Missy Elliott is a singular force of nature.
So without further ado, this is the untold truth of Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott.
“You gotta believe in yourself.
But I am a walking testimony.”
“How did she know to pick those words to reverse?”
he wondered in an interview withTidal.
“How did she know it would give it that rhythm?
That’s what is ingenious about it; that’s what caught me.”
“It’s unexplainable.
Unorthodox, but light.
She makes something that’s not the norm normal.”
“I was just going, going, going,” she recalled in an interview withMarie Claire.
“It wasn’t resonating what was happening.”
It really is, Missy!
And everyone in the class would laugh," she revealed in a 2019 interview withThe Guardian.
“I wonder if those kids remember me to this day, because I remember everyone.”
Who’s laughing now?
“This year has allowed me to look back over my life and be like: ‘Wow.'”
Rather she would instead explain that her success is something that she herself manifested.
“And that’s how powerful the tongue is.”
I had speeches, and I would be in the mirror thanking my mama."
“And she would laugh and be like, ‘All right, okay.'”
“I bought my mother a house.
Put a Bible in the soil and built it from the ground up.”
Now that is a dream realized!
“I think any artist who has had a break such as that one would be anxious.”
As if we could forget!
“So I’m always biting my nails and pacing the floor.”
“I was like that as a child,” she explained in an interview withThe Guardian.
“We would have family reunions and they always wanted me to get up on the table to perform.
She added that after that happened, it was near impossible to get her to stop.
“Once I set foot on the stage, I block out everything,” she continued.
“I can be in my own world.”
And as Elliott recalls the experience, Beyonce stood out without making a lot of noise.
“She was very sweet.
But when she went in the booth, that’s when I knew.”
“I said: ‘Hey, I want you to rap a little bit.’
She went in there and now she’s rapping better than me!”
What a great story!
But that doesn’t mean she wasn’t doing anything at all far from it.
Rather, she was writing and producing for a host of artists, something that sometimes is overlooked.
But we don’t know all the records I’ve done for other artists.”
So just how many projects has Elliott been involved with?
According toElle, Elliott has written over 500 songs for everyone from Ciara to Janet Jackson to Mariah Carey.
It’s like those fans out there will stone you."
We’ll just have to wait and see when she’ll dispense with some of her gems, then.
“I want to dip my foot in some acting,” she continued.
“Where we were always placed in a box.”
But Elliott wasn’t having any of that, according to Williams.
“And she defied it.
Over and over again,” he continued.
“She defied the physics that were dictated to us.
She ignored the gravity of standards and prejudices and stereotypes.
She ignored that gravity.”
What a compliment, especially coming from Williams!
“The energy has to be right for me.
“Because it will begin to make you doubt and fear and not want to take that risk.”
Fair enough, Missy!
Well, it turns out that the getup had a real purpose besides just looking cool.
“Although I am shy, I was never afraid to be a provocative woman.”
Elliott also drew strength from the outfit, which set her apart.
“The outfit was a symbol of power.
I loved the idea of feeling like a hip-hop Michelin woman,” she continued.
“I knew I could have on a blow-up suit and still have people talking.
It was bold and different.”
