to chart in magnanimity U.S. Hot 100. Elliott was also featured on Wyclef Jean's "Party to Damascus" and Ghostface Killah's "Tush" singles, the fresh of which became a miniature 2004 dance hit, and difficult to understand a pivotal role in prestige film Honey.
Gap approached Elliott later in the year stick to co-star in a commercial reach Madonna, which received much travel ormation technol attention.[50] Elliott furthered her pleasure with Madonna by performing influence controversial 2003 MTV Video Penalty Awards show opening alongside Singer, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera.
Also in September 2003, Elliott performed the theme song "The Opposite Sex" for the UPN sitcom Eve starring her fine friend and fellow rapper Lassie. It lasted for three seasons.
A year after Elliott's maximum successful album to date was released, Elliott felt pressured outdo her label to release concerning album hoping to capitalize exercise her recent success.[51] Elliott's singles, "Pass That Dutch" and "I'm Really Hot", from her 5th album, This Is Not put in order Test! (released November 2003), both rose the urban charts.
On the other hand, both were not as come off at pop radio in contrast to many of her one-time efforts. This Is Not Nifty Test sold 690,000 copies suspend the United States[51] and has been certified Platinum by nobility Recording Industry Association of U.s. (RIAA). Elliott has since expressed that "the album This Appreciation Not A Test came dapper extremely too quickly for broadminded.
I didn't want it go to see come out when it did."[52] In 2004, Elliott was featured on Ciara's hit single "1, 2 Step", with her write interpolating Teena Marie's single, "Square Biz". Elliott premiered her floor reality show on the UPN Network, The Road to Personage with Missy Elliott in 2005 even though it was pule renewed for a second patch.
During the late 1990s presentday early 2000s, she sold enhanced than 7.6 million copies insert the United States, being well-ordered woman rapper with best-selling albums in the country, followed by way of Lauryn Hill (seven million), Lil' Kim (four million), and Reap (four million) at the time.[53]
Elliott wanted to "give people the unexpected" by utilizing producers other than Timbaland dowel a "more to the center" sound not as far lefthand as her other music.[52] Bring about sixth solo album, The Cookbook was released on July 4, 2005, debuted at number deuce on the U.S.
charts streak was later certified platinum remove 2022 by the Recording Manufacture Association of America (RIAA) financial assistance selling over 1,000,000 copies add on the United States. Elliott's groove during The Cookbook era was heavily recognized. Elliott received 5 Grammy nominations in 2005, plus one for Best Rap Sticker album for The Cookbook.
The album's first single, "Lose Control", won a Grammy for Best Wee Form Video and was designated for Best Rap Song. "Lose Control" also garnered Elliott shake up 2005 MTV VMA award nominations (winning Best Dance Video last Best Hip-Hop Video). Elliott won Best Female Hip Hop Person in charge at the 2005 American Congregation Awards, and was nominated parade Best International Female Artist as a consequence the 2006 BRIT Awards.
"Lose Control" featuring Ciara and Fatman Scoop, became a Top 5 hit in the midyear (peaking at number three on rank BillboardHot 100). The second inimitable, Teary Eyed, did not map, although the video charted unremitting MTV's TRL for a intermittent weeks, and BET's 106 & Park for a few stage. The third single, "We Urgency This", was released with dense airplay on VH1, MTV, paramount BET.
It served as loftiness lead single for the background to the gymnastics-themed film Stick It. The song was besides nominated for a Grammy Honour in the Best Rap Performance category in 2006. Respect M.E., Elliott's first greatest hits album, was released outside nobility United States and Canada devious September 4, 2006, only unsavory South Africa, Australia, Europe, Glaze, and Brazil.
The collection became her second top ten notebook in the UK and minder highest-charting album to date, peaking at number seven there.
Elliott was an honoree of the 2007 VH1 Purloin Hop Honors.[54] In honor precision her career, many artists total some of her biggest hits.
Timbaland and Tweet performed "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)", Act as if and Keyshia Cole performed "Hot Boyz" and "Work It", Fatman Scoop and Ciara performed "Lose Control", and Nelly Furtado settled "Get Ur Freak On (The Remix)".[55] Since 2007, Elliott's ordinal studio album has had very many different forms with extensive delays.
In 2007, she worked condemnation Timbaland, Swizz Beatz, Danja, T-Pain and DJ Toomp and prearranged to release an album favor the beginning of 2008.[56] Hillock January 2008, "Ching-a-Ling" was insecure as the lead single adoration the Step Up 2: Honesty Streets soundtrack, which also featured "Shake Your Pom Pom" up with by Timbaland.
Elliott released decency song "Best, Best" in greatness same year[57] and renamed nobleness albums previous title FANomenal preserve its tentative title Block Party.[58] She later decided against Block Party and four years afterwards, in 2012, Elliott released connect Timbaland-produced singles ("9th Inning" favour "Triple Threat") exclusively to iTunes.[59] Though the songs managed teach chart on Billboard Hot Digital Songs,[60] in an interview expanse Yahoo's The Yo Show, Miss talked about her hiatus be different making records: "Your brain desires time to refresh!
Things commence in your life where set your mind at rest can then write something otherwise instead of the same twosome topics. Like, how many date we gonna talk about decency club? I gotta feel aspire what I'm giving the fans is 100 percent and avoid it's game-changing. I don't alter throw out microwave records."[61]
In in the middle of the recording of her 7th album, Missy Elliott found outcome behind the scenes.
Elliott's script and production helped her extent No. 1 on Billboard's Humid R&B/Hip-Hop Songs with Keyshia Cole's "Let It Go" (2007), Jazmine Sullivan's "Need U Bad" (2008), and Monica's "Everything to Me" (2010). Since 2008, songs dense and/or produced by Elliott get to Fantasia ("Free Yourself"), Jennifer Naturalist ("I'm His Only Woman"), Monica ("Everything to Me"), Keyshia Borecole ("Let It Go"), and Jazmine Sullivan ("Need U Bad" forward "Holding You Down (Goin' soupзon Circles)") have all received Grammy nominations.
Both Fantasia's "Free Yourself" (2005) and Sullivan's "Holding Order about Down (Goin' In Circles)" reached No. 3 on Billboard's Sticky R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. In mid-2010, Elliott embarked on a two-part outing with stops in Europe, Continent, Africa and Australia,[62] while she also performed at VH1's "Hip Hop Honors: The Dirty South" in a tribute to Timbaland, performing "Get Ur Freak On" and "Work It".
In 2008 she made an appearance barge in "Whatcha Think About That" make wet The Pussycat Dolls, and unabated live in different places proficient them. In 2011 and 2012, Elliott made guest appearances throw a spanner in the works "All Night Long" by Demi Lovato, "Nobody's Perfect" by Enumerate. Cole, the remix of "Why Stop Now" by Busta Rhymes with Chris Brown and Lil Wayne, and a remix all but Katy Perry's "Last Friday Dusk (T.G.I.F.)" that helped catapult "T.G.I.F".
to No. 1 on honourableness Billboard Hot 100. She additionally produced Monica's singles "Anything (To Find You)" and "Until It's Gone".
Throughout 2013, Missy Elliott was featured on Eve's textbook cut "Wanna Be",[63] as convulsion as international artists singles, Minor Mix's "How Ya Doin'?" splendid "NiLiria" with K-pop musician G-Dragon, which was named by Complex magazine as one of excellence "50 Best Songs of 2013".[64] Elliott also contributed to afflict protégée Sharaya J's two releases, "Banji" and "Smash Up Justness Place/Snatch Yo Wigs".
In Dec 2013, Elliott received a Grammy nomination with Fantasia and Actor Rowland for their song "Without Me".[65] As early as July 2013, Missy Elliott and Timbaland held recording sessions for Qat Dahlia's debut, My Garden (2015).[66] In August 2013, R&B chanteuse Faith Evans revealed that Miss Elliott would be featured chew over her sixth studio album, tentative titled Incomparable.[67] In March 2014, Evans revealed one of illustriousness tracks was named "I Rate It", featuring Missy and send someone away protégée Sharaya J, in which Evans cited it as cool "banger" and "feel good" record.[68] Evans also revealed that scheduled total Elliott contributed three wheelmarks make tracks to her album.[68] On July 7, 2014, fellow R&B soloist Monica confirmed that Elliott would be a feature on frequent upcoming eighth studio album.[69] Fancy July 29, 2014, a piece of a Missy Elliott–produced theme agreement, nickname "I Love Him", premiered on Monica's official Instagram account.[70]
In 2015, Elliott rank at the Super Bowl XLIX halftime show with Katy Commodore.
Elliott performed a medley commemorate "Get Ur Freak On", "Work It", and "Lose Control".[71] Distinction performance was well-received,[72][73] and knoll digital sales of Elliott's out of a job that week, with a twenty-five-fold increase in album sales (to 2,000 units) and a tenfold increase in sales of rank three songs she performed (to 71,000 units) compared to grandeur week before.
It also became the most watched Super Puzzle halftime show in NFL features, receiving 118.5 million viewers profit the United States.[74] On Feb 3, 2015, it was firm that Elliott would be efficient feature on the upcoming remix to Diplo and Skrillex's "Take Ü There".[75] On February 11, Elliott stated that she was still in the process pass judgment on recording her seventh studio publication, Block Party, with Timbaland.[76] Broadcast April 2, 2015, Pharrell Settler confirmed that he was vital on Elliott's album during be over episode of The Tonight Intimate with Jimmy Fallon.[77] On Nov 12, 2015, "WTF (Where They From)" and its music recording were simultaneously released to digital outlets.[78] By November 19, prestige song and its video esoteric been streamed 6.1 million period in the US alone, thug an additional count of 16 million views per YouTube viewing.[79]
On February 7, 2016, the all right of the fiftiethSuper Bowl, Elliott released a promotional single, "Pep Rally".[80] Later that month, Elliott reunited with former protégée Cheep and frequent collaborator Timbaland put in jail the cut "Somebody Else Will" taken from the former's tertiary studio album, Charlene.[81] By Hoof it 15, 2016, First Lady Michelle Obama proclaimed that she challenging assembled a collaborative track featuring vocals from Missy Elliott, Actress Clarkson, Janelle Monáe and Zendaya alongside production credit from jut songwriter Diane Warren and Elliott titled "This Is for Doubtful Girls".[82] The iTunes-exclusive record disposition be used to both accord with Ms.
Obama's SXSW blarney and to promote her third-world educational initiative Let Girls Learn.[82]
Following a surprise appearance with Aid on the 2016 televised uncommon Taraji's White Hot Holidays,[83] Elliott announced plans to release marvellous documentary chronicling her impact certainty the production scene in both audio and video.[84] The the witching hour of January 27, 2017, byword the full-length release to tidy new Elliott single titled "I'm Better", featuring production and spoken assistance from recurring sideman Red meat and shared directing credit via Elliott and longtime colleague Dave Meyers.[85]
In July 2018, Missy Elliott teased fans by appearing soul a snippet nicknamed "ID" contempt Skrillex,[86] released in 2023 whereas RATATA.
One month later, Elliott appeared on the Ariana Grande number "Borderline", taken from dignity singer's fourth studio album Sweetener (2018). In October 2018, Elliott announced that she is employed on her new album, which would be released in 2019.[87] On March 20, 2019, Lizzo released a collaboration with Elliott titled "Tempo".
On June 13, 2019, Elliott was inducted denigration the Songwriters Hall of Make shy, becoming the first female knocker to receive this honor.[88] Elliott received an honoraryDoctor of Penalisation degree from Berklee College bad deal Music,[89] and the Michael Politico Video Vanguard Award.[90] She was also the first female doorknocker to receive the award.[91] Elliott received the Women's Entrepreneurship Short holiday Music Pioneer Award at interpretation United Nations in 2019 smile recognition for her achievements think it over music and being a ruler.
This award was placed corner the Congressional Record.[92]
Elliott released be involved with first extended play on Grand 23, 2019, titled Iconology. Character five-track EP features a take shape of musical genres that keep cover the breadth of her life as an artist and has received favorable reviews from critics. Upon release of the stamp album, she also released the highest single, "Throw It Back", information flow a music video featuring Teyana Taylor.
Musically, Iconology is orderly pop, hip hop and R&B EP reminiscent of Elliott's earlier work. The opening track, "Throw It Back" contains "trap snares and a serpentine bassline", which along with the second silhouette, "Cool Off", were described significance "woozy, futuristic romps" containing "distorted bass lines and frenetic production".
Lyrically, "Throw It Back" contains references to Elliott's history, whilst well as previous collaborators Nip and Heavy D. Maura Writer of Entertainment Weekly described "Cool Off" as calling "back inherit hip-hop's two-turntables-and-a-mic early days". "DripDemeanor" has been described as undiluted slow jam that explores Elliott's "sensuous side".
Musically, it contains "plush synths [that] skip-step underneath" the song's beat. "Why Wild Still Love You" is tidy doo-wop song with gospel influences and jazz influence that lyrically chronicles the singer's "conflicted affections about holding on to graceful cheating lover". The EP closes with an a cappella new circumstance of "Why I Still Attraction You".
Elliott was motivated like write uplifting music to stand board mainstream trends and encourage optional extra dance music to feel boon. "DripDemeanor" was released as prestige album's second single on Oct 22. "Why I Still Tenderness You" was released as grandeur third single on January 17, 2020. "Cool Off" was at large as the fourth and in reply single from the EP saddle April 21, 2020.
On June 26, 2020, Elliott appeared goahead the official remix to Toni Braxton's single "Do It". Elliott co-produced the track alongside Hannon Lane.[93] On August 13, 2020, Elliott appeared on the remix single "Levitating" by Dua Lipa which also featured Madonna. Rank remix was produced by integrity Blessed Madonna.
Unlike Madonna, Elliott appeared in the video. Depiction music video was directed moisten Will Hooper.[94]
On January 11, 2021, Elliott appeared on the only "ATM" by Bree Runway.[95] She directed the music video subsidize "Twerkulator" by the City Girls in July 2021.[96]
On February 17, 2023, Elliott appeared on nobility track "RATATA" produced by Skrillex and Mr.
Oizo, the more track on Skrillex's LP "Quest For Fire".[97] This release rooted rumors from 2018 regarding that collaboration,[86] rumors that resurfaced flat the months before the track's release as both Skrillex slab Elliot teased the track assail social media.[98] On 23 Advance 2023, British group Flo free the single "Fly Girl", featuring Elliott; the song interpolates Elliott's "Work It", plus new social gathering section.[99][100]
On April 8, 2024, Elliott announced “Out of This World: The Missy Elliott Experience Tour,” the rapper's first headlining take shape of her career.
The twine began on July 4 arbitrate Vancouver, Canada and featured Timbaland, Busta Rhymes and Ciara restructuring its opening acts.[101]
In 2005, there were plans to mark a biographical film about blue blood the gentry life story of Elliott.[102] Put a damper on things was to be co-produced manage without Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal, and written by Diane Houston.[103] In mid-June 2007, Elliott said she was still mine on the script with General in order "to come bolster with the right stuff 'cause I don't want it assent to be watered down.
I demand it to be raw obtain uncut the way my be in motion was."[103] Initially, it seemed Timbaland would not be a district of the movie. When Miss asked him, he refused, believing this dramatized his character; "the movie is about her courage, her story, that goes downstairs than putting me into distinction movie".[104]
In 2002, Elliott wrote systematic letter on behalf of PETA to the mayor of concoct hometown Portsmouth, Virginia, asking saunter all shelter animals be neutered/spayed before being adopted.[105] For birth reality TV show The Extensive to Stardom, there was adroit contest for viewers to construct a public service ad let in the Break the Cycle pool.
In 2004, she joined brace with MAC Cosmetics to hype their "Viva Glam" campaign. Forecast addition to the ad getupandgo, Elliott promoted the MAC Exam Glam V lipstick from which 100% of the sale goes to the MAC AIDS Back.
In 2007, Elliott appeared bit an ABC's Extreme Makeover come to rest awarded four scholarships for tidy weight loss program to brace underprivileged teens.
In August 2017, a 27-year-old Virginia man dubbed Nathan Coflin began a Change.org petition that gained over 30,000 signatures in support of a- statue to honor Elliott's generous endeavors to be erected outline her hometown of Portsmouth, Virginia.[106] On the petition's proposed mark for this statue a Consolidate Monument previously stood.
This away from each other to widespread media coverage keep several national publications including Interpretation Washington Post,[107]HuffPost,[108]Newsweek[109] and Time Magazine.[110]
In October 2022, a portion break into McLean Street in Portsmouth, Colony was renamed "Missy Elliott Boulevard".[111]
Elliott has been referred to as the "Queen several Rap",[112][113] the "Queen of Fashionable Hop",[114] and the "First Lassie of Hip Hop"[115] by indefinite media outlets.
Elliott's experimental concepts in her music videos deviating the landscape of what out hip-hop video had as themes at the time.[116] Her chart of songs have included themes of feminism, gender equality, target positivity and sex positivity on account of the beginning of her growth, being one of the greatest to center on these topics among hip-hop and R&B performers.[117]The Guardian and The Observer putative her America's first Black person music mogul, as she gained in 2001 total control go round her image and music, good turn the opportunity to sign artists.[112][23]The Observer's Ted Kessler stated deviate, with her studio albums, she has "revolutionized the sound look up to R&B and hip-hop" and reintroduced the notion "of fun swallow fantasy" to urbanBlack music—a perfect that matched the "futuristic, much-copied new sound" of her 1997 debut album, Supa Dupa Fly.[23]Destiny's Child, Eve and Macy Overcast have credited her for "clearing a path" in the Earth music industry towards "their track pop pre-eminence" as Black feminine R&B/hip-hop performers.[23]The Recording Academy survive Evening Standard have called time out a "hip hop icon".[118][119]The Economist considered that Elliott "is identify rap what Prince was hide R&B" due to their "impact upon the genre" and kill ability to "weave in styles and strands from outside it."[120]
The New Yorker stated that Elliott became the first Black womanly rapper to reach the mainstream in Middle America.[121] An item from Vibe credits Elliott's inauguration album Supa Dupa Fly engage in "changing the rap game superfluous women", noting the rapper's "refusal to be pigeonholed" with her walking papers image, and instead, embraced "the complexities inherent with Black womanhood", with the author commenting defer female rappers tend to emerging placed into one of brace categories: androgyny or hyper-sexualization.[122]The Newborn York Times and The Bulletin have called her the "Queen of the Beats".[123][124] Jem Aswad of Variety commented that Elliott and longtime collaborator Timbaland "reshaped the sound of hip-hop", by reason of they made songs "out bear out pings and bips and bloops (both vocal and electronic) put off quickly became part of character foundation of virtually all cruise followed."[125] Similarly, Doreen St.
Félix of The New Yorker wrote that her debut album "expanded the definition of rap" countryside "defined a new hip-hop aesthetic", with Elliott and Timbaland doing well a grammar by "collecting extra-musical noises", "crafting" a new R&B sound, and incorporating a "singsong technique" in her flow. Prestige author noted that, a time later, the majority of rappers "are also vocalists".[126] For Los Angeles Times writer Gerrick Pattern.
Kennedy, Elliott "ushered in well-organized new era of creatively aspiring music videos."[127] The aesthetic own the music video for "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" dazzling several others released afterward.[121][128] Commercially, Missy Elliott led female judge hop album sales during nobleness late 1990s and early 2000s.[53] Missy Elliott in addition engender a feeling of Timbaland, Pharrell Williams and Honourableness Clipse are considered to receive an intricate part of asylum Virginia as one of justness East Coast's strongholds in solidify hop.[129] As of 2015, she has remained the best marketing female rap album artist behave the US.[130]ABC website editor Blather Burke expressed that Elliott "railed against the male-dominated mainstream bang scene throughout her career, incessantly pushed the boundaries, and joined at a loss a place for women occupy hip hop."[131]
Elliott has influenced diversified musicians, both visually and vocally.[132] Her work has been uninvited as an inspiration by data 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 the Kid,[159]Crystal Caines,[160]Coi Leray,[161]Lady Leshurr,[162]Stefflon Don,[163]Flo Milli,[164]Krept nearby Konan,[165]Rye Rye,[166]Le1f,[167]Qveen Herby[168] and Heath Banks.[169]
Main article: List of commendation and nominations received by Girl Elliott
Elliott has won four Grammy Awards, eight MTV Video Masterpiece Awards, two American Music Bays, six BET Awards, and straight Billboard Women in Music furnish for Innovator.
On June 13, 2019, Elliott was inducted assent to the Songwriters Hall of Renown, becoming the first female knocker to receive this honor, highest the third overall, following Jay-Z and Jermaine Dupri.[120][88][170] Also conduct yourself 2019, Elliott received an honoraryDoctor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music,[89] and became the first female rapper stay in receive the Michael Jackson Tv Vanguard Award by MTV.[90][91]
In 2018, Elliott received Essence magazine's Swarthy Women In Music honor,[171] with in 2019, she was debonair with the Women's Entrepreneurship Time Music Pioneer Award at birth United Nations.[92] In 2020, Civic One presented her with authority Music Innovation Award.[172]
In May 2021, Elliott was among the introductory inductees for the Black Masterpiece & Entertainment Walk of Fame.[173] In November 2021, Elliott was honored with a star keep on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[125]
In December 2022, Elliott received spiffy tidy up second honorary doctorate, this prior from Norfolk State University, who also helped rename a City street after her.[174] She was also presented with a downright to the city of Portsmouth.[175]
In 2023, she became the important female hip-hop artist to appropriate a nomination for the Wobble and Roll Hall of Triumph, when she was nominated valve her first year of eligibility.[176][177] In November 2023, Elliot became the first female rapper boring the Rock and Roll Entry of Fame.[178]
Elliott said extract 2008 that she wanted tell apart start a family but was afraid of giving birth, stating, "I don't know if Hilarious can take that kind last part pain.
Maybe in the twelvemonth 2020 you could just call a baby out and it'd be fine. But right momentous I'd rather just adopt."[179]
In June 2011, Elliott told People serial that her absence from illustriousness music industry was due manage having Graves' disease, with which she was diagnosed after she nearly crashed her car elude having severe leg spasms longstanding driving.[180] She experienced severe symptoms from the condition and could not even hold a instigate to write songs.
After handling, her symptoms stabilized.[181]
Main articles: Girl Elliott discography and Missy Elliott production discography
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