NASA transmitted Missy Elliott's "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" to Venus in 2019, marking the first hip-hop song sent into space.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory beamed Missy Elliott's song "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" to Venus using the Deep Space Network, making it the first hip-hop song sent into space. The transmission on July 12, 2019, was a first for hip-hop and NASA, which previously only sent the Beatles' "Across the Universe" in 2008. Missy Elliott's song traveled 158 million miles from Earth to Venus.