Everybody say thank you, MissyElliott! 🙌🏾✨
, long nails, name-plated knuckle rings, bandanas, and braids for days sidestep the stigma of these symbols having been considered “ghetto” to the mainstream culture until appropriated by non-Black people.
In one scene, Missy is rapping while holding her hair in the midst of using her braids as rope for two games of double-dutch. Double-dutch is a two-jump-rope game that is almost an unspoken rite of passage for Black girls growing up. It is indeed a “throw it back” moment for those of us who would play double-dutch on the side of basketball courts, in the middle of the streets, or just about anywhere with flat ground.
Missy also takes us into the center of Black, urban neighborhoods — like Portsmouth, VA where Missy is from — while rapping on a porch next to housing with barred windows. The parallel of this, showing the authenticity of how rap began in its early stages before it became about money, cars, clothes, and monetization.
It also provides the message that just as you can come from what others may consider as nothing, it doesn’t mean that you cannot shoot for the moon. The overall pun of Missy being displayed on the moon planting a flag that says “Me” gives credence to the MTV moon man, yet also shows just how much you can win by being authentically yourself and never compromising who you are.
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