Missy, who won eightĀ MTV Video Music Awards, including Video Of The Year victory for "Work Itā in 2003, and became the first female rapper to receive MTVās Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award in 2019, also said the space age way she was moving in the video wasn't an effect.
"S/O to Tim/Hype/June/ BillyB China my TeamThe Black lipstickThe stones on my eyes took over 2 hours. Oh I canāt 4get the way I moved it wasnāt a effect. I just use to move like I thought I was a Alien partying at Area51It was new & different for Hiphop back then," she continued.
Missy has been on the receiving end of a lot of love lately. On a recent episode ofĀ People PartyĀ with Talib Kweli, guest Sleek Louch revealedĀ Missy Elliott'sĀ contribution to 1997's "It's All About The Benjamins" which featuredĀ The Notorious B.I.G., Lil Kim and The Lox.
"A DJ named Super Mario leaked it on purpose," Sheek said. "You weren't even supposed to that shit back then. That song just spread. I didn't even like the record when they played us the track. I walked in, and Missy was in the room, and [I heard the track] and I was like, 'Whatever'. Missy was there dancing and doing the beatbox and we didn't even know who she was at the time. She had the 'hee hee haa' joint out with Gina Thompson at the time... She said, 'Let me hear something...' [and I said my verse from the song] then she asked everybody to rap and told us to write Puff's verse and which verses to keep. She started beatboxing and dancin' and I was like who is this?" Of course, the rest is history.
Reminisce on one of her dopest videos and songs, "She's a B**ch" below.