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PEOPLE: Bennifer, the sequel?; hip-hop eyes the Hall of Fame...
NELLY: The multiplatinum hip-hop star wants to party all the time...
...Hip-hop is finally getting its props from the rock establishment. Pioneering DJ GRANDMASTER FLASH and his group, the Furious Five, are among this year's nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame--the first rap artists to claim that distinction. "The streets are buzzing," says Flash, who shares the ballot with U2, Randy Newman, the O'Jays and others. "I went into Target this week, into Home Depot. Everywhere I go, it's 'Congratulations!'" Bands are eligible for the honor when their first album is at least 25 years old. Dubbed "Toscanini of the turntables," Flash recorded...
SOME PEOPLE CARRY THE WEIGHT OF the world. Others carry rolling papers and a bowling ball with an airbrushed painting of Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Mo. Nelly, the multiplatinum hip-hop star whose songbook can be fairly divided into two categories--songs about parties and songs about parties in which people get naked--is a bowling-ball kind of guy. Actually, he's a two-bowling-ball kind of guy. On a recent stay in New Mexico, where he was shooting scenes for an Adam Sandler remake of The Longest Yard, Nelly took along a strike ball, a spare...
...ideal of serving billions and billions. "I was never interested in just playing to one market or genre," he says. "I want everybody to get my music." So far, everyone has. His first two albums sold 15 million copies, and in many ways he has become the hip-hop Shania Twain (another ex-- McDonald's employee who grew up poor and writes songs designed to ring registers in every genre). But whereas Twain takes pop songs and countrifies them or vice versa, Nelly is an integrationist. His exuberant rolling delivery--he has never met a hard consonant--naturally places...