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Missy Elliott is hitting the road as a headliner for the first time ever.
Missy, along with supporting acts Ciara and Busta Rhymes, cleared their Instagram accounts and posted a reel to their timelines on Monday morning, April 8. The teaser, directed by famed music video director Dave Meyers, shows all three hitmakers walking out of a ginormous space ship in search of Earth. After Busta says they took a wrong turn, Missy calls up Timabaland and tells them they're lost before she reveals her “Out of This World: The Missy Elliott Experience Tour." Missy, Cici and Busta will make their crash-landing with special guest Timbo on Independence Day.
“This is an incredible time in my life as I am experiencing so many milestone ‘firsts,'” Elliott said in a press release. “Being the FIRST female hip-hop artist to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and now going out on my FIRST headline tour,. Fans have been asking me to tour forever but I wanted to wait until I felt the time was right because I knew if I was ever going to do it, I had to do it big, and I had to do it with family!”
The 24-city tour will begin in Vancouver, Canada on July 4. Their trek will continue in the U.S. where they'll hit up numerous major cities until they wrap up in Rosemont, Ill on August 22. This will be Missy Elliott's first headlining in her 30+ years in the music industry. Her longtime manager Mona Scott-Young told Variety that Elliott was inspired to go on tour shortly after she was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame last year.
"I think that was a seismic moment for her as well, where she realized that this was a goal and a dream that she had been working so hard to attain," she said. "And now that she felt that she had achieved that pinnacle, she wanted to really do this thing that she put off for so long, which was go out on the road. It certainly wasn’t for lack of opportunity or offers. I think it was the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame of it.”
The announcement comes months after Missy, Ciara and Busta all released new music. Missy and Timbaland are currently working on a new album together, which might arrive just in time for her birthday and the tour's kick-off in July. Since Timbo revealed the news last year, Missy has hopped on several collaborations with Anitta, Brent Faiyaz, Chloe and others. Meanwhile, Busta recently dropped his Blockbusta album featuring songs like "Beach Ball" with BIA and "Luxury Life" featuring Coi Leray. Ciara is also fresh off the release of her recent EP CiCi which holds hits like "How We Roll" with Chris Brown and "Forever" featuring Lil Baby.
Pre-sale tickets begin Tuesday, April 9, before general sales kick-off on Friday, April 12. Check out the full list of dates below.
“Out of This World: The Missy Elliott Experience Tour" Dates
July 4 — Vancouver, BC — Rogers Arena
July 6 — Seattle, WA — Climate Pledge Arena
July 9 — Oakland, CA — Oakland Arena
July 11 — Los Angeles, CA — Crypto.com Arena
July 13 — Las Vegas, NV — T-Mobile Arena
July 16 — Denver, CO — Ball Arena
July 18 — Austin, TX — Moody Center
July 20 — Houston, TX — Toyota Center
July 21 — Fort Worth, TX — Dickies Arena
July 24 — Tampa, FL — Amalie Arena
July 25 — Sunrise, FL — Amerant Bank Arena
July 27 — Atlanta, GA — State Farm Arena
Aug. 1 — Baltimore, MD — CFG Bank Arena
Aug. 2 — Hampton, VA — Hampton Coliseum
Aug. 3 — Belmont Park, NY — UBS Arena
Aug. 5 — Philadelphia, PA — Wells Fargo Center
Aug. 8 — Washington, DC — Capital One Arena
Aug. 9 — Newark, NJ — Prudential Center
Aug. 10 — Boston, MA — TD Garden
Aug. 12 — Brooklyn, NY — Barclays Center
Aug. 15 — Detroit, MI — Little Caesars Arena
Aug. 17 — Montreal, QC — Bell Centre
Aug. 19 — Toronto, ON — Scotiabank Arena
Aug. 22 — Rosemont, IL — Allstate Arena