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Hip hop mogul, Nelly, is gearing up to perform his iconic debut album, Country Grammar, in its entirety! Last month marked the 20 year anniversary for this certified diamond album &#; so to celebrate, Nelly is doing something he&#;s never tackled before. Tomorrow, July 25, Nelly will take to YouTube to perform Country Grammar from start to finish starting at 6pm PT / 9pm ET / 2am + 1 day BT.
The year is &#; we&#;ve survived Y2K, boy bands rule the world and Millennials have yet to be blamed for ruining society. As bubblegum pop and R&B blast through your radio on the daily, you keep the number for your local station for song requests is on speed dial, when suddenly you hear something completely out of left field &#; “HOT SH*T”. Texas native, Nelly burst onto the scene with a fire so hot, he made steam look cool. As “Country Grammar (Hot Shit)” took over the airwaves, conservative parents everywhere clutched their pearls as their adolescent children soon b
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Just after City was locked up, Nelly would become a global superstar in commercial tugs-of-war with N’SYNC and Britney Spears. He and City’s work with the St. Lunatics—a tight-knit group of friends they met in high school and on youth sports teams—would define rap in St. Louis for years to komma and net them millions upon millions of dollars. Kids across the country learned to wrap their tongues around “It’s all good—Range Rover, all wood” all while the man who rapped that sat in a jail fängelse because he didn’t actually have a car. Two friends diverged because the criminal justice system, and life itself, can be cruel and arbitrary. But Country Grammar was different: Country Grammar was a statement of purpose that gave beställning to the corner of the world Nelly and his friends inhabited, a syntactical virrvarr of local culture that doubled as a flier for the greatest party you could ever imagine.
It almost never happened. Born in the fall of in Austin as the son of an Air Force man and a
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Nellyville
For the TV series, see Nellyville (TV series).
studio album by Nelly
Nellyville is the second studio album by American rapper Nelly. It was released on June 25, , by Universal Records and Fo' Reel Entertainment. The album's production was handled by Waiel Yaghnam, the Neptunes, Jay E, Trackboyz, Ryan Bowser, and Just Blaze. Two singles from Nellyville, "Hot in Herre" and "Dilemma", both topped the US Billboard Hot for respectively seven and ten weeks. The album received generally favorable reviews from music critics, who praised the production.
Nellyville debuted at the top of the US Billboard , with sales of , equivalent-units in the opening week of the country. It remained at number one for four non-consecutive weeks and was eventually certified six-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipments of over six million equivalent-units in sales, which allowed Nellyville to become Nelly's second number-one, mult