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“This song’s boring; I can’t believe you like it,” he would comment, entranced with the inspirational story of Nelly Furtado’s Portuguese-English “Força,” in which a boy...
After he left the grill, his life followed the ur-rap narrative--sell tapes from the trunk of a car, sign a record deal, buy a De Beers mine--but Nelly remained committed to the ideal of serving billions and billions. "I was never interested in just playing to one...
Nelly has genuinely broad tastes. Between frames at the bowling alley, he sings along full throated with everyone from Hoobastank to Michelle Branch, never missing a lyric. And, as befits the mayor of all good times, he also enjoys all kinds of people. Although other hip-hip artists might view...
Of course, there are those who view that eagerness to cross over, particularly when it involves collaborations with white pop stars, as a negative. Nelly has been hit with charges of Hammerism, most notably from aging rap legend KRS-One, who issued a commercial fatwa against Nelly and his label...
As aw-shucks as that sounds, Nelly really does put collaboration over competition and only in part because he wants everyone's ears (and everyone's money). "Everybody that I work with, I like to call them friends," he says. "These aren't people that I just send a CD...