07/05/2024

MISSY ELLIOTT’S HISTORY-MAKING DEBUT HEADLINE TOUR IS OUT OF THIS WORLD

Last night (7/4), global superstar and Hip Hop/R&B pioneer Missy Elliott skyrocketed her history-making debut headline tour, OUT OF THIS WORLD — The Missy Elliott Experience, to a SOLD-OUT crowd at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, BC

Named a must-see tour by BillboardUPROXXNYLONPitchforkConsequenceNewsdayVIBE, and more, the launch set an electrifying tone for the 29 remaining dates. Starting off with a bang before the megawatt artist’s set, DJ Navarris pumped up the wall-to-wall audience before back-to-back high-octane sets from mega producer Timbaland, Multi-Platinum selling superstar Ciara, and Hip Hop legend Busta Rhymes.

As this summer’s hottest ticket, Elliott’s progressive production boasted an impressive ensemble of 25 dancers including ballerinas and a tap dancer, as each mind-blowing performance was elevated by intergalactic set themes, state-of-the-art visuals, and cutting-edge illuminations. Watch a BTS video of the making of the tour from Elliott here.

With an extensive iconic catalog that has influenced artists for three decades, Elliott blasted off her set with "Throw It Back," and supercharged the packed house with fan favorites like "Sock It 2 Me," "Get Ur Freak On," and "Hot Boyz," before wrapping on a high note with "Ching-A-Ling," "Bring the Pain," and "Work It." Dressed in custom designs from longtime friend, celebrity super-stylist, and 2024 NAACP Image Awards Fashion Vanguard Award recipient June Ambrose, Elliott has several costume changes throughout the show, from a blinged-out astronaut suit to an exclusive all-black latex style ensemble and unique outfits inspired by graffiti art. “It’s not just the concert that will be out of this world, it’s also the costumes,” hailed WWD – check out the first look of design sketches from Ambrose here.

OUT OF THIS WORLD — The Missy Elliott Experience is produced by Live Nation in association with Mona Scott-Young, Elliott’s longtime manager and CEO of Monami Entertainment, and represented by Seth Shomes through Day After Day Productions (DADP). 

Continuing the trek to arenas across North America, tickets and more information is available at Missy-Elliott.comFor press credentials to the tour, please visit livenation.com/pressrequests

 

OUT OF THIS WORLD — THE MISSY ELLIOTT EXPERIENCE TOUR 2024

UPCOMING DATES

 

Thursday, July 4 — Vancouver, BC — Rogers Arena   SOLD OUT!

Saturday, July 6 — Seattle, WA — Climate Pledge Arena 

Tuesday, July 9 — Oakland, CA — Oakland Arena 

Thursday, July 11 — Los Angeles, CA — Crypto.com Arena 

Friday, July 12 — Los Angeles, CA — Crypto.com Arena 

Saturday, July 13 — Las Vegas, NV — T-Mobile Arena 

Tuesday, July 16 — Denver, CO — Ball Arena 

Thursday, July 18 — Austin, TX — Moody Center 

Saturday, July 20 — Houston, TX — Toyota Center 

Sunday, July 21 — Fort Worth, TX — Dickies Arena 

Wednesday, July 24 — Tampa, FL — Amalie Arena 

Thursday, July 25 — Sunrise, FL — Amerant Bank Arena 

Saturday, July 27 — Atlanta, GA — State Farm Arena 

Sunday, July 28 — Atlanta, GA — State Farm Arena 

Tuesday, July 30 — Orlando, FL — Kia Center  

Thursday, August 1 — Baltimore, MD — CFG Bank Arena 

Friday, August 2 — Hampton, VA — Hampton Coliseum 

Saturday, August 3 — Belmont Park, NY — UBS Arena 

Monday, August 5 — Philadelphia, PA — Wells Fargo Center 

Thursday, August 8 — Washington, DC — Capital One Arena 

Friday, August 9 — Newark, NJ — Prudential Center 

Saturday, August 10 — Boston, MA — TD Garden 

Monday, August 12 — Brooklyn, NY — Barclays Center 

Wednesday, August 14 — Cleveland, OH — Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse 

Thursday, August 15 — Detroit, MI — Little Caesars Arena 

Saturday, August 17 — Montreal, QC — Bell Centre 

Monday, August 19 — Toronto, ON — Scotiabank Arena 

Tuesday, August 20 — Toronto, ON — Scotiabank Arena  

Thursday, August 22 — Rosemont, IL — Allstate Arena 

Friday, August 23 — Rosemont, IL — Allstate Arena

 

Hosted in partnership with The Music Center and Gloria Molina Grand Park, Elliott is further celebrating her upcoming back-to-back headline dates at Crypto.com Arena (July 11 and July 12) with MISSY ELLIOTT PRESENTS PARTY ON THE PLAZA: AN OUT OF THIS WORLD EXPERIENCE. Held on Jerry Moss Plaza at The Music Center, the FREE event on July 10 is open to the public and starts at 7 p.m. PST. Encouraging everyone to participate in the OUT OF THIS WORLD Dance Challenge (see here) and tag her on their video posts (learn the dance), Elliott will join fans in person for a cosmic dance party featuring live DJs and her tour dancers who will lead the Dance Challenge, plus a special spectacular surprise that will have all eyes on the sky! Fans can RSVP here.

 

ABOUT MISSY ELLIOTT
One of the most significant female artists in the annals of contemporary music, Missy Elliott is making history once again in 2024 with the OUT OF THIS WORLD — The Missy Elliott Experience – her first-ever headline tour, accompanied by her longtime co-stars Busta Rhymes, Ciara and special guest Timbaland. An avant-garde solo superstar, pioneering songwriter-producer, and across-the-board cultural icon, the four-time GRAMMY® Award winning Elliott has attained unprecedented success, including 22 GRAMMY® nominations spanning three decades, eight MTV Video Music Awards, and sales now exceeding 30M in the U.S. alone. All of Missy’s six studio albums have each been RIAA platinum certified or better, marking her among the only female rappers ever to achieve that remarkable accomplishment. Among her countless triumphs, 2023 saw Elliott named as the first female hip-hop artist to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, rightly declaring her “a true path breaker in a male-dominated genre.”

Elliott’s most recent work, 2019’s acclaimed EP, ICONOLOGY, drew instant applause upon its surprise release, with USA Today declaring it “a master class at the school of Missy Misdemeanor Elliott.” That same year saw the iconic star making history as the first female hip-hop artist ever to receive the MTV Video Music Awards’ prestigious Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. 2019 also saw her break new ground as the first female hip-hop artist and third-ever rapper to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In addition, Elliott became the first female rapper to receive an honorary Doctor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music, celebrating her lasting contributions to music and popular culture. Further accolades followed in 2021, with Elliott named among the twelve inaugural inductees for the new Atlanta landmark, The Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame, and later honored with her own star on the world famous Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2022, Elliott’s hometown of Portsmouth, VA celebrated its favorite daughter by presenting her with the Key to the City and renaming a portion of McLean Street to “Missy Elliott Boulevard” and declaring October 17 as Missy Elliott Day. What’s more, Virginia’s Norfolk State University awarded Elliott with the Presidential Commencement Medallion and an honorary degree at their fall 2022 commencement ceremony, acknowledging her “outstanding professional achievements and extraordinary contributions to public service.” 

In addition to her historic induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2023, the Recording Academy’s Black Music Collective presented Elliott with its Recording Academy Global Impact Award, honoring her personal and professional achievements in the music industry. The 2023 GRAMMY® Awards saw Elliott among the superstars celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, joining such icons as LL Cool J, Ice-T, Method Man, Busta Rhymes, and Salt-N-Pepa for a landmark performance honoring the genre’s diverse history. Additional 2023 tributes include the Black Music Honors’ “Music Innovator Icon” award as well as a special ESSENCE cover story celebrating her headline performance at the 2023 ESSENCE Festival of Culture in New Orleans. Indeed, Missy Elliott deserves all the flowers and then some. Now, with her OUT OF THIS WORLD — The Missy Elliott Experience hitting arenas across North America with Ciara, Busta Rhymes and special guest Timbaland – and new music always on the horizon – Missy Elliott continues to stand tall over pop culture as a true creative architect and revolutionary artist, her prophetic sound and vision as groundbreaking and influential as ever before.

ABOUT BUSTA RHYMES
Busta Rhymes persists and perseveres as one of history’s most indomitable, impactful, and influential rappers. His patented tongue-twisting flow and lyrical fireworks changed the art form, flooding the culture with speed and begging it to maintain pace. He has garnered a staggering 12 GRAMMY® Award nominations, sold over 10 million albums worldwide, and delivered seven Top 10 debuts on the Billboard 200. Dubbed “the greatest performer of all time” by JAY-Z and “the James Brown of hip-hop” by Phife Dawg, he notably made it from the humblest of beginnings in East Flatbush Brooklyn, all the way to the White House visiting with President Barack Obama. In retrospect, Pitchfork hailed the seminal When Disaster Strikes… as “the turning point, the moment Busta Rhymes became the Joker of the deck that got to stay in the game.” He is a rare force of nature who started off with Leaders of the New School and has collaborated with everyone from Dr. Dre, Janet Jackson, Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, Missy Elliott, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, and Mariah Carey to Dave Chappelle, Ozzy Osbourne, and Chris Rock. Esteemed outlets such as Billboard, Vibe, and The Source placed him on their list of the Top 50 MCs of All Time, while MTV has called him “one of hip-hop’s greatest visual artists.” BET Jams crowned Busta’s “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See” as the “Greatest Hip-Hop Video of All-Time.”  He was named the 2023 BET Icon/Lifetime Achievement Award recipient.  As an accomplished actor, Busta’s diverse career filmography spans the acclaimed “Higher Learning,” “Narc,” and “Finding Forrester.” His animated hits include The Rugrats Movie and blockbusters such as Shaft and Halloween: Resurrection. Busta launched the next phase of his career with his 2023 aptly titled album, BLOCKBUSTA, executive produced by Pharrell Williams, Timbaland, and Swizz Beatz via Busta’s label, The Conglomerate ENT. and distributed by Epic Records. The game is still just trying to catch up to this Icon.

ABOUT CIARA
Ciara is a Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Over her twenty-year career, she has sold over 23 million records and 22 million singles worldwide, including chart-topping hits “Goodies,” “Ride,” “Oh,” “1, 2 Step,” “I Bet,” “Level Up,” and “How We Roll.” Ciara is not only known for her vocal talent and dance moves but she has starred in both TV and film roles, most recently the reimagined The Color Purple. Ciara is the founder and CEO of Beauty Marks Entertainment (BME), a company at the vanguard of the fast-changing music industry. With a business model built on fully supporting the artist, the female-led enterprise places Ciara at the forefront of forward-thinking entertainers taking an entrepreneurial approach to their careers. Along with husband Russell Wilson, she launched The House of LR&C, a new concept in retail with a focus on doing good. In keeping with her entrepreneurial spirit, Ciara is the co-owner of Ten To One rum and recently launched her skincare line OAM (On A Mission) which provides clinical level results through vitamin C. As part of her ongoing philanthropy work, she co-founded the Why Not You Foundation with husband Russell Wilson which is dedicated to fighting poverty through education and empowering today’s youth to lead with a “why not you” attitude. Most recently they became New York Times Bestselling authors with the release of their first children’s book “Why Not You” (Random House) which was inspired by the work they do through their foundation.

ABOUT TIMBALAND
Multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning producer, artist, author and entrepreneur, Timbaland is one of the greatest minds in music history. With more top-ten hits than Elvis Presley or the Beatles, he has taught the world to “say it with sound.” Dubbed the Emperor of Sound and ranked #3 by Billboard on a list of 50 of the greatest producers of the 21st century. Timbaland’ the musical mastermind is behind the most memorable hits of our times. With over 18-Grammy nominations, 4-Grammy wins and 200+ ASCAP Music awards, his indelible imprint has been stamped on countless hits from some of the most successful and legendary artists in the world. From Jay-Z’s “Dirt Off Your Shoulder” and “Big Pimpin,” to Justin Timberlake’s “Sexy Back” and “Cry Me A River,” Aaliyah’s “One In A Million,” Missy Elliott’s “Get Ur Freak On” and “Work It,” Ginuwine’s “Pony,” and One Republic’s “Apologize” amongst many others, Timbaland’s credits have established him as one of the most iconic producers of all time.  To date, Timbaland has released two books, a biography aptly titled The Emperor of Sound, and his children’s book Nighttime Symphony, and in the middle of the Global Pandemic, he and Swizz Beatz launched VERZUZ. The series garnered a Webby Award for Special Achievement – “Break the Internet” as it crushed the Instagram record for livestreaming. Timbaland and Swizz received the “Shine A Light Award” at the 2020 BET Awards, while Bloomberg Businessweek included them among, “The 50 Most Influential People: ‘The People Who Changed Global Business” in 2020. Within a year, VERZUZ also won a NCAAP Image Award for “Outstanding Show (Series or Special).” Dozens of television shows, a Billboard cover, and more have chronicled and studied “The VERZUZ Effect.”
 
Founded by Timbaland and his business partner Gary Marella, Beatclub the music tech platform is disrupting the music business by offering an all in one solution for music creators to make millions in revenue through syncs, selling beats, sample packs, acapellas, services and more. Some of Beatclub’s equity holders include Justin Timberlake, J Cole, Tommy Brown, Tainy, Mike Dean and more.

ABOUT LIVE NATION ENTERTAINMENT
Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE: LYV) is the world’s leading live entertainment company comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Sponsorship. For additional information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com.

ABOUT MONA SCOTT-YOUNG
Mona Scott-Young is an award-winning talent manager, TV/film producer, marketing guru, content creator, published author and entrepreneur. As CEO and Founder of Monami Entertainment, and Monami Productions, Scott-Young is a much sought-after executive with a 360° approach toward connection with a global audience. Scott-Young built upon her remarkable track record for success in all areas of entertainment to create leading lifestyle and entertainment powerhouses Monami Entertainment, home to Hip Hop legend Busta Rhymes, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Missy Elliott, and breakthrough female rapper ScarLip, plus Monami Productions which produces hit programming for Viacom, Amazon, WEtv, Bravo and more. Scott-Young has also appeared as on-camera talent and continues to tap her entrepreneurial spirit, unique brand appeal and marketing prowess  to connect with audiences through other platforms and products as co-owner of MYX Fusions Wine Beverages.