The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)

"The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" is based on the 1974 Ann Peebles song "I Can't Stand the Rain," which is sampled for the chorus.

This was Missy Elliott's first single, and it also spawned her first music video. Timbaland produced and co-wrote the song and appeared in the video (the beginning of Elliott's longtime collaboration with director Hype Williams until he was replaced by Dave Meyers). Elliott played up her size in the video by wearing an enormous inflated trash bag - a "screw you" to all the execs who told her she was too fat to make it in the music business. Elliott faced a hiccup when the blow-up suit inflated beyond its intended proportions. She tweeted about the experience, saying: "Fun fact I had to go to a gas station in Brooklyn, New York,to get air in this blow up suit And the suit blew up so big I couldn't fit in the car so I had to walk back to set down the street in this outfit in BROOKLYN." She added: "Dem ppl was riding pass like she must be high."

There are some marijuana references in this song: "Indo" and "Hydro" are both forms of the drug. Elliott later told Newsweek she quit smoking pot as a "spiritual decision" and that the news would probably shock her mother: "She's going to say, 'I didn't even know you were smoking."