Missy Elliott took a second to mirror on certainly one of her most iconic movies, “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly),” this week, revealing that she encountered a little bit of a mishap after the inflatable go well with she wore within the video was blown as much as its massive dimension.
“Enjoyable truth I needed to go to a fuel station in Brooklyn NY to get air on this blow up go well with & the go well with blew up so large I couldn’t match within the automobile so I needed to stroll again to set down the road on this outfit in BROOKLYN,” Elliott wrote on X (previously Twitter) in response to Rolling Stone rating the clip at No. 1 on the checklist of the 150 greatest hip-hop movies of all time. “Dem ppl was driving cross like she should be excessive.”
Elliott shared some behind-the-scenes footage from the video set, which confirmed her — with assist from her crew — attempting to make a fast sprint sporting the shiny black ensemble. “Excessive as a kite…I ponder if anyone from Brooklyn noticed me that day strolling down the road in that sizzling ass go well with. In the event you have a look at the music video it had deflated by the point I obtained again to set so some scenes the go well with flat in any case that strolling.”
The go well with proved to be cumbersome to maintain inflated — “however sh– we was on a price range so we stored the scenes the place the the go well with was deflated…that was so hood.”
The video and the inflatable go well with had been effectively well worth the bother. Following the observe’s launch, “The Rain,” together with single “Sock It 2 Me,” peaked at No. 4 on Billboard‘s Sizzling R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and put Elliott on the musical map.
Revisit the music video for Elliott’s “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” and see her recollections beneath.
