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About Nelly
When Nelly first debuted nationally in summer 2000, he seemed like
a novelty, but it quickly became apparent that he was, in fact, an
exceptional artist, a rapper with truly universal appeal. He wasn't
from the East or West Coast, and wasn't really from the Dirty South,
either. Rather, Nelly was from St. Louis, a Midwestern city halfway
between Minneapolis and New Orleans. His locale certainly informed his
rapping style, which was as much country as urban, and his dialect as
well, which was, similarly, as much Southern drawl as Midwestern
twang. Plus, Nelly never shied away from a pop-rap approach, embracing
a singalong vocal style that made his hooks incredibly catchy. As a
result, Nelly became an exceptional rapper capable of crossing all
boundaries, from the Dirty South to the TRL crowd and everything in
between. His first hit, "Country Grammar (Hot...)," became a summer
anthem, and many more hits followed. In particular, his popularity
peaked in summer 2002, when he topped seemingly every Billboard chart
possible with his Nellyville album and its lead single, "Hot in Here."
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.
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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. Though Nelly had become a star as a
solo artist as planned, he said that he is and always will be a member
of the St. Lunatics, a collective that also includes Big Lee, Kyjuan,
Murphy Lee, and City Spud. Nelly fulfilled 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,
and lived up to his self-proclaimed "#1" billing. The album topped the
Billboard album chart while the Neptunes-produced lead single, "Hot in
Herre," remained atop the singles chart. In all, Nelly impressively
held the number one spot on ten different Billboard charts the week of
Nellyville's release. Few rap artists could boast such numbers, and
Nelly surely savored his number one status, particularly after being
dismissed as a novelty two summers earlier when he debuted. You could
call him a pop-rapper if you liked, but you surely couldn't challenge
his number one status. After all, his hit streak continued unabated,
with "Iz U" (from his stopgap Derrty Versions remix album) and "Shake
Ya Tailfeather" (from the Bad Boys II soundtrack) keeping him in the
spotlight while he readied his double-disc Sweatsuit project
(following the lead of OutKast and R. Kelly, who had both recently
released very successful two-disc sets). The separately released
double album dropped in fall 2004, preceded perfectly by a pair of
red-hot singles: "My Place" (a slow jam) and "Flap Your Wings" (a club
jam). A stroke of commercial (and to an extent, creative) genius, the
superstar-laced project catapulted Nelly back atop the pop-rap world,
where his presence was peerless.
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