Missy Elliot Quotes

Melissa Arnette Elliott is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and philanthropist. She embarked on her music career with all-female R&B group Sista in the early-mid 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 launched her solo career on July 15, 1997 with her debut album Supa Dupa Fly, which spawned the top 20 single "Sock It 2 Me". ...more

Birth: July 01, 1971

My Struggles is a record close to me. It’s about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.

What my home life is like now is great.

Topic(s): Home , Life Is , Life Is Like

Boy lift it up, lets make a toastaLets get drunk, its gon bring us closaDon’t I look like a HalleBerry posta?

Topic(s): Looks , Boys , Hip Hop

My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people’s projects.

Topic(s): People , Writing , Firsts

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.

Topic(s): Firsts , Artist , Order

I’ve always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

Topic(s): Creative , Impact

I didn’t want to be a genius! That ain’t cool.

Topic(s): Want , Genius

You have to be ready to sing and perform at any time.

Topic(s): Ready

I put my thing down, flip it, and reverse it

Topic(s): Reverse , Flip

I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there’s some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that’s really important to us, and music is all we’ve really got.

Topic(s): Kind , Important , Kids

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.

Topic(s): Want , Feels , My Own

I’m not a person that’s walkin’ down the street looking mean all day.

Topic(s): Mean , Persons , Streets

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