In August, a video of a Rhode Island woman named Mary Halsey singing Missy Elliott’s 2002 hit “Work It” went viral. Predictably, Halsey ended up where so many a viral star takes their final stand : Ellen. On today’s episode, Halsey rapped her very white and admittedly endearing rendition of the song. But there was a…

Jennifer Lopez has been announced as the recipient of this year’s Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the MTV Video Music Awards, which is a real triumph for beautiful women with thin voices dancing well under green lasers and on stoops.

Over the course of four days, a Change.org petition to replace a Confederate monument in Portsmouth, VA with a statue of its most celebrated native, Missy Elliott, has gathered over 16,000 signatures–about 1,000 since I started writing this post an hour ago. There is so much potential for the plaque, but so far the…

Here’s the tinkling, minimalist, stacked remix of Missy Elliot’s newest offering “I’m Better” featuring Eve, Lil Kim and the Diamond Princess herself, Trina.

Here is an example of how Missy Elliott can evolve with musical trends she didn’t necessarily invent and still sound like she did. Of course, without Missy there would be no Migos, but on “I’m Better”—surprise-released last night at midnight, a gift she knew we needed—she warpspeeds minimalist rap into her surreal…

Sissy Spacek, Susan Sarandon, Marilyn Manson, St. Vincent, Genesis P-Orridge and more also star in this fall Marc Jacobs ad directed by Hype Williams, cast in Hype’s signature blue-lighted, ethereal excess. The style is seamless with Jacobs’s Fall 2016 collection, ghoulish and excessive luxury amplified through the…

Carpool Karaoke, the segment on James Corden’s Late Late Show, is a conceit that’s generally annoyed me, seemingly tailored to show off Corden’s singing skills among bigger stars like the type of person at actual karaoke who will do a Celine Dion ballad at 3 am and insists you stay silent for the duration.

We’ve had to sit through months of sexist Ghostbusters fanboys in a full-blown outrage woody because the new Ghostbusters is comprised of four very capable, very funny women instead of men. The mommy-fear was palpable there, and perhaps a plant, because even despite Missy Elliott, the real thing Ghostbusters fans have…

“This Is For My Girls” takes on an insurgent double meaning when FLOTUS drops it: a benefit song for her homegirls, featuring her homegirls—people like Missy, Janelle Monáe, Kelly Rowland, Kelly Clarkson, Zendaya and Diane Warren (who wrote it, clearly)—it’s dropping today in tandem with her SXSW talk. It’s also meant…

Just in time for the Super Bowl, Missy Elliott is here to remind who stole last year’s halftime show. “#SuperBowl this my new Bounce ‘Pep Rally’ get u right 4the game where my Clappers,” Elliott tweeted earlier today.

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Your favorite sassy auntie Patti Labelle has a cooking special coming soon. The show will also have Whoopi Goldberg, Michelle Williams of Destiny’s Child and Patti’s old Dancing with the Stars partner Artem Chigvintsev over for dinner.

In today’s Tweet Beat, President Obama respectfully shits on the New York Times’ pea-brained guacamole recipe; Martha Stewart, meanwhile, is literally buried in peas; and Solange wishes Missy Elliott happy birthday.

Missy Elliott's been at the top of our imaginations as of late: not only did she sweep the Superbowl, but is currently writing new music with Timbaland, as well as with JACK U, the EDM supergroup comprised of Diplo and Skrillex. She's been working behind the scenes for years—on production, on guest appearances,…