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It’s crazy to think that the year 2024 could mark <\/span>Missy Elliott’s<\/a> first-ever headlining tour — when the rap icon has been “working it” for the better part of three decades.<\/span><\/p>\n But Missy told ET that the timing couldn’t be more right for the upcoming Out of This World – The Missy Elliott Experience, where she’ll be joined by friends and longtime collaborators like <\/span>Ciara<\/a>, <\/span>Busta Rhymes<\/a>, and even legendary producer <\/span>Timbaland<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n The North American dates for the tour being on July 4 at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, Canada, and will end on August 22 at Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois. Click <\/span>HERE<\/strong><\/a> for all the dates.<\/span><\/p>\n “It was the time for it — I feel like God aligned everything,” Missy told ET’s Nischelle Turner in a recent interview. “Ciara has been on me about going out on the road for, like, forever… But I knew in my mind, I wasn’t ready then.”<\/span><\/p>\n “And then I was just like… I’m ready to go,” she said of what changed her mind this year. “People have always wanted to see that, and I said Ciara, Busta, all of that. Energy level is just gonna be through the roof.”<\/span><\/p>\n Both Ciara and Busta admitted to ET that they were working on ideas for their own respective tours this year, but getting the call from Missy changed everything up.<\/span><\/p>\n “If I’mma really go to this place and get back into this bag, it’s gonna have to be because I don’t really got a choice, know what I’m saying?” Busta shared. “If I’mma be amongst this level of greatness… We are the ones that kind of birthed this whole freeness in the hip-hop thing — this whole courageous and colorful and outlandish, having fun and just bringing the imagination to life in a new way.”<\/span><\/p>\n “[Missy is] like one of the goddesses of this particular space,” he added. “I find the most comfort going in this bag with my sis and with my other sis because this is what they’ve been doing anyway.”<\/span><\/p>\n Missy and Busta’s “twin” energy goes back to the very beginning of her career, with Busta providing intro and outro tracks to her very first album, 1997’s <\/span>Supa Dupa Fly<\/span><\/em>, which the rap star admitted left her “in awe” at the time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “This is somebody that I looked up to,” she reflected. “He’s the father of this, and nobody really wants to- I don’t even want to go on after Busta, for real… It’s hard to have such a long run and still have that energy, like he has that same energy that he’s had in [‘Scenario’] or Leaders of the New School, like, same energy.”<\/span><\/p>\n And she has a similar connection to Ciara, as they prepare to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of their megahit, “1, 2 Step,” later this year.<\/span><\/p>\n “It’s such a special record,” Ciara said of the 2004 single, which followed “Goodies” off her album of the same name. “It’s still one of our biggest songs, which is crazy — that’s when you know you made something special.”<\/span><\/p>\n