" Missy Elliot is the first female rapper to receive MTV Video Vanguard Award Archived September 16, 2019, at the Wayback Machine ". Dazed Digital. Dazed Media. ^ ab "WEDO ANNUAL PIONEER AWARDS 2019". Women's Entrepreneurship Day. Archived from the original on December 6, 2019. Retrieved December 6, 2019.

Elliott with a neck extending like a rubber snake, wiggling free from her body … Elliott clad in camouflage, swinging one-handed from a chandelier … … or weightlessly breakdancing in a baby-blue tracksuit with a fuzzy hat. A wider view of the collage, including many images of Missy Elliott performing in costume.

Her current arena show is in many ways the culmination of a 30-year project, remixing her trademark work into a career-spanning revue. “I wanted people to understand the mind of Missy Elliott,” the rapper and producer said in an interview during rehearsals.

The page zooms to show a photograph of a performer from Missy Elliott’s tour: she wears a purple bodysuit and her hair is cut in a short white bob. Next to this, a still from a movie in which a woman with red bobbed hair wears a skimpy white bodysuit.