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...
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.
flip reverse
I put my thing down, flip it, and reverse it
impact creative
I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.
cousin eye scared
I am very scared of wasps; my cousin was stung in the eye once.
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?
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!"
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.
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.
red carpet chins
The double chin's not good for the red carpet.
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.
revenge crazy mind
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.
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.
lyricists
I'm not tryin' to come off as the best lyricist.
american-musician guys run sit
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'.