Greater than three many years into her storied profession, Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott is gearing up for her first-ever headlining tour. On Monday morning (April 8) the “Work It” rapper introduced the dates for her Out of This World – The Missy Elliott Expertise 2024 North American area tour, which is slated to kick off on on July 4 in Vancouver at Rogers Area, and embody stops in Seattle, Oakland, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Denver, Houston, Tampa, Atlanta, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, Brooklyn and Detroit earlier than winding down on August 22 on the Allstate Area in Rosemont, IL.
The summer season outing will characteristic help from Busta Rhymes, Ciara and Elliott’s longtime musical companion producer Timbaland. The poster for the tour options Missy, Busta and Ciara wearing Mad Max-style futuristic leather-based outfits standing in entrance of an enormous area ship.
“That is an unimaginable time in my life as I’m experiencing so many milestone ‘firsts.’ Being the FIRST feminine Hip Hop artist to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame and now going out on my FIRST headline tour,” Elliott mentioned in an announcement in regards to the 24-city tour co-produced by Reside Nation and Elliott’s longtime supervisor Mona Scott-Younger. “Followers have been asking me to tour eternally however I wished to attend till I felt the time was proper as a result of I knew if I used to be ever going to do it, I needed to do it massive, and I needed to do it with household! So get able to be taken OUT OF THIS WORLD with me, Busta Rhymes, Ciara, and Timbaland! We will’t wait to share this expertise with the followers!”
In step with Elliott’s legendarily out-there music movies, the tour announce was accompanied by a brief teaser video helmed by one other one among Missy’s frequent collaborators, director Dave Meyers. “In 2024, these three icons come collectively to indicate you one thing you’ve by no means seen earlier than,” Elliott says in voiceover within the clip through which she, Busta and Ciara emerge from the spacecraft.
“One thing not proper,” Elliott says at one level because the shoot is interrupted by confusion. “This isn’t Earth!” That results in Busta busting out a paper celestial map solely to find that he took a “mistaken flip” at Mars, a revelation that makes Ciara in need of breath. Missy then calls Timbaland on her old fashioned brick cellular phone to complain about Busta’s horrible sense of area route.
In a further assertion about her shopper’s first-ever headlining tour, Scott-Younger mentioned, “Missy has all the time been an iconic groundbreaker and repeatedly pushes herself to be bolder and go the place she has by no means been earlier than – and surprisingly, a type of locations is headlining her personal tour! For many years, followers and friends worldwide have clamored for Missy to tour and so they’re lastly going to get what they’ve been asking for as she groups up with Ciara, Busta, and longtime partner-in-rhyme Timbaland, to ship a start-to-finish, nonstop, high-octane, OUT OF THIS WORLD live performance expertise. This might be one for the books, so belief me, you don’t wish to miss it!”
Tickets for the tour will go on sale first by way of a Verizon presale that kicks off on Tuesday (April 9) starting at 10 a.m. native time by way of Thursday (April 11) at 10 p.m. native time; click on right here for extra particulars. Following extra presales all through the week, the overall onsale for the tour will start on Friday (April 12) at 10 a.m. native time right here.
Take a look at the dates for the tour and the teaser video under.
Missy Elliott 2024 Out of This World dates:
July 4 — Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Area
July 6 — Seattle, WA @ Local weather Pledge Area
July 9 — Oakland, CA @ Oakland Area
July 11 — Los Angeles, CA @ Crypto.com Area
July 13 — Las Vegas, NV @ T-Cellular Area
July 16 — Denver, CO @ Ball Area
July 18 — Austin, TX @ Moody Middle
July 20 — Houston, TX @ Toyota Middle
July 21 — Fort Price, TX @ Dickies Area
July 24 — Tampa, FL @ Amalie Area
July 25 — Dawn, FL @ Amerant Financial institution Area
Saturday, July 27 — Atlanta, GA — State Farm Area
August 1 — Baltimore, MD @ CFG Financial institution Area
August 2 — Hampton, VA @ Hampton Coliseum
August 3 — Belmont Park, NY @ UBS Area
August 5 — Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Middle
August 8 — Washington, DC @ Capital One Area
August 9 — Newark, NJ @ Prudential Middle
August 10 — Boston, MA @ TD Backyard
August 12 — Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Middle
August 15 — Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Area
August 17 — Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre
August 19 — Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Area
August 22 — Rosemont, IL @ Allstate Area
