Rapper Missy Elliott celebrates her birthday by paying back rent for residents in her hometown...
From People
Missy Elliott is celebrating her own holiday by helping others.
For the one-year anniversary of Oct. 17 being declared "Missy Elliott Day" in Virginia, the "Work It" rapper returned to her Portsmouth hometown to donate $50,000 to a local housing organization — paying 26 families' past-due rents with the funds.
Elliott, 52, appeared at the Dr. O. Marriner Family Life Center at Grove Church, according to The Virginian-Pilot, to present a large check to the Portsmouth Redevelopment and Housing Authority, which the organization's executive director Alisa Winston accepted.
The "Lose Control" performer told the crowd she spent time pondering how to commemorate "Missy Elliott Day" before deciding on the generous move.
"Instead of it being a celebration of Missy Elliott, you know about me, I wanted to give back and let that be the celebration of Missy Elliott, just to show that I love everybody out here," she said, per the outlet.
Elliott also spoke about how her "giving heart" and hometown appreciation were learned from her mother, Patricia Elliott.
Just know that P-town is with me no matter where I go," she said. "I love my city. I love my state. I love everything about it. Everything about Missy comes from here — the hospitality, the humility, the confidence — if you mess with me, it’s a problem. We sweet, but don’t try us.”
13 comments:
This is a really nice pic of Missy, and that was nice of her.
Celebs doing great things.
Nice
I know the Landlords were HAPPY.
She put her game down flipped it and reversed it.
That’s my girl she’s doing good things
Great Missy!! Good Looking Out... The Difference Is, She HELPED Those That Were Down & Needed A Hand. She Knows The Only Thing She Will Get Back Is A, "Thank You"...
Love this! That's how you do it.
A only child and still a selfless soul. I loves it!
Missy will always get my respect!
She not even in the lime light like that anymore
Yet she still shared her fortune with the
unfortunate
U can tell Missy is genuine with a good heart
Im glad hollyweird did not take that away from
her
Nice tax deduction.
^ there will always be, somebody, that has something shady to say, about a person, doing a good deed.
932 ma’am this is rhymes with snitch aka the negative blog site so it encourages hate/negativity
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