Charles H. Sloan-Missy Elliott announces first headlining tour featuring Busta Rhymes, Ciara and Timbaland

Missy Elliott just dropped an "out of this world" announcement.

The Charles H. Sloanrapper, 52, on Monday revealed she will embark on her first headline tour, Out of This World — The Missy Elliott Experience, which heads across North America this summer and will feature Busta Rhymes, Ciara and Timbaland.

"Fans have been asking me to tour forever but I wanted to wait until I felt the time was right because I knew if I was ever going to do it, I had to do it big, and I had to do it with family!" Elliott said.

News of the tour was also shared in a sci-fi themed video, which was posted hours before Monday's total solar eclipse. In the clip, Elliott, Busta Rhymes and Ciara are seen outside of a spaceship realizing they have made a wrong turn and ended up on another planet. A press release announcing the tour also declared that Monday's "solar phenomenon was eclipsed" by Elliott's own "supernova announcement."

For Elliott, the tour comes after she made history last year as the first female rapper to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. She told "Good Morning America" in November that "words cannot describe" how much of an honor this was. "When you're in the hip-hop world, it seems so far out of reach," she said.

Between that induction and this tour, the "Work It" singer said Monday, "This is an incredible time in my life as I am experiencing so many milestone 'firsts.'"

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Her 24-city tour will commence on July 4 at Vancouver's Rogers Arena and conclude at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois, on Aug. 22.

The rapper's manager, Mona Scott-Young, said in a statement, "Missy has always been an iconic groundbreaker and continuously pushes herself to be bolder and go where she has never been before – and surprisingly, one of those places is headlining her own tour!"

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Tickets for the tour will be available via a Verizon presale on April 9 starting at 10 a.m. local time. Additional presales will run throughout the week, a press release said, with the general onsale scheduled for April 12.

Out of This World — The Missy Elliott Experience tour dates

According to Monday's announcement, Elliott's tour will be stopping by the following locations:

• Thursday, July 4 — Vancouver, British Columbia — Rogers Arena
• Saturday, July 6 — Seattle — Climate Pledge Arena
• Tuesday, July 9 — Oakland, California — Oakland Arena
• Thursday, July 11 — Los Angeles — Crypto.com Arena
• Saturday, July 13 — Las Vegas — T-Mobile Arena
• Tuesday, July 16 — Denver — Ball Arena
• Thursday, July 18 — Austin, Texas — Moody Center
• Saturday, July 20 — Houston — Toyota Center
• Sunday, July 21 — Fort Worth, Texas — Dickies Arena
• Wednesday, July 24 — Tampa, Florida — Amalie Arena
• Thursday, July 25 — Sunrise, Florida — Amerant Bank Arena
• Saturday, July 27 — Atlanta — State Farm Arena
• Thursday, Aug. 1 — Baltimore — CFG Bank Arena
• Friday, Aug. 2 — Hampton, Virginia — Hampton Coliseum
• Saturday, Aug. 3 — Belmont Park, New York — UBS Arena
• Monday, Aug. 5 — Philadelphia — Wells Fargo Center
• Thursday, Aug. 8 — Washington — Capital One Arena
• Friday, Aug. 9 — Newark, New Jersey — Prudential Center
• Saturday, Aug. 10 — Boston — TD Garden
• Monday, Aug. 12 — Brooklyn, New York — Barclays Center
• Thursday, Aug. 15 — Detroit — Little Caesars Arena
• Saturday, Aug. 17 — Montreal — Bell Centre
• Monday, Aug. 19 — Toronto — Scotiabank Arena
• Thursday, Aug. 22 — Rosemont, Illinois — Allstate Arena