The rapper grew up in Portsmouth, shut to Pharrell’s fatherland of Virginia Sea scurry, the accumulate the movie will be space
Missy Elliott performing on the 2023 Essence Festival.
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Missy Elliot has joined the solid of Pharrell Williams and Michel Gondry’s upcoming film mission, Differ reviews.
The rapper is an appropriate addition to the mission, which has been described as a coming-of-age musical space at some level of the summer of 1977 in Virginia Sea scurry in a neighborhood love the one the accumulate Pharrell grew up. Missy was once born and raised now not a long way-off in Portsmouth, and the 2 came up in a bustling Hampton Roads hip-hop scene that furthermore produced artists love Timbaland, Clipse, and Magoo.
Missy joins an already stacked solid that furthermore involves Halle Bailey, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Brian Tyree Henry, and Kelvin Harrison Jr. Pharrell is hooked up as a producer, whereas Gondry is space to deliver the as-yet-untitled mission; Martin Hynes and Steven Levenson are working on the script.
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Over time, Missy Elliott has popped up in diverse film and TV initiatives. She made her film debut in the 2001 comedy Pootie Tang and performed a fish version of herself in the 2004 provocative formative years movie Shark Account. On TV, she’s lent her say to American Dad!, whereas in 2017, she regarded on two episodes of the drama series Superstar.
Missy is for the time being gearing up for a important summer that can obtain her embarking on what’s technically — and remarkably — her first headlining tour. The 24-date “Out of This World: The Missy Elliott Journey” droop will start up July 4 on the Rogers Enviornment in Vancouver and speed by the summer, wrapping Aug. 22 on the Allstate Enviornment in Rosemont, Illinois. Missy will be joined by about a of her closest chums and collaborators at some level of the droop, in conjunction with Ciara, Busta Rhymes, and Timbaland
