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...simply no sitting still while listening to this song. Sadly, however, the remaining twelve tracks come nowhere near to living up to this high standard. The second track “Girls” sounds like an unholy marriage of the all of the worst elements of old-school rap and British drum and bass rave music...
...It’s like asking Clarence Thomas what his favorite rap album is,” Terry said...
...massive house by a Missouri lake, a clothing line and a slice of an NBA team, and, if they kept charts on such things, he would easily be the No. 1 artist in the history of the exotic-dance industry. (Strippers love his stuff.) On two new albums--the rap-tilting Sweat and the R&B-tinged Suit, both released Sept. 14--Nelly reveals a bit more depth, but he still clings to his major themes: smoking pot, throwing parties, smoking more pot. Others have covered this territory before, but Nelly does it in such a warmhearted, jolly, singsong style...
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 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...
...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, Universal Records, and then backed it up as "the will of God." What KRS was presumably trying to do was inspire a battle in which he and Nelly would go back and forth on record, gaining publicity while insulting each other, before ultimately calling on someone else seeking publicity to broker...