♪ the last one so get in the waves like it was the first time ♪ ♪ bless your heart make you part of my life forever and always ♪ ♪ ♪ and always ♪ ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> on tour with missy elliott. is it worth it? >> let me work it. >> working it on her coast to coast out of this world. experience the mega star opening up about her decision to headline for the first time.

>> it's more pressure, you know, because you are the last person and you got to make sure that you keep that energy up. >> packing the house with fans and a-list friends. >> when i hear her name, what comes to my mind is powerhouse genius. >> the surprising place you just might run into the best selling female rapper of all time. >> my manager, they'll tell you like they'll call me sometime. they're like, what is that nois? i'm like, checking my stuff out, getting stuff at walmart. get your freak on, get your freak on. >> letting us in on the secrets behind some of her huge hits like get your freak on and all of a sudden he puts the key in and i hear dum dum dum dum dum dum and i'm like, that's it right there. this special edition of nightline, missy elliott on tour. we'll be right back. >> your weekend just got better with great summer deals at

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praise to god in your mighty name. >> we pray. amen, amen. >> the great thing about this tour is i'm not the headliner. god is the headliner. he has went through every venue and already blessed me one, two, three, four at his word. >> missy is unmatched. i can't stand right. she can make it rain. holla, holla. get her freak on. get your freak on. >> get your freak on. >> work it and put her thang down. flip it and reverse it. and yet it's her permitted boyfriend yet. missy elliott has sold more than 40 million records. she's the best selling female rapper ever. four grammy awards 22 nominations. the only female rapper to have six certified platinum records, and billboard ranked in the top five greatest music video artists of all time. >> sometimes i still pinch myself, like even when i walk

out on the stage and i, you know, see so many people. it takes me back. being the only child i would be in my room with, you know, my dolls. and they were my audience. when i hear her name, what comes to my mind is powerhouse genius. >> this summer, as she embarks on a major north american tour, she can add another title to that list headliner. now, correct me if i'm wrong, but is this your first headlining tour? >> my first headlining tour? >> how is that even possible? >> well, i had offers before at those times when i was being asked it was like, nah, y'all make noise for missy elliott right now. >> it's shocking, considering who we're talking about here. yet. missy elliott has always seemed to thrive by subverting expectations. so i'm gonna keep the rocket to the top. >> on top. >> the new tour is already a hit. her fans at every stop include a-listers on stage and backstage. >> happy birthday. oh yes!

missy. >> yes we are. >> yes, love you >> music at its best touches us in a way that's inexplicable, in a way that we can't even verbalize. and her music does that. her artistry does that. >> for a woman whose sound helped build the very foundation of music for a generation, it's the combination of her superstar status and humility that makes missy so fascinating. how do you introduce yourself? who is missy elliott? >> missy elliott is a, icon, a visionary, but also i am shy. you just got to spend some time with me. just got to take, like, maybe 20 minutes, and then you'll just know who missy elliott is. >> the show is a feel good trip through the nostalgia of the 90s and early aughts with fellow game changers busta rhymes,

ciara and timbaland. let's talk about this tour. okay, i remember opened my gram, saw the promo video to the beat. my heart dropped. i was like, this is everything. how did that come about? >> ciara had been asking actually for years and so i would credit ciara for like pushing me and busta. he actually was on my first album. so busta is someone that i looked up to and still do. we could call each other twins because it's like i'm the girl version of him. he's the boy version of me. >> i take great pride in giving her her flowers. it's a necessary deed for me to let you know how amazing you are. >> and timbaland. timbaland. we start in the high school together. it feels like a family. we all are family. we've been knowing each other for over two decades, but ultimately it's missy show. >> the 53 year old performs a 75 minute set with lasers, fire

dancers and costume changes galore. but all that comes second to the music like bling bling. >> all in your face. i think you might need to put on your shades. >> la vie year. what has changed? >> what's what's different now? >> it's more pressure, you know, because you are the last person and you got to make sure that you keep that energy up. >> so what are the main differences between, you know, missy on stage and then how you are in your day to day? >> missy on stage is missy on stage? want to see my girl? >> so you party people up in the club. >> see my diamonds. they shine like glitters. the other missy is, you know my, my friends, they'll be like after the super bowl. they like, let's go out, let's celebrate. what you doing? i'm like, i'm in here washing my dog. you know, i'm about to mop the floors and i'm like, i'm

just regular my manager, they'll tell you, like they'll call me sometime. they're like, what is that noise? i'm like, i'm at the thing checking out, checking my stuff out, getting stuff at walmart. i'm getting some cereal, like so. >> missy's journey started a world away from the glitz and the glam of this tour in portsmouth, virginia. an unlikely hotbed of hip hop. >> i always just had this fascination with music. i remember the first record that caught my attention was donna summer last dance, let's dance, let's dance, let's dance tonight and then the prince and the michael jackson was supposed to be listening to rick james, but my cousin was listening, so. and grace jones pull up on a bumper car, pulled up to the bumper. >> baby, drive it in between. >> all i remember is my mother

straight from the church. my dad out in the world. so i would hear gospel music over here. marvin gaye, sexual healing over here. and i gravitated to both of them. and that's how like my harmonies was different from a lot of people. fast forward, i got into run-dmc and salt and pepper. salt and pepper is the reason i sit here as an emcee and started rapping. >> missy would begin melding all those styles into her own work. her first record deal came as part of the group sista ideal for spotlight shy missy, but when the label dropped the group, music executives sylvia rhone refused to let missy go. >> i had said, i don't want to be an artist anymore, and she said, i will give you a record label if you give me one hour and one album led to two and then two hour, the three, the four, and it kept going. >> she's one of those artists that has done it on her terms.

>> rome called in mona scott-young to manage. missy called the woman behind the music she had worked with big names like l.l. cool j, mariah carey, 50 cent and busta rhymes, but missy, missy was different. >> when you think about who she is and what she represents to women, to women of color, she pushed through and she defied odds and she pursued her dream despite being told that she couldn't do it and that she shouldn't do it. so that is inspirational in a way that far exceeds the impact that her music has had. >> missy's artistry extended to every aspect of the industry. she was a visionary, especially when it came to music videos. she spoke to let you know if missy's dropping a record, you know, in a video is coming out. you know that video is going to be crazy. >> well, clearly it came from just watching someone great like michael jackson. that's what michael jackson was to us. michael jackson was dropping

something. you might have skipped school, and i always wanted to do videos like that. i think when i think about the rain, i also think about being in that big blow up suit and us going to the gas station because we needed to blow it up. we go to the gas station, but nobody realized we had to get back a cab came and i couldn't fit in the cab, so now we're walking down the street in brooklyn. i got these glasses on and this big blow up suit, and it's hot as hell outside, and we're walking the set. >> that first album went platinum and so did the next five, spawning hit after hit cause i don't want from one minute man to gossip, folks ain't getting loud. >> you better come down for a smack you to the ground. >> pass that dutch misdemeanor on the floor, pretty boy, here i come. pumps and a bump make you want to hurt something. >> i describe her music as timeless. i think it's for

everyone the girl wants. >> inspired by the jacksons eventually became colleagues, then friends with the icon herself, janet jackson. >> in my heart of hearts, this is it. we're not going to have another missy. god made them all and he broke it. i'm not just saying these things because i know her. she's a sister for me. she's family for me. i'm saying these things because, you know, it's true. she's just incredible. >> but even as missy solo career was blowing up, she kept with her original mission to write and produce for others. >> if i could be quincy jones or berry gordy, somebody like, that's what i wanted to be. >> she co-wrote massive hits for aaliyah, including the title track of her sophomore album, 1 in 1,000,000. you're you're in love. she would write and produce for so many others, including destiny's child, queen latifah, monica, fantasia, even whitney houston. >> when you can give a artist a

sound or a song that is more challenging. but the good thing the blessing is i was able to be missy misdemeanor elliott and still do that at the same time. >> but her world stopped in 2008 when missy was diagnosed with graves disease, an autoimmune disorder that can impact nearly every organ in the body. we also knew her comeback took nearly a decade. there was that surprise performance at the super bowl in 2015. i'm the hottest round, i told y'all. she was inducted into the songwriters hall of fame in 2019, and last year she became the only female rap artist ever inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame. >> i'm still like, wow, because that felt so far out of reach. like especially coming up in the hip hop community. that's probably one of those things that you just feel like, oh, that's never going to happen. >> up next, the secrets behind the songs he's angry, he's mad,

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putting. hey boy, you know, warm your tighter by doing with my jeans real tight. my curves they swerve so superb. my word is my word. and i came to serve. we got this, we got this. we got this for you. >> no matter when it comes to music, missy elliott knows what she's doing. but there has to be a formula, right? i want to talk about how missy elliott creates a hit.

>> i used to have a engineer who would, you know, record for me, and then i just was like, i want to learn how to record myself because i'm so shy and i will be like, i don't want people to hear me in here making these silly noises like skirt beep beep. who got the keys to the jeep? >> vroom! >> i got the studio in my house. so any ideas that i come up with? it could be two in the morning. sometimes i'd be like, oh, that don't sound right, and i need to take a second and then come back and you know, listen to it again. >> i'm going to throw some songs at you, and i just want to get some rapid fire reactions. >> all right? okay. >> one of my favorites. >> get your freak on. get your freak on. >> get your freak on. get your freak on. >> get your freak on. that record. when i think about that, i think about me and tim being in the studio. my album was done. tim. i kept saying, i feel like something is missing. i feel like this album is not complete. and he kept saying,

you're crazy, this album is hot. and i said, tim, no, something is missing. i feel like i'm missing a record. and so he's angry, he's mad, and he's just pushing the keyboard all hard, like boom boom. and all of a sudden he pushed the key and i hear dum dum dum dum dum dum. and i'm like, that's it right there. and i said, okay, let me just go in the booth and lay something down. and i went in there, laid something down just off of that sound, and a kick. you go get your freak on. >> quiet, hush your mouth. >> that record was never even going to exist. that was my last record and ended up being my first single. so that's a special record to me. i'm just going to do a couple more one, two step. the funny thing about one two step is i hadn't even met ciara when jazzy faye hit me and said, hey, i got this new girl. she got this new record called, my goodies. my goodness, my goodness, my goodies, not my

goodies. that was my first time ever meeting. ciara was on the set of the video and from that day that's when my sister, ever since young best believe i'm number one. >> lastly, i got to ask you about work it. is it worth it? >> let me work it. i put my thang down, flipping and reversing. >> work it. another one of those times tim is fuming because i'm in miami and i'm like, tim, you got to come here. oh my god, you're gonna love miami. is so beautiful. and when he come, i realize it's hurricane season. it is storming every day that he is there and he is on fire because mind you, i bought him from sunny california to miami. it's tough flying in the air. >> they did manage to make the record, but it was actually a mistake that created one of hip hop's most talked about hooks. >> it reversed and i said, oh my goodness, wait, leave it like that. i told the engineer, if

you leave it like this, people are going to be like, they're going to think of all the different things. they think that i'm saying. and so we left like that. so that actually didn't work. it was a mistake. it's very primitive. >> but when. yeah, if you got a big let me search you if i know how hard i gotta work. yeah >> do you have a favorite music video? >> my favorite music video is she's a. she's a. when you say my name, talk more. >> jump up on look my way. she's a. see, i got more cheese. >> so back on up when i look back at that video, i am still in awe. we were on some next level stuff. it is years ahead. is nothing like it. >> on tour, she performs that song and all the other hits using music to connect with her fans. >> these people, they're spending their hard earned money and they've been supporting from day one. so i want them to feel like i appreciate you. i want you to know when i touch you that i'm grateful. >> do you think you've come to

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>> i filmed the >> you posted something on instagram a few months ago that i loved. you had all of the just outfits from music videos going from 20 to 30 years ago. are you blame it on me when i woke up in the piece, have you done a good job at keeping things over the years? i have done a good job actually. >> well let me. i don't even want to lie to you. no i haven't, i was moving out of my high school house. i was still living at home during my second album, so i really thought that i had made it, but i was still

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