16 Facts About Missy Elliot

1.

Missy Elliot released her first extended play, titled Iconology in 2019.

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2.

Missy Elliot has sold over 30 million records in the United States.

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3.

Missy Elliot is the best-selling female rapper in Nielsen Music history, according to Billboard in 2017.

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4.

Missy Elliot became the first female rapper inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and received the MTV VMAs Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award for her impact on the music video landscape.

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5.

Missy Elliot is the only child of mother Patricia Elliott, a power-company dispatcher, and father Ronnie, a former US Marine.

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6.

Missy Elliot enjoyed school for the friendships that she formed even though she had little interest in schoolwork.

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7.

Missy Elliot's move in grades caused isolation, and she purposely failed, eventually returning to her previous class.

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8.

Missy Elliot refused to stay over at friends' homes out of fear that on her return home she would find her mother dead.

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9.

Missy Elliot recruited her neighborhood friend Timothy Mosley as the group's producer and began making demo tracks, among them included the 1991 promo "First Move".

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10.

Missy Elliot continued to work with other artists and appeared on LSG's song "All the Time" with Gerald Levert, Keith Sweat, Johnny Gill, Faith Evans, and Coko in 1997 on Levert Sweat Gill classic album.

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11.

Missy Elliot later decided against Block Party and four years later, in 2012, Elliott released two Timbaland-produced singles exclusively to iTunes.

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12.

Missy Elliot produced Monica's singles "Anything " and "Until It's Gone".

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13.

Missy Elliot directed the music video for "Twerkulator" by the City Girls in July 2021.

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14.

Missy Elliot was diagnosed after she nearly crashed a car from having severe leg spasms while driving.

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15.

Missy Elliot experienced severe symptoms from the condition, and she could not even hold a pen to write songs.

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16.

When Missy Elliot asked him, he refused, believing this dramatized his character; "the movie is about her life, her story, that goes deeper than putting me into the movie".

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