“I’ve been a superstar since Daddy Kane was raw / I’m live on stage, c’mon, give me some applause,” Missy Elliott raps on her 2002 single “Bomb Intro / Pass That Dutch,” delivered with a steamrolling ...

A colorful collage showing Missy Elliott performing in various bright, sparkling costumes. The pioneering artist breaks down the inspirations for her first-ever headlining tour. By Joe Coscarelli For ...

The legendary artist looks back on her classic "Get Ur Freak On" — and says she's plotting new music and a tour ...

Back when the rapper Missy Elliott embarked on her first headline tour, she turned heads for the alien brilliance of her music. She was confident that the freaky, relentlessly inventive tracks she cut ...

Missy Elliott is a legend, the best-selling female rapper of all time and the first to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Born in 1971 in Virginia, Melissa Arnette Elliott began making ...