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...
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One thing about white people is that in their videos they don't care. They can go out in cut-up jeans and do a video, and it'll be large.
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The biggest surprise with the show is I didn't think it was gonna be that emotional. I thought it was just gonna be a regular reality show.
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When you sit down now and really listen, it doesn't give off the same feel as it did back when Run DMC and those guys were rhymin'.
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I feel blessed and I've learned so much. I just wanted to make a record where people can forget their troubles and go buck-wild.
song writing artist
I really enjoy writing and producing for other artists. Some people save their best songs for their own albums. I'd rather give another artist one of my songs. At the end of the day, it still represents me.
lyricists
I'm not tryin' to come off as the best lyricist.
want hot copies
No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.
thinking artist people
I like collaborating, but I felt I should do my first single by myself so people don't think I'm leaning on other artists to be a success.
people want picks
I want to make something commercial that people can pick up on.
cutting want cutting-edge
I want to be cutting-edge.
laughing people comedian
I always made people laugh, and everybody wanted me to sit at the table with them. I don't joke as much as I used to, but I can still be a little comedian every now and then.
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I'm kind of speaking for the females, ... what's in our mind if we could get revenge, what it would be like. Not to say that we would do it because we would be locked up if you go by my video version of it but just in our minds, if we could have our way with a relationship gone bad. So it's crazy.
father struggle home
My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.
games giving records
I gotta feel like what I'm giving the fans is 100 per cent and that it's game-changing. I don't just throw out microwave records.