Can we have a honest discussion about Nelly and "Country Grammar?"

[knnymac]

Haven't listened to this album in a long time, heard somebody playing "E.I." earlier and ended up playing the whole album just now. This shyt is a lot harder than I remember, with more gun talk and doggin these hoes. I can't believe he had a diamond selling debut album, but is rarely if ever mentioned today. nikka even had a Wayne feature before anybody else.











Wtf happened to this Nelly? If you could sell 9 mill off just being yourself, why would he switch up so much on following albums?

 

[knnymac]

 

[Formerly known as...]

Didn't his second album sell more?

He had a nice run but burnt out. But people still play his songs today so he's left a stamp. Hot in herre still goes hard in the club

 

[knnymac]

Didn't his second album sell more?

He had a nice run but burnt out. But people still play his songs today so he's left a stamp. Hot in herre still goes hard in the club

No. First album went diamond, second one 6x platinum. I'm talking more about lyrical content, tho.

 

[Conscious Pilot]

Still play ‘Luven Me’ till this day

 

[DreadBrown]

Nelly underrated as fukk

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

No.

 

[JA_Carter]

Classic album . The album was EVERYWHERE when I was a kid so it holds a special place to me

 

[Jimmy Two-Times™]

CACs turned him out.

 

[360dagod]

Yeah he burnt out over time..but he got his money's worth and had a good run

But country grammar is my shyt tho..

 

[DaveyDave]

Country Grammar was/is a good album. Cats hate on it because it's Nelly but this one was not him chasing the mainstream, no one would have thought a song where he's talking about doing a drive by would be such a big hit. It just proves that mainstream fans don't really care about the lyrics at all.

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

always loved that album. i didnt like anything he made after that.

 

[bordeaux]

only a pretty good album to me. but i was always proud to see a breh make it from the city. how u call it hard, then post a bunch of radio singles?
here u go.

 

[wizworld]

Nelly was more of a rappity rap guy before he blew. Singles drove record sales back then, so i would assume his success changed his subject matter.

 

[th_412]

Soon as u listened to the whole CD you realized Nelly wasn’t gonna be no one hit wonder, which I know a lot of people thought was the case when country grammar (the song) was blowing up



And everything after that...... I’m sure was influenced a lot by the fact that after CG he was a huge star and his label you would think was the ones who pushed alot of the crossover type stuff he did that made him almost a pop act towards the end of his run....just my 2 cents