Missy Elliott is the personification of ‘she get it from her momma!

The Grammy-award winning Rapper/ singer/songwriter/producer and her mother look more like sisters than mother and daughter!

Patricia Elliott is a vision and she truly passed the genes down to her visionary daughter!

They both look amazing!

The “Get Ur Freak On” vocalist posted on X in 2022 that she’s an “only child” but wishes she “had siblings like” her cousins.

Reflecting on her childhood, Missy recounted her mother and father teaching her to respect them and other adults.

“The old school parents always reprimanded us when we did wrong.. We learned respect that way & it made many of us do right,” she elaborated in a different 2015 post.

Missy was born in Portsmouth, Va., and she grew up in Jacksonville, N.C., after her dad’s career in the Marines caused the family to relocate. While Ronnie served, Patricia was a power company dispatcher.

The “Gossip Folks” artist and her mom noted in Behind the Music that their mobile home in North Carolina didn’t have a bathroom or running water. Patricia also recalled them eating bread with butter for breakfast and dinner as they navigated poverty.

When Missy’s father finished his Marine service, they moved back to Virginia, where they lived in a “shack” without heat, according to The Guardian.

Since then, the singer has returned to her hometown, where a street was renamed in her honor in 2022.

Starting at age 4, Missy began expressing her interest in becoming a performer. In a 2003 interview with The Guardian, she shared that she would sing Jackson 5 songs for her neighbors and at family gatherings

Decades later, Missy revealed that her mom and dad inspired her music largely because the two had contrasting tastes.

“The reason my vocal style & harmonies was different is because my mom was from the church & my dad only listened to R&B,” she wrote on X in 2024.

Missy continued, “In a unique way I found a way to blend the feeling of harmonies in Gospel with the vibe of R&B that became a different feel 🙌🏾.”

Patricia and Ronnie went their separate ways when Missy was 14 

Over the years, Missy has detailed her complex upbringing. Although her family wasn’t well off, she still found joy in singing and felt supported by her mother. While trying to make the most of what they had, though, Missy also witnessed Patricia experience domestic violence.

My father was very abusive, and it was hard for my mother at first to leave because we had depended on him for so long,” she told The Guardian in 2003.

The breaking point happened when Ronnie threatened Patricia with a gun, and Missy ran over to her uncle’s home for help, according to Behind the Music. Soon after, Patricia left Ronnie in 1985 when Missy was a teenager.

Per The Guardian, Ronnie was out one day when relatives came to the house and loaded a truck with their belongings, reportedly leaving Missy’s dad with only a fork, spoon and blanket.

“When we left, my mother realized how strong she was on her own, and it made me strong,” Missy told the outlet.

“It was like I’m free. I’m finally making a choice that I never thought I could do,” Patricia said in the VH1 special. “I said, ‘It’s gonna change us for the rest of our lives.’ ”

Missy rarely speaks about her father publicly and hasn’t given an update on their relationship in recent years.