Missy Elliot

Music should be your escape. ↗

— Missy Elliot

#escape #should #your

My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father. ↗

— Missy Elliot

#close #father #home #i #living

You have to be ready to sing and perform at any time. ↗

— Missy Elliot

#perform #ready #sing #time #you

Everybody is doing the same old thing. ↗

— Missy Elliot

#everybody #old #old thing #same #thing

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music. ↗

— Missy Elliot

#definitely #hip-hop #music #original #original music

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father. ↗

— Missy Elliot

#father #got #i #mother #she

I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine. ↗

— Missy Elliot

#get #i #i can #mean #mine

I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got. ↗

— Missy Elliot

#everything #found #generation #got #hip-hop

I want people to feel the heat while they walk down the street and they're just kickin' it. ↗

— Missy Elliot

#feel #heat #i #just #people

I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor. ↗

— Missy Elliot

#first #first love #i #i love #lot