Missy Elliott will receive the Video Vanguard Award at the 2019 VMAs -

Rapper, producer and songwriter Missy Elliott will receive MTV’s Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award on Aug. 26 at the 2019 VMAs, Variety has learned, where she will perform live at the awards show for the first time in 16 years.

Introducing your 2019 #VMA's VIDEO VANGUARD Honoree: @MissyElliott! ????

Don’t miss her iconic @vmas performance, August 26th on MTV! ✨ pic.twitter.com/Nc9CEyWpZd
— MTV (@MTV) August 12, 2019

Missy Elliott, a five-time Grammy Award winner and the first female hip-hop artist to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, has sold more than 30 million records worldwide, thanks to hits like “Work It,” “Get Ur Freak On” and “WTF (Where They From).” Jennifer Lopez was the 2018 winner of the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. Pink, Rihanna and Kanye West have also received the award in recent years. In spite of recent reports that MTV was considering changing the name of the award in the wake of backlash from recent documentary “Leaving Neverland,” the network has not done so. Though the award is still technically called the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, MTV refers to it simply as the Video Vanguard Award in its video teaser for the VMAs. The VMAs will air on MTV at 8 p.m. PT/ET on Monday, Aug. 26.

I am Humbly Grateful to be receiving the MichaelJacksonVideoVanguard Award????????????❤️ I Thank my FANS “Supafriends” who fought diligently to see this day come????????@KidFury @crissles who rooted for years 4 me???????? I am crying happy tears????Thank you God @MTV @vmas am SO HUMBLED???????? pic.twitter.com/udfhBNc78k
— Missy Elliott (@MissyElliott) August 12, 2019