Missy Elliott took a minute to assess among her most famous video clips, “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly),” today, exposing that she experienced a little bit of an incident after the blow up match she used in the video clip was exploded to its plus size.
“Fun fact I had to go to a gas station in Brooklyn NY to get air in this blow up suit & the suit blew up so big I couldn’t fit in the car so I had to walk back to set down the street in this outfit in BROOKLYN,” Elliott created on X (previously Twitter) in feedback to Rolling Stone rating the clip at No. 1 on the listing of the 150 finest hip-hop video clips of perpetuity. “Dem ppl was riding pass like she must be high.”
Elliott shared some behind the curtain video from the video clip collection, which revealed her — with assistance from her group — attempting to make a fast dashboard putting on the glossy black set. “High as a kite…I wonder if anybody from Brooklyn saw me that day walking down the street in that hot ass suit. If you look at the music video it had deflated by the time I got back to set so some scenes the suit flat after all that walking.”
The match confirmed to be difficult to maintain filled with air — “but sh– we was on a budget so we kept the scenes where the the suit was deflated…that was so hood.”
The video clip as well as the blow up match were well worth the difficulty. Following the track’s launch, “The Rain,” in addition to solitary “Sock It 2 Me,” came to a head at No. 4 on Billboard‘s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs graph as well as place Elliott on the music map.
Revisit the video for Elliott’s “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” as well as see her recollections listed below.