Missy Elliott has reached uncharted territory — as apparently the primary rapper with music in deep house.
NASA introduced earlier this week that their Deep House Community efficiently transmitted Elliott’s 1997 music “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” from Earth to Venus on the pace of sunshine. It marks the primary time a hip-hop music has made the 158-million-mile trek.
The Grammy winner not too long ago launched into her aptly-named “Out of This World” tour and, in a glowing assertion Monday, defined she selected Venus because the vacation spot herself — “because it symbolizes strength, beauty, and empowerment.”
Elliott added on the time, “I still can’t believe I’m going out of this world with NASA through the Deep Space Network when ‘The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)’ becomes the first ever hip-hop song to transmit to space!”
The Nationwide House Company confirmed Monday that Friday’s transmission was made by a 112-foot-wide radio dish antenna on the Goldstone Deep House Communications Complicated close to Barstow, California, and took practically 14 minutes to achieve the yellow-white planet.
Elliott has all the time had a aptitude for spaced-out music movies that counsel a ardour for all issues intergalactic. For Brittany Wong, director of the Digital and Know-how Division at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., selecting Elliott was fairly straightforward.
“Both space exploration and Missy Elliott’s art have been about pushing boundaries,” she stated. “Missy has a track record of infusing space-centric storytelling and futuristic visuals in her music videos so the opportunity to collaborate on something out of this world is truly fitting.”
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Much more becoming is that Venus is the one planet named after a feminine god, although historical Greece knew her as Aphrodite. “The Rain is now the second song NASA has ever beamed directly into space after their 2008 transmission of “Across the Universe” by The Beatles.
“Send my love to the aliens,” founding Beatle Paul McCartney reportedly stated on the time.
Elliott naturally celebrated her follow-up transmission by sharing footage of planets and dancing aliens on social media. For the Virginia-born rapper, whose actual title is Melissa Arnette Elliott, the feat is merely one in all many she’s achieved over the previous few years.
Elliott not solely obtained a coveted Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award on the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards but additionally celebrated her star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame in 2021 and have become the primary feminine rapper inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame final yr.
She wrote Monday on X, previously Twitter, “The sky is not the limit; it’s just the beginning.”
