Missy Elliott brings her first headlining tour to Orlandoi
R&B icon Missy Elliott will be in Orlando for her first-ever headlining tour on Tuesday at the Kia Center. Elliott’s “Out of This World: The Experience Tour” brings out all of her unforgettable earworm beats and rhymes, augmented by the support of musical friends and creative family Ciara, Busta Rhymes and Timbaland.
In 2001, Elliott made her name with the seminal album Miss E … So Addictive, featuring singles like “Get Ur Freak On” and “One Minute Man.” “Get Ur Freak On” won multiple awards, including a Grammy and ASCAP awards for Rhythm and Soul and Pop Music.
She repeated the Grammy feat in 2003 with her single “Scream a.k.a. Itchin’.” She appeared in the 2015 Super Bowl with Katy Perry, which landed her the Innovator Award at the Billboard Women in Music Awards, was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2019, and last year Elliot became the first woman rap artist to enter the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Experience this rap and pop icon with your own eyes Tuesday.
How has it taken this long for Elliott to headline an arena?? Let’s make up for lost time.
Rap music fans, you had better prepare to Get Ur Freak On this summer because Missy Elliott on Monday announced her first-ever headline tour — and she’s taking Busta Rhymes, Ciara and Timbaland along with her.
The 24-city tour will see Elliott, 52, and her collaborators travel to Canadian arenas, in Vancouver, B.C., on July 4, Montréal, Que., on Aug. 17, and Toronto, Ont., on Aug. 19.
“This is an incredible time in my life as I am experiencing so many milestone ‘firsts,’” Elliot said in a press release. “Being the FIRST female hip-hop artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and now going out on my FIRST headline tour. Fans have been asking me to tour forever but I wanted to wait until I felt the time was right because I knew if I was ever going to do it, I had to do it big, and I had to do it with family!”
She continued: “So get ready to be taken OUT OF THIS WORLD with me, Busta Rhymes, Ciara, and Timbaland! We can’t wait to share this experience with the fans!”
Vancouver’s Rogers Arena will be the tour’s first stop, only to end the next month in Rosemont, Ill.
Elliott is one of the most notable women in rap music, with hit songs including Lose Control and Work It.
In 2019, she became the first female rapper inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and received the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the MTV Video Music Awards. Later in 2021, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Elliott was also inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year.
Elliott and Busta Rhymes have been frequent collaborators throughout her career, including on her debut album Supa Dupa Fly.
Ciara has also collaborated with Elliott, namely on the ever-popular song 1, 2 Step released in 2004, and Lose Control, released the year after.
But make no mistake, this isn’t a nostalgia tour.
Rhymes told the Associated Press all of the artists involved “are in the best spaces in our lives, individually and collectively.”
“We’re no longer Daniel-san. We’re now all Mr. Miyagi senseis,” he said. “We’re all at our perfection levels of what we’ve been doing and building together as a collective family for 30 years.”
In his own regard, Busta Rhymes reached international fame much to do with his songs Touch It and I Know What You Want with Mariah Carey and The Flipmode Squad.
Ciara too is a well-known singer and songwriter, with several chart-topping songs including Oh and Goodies.
Presale for Out of This World — The Missy Elliott Experience begins Tuesday, and tickets will become available to the general public on Friday.
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