Missy Elliott has called on record label bosses to get her and Christina Aguilera’s cover of Car Wash on streaming services.
The 54-year-old rapper and 44-year-old pop idol put their own spin on the 1976 Rose Royce classic for the soundtrack to the 2004 animated film Shark Tale.
However, for some unknown reason, it’s never been made available on streaming platforms.
After being inundated with messages from fans asking for the track to be uploaded to the likes of Spotify and Apple Music, the Lose Control hitmaker has asked Universal Music Group and Geffen Records to help.
She penned on X: “@UMG .@GeffenRecords, the fans tagged me wanting to know why the song Car Wash on #Sharktale soundtrack not on some streaming sites… Can you please help out because many of them have been asking as you can see and miss it.”
Missy became the first female rapper inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2023, something she always felt “seemed so far out of reach.”
Appearing on Good Morning America ahead of the ceremony, she said: “Words cannot describe.
“It just hasn’t clicked.”
Recently, the hip-hop legend teased she has been experimenting in the studio.
She told the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast: “I have something in the works.
“It’s just different. It’s me being experimental again… I got some stuff coming. Some fire.”
Missy released the EP Iconology in 2019, and her last full-length release was 2005’s The Cookbook.
Meanwhile, last year Missy’s debut solo single The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) was sent into outer space.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California used their Deep Space Network to transmit the song 158 million miles from Earth to Venus at the speed of light, taking just 14 minutes to land.
The Get Ur Freak On rapper posted to X: “YOOO this is crazy! We just went #OutOfThisWorld with NASA and sent the FIRST hip hop song into space through the Deep Space Network.
“My song ‘The Rain’ has officially been transmitted all the way to Venus, the planet that symbolizes strength, beauty, and empowerment. The sky is not the limit, it’s just the beginning.”
