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Missy Elliott Comeback

March 15, 2012 by · Comments Off on Missy Elliott Comeback 

Missy Elliott Comeback, Rap icon Missy Elliott will release her first album in seven years in June. The Work It hitmaker, who revealed she was battling autoimmune condition Graves’ disease last year, was originally due to release the follow-up to 2005’s The Cookbook in 2007, but the project, then titled The Countdown, has suffered numerous delays and setbacks due to tracks leaking online.

Now Elliott’s longtime collaborator and producer pal Timbaland tells MTV.com she’s aiming to make her chart comeback this summer with the newly-renamed Block Party – which will be released at the same time as his own solo disc.

He says: “Me and Missy are both coming with our albums at the same time, and it will be in June.

“Right now, we’re preparing to get both our videos, our first singles, shot kinda at the same time. We want to do it as a movement and spontaneously.

“I just don’t want to move too ahead of her and she don’t (sic) want to move too ahead of me. So we’re both doing it at the same time.”

Missy Elliott Graves Disease

March 15, 2012 by · Comments Off on Missy Elliott Graves Disease 

Missy Elliott Graves Disease, For three years now, Missy Elliot has been battling Graves’ disease, the hip-hop artist divulged to People. The disease, which takes a dramatic tole on the autoimmune system and thyroid, has been so debilitating to the star that she has had to dramatically change her everyday life.

“I was [driving and] trying to put my foot on the brake, but my leg was jumping,” she recalled. “I couldn’t keep the brake down and almost crashed. I couldn’t write because my nervous system was so bad — I couldn’t even use a pen.”

But the disease has not only had a physical affect on the star, it has also taken a told on Eliott’s mental facilities. The ‘Work It’ singer was also plagued with mood swings and hair loss while undergoing radiation for hyperthyroidism.

Unfortunately, as of yet, there is no cure for Graves’ disease, but if caught early, as in Elliot’s case, it can be maintained so that the carrier can live as close to a normal life as possible — though the health of those with the disease can deteriorate over time.

“I’m 30 pounds lighter because I’ve been exercising,” she explained. “My thyroid is functioning, so I haven’t had to take medication in about nine months. [But] you live with it for the rest of your life.”

And Eliott isn’t letting her health hold her back, she recently announced that she will produce a comeback album with the help of Timbaland.

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