'I've spent my career making the kind of music I love and it means so much to know that I have touched others as well.' 'But to hear that I am the first female hip hop artist to EVER be nominated into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?!? Wow!!'
"I've spent my career making the kind of music I love and it means so much to know that I have touched others as well. But to hear that I am the first female hip hop artist to EVER be nominated into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?!? Wow!!" she said."This one hits extra different as I hope it opens doors for other female emcees to be recognized!"
Elliott is one of 14 total nominees and one of eight first-time nominees on the ballot. She is nominated alongside the likes of Cyndi Lauper and Willie Nelson, among others.US hip hop recording artist Missy Elliott smiles during the ceremony to honor her with the 2,708th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, Nov. 8, 2021.
Jason Hanley, vice president of education and visitor engagement at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, told ABC Audio that Elliott secured her nomination due to her catalog, creativity and influence in multiple roles within the music industry. "Some of the way she chose to produce her own sound, with these kind of glitchy sounds or things that would mix up, samples, the way she rapped over the top of that, the way she sort of expressed these different things in the music, these were very unusual -- and now you see that style copied by so many other different artists," he explained.
Should Elliott be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, she would join the likes of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Run-DMC, the Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, N.W.A, Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z and Eminem.Sign up for our newsletters to get GMA delivered to your inbox every morning!
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