There is no such thing as a one fairly like Missy Elliott.

From her arrival on the scene within the mid-’90s, first as an in-demand producer after which as a groundbreaking artist in her personal proper, she’s commanded our consideration in a method that only a few else have been capable of. 

With a steadfast refusal to be pigeonholed, she challenged the very notion of what a feminine MC may speak about and seem like, centering her profession with a feminist body- and sex-positive outlook many years earlier than any of that was commonplace. In reality, you may a direct line from Missy’s arrival to Lizzo‘s dominance during the last yr.

With childhood good friend and superproducer Timbaland by her aspect throughout the creation of a lot of her six studio albums, she launched the music trade to 1 of its most creative and beloved partnerships. (The place’s their Oscar-nominated biopic, Hollywood?!)

She’s offered extra albums than almost each different feminine rapper within the recreation, been requested by almost everybody within the trade to bless their remix with a verse, and change into the primary to each be inducted into the Songwriters Corridor of Fame and obtain the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award on the MTV VMAs. And in the identical yr—2019—no much less.