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When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an artist, I went to get a record label started. And they said in order to have a label deal, I had to be an artist - so that's what I did.

~Missy Elliott

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My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.

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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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Seeing my mother become very strong and very independent had a huge impact on me.

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I think it's being innovative and very creative to stay away from flat-out sampling somebody else's record. To me, that doesn't show too much of your creative side unless you take a little piece and add it, almost like spice on a chicken.

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All of the trials and tribulations from personal to the artist. It shows that I'm human. People see the glamorous stuff, but they don't see the background.

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My mother helped me to be who I am: to have strength and not to let people run all over me and yet to be humble; to realise that all of this that I have today could be gone.

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I was always feisty, always that kid that would be on the porch with a hairbrush singing or rapping.

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I still represent for overweight adults and kids, but I am also now painfully and personally aware of the health issues.

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I can't complain. I think when you get to a certain point, you shouldn't complain because there's so many people who would kill to get to this point.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: July 1st, 1971

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