'Missy Elliott Boulevard:' Rapper's hometown renames avenue

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Beginning Monday, Virginians will have the ability to “Work It” on a avenue named after hip-hop star Missy Elliott.

Portsmouth, the place the award-winning rapper was born and raised, will rename a portion of McLean Avenue as Missy Elliott Boulevard and current her with a key to the town, in line with a metropolis information launch.

Elliott additionally will be a part of officers for a group parade to have fun the town’s inventive tradition.

“We’re past pleased with Missy’s accomplishments and so thrilled to have the chance to have fun her,” mentioned Metropolis Supervisor Tonya Chapman within the launch. “Missy’s trailblazing profession is a testomony that if you dream massive, something is feasible.”

On Instagram, the five-time Grammy winner expressed her pleasure in regards to the avenue title and known as herself “humbly grateful” to be from Portsmouth.

“I’m crying Tears of Pleasure,” Elliott wrote. “I've been BLESSED a lot however this proper right here hits my coronary heart in another way.”