Missy Elliott — American Musician born on July 01, 1971,

Melissa Arnette Elliott, better known under her stage name Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Elliott embarked on her music career with all-female R&B group group Sista in the early 1990s and later became part of the Swing Mob collective along with childhood friend and producer Timbaland with whom she worked on projects for Aaliyah, 702, Total, and SWV. Following several guest appearances, in 1997, she launched her solo career with the release of her debut album Supa Dupa Fly, which spawned the hit single "The Rain" and "Sock It 2 Me". The album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200, the highest-charting debut for a female rapper at the time. Her following album Da Real World, produced the singles "She's a Bitch", "All n My Grill", and the top five hit "Hot Boyz"... (wikipedia)

Music should be your escape.
Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.
I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.
Everybody is doing the same old thing.
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.