American - Musician | July 1, 1971 -
The double chin's not good for the red carpet.
Missy Elliott
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I'd stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans.
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I used to put all my doll babies on my bed with their hands up and I would do full shows for them. I'd even do the screaming and clapping. I was bugging to be a singer.
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I didn't want to be a genius! That ain't cool.
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I'm blessed to be living this dream of writing and singing, but that's not the real dream I had. The real dream was to make enough money to take care of all the pain and suffering that my mother has been through.
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Music is a male-dominated field.
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Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.
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I ain't no icon. It's people like Patti LaBelle, somebody like that's an icon. I'm just Missy. I'm just crazy, that's all.
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I have to respect her family, and until they come and say, 'We're ready to do an Aaliyah album,' then I don't really want to come and try to get into that because that's very sensitive.
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I remember having mice in the house and my father taking some newspaper and beating me because mice was running on me while I was asleep.
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The person I eventually find will have to like me and my style.
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A lot of times, I walk down the street and listen to people argue, and then I write a song about it.
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