Missy Elliott is Honoured with a Hollywood Walk of Fame Star

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Missy Elliott is Honoured with a Hollywood Walk of Fame Star

Missy Elliott receives a Hollywood Walk of Fame star.

Missy Elliott becomes the latest Hip-Hop icon to be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. During the acceptance ceremony, she was accompanied by Lizzo, Ciara, and more. “I’ve come here 20-something years ago and just used to walk past all these stars and just imagine,” she said during her speech after being introduced by her manager of 25 years, Mona Scott-Young. “It’s just a blessing to dream big and it truly happened. I’m truly standing here.”

“I kind of give this to my female MCs in hip-hop, to my sisters in hip-hop. I wanna say I love each and everyone of y’all. The ones that’s popping now, the ones that’s about to be popping,” Missy added. “But I want to give a big, big shoutout to the godmothers of this, and that is Queen Latifah, Monie Love, Sha-Rock, Angie Stone, Roxanne Shanté, Yo-Yo, MC Lyte, Salt-N-Pepa. I know I’m probably missing some, but all of y’all that started before me, because y’all are the backs that we stand on. Y’all are the foundation. Y’all ran so we could walk, y’all stood up for something so we could sit comfortably, so I thank y’all for this moment.”

Ciara also showed her appreciation for Missy Elliot with a speech. “She paved the way for me and so many others who followed. There is no one like Missy,” says Ciara. “She oozes with boundless creativity, a visionary, the epitome of true artistry. Strength, integrity, and grit. She created genre-blurring sounds of a modern hitmaker that continues to define space and time.”

Elliott has made her mark as a wildly imaginative singer-songwriter-producer and music video pioneer since her rise to popularity in the mid-1990s, and her work has thrown a long shadow over the previous quarter-century. “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly),” “Work It,” “Lose Control,” “Get Ur Freak On,” along with hits for Aaliyah, Whitney Houston, Beyoncé (solo and with Destiny’s Child), Mary J. Blige, TLC, Monica, and more than a hundred features, guest appearances, and others, reshaped the sound of hip-hop, making songs out of pings, bips, and bloops (both vocal and electronic).

“I watched you my entire life and I saw a superstar in you, but I also saw myself and I’d never seen myself before,” said the emotional Lizzo. “You live so boldly and so beautifully and so unapologetically and so out loud. You have no idea what you have done for so many Black girls. We don’t deserve you. We don’t deserve Missy Elliott and still, you continue to give to us.”

Check out some of the highlights below.

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