As Billboard / VIBE’s 50 Best Rappers of All-Time record continues to spark debate amongst followers and rappers on social media, Missy Elliott expressed her gratitude about making it into the highest 20 with throughout a chat with Billboard.
“Oh man, being on an inventory like that with the names I noticed, generally you continue to must pinch your self,” says Missy, who entered the tally at No. 19. “Generally, even when you assume you’re nice, you continue to go searching and see so many icons and legends on this record, and also you’re simply humbled to be part of that record. And to be within the high 20 when speaking about that many individuals. I’m blessed. I’m grateful, and yeah, it feels good. It most undoubtedly feels good, particularly if you work laborious. I used to be considering of one thing Lil Wayne stated the opposite evening alongside the strains of simply being acknowledged. That’s all the things to an artist.”
Missy additionally simply participated within the GRAMMY’s HipHop50 efficiency, which included a sea of heralded icons together with Grandmaster Flash, LL Cool J, Ice-T, Nelly, Run-D.M.C., GloRilla and lots of extra. From a fan perspective, it was a one-of-a-kind expertise for Missy, who relished watching a few of her favorites carry out as a lot as she cherished sharing the stage with them.
“It was such nostalgia as a result of I keep in mind sitting in my front room and watching Public Enemy and Eric B. and Rakim and De La Soul and [Queen] Latifah and Salt-N-Pepa and as soon as once more, identical to that [Billboard] record I’m part of this 50-year hip-hop tribute. And I inform you — that is no lie — irrespective of what number of awards or accolades I’ve collected, I nonetheless pinch myself after I’m in these areas as a result of these individuals are so legendary to me,” she stated.
On Sunday evening (Feb. 12), Missy starred alongside Jack Harlow in a Doritos Tremendous Bowl industrial that left the “First Class” MC equally starstruck. “[She’s] fully right down to Earth and an open e book,” raved Harlow about Elliott. “She left me impressed.”
You possibly can watch the total industrial right here.
