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Missy Elliott: Miss World

Sylvia Patterson, The Face, June 1999

Her father threatened her with guns, her teachers graded her bottom of the class and the music industry told her she'd never make it. Then MISSY ELLIOTT changed the face of hip-hop. And that was just for starters…

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