Ahead of her first project in 13 years, the beloved hip-hop pioneer has been sharing song snippets on Twitter.
The world desperately needs joy, and our goddess Missy Elliott is delivering. The iconic rapper is making a comeback and has been teasing some of her new music on Twitter, revealing her latest song on Thursday afternoon.
The track, called “High,” proves that Elliott has not only retained her vocal abilities through the years, but plans to flex them on her new project.
Forty-seven-year-old Elliott is a hip-hop pioneer, with highly conceptual music videos and an unconventional aesthetic that challenged patriarchal perceptions of beauty in the 1990s. She’s also written and produced for tons of artists, including Aaliyah, Beyoncé, Ciara, Mariah Carey, Monica, Mya, and Jazmine Sullivan.
Elliott’s last album, The Cookbook, came out in 2005. Its biggest single, “Lose Control,” won a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video. But in the years following, the rapper, who suffers from Graves disease, took a hiatus because of her health.
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