Twenty years ago, Missy Elliott worked it with two other legendary divas — Beyoncé and Alicia Keys — on the Verizon Ladies First Tour. (Just let that lineup sink in for a minute. I’ll wait …) I was fortunate enough to be in their presence at the now-defunct Meadowlands Arena in East Rutherford, NJ, back … Read more
Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. The job of a journalist at a concert is to do one thing: summarize the experience in a truthful, pleasing way for the reader. Missy Elliott, Busta Rhymes, … Read more
Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. It’s finally time to “Work It.” Hip-Hop icon Missy Elliott just kicked off her 2024 ‘Out Of This World Tour’ with special guests Ciara, Busta Rhymes and Timbaland … Read more
Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Missy Elliott has once again flipped it and reversed it. This summer, the popular rapper — and first female Hip-Hop artist inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall … Read more
It was cosmic justice that two black women — Chaka Khan and Missy Elliott — owned the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Friday night. After longtime Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner was ousted from the hall’s board of directors in September — immediately after telling the New York Times that women … Read more
When Missy Elliott becomes the first female hip-hop artist to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Friday night, there will be a very special person in the audience seeing her get her freak on for the first time ever. “My mother has never been to any of … Read more
Growing up in Portsmouth, Va., hip-hop shero Missy Elliott used to believe that she was related to one of her fellow female inductees in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2023. “My family used to tell me that Chaka Khan was my cousin when I was little,” she says, “so for a … Read more
The world of rap has lost another great. Amid the celebration of Hip-Hop’s 50th anniversary, rapper Magoo — who famously collaborated with genre giants such as Missy Elliot, 52, Timbaland, 51 and late R&B icon Aaliyah — has died at age 50. His cause of death has not yet been made public. Magoo, née Melvin … Read more
Say goodbye to white male rocker privilege. For once, white male rockers are in the minority among the new class of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees. After years in which they’ve made up the majority of rock hall honorees, they’re barely represented in 2023. And even the one rock band to be enshrined … Read more
Call it the Woke & Roll Hall of Fame. This year, the first-time nominees for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame — music’s most exclusive club — range from a black female rapper to a gay male pop heartthrob to an ’80s icon known as much for human rights as artistic achievement. On Wednesday … Read more