Artist artifact
Missy Elliott
Rapper-producer who, with Timbaland, built a futurist visual and rhythmic language for late-1990s hip-hop and R&B.
Biography
Rapper-producer who, with Timbaland, built a futurist visual and rhythmic language for late-1990s hip-hop and R&B.
Influence
Normalized women as producers and weirdness as commercial strategy; her videos remain a syllabus for pop surrealism.
Historical context
Rapper-producer who, with Timbaland, built a futurist visual and rhythmic language for late-1990s hip-hop and R&B. Normalized women as producers and weirdness as commercial strategy; her videos remain a syllabus for pop surrealism. Supa Dupa Fly arrived when hip-hop video often meant literalism—Missy's inflatable suits and reverse choreography made the clip the artwork.
Associated instruments
- Vocals
- Production
Specimen note
Supa Dupa Fly arrived when hip-hop video often meant literalism—Missy's inflatable suits and reverse choreography made the clip the artwork.