Missy Elliot
Missy Elliot
Melissa Arnette Elliott, known professionally under her stage name Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott or simply Missy Elliott, is an American musician, hip hop recording artist, dancer and record producer. Elliott embarked on her music career with all-female R&B group Sista in the early 1990s and later became a member of the Swing Mob collective along with childhood friend and longtime collaborator Timbaland, with whom she worked on projects for Aaliyah, 702, Total, and SWV. Following several collaborations and guest appearances, she...
flip reverse
I put my thing down, flip it, and reverse it
israel cities
I love this city [Tel Aviv]!
home life-is-like life-is
What my home life is like now is great.
red carpet chins
The double chin's not good for the red carpet.
kids listening goes-on
I like to go on YouTube to see the underground sounds, what the kids are listening to, and kind of gauge my music around that.
people want radio
When you turn on your radio, you don't always want to hear about someone shootin' some person. Even if that's the lifestyle they live, people don't always want to hear it.
boys drunk hip-hop
Boy lift it up, lets make a toasta Lets get drunk, its gon bring us closa Don't I look like a HalleBerry posta?
cousin eye scared
I am very scared of wasps; my cousin was stung in the eye once.
impact creative
I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.
artist order labels
When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an artist, I went to get a record label started. And they said in order to have a label deal, I had to be an artist - so that's what I did.
sneakers maids too-much
I'm going to have to take one of my bedrooms and gut it out and make it into a big closet, because now I'm starting to put sneakers in the pantry. Even my maids are like, "No more, please! It's too much!"
girl laughing matter
MC is a funny girl and always makes me laugh no matter what. I love her!
mother talking phones
I'm close to my mother, and I could sit talking on the phone with her all day.
writing first-love love-is
My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.