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Elliott Recalls Crazy Moments It Took to Make Iconic Videos

Associated Press

   NEW YORK - After celebrating her two-decade-plus career at the MTV
   Video Music Awards with a performance featuring a slew of her hits,
   Missy Elliott knew she did a great job when the first text she received
   after the performance was from another musical icon and longtime
   friend: Janet Jackson.

   "She was like, 'You shut that [expletive] down,'" Elliott said,
   laughing in a phone interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday, a
   day after the VMAs. "And just to know that Janet even said that word
   was amazing. And I was like, 'OK, I must have done good for her to use
   that [word].'"

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