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A cacophony of early 2000s music icons will hit the stage this summer time for the “Out of This World: The Missy Elliott Expertise” tour that can see the “Get Ur Freak On” singer headline a tour for the primary time with the help of Ciara, Busta Rhymes, and Timbaland.
Missy Elliott speaks onstage on Dec. 5, 2019.
Key Info
Elliott, a four-time Grammy winner, announced her 24-stop tour Monday morning that can open at Vancouver’s Rogers Enviornment on July 4 earlier than heading to Los Angeles, Houston, Atlanta and different cities via the tip of August.
The performer stated in a statement to a number of news outlets that followers have lengthy been asking for a solo tour, however she “needed to attend till I felt the time was proper as a result of I knew if I used to be ever going to do it, I needed to do it massive, and I needed to do it with household.”
Elliott co-headlined three excursions between 1998 and 2004 and featured as a particular visitor or opening act on a half-dozen extra via 2015 (together with for Madonna, Janet and Michael Jackson and Mariah Carey), however has by no means been a solo headliner.
The three supporting artists introduced for the tour all collaborated with Elliot on main 2000s hits—Ciara was a co-writer and featured artist on Elliotts “Lose Management” in 2005 (the tune peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100) and Elliott was featured on Ciara’s in style tune “1, 2 Step”; Timbaland and Elliott wrote no less than a dozen songs collectively, together with “Get Ur Freak On” (which peaked at No. 7); and Busta Rhymes has been a longtime collaborator of Elliott’s, praising her as “an icon” and considered one of his “biggest inspirations” when she was inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame.
Key Background
Missy Elliott (born Melissa Arnette Elliott) is a hip hop and R&B artist who began her profession as a member of the Swing Mob, a collective of artists that included Timbaland and Sista, the band Elliott was a member of on the time. She left Sista within the late Nineties and began working with Timbaland as a songwriting and production team, creating songs for artists like Aaliyah and Future’s Youngster. She launched her first album, “Supa Dupa Fly” in 1997 and went on to launch five more earlier than her final in 2005. “Sock It 2 Me” was the first song she led to make it to the Billboard Scorching 100, peaking at No. 12 in 1997. In whole, 33 songs on which she is both the primary performer or options on have made it on the Hot 100 chart. She has gained 4 Grammy Awards—greatest solo rap efficiency, greatest feminine rap solo efficiency (twice) and greatest brief type music video. She was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2021, the identical yr she was inducted into the Songwriters Corridor of Fame. She was the primary feminine rapper to be nominated and inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame final yr.
Stunning Reality
Selection ranked a Missy Elliott present from final Could as one of many best concerts of 2023. The efficiency at a resort/on line casino in Highland, California led to Elliott being praised as “the complete bundle: trying nice, sounding nice, energized by the gang and buoyed by her personal pure bon vivant-ancy, on high of the manufacturing values you’d anticipate from a present constructed to journey.”
