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I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.
Rappers like Biggie and Tupac brought something different to the music. They attracted people to it.
On fame: It all happened so fast. I'd wake up in the night and go, 'I can't believe it. I've gotta go to the bathroom!
I'm just the key in the door for the rest of the St. Lunatics. I'm the first to release an album, But we're all family. We came up together from nothing. So it's St. Lunatics for life.
Rappers make what's in, in. If we want to bring back something like Jordache, we just say it and the girls start wearing it. We have a lot of pull.
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Trivia:
Named "Best New Artist" at the 1st Annual BET Awards in 2001.
Has started two new trends amongst his fans: wearing sports jerseys backward (such that one's favorite player's name is on one's chest rather than back) and wearing a Band-Aid on either cheek.
Has his own clothing line, Vokal.
Nominated for five 2003 Grammys: Album of the Year and Best Rap Album for "Nellyville", Record of the Year and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for "Dilemma", and Best Male Rap Solo Performance for "Hot in Herre". Nelly won for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration and Best Male Rap Solo Performance.
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Latest Nelly News
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Nelly wants to help you lose some weight
"Nelly is releasing a diet version of his Pimp Juice energy drink, called PJ Tight. It's got an apple flavor like the original, but less sugar, so it's only 20 calories. And if you're interested, Nelly's also looking for fans to contribute the rhyme for the jingle; check out www.letitloose.com. You have time, though, since the contest doesn't end until October 20."
MTV, June 21, 2005
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Nelly Biography / All about Nelly
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Nelly was born Cornell Haynes Jr. in St. Louis, where he encountered the street temptations so synonymous with rap artists. And like so many of his contemporaries, a change in circumstance at a pivotal time in his life may have changed the course of Nelly's life. In his case, when he was a teenager, Nelly was taken away from those streets when his mother moved to nearby suburban University City. It was there that he shifted his attention to playing baseball, storytelling, and writing rhymes. With some high-school friends, Nelly formed the St. Lunatics, who scored a regional hit in 1996 with a self-produced single, "Gimmie What You Got." Frustrated with failed attempts to land a record deal as a group, they collectively decided that Nelly would have a better chance as a single act. The rest of the group could follow with solo albums of their own.
The gamble paid off, and soon Nelly caught the attention of Universal, who released his debut album, Country Grammar, in 2000. What distinguished Nelly's take on rap from others was his laid-back delivery, deliberately reflecting the distinctive language and Southern tone of the Midwest. The album featured contributions from the St. Lunatics as well as the Teamsters, Lil' Wayne, and Cedric the Entertainer, and spent seven weeks on top of the U.S. album charts. All along, Nelly's goal was to put his hometown of St. Louis and the St. Lunatics on the hip-hop map.
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Nelly Album Reviews / Discography
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Albums:
Suit (2004)
Sweat (2004)
Nellyville (2002)
Country Grammar (2000)
Da Derrty Versions: The Reinventions (2003)
Nellyville (Clean) (2002)
Suit [Clean] (2004)
Country Grammar [Clean] (2000)
Da Derrty Versions: The Reinventions (Cln) (2003)
Sweat [Clean] (2004)
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Suit (2004) - Nelly
By: Nelly
Credited Role:Main Performer
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Songs:
1. Play It Off
2. Pretty Toes
3. My Place
4. Paradise
5. She don`t Know My Name
6. N´dey Say
7. Woodgrain and Leather with a Hole
8. In My Live
9. Over and Over
10. Nobody Knows
11. Die for U
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Album Review: Suit (2004)
This CD is gently and smoothly spiced with flavors of the mellow side of the man known as Nelly. The jump off for the Suit disc comes on “Pretty Toes.” On this lightly seasoned chill out song, Nelly, Ti and Jazze Pha bless the track so hard that it’s officially a rap on this one. Total hotness in my opinion and just because I feel like saying it, regardless of what most critics and gullible people may say, TI is a much better lyricist than Lil Flip will ever be. On “She Don’t Know My Name” Big Uncles Ron Isley and Snoop Dogg show up to show their musical Nephew Nelly a thing or two in a good way and lay down a smooth melodic rendition of old 70’s and 80’s funk soul heat.
“ N Dey Say” uses a Tears for Fears sample from their 80’s smash pop hit “I Know This love Is True” or some thing like that, which was used by PM Dawn in 1991 which also got the duo rushed off offstage by KRS-One and BDP. Just a lil music trivia for ya’ll out there. The disc is full of Pimp Juice Nellyisms and a lot of fun and some nonsense but it’s all done with humility as well as arrogance in a tasteful manner and it’s not bad.
“In My Life" featuring Mase and Avery Storm did not intrigue me much. “Over and Over” with Tim McGraw was a little catchy and different but the blend of Country and Hip-Hop has officially been done and one never knows, this may be a late sleeper hit off this CD, even if only because people crave something different. One should never say never.
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Nelly's Career Highlights:
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Nelly spent his childhood moving around a lot between different places (including Texas and Spain) and different families after his parents got divorced.
After settling in St. Louis, his mother moved to nearby suburban University City where Nelly began storytelling and writing rhymes. In high-school, Nelly, Big Lee, Kyjuan, Murphy Lee, and brother City Spud formed the St. Lunatics, who scored a regional hit in 1996 with a self-produced single, "Gimmie What You Got."
The song went to No. 1 at the local radio station, and sold like hotcakes out of the back of their car, but no matter how hard the St. Lunatics hustled, the group couldn't get a deal. Eventually they decided that Nelly would have a better chance as a single act, who could then turn around once he made it and pull the others up.
The group's gamble paid off, and soon Nelly caught the attention of Universal, who released his debut album, Country Grammar, in 2000. Nelly's style - a laid-back delivery, with a distinctive Midwest twang - became a unique and popular form of pop-rap and went on to dominate the charts. The album featured contributions from the St. Lunatics as well as the Teamsters, Lil' Wayne, and Cedric the Entertainer, and spent seven weeks at the Billboard 200 No. 1 spot.
After becoming a bonafide star on his own, Nelly kept his promise in 2001 with the release of Free City, the debut St. Lunatics album featuring the hit single "Midwest Swing." The following summer Nelly returned with his second album, Nellyville, which became a trans-Atlantic blockbuster with the ultra-hot Neptunes-produced lead single, "Hot in Herre." That same summer, Nelly also topped the global charts with a duet with Destiny Child's Kelly Rowland called "Dilemma."
Nelly became the premiere pop-rapper with Nellyville which held the No. 1 spot on ten different Billboard charts the week of its release.
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Nelly talks about Music
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I'm a product of hip-hop. That's all I listen to what I grew up on, besides what my parents had going on in the house. It's definitely hip-hop first and everything else is just distant.
On my first record, I rapped about me being on the block every day and hanging out in the 'hood, basically doing a bunch of nothing. And then I sold eight million albums. So I can't still be rapping about hustling for money to eat or I'll sound like a real idiot.
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Nelly Quick Facts
Stage Name: Nelly
Birth name: Cornell Haynes Jr.
Birthdate: November 2, 1974
Hometown: Dallas, Texas, USA
Sign: Scorpio
Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m)
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Interviews
How did you get your start rapping?
Nelly: Me and Kyjuan from the St. Lunatics would go to this place where I grew up, called Heman Park in University City, Missouri. People would be rapping in battles. We started out like everybody else. We’d go up to the skating rink, see other crews - it would be you spitting and we spitting. Me and Kyjuan got this beat from this one cat and wrote our first song called "Addiction." It was all about being addicted to selling work.
How did you develop your individual style?
Nelly: I never left St. Louis, so we were "rapping for the hood." We were straight gangsta. Every rhyme I wrote somebody got murdered! Ali, the oldest of the St. Lunatics, had a chance to get away from St. Louis and went to Atlanta. He saw a different side of hip-hop, the raw essence of it. When he came back, he made us see that the reason it’s hard for everybody to come up is because everybody is the same. So we flipped our script. It wasn't about shooting and gang-banging no more; we were trying to make it so that everybody could feel the music.
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