7 ‘Supa Dupa Fly’ Career Moves We Can Learn from Missy Elliott

7 ‘Supa Dupa Fly’ Career Moves We Can Learn from Missy Elliott


She’s Resilient.

In an enlightening Behind the Music episode on VH1, Missy shared some of her life’s most vulnerable moments. As a child, she witnessed her mother suffer abuse every day at the hands of her father until she and her mother escaped. The singer also explained her career hiatus, attributing it to a scary encounter with Graves’ Disease. The thyroid condition affected Elliott’s muscle control, at one point making it impossible for her to write with a pen. The superstar is back on the scene, though, doing what she does best as a creator.

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