In celebration of her debut studio album's 20th Anniversary, we dissect "The Rain" and rank all of the cameos in the video, from least to most memorable. Since the mid-’80s, when acts like Run D.M.C.

The rapper’s song was transmitted at the speed of light — approximately 158 million miles — from Earth to Venus, which is Elliott's “favorite planet." Missy Elliott can now be heard in space. The ...

NASA blasted Missy Elliott’s “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly” 158 million miles to Venus, the first rap song to be transmitted into deep space. Missy Elliott has made history after NASA blasted one of her ...

Venus got a little more fly after NASA transmitted Missy Elliott’s “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” over the planet last Friday. The agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California beamed the song ...

NASA transmitted Missy Elliott’s 1997 hit “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” into space on Friday, July 12, which took about 14 minutes to get to its destination. The song was headed for Venus, where sulfuric ...

Missy Elliott was always ahead of the curve. From the moment she debuted as a solo artist, it was obvious that the multi-skilled multi-hyphenate wasn't going to be boxed in by anyone's idea of what a ...

“Beep. Beep. Who got the keys to the jeep? Vrooom.” The V8 engine of a Hummer sings as Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott swerves into a lane entirely of her own; one that is paved with rapid-fire lyrics, ...

Last year, we ran a super-sized competition to determine the greatest pop song in modern history, from the ’80s to today. And now, we’re back — and this time, it’s all about honoring the best and ...

Rappers had been describing themselves as “super fly” years before Missy Elliott stepped onto the scene in 1997. But when the words tumbled out of the Virginia-born emcee’s mouth in the opening of her ...

Elliott's 1997 hit is the first-ever hip-hop song to be transmitted into space by NASA Aaron J. Thornton/WireImage Missy Elliott was one of the first women in hip-hop to make going to space look cool.

Drake may have said he learned the game from Creative Artists Agency consultant William Wesley on his ubiquitous Meek Mill diss track, "Back to Back," but we have a hunch that the roots of his style ...