Editor’s note: This segment was rebroadcast on May 14, 2025. Find that audio here. You can’t talk about the sounds of the 2000s without talking about Missy Elliot. With hits from “1, 2 Step” to “Get ...

Rapper, singer, producer, songwriter, Grammy winner, Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Songwriters Hall of Fame member. Missy Elliott has racked up so many accolades since she burst once the scene in 1997 ...

Missy Elliott brought the supersized vision from last year’s “Out of This World” tour to Coachella on Friday night, performing a sizzling — if not almost exact — set rife with dancing, pyrotechnics ...

When she burst onto the scene 27 years ago, Missy Elliott was rightly hailed as the future of hip-hop as the genre sped toward the new millennium. So it makes a weird sort of sense that the future is ...

Missy Elliott had a profound impact on the sound of the 2000s, from "Get Ur Freak On" to "1, 2 Step." How Missy Elliott's hits shaped the sound of the 2000s Editor’s note: This segment was rebroadcast ...