
Missy Elliott tour featuring Busta Rhymes, Ciara, Timbaland coming to Canada
Global News
The Out of This World — The Missy Elliott Experience will be the first time Missy Elliott will headline a tour, despite her prolific music career.
Rap music fans, you had better prepare to Get Ur Freak On this summer because Missy Elliott on Monday announced her first-ever headline tour — and she’s taking Busta Rhymes, Ciara and Timbaland along with her.
The 24-city tour will see Elliott, 52, and her collaborators travel to Canadian arenas, in Vancouver, B.C., on July 4, Montréal, Que., on Aug. 17, and Toronto, Ont., on Aug. 19.
Elliott announced the tour, called Out of This World — The Missy Elliott Experience, via an intergalactic-themed video posted to social media.
“There will be no tour like it,” Elliott hypes in the teaser video.
Prior to now, Elliott has never headlined her own tour, despite her prolific music career beginning in the 1990s.
“This is an incredible time in my life as I am experiencing so many milestone ‘firsts,'” Elliot said in a press release. “Being the FIRST female hip-hop artist to be inducted into the Rock and 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!”
She continued: “So get ready to be taken OUT OF THIS WORLD with me, Busta Rhymes, Ciara, and Timbaland! We can’t wait to share this experience with the fans!”