'Out of This World – The Missy Elliott Experience' Tour Launches After 30 Years in the Making

Missy Elliott has revealed plans for her first-ever headlining tour, the Out of This World Tour: The Missy Elliott Experience.

She'll be accompanied by Ciara and Busta Rhymes, and even longtime producer Timbaland. Elliott will embark on a remarkable musical adventure across North America.

Commencing on July 4 at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, the tour, which spans 24 cities, is set to enchant audiences across North America, as well as stops planned in Los Angeles, Houston, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and Brooklyn.

Elliott told Entertainment Tonight that the tour was in the making for three decades.

"It was the time for it -- I feel like God aligned everything. Ciara has been on me about going out on the road for, like, forever... But I knew in my mind, I wasn't ready then," Elliott told the outlet.

The "Work It" hitmaker added, "And then I was just like... I'm ready to go. People have always wanted to see that, and I said Ciara, Busta, all of that. Energy level is just gonna be through the roof."

Ciara and Rhymes disclosed to the outlet that they had been brainstorming concepts for their tours for the year. However, their plans took an unexpected turn when they received a phone call from Elliott.

According to Rhymes, "If I'mma be amongst this level of greatness... We are the ones that kind of birthed this whole freeness in the hip-hop thing -- this whole courageous and colorful and outlandish, having fun and just bringing the imagination to life in a new way."

Elliott also teased that new music is on the way.

"[They will] probably not understand it the first go around, 'cause that's how my music was the first album."

"It was like, 'Do I like this? I don't know, wait a minute, let me hear it again.' So it might be that, but, you know, they'll catch on, like they had to catch on the first album."

Missy Elliott In the Last 5 Years

In 2019, Elliott was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and received the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the MTV Video Music Awards.

Her Hollywood Walk of Fame star was unveiled in 2021

A further tribute to her success came in 2022 when her hometown of Portsmouth, Virginia, dedicated a boulevard in her name.

Pre-sale tickets for the Out of This World Tour: The Missy Elliott Experience will be available starting April 9, and general tickets will go on sale on April 12.

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Missy Elliott, Ciara, Busta Rhymes, Timbaland