Missy Elliott received her second honorary doctorate from Norfolk State University in her home state of Virginia.
“I am proud of y’all, and y’all should be proud of your self,” Elliott sold the students. “I want you to look at each other and say, ‘You already won.’ Let ’em know! Ain’t no winning, you already the one. ‘Cause y’all coulda been doing anything else the last few years, y’all coulda been wildin’ out, but y’all decided to finish the course. And that’s major.
“I want to see these same faces years from now saying … ’I became famous, I became president, I became a lawyer.’ All of those things,” the rapper added, according to theAs part of her support for the local community, Elliott also presented the university with a check for $20,000 to address its “area of greatest needs.
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