that does to me ♪ [ cheering and applause ] ♪ tonight in your mighty name we pray. amen. >> amen. 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 noise? 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 dum. and i'm like, that's it right there. >> this special edition of nightline, missy elliott on nightliyou've got a peptoon tour. wepredicament, ace.

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>> heavenly father as missy co the dancers, the band as they prepare to hit the stage. we ask for your divine intervention for missy elliott. >> it all begins and ends here. >> thank you, god, for your grace and mercy. >> with prayer and performance, it's a blessing i always say i don't take for granted these

moments. >> i don't think it's just talent. i most definitely give praise to god in your mighty name we pray. >> amen, 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 this one. >> missy is unmatched. i can't stand the rain. 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 in, reverse it. it's your 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. i'ma keep it rockin to the clock 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. >> give me missy. yes, we 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. you just got to take, like, maybe 20 minutes and then you'll just know who missy elliott is. like, rah rah rah

rah rah rah. >> 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 opening my gram, saw the promo video to the beat. rock rock rock rock. get loose, 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 in timbaland. >> timbaland. we started in 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's 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 escalate. >> bling bling, all in your face. i think you might need to put on your shades lar5 year. >> what has changed? >> what's what's different now is 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? wanna see my girl? >> so, hood party people up in the club. see my diamonds. >> they shine like glitter. 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

are 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 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, last dance. let's dance. >> this last 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 the bumper. oh 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-d.m.c. 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 executive 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 album and one album led to two and then two out, then three, then

four, and it kept going. >> she's one of those artists that has done it on her terms. >> rhone called in mona scott-young to manage missy called the woman behind the music. she had worked with big names like ll 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 like jay, you know, if missy is 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 always wanted to do videos like that. when think about the rain, i also think about being in that big blowup 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. i don't want from one minute man, gossip folks, you better calm down for a smashing 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 once 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 or 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. your love is would write and produce for so many others, including destiny's child, queen latifah, monica,

fantasia, even whitney houston. >> when you can give an 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 n 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, 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. >> how an argument created one of missy's biggest hits. stay of missy's biggest hits. stay with us ga, the advanced form of dry age-related macular degeneration, can irreversibly damage your vision. it can progress faster than you think. when ga threatens your eyes, take a stand. slow ga with syfovre. syfovre is an eye injection that was proven to slow damaging lesion growth over 2 years with increasing effect over time. it's the only fda-approved treatment to slow ga in as few as 6 doses per year. don't take syfovre if you have an infection, or active swelling in or around your eye that may include pain and redness.

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players stop fronting. >> hey boy, you know i'm your type 0521 with my jeans real tight. my curves they swerve so superb. my word is my word. and i came to serve. we partnered, we partnered. we partnered. oh oh. >> 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 an 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 would be like, i don't want people to hear me in here making these silly noises like, beep, beep. who got the keys to the jeep, bro? i got a studio in my house. so any ideas that i come up with? it could be two in the morning. sometimes i'll 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 recor. 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 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, lay something down just off of that sound. and a kick. get your freak on. >> go get your, get it. go get your freak on. quiet! hush your mouth. that record was never even going to exist. >> that was my last record. it 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 goodies, my goodness, my goodies, not my goodies. that was my first time ever meeting. ciara was on the set of the video one two step and from that day that's been my sister ever since. best believe i'm number one. >> last i got to ask you about work it. is it worth it? >> let me work it. i put my thing down, flip it in, reverse it, 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 going to 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 the 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 here. if you got a big let me search you. >> they found out 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 neck, talk more. >> jump. but don't look my way. she's a. 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 terms with being an artist, good question. >> i don't know, maybe after the tour i call you and be like, you know what? i'm an artist now. yeah, i don't know. i love what i'm doing. a person just loving music. that's it for me. music. that's it for me. >> stay with us to help protect from hiv, i prep without pills. with apretude, a prescription medicine used to reduce the risk of hiv without daily prep pills. with one shot every other month, just 6 times a year. in studies, apretude was proven superior to a daily prep pill in reducing the risk of hiv. you must be hiv negative, to receive apretude and get tested before each injection. if you think you were exposed to hiv or have flu-like symptoms, tell your doctor right away. apretude does not prevent other sexually transmitted infections.

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