Missy Elliott Gossip

This week, Marie Claire profiled living legend and prolific hit-maker, Missy Elliott. Missy remains a pioneer in the industry, a hip-hop and R&B icon for over 20 years. Winner of 4 Grammys (nominated for 22), and having sold 30 million records, any discussion of Missy starts with where she sits, on top of the hip-hop world, solidly on anyone’s top 5 or top 10 lists. Full Story

Most of the time when I’m writing about Missy Elliott, I’m yelling at MTV to give her a damn Video Vanguard Award already or I’m trying to hype up her latest projects that always seem to go relatively unnoticed Full Story

Jennifer Lopez will receive the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award on August 20th at the VMAs. If you were paying attention last year when Pink was awarded this honour, you know that I was not impressed Full Story

It is almost the three-year anniversary of that time Missy Elliott saved the Super Bowl. I bring this up often because for people who didn’t live through the dominance of the Missy/Timbaland/ Magoo era (fine, I remember Magoo so I’m not THAT young), Missy’s scene-stealing heroics at the Super Bowl are how they know her best. Full Story

The Super Bowl is next weekend. It will mark the two-year anniversary of that time Katy Perry headlined the half-time show but the only things we remember are Left Shark and Missy Elliott saving the goddamn day. Full Story

“Who you calling a bitch?” This line. It’s one of my favourite hip-hop lines of all time. With it, Queen Latifah cemented herself in hip-hop history. She was not a bitch or a ho. Full Story