Nelly Blowing Up In 2000 Is One Of The Greatest Stories In The History Of Rap

[Wacky D]

shyt came out when I was 14/15. Sure most of this message board got into hip hop with Nelly. Still a few good songs on here. Nelly was definitely getting thrashed by hip hop heads back then.

i got into hip-hop via run dmc & the fat boys.

nelly's story is one of the goats breh.

the early 2000's had cool music and the whole era was just dope...that young teen life

yea, the early '00s was dope if you stayed away from the wackness.

the year 2000 in particular was outstanding actually.

 

[Arcavian]

Only Nelly I fukk with is Furtado

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

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[Wacky D]

People read magazines, breh. They actually sold millions of copies like albums back then. We actually WENT TO THE STORE AND BOUGHT THEM. You weren't alive yet.

meanwhile lady luck never had a hit and nobody has heard of lil buddy since.

and nobody really cared about that article they were running cuzzo. it was a pretty random part of the magazine. and most people dont read magazines front-to-back.

i dont even remember nelly being apart of that.

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

Lil Buddy got involved with some really messed up situations right before his situation was gonna fully launch.

 

[Wacky D]

nelly is wack as fukk, more of a pop artist than a rapper even.

Nelly was making Hip-pop, along with Ja Rule and them.

Commercially, what he did was big.

AS AN hip-Hop fan

what are yall talking about?

nelly's 1st hits & videos were street bangers.

I don't remember the Aaliyah thread in depth but it's good to see you're on my nuts remembering everything I say.

I was probably laughing at Wacky at that point because he, like you, was so insistent on not presenting arguments/receipts. I wasted posts trying to understand his POV and build an argument. And instead of him respecting my effort and the debate as a whole, all he did was respond with loose statements and smileys.

So when you came in that Aaliyah thread and further exposed how delusional he was, I started laughing. Not quite the same thing as this thread but nice try.

Fact of the matter... if someone makes a case about something, my first response isn't going to be filled with smileys like a child. I'm gonna state my argument.

You and Wacky D are similar like that. Your first instinct is to laugh and brush off arguments rather than take on the challenge. Which makes me think you're dumb ass nikkas in disguise, because that's what dumb ass nikkas do.

@ me when you say my name fakkit.

and dont get mad cuz @StillNotSoft stole on you when he woke up and found his d*ck in ya mouth.

ASAP a plant. hes the opposite of nelly.

 

[Wacky D]

Not a plant . . but he was promoted and marketed just like any other signed artist

all signed artists arent promoted and marketed the same. and nelly wasnt promoted or marketed to sell anywhere near what he sold, until AFTER he started selling it.

and as far as mtv goes, they started playing country grammar AFTER it blew up. mtv was always last to play the new breakthrough urban artists unless it was something meant for the crossover. country grammar was a rap city video initially.

@DANJ! broke it down perfectly earlier in the thread. nelly was just a random universal artist back when universal had what i like to call a "new talent initiative". he was just one of many people that universal threw a bone to back in those days. he started out in the same boat as dudes like miracle & SPM.

to go from that to rivaling eminem in the TRL realm while putting out low-budget hood videos in the course of just a few months is amazing.

Lil Buddy got involved with some really messed up situations right before his situation was gonna fully launch.

yea, now that you mention it, he did get booked. i forgot about that.

i doubt that he wouldve blew up tho.

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

all signed artists arent promoted and marketed the same. and nelly wasnt promoted or marketed to sell anywhere near what he sold, until AFTER he started selling it.

and as far as mtv goes, they started playing country grammar AFTER it blew up. mtv was always last to play the new breakthrough urban artists unless it was something meant for the crossover. country grammar was a rap city video initially.

@DANJ! broke it down perfectly earlier in the thread. nelly was just a random universal artist back when universal had what i like to call a "new talent initiative". he was just one of many people that universal threw a bone to back in those days. he started out in the same boat as dudes like miracle & SPM.

to go from that to rivaling eminem in the TRL realm while putting out low-budget hood videos in the course of just a few months is amazing.





yea, now that you mention it, he did get booked. i forgot about that.

i doubt that he wouldve blew up tho.

He woulda gotten a lil further than coo coo cal but less far than let's say...Murphy Lee.

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

http://www.citypages.com/bestof/2002/award/best-local-boy-gone-bad-2289/

Lil Buddy seemed to have been on the verge of hitting the hip-hop big time almost since the day he made his way north to the Twin Cities from Chicago. "My objective is to make history," he was proclaiming over the KMOJ-FM (89.9) airwaves back in the summer of 1997, when his party anthem "What's the Haps?!" was receiving considerable local play. He caught the eye of Prince, and his fledgling career was chronicled monthly in the hip-hop glossy Source under the heading "Diary of a New Jack." His video for "Woo Woo," in which he was shown partying down in a bank, made it into rotation on BET. But as of last December 28, the diminutive rapper (a.k.a. Buddy McLain, a.k.a. Andre Locke) appears headed for heavy rotation at the state prison in Stillwater. On that winter's day, Eagan police chased a stolen blue Audi until the driver crashed into a tree. Inside the vehicle officers found a bag with an air pistol and bound packs of U.S. currency; Lil Buddy was arrested for allegedly heisting almost $40,000 from the Vermillion State Bank in Rosemount. The turn of events stunned many in the local hip-hop community, where Buddy had always been regarded as more good egg than Ol' Dirty b*stard. Buddy attributed his problems to depression and worry over the health of two of his brothers, who both suffered kidney failure earlier that month. Given rap fans' penchant for glorifying the criminal life, prison may be just the right spark to re-ignite Buddy's career.

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

@Wacky D lol my bad, I got Nelly confused with Cap.One...who is now somehow attached to 2chainz after being around Tyga and a few other people in the background.

 

[Wacky D]

He woulda gotten a lil further than coo coo cal but less far than let's say...Murphy Lee.

wouldve been bigger than coo coo cal?

cal had a couple across-the-board hits breh.

what are buddy's signature records?

@Wacky D lol my bad, I got Nelly confused with Cap.One...who is now somehow attached to 2chainz after being around Tyga and a few other people in the background.

makes sense now. cuz i dont remember nelly being in that at all.

i just ran with it, assuming that he just wasnt in any of the episode articles that i read.

yea, that is where i first knew cap from. he ended up being the only one with a video and album that year.

 

[NC'sFinest]

http://www.citypages.com/bestof/2002/award/best-local-boy-gone-bad-2289/

Lil Buddy seemed to have been on the verge of hitting the hip-hop big time almost since the day he made his way north to the Twin Cities from Chicago. "My objective is to make history," he was proclaiming over the KMOJ-FM (89.9) airwaves back in the summer of 1997, when his party anthem "What's the Haps?!" was receiving considerable local play. He caught the eye of Prince, and his fledgling career was chronicled monthly in the hip-hop glossy Source under the heading "Diary of a New Jack." His video for "Woo Woo," in which he was shown partying down in a bank, made it into rotation on BET. But as of last December 28, the diminutive rapper (a.k.a. Buddy McLain, a.k.a. Andre Locke) appears headed for heavy rotation at the state prison in Stillwater. On that winter's day, Eagan police chased a stolen blue Audi until the driver crashed into a tree. Inside the vehicle officers found a bag with an air pistol and bound packs of U.S. currency; Lil Buddy was arrested for allegedly heisting almost $40,000 from the Vermillion State Bank in Rosemount. The turn of events stunned many in the local hip-hop community, where Buddy had always been regarded as more good egg than Ol' Dirty b*stard. Buddy attributed his problems to depression and worry over the health of two of his brothers, who both suffered kidney failure earlier that month. Given rap fans' penchant for glorifying the criminal life, prison may be just the right spark to re-ignite Buddy's career.

Yo, this post had me curious to google Lil Buddy and wassup with him now. Found an interview he gave Global Grind. Basically both his brothers needed kidney transplants and he robbed the bank to pay for their medical bills.

 

[OfTheCross]

He woulda gotten a lil further than coo coo cal but less far than let's say...Murphy Lee.

Murphy Lee was the best rapper in the bunch. Bar for bar dude could hang with anyone in his era. Disappointed he didn't get bigger.

 

[Houston911]

Lil Buddy got involved with some really messed up situations right before his situation was gonna fully launch.

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[Wacky D]

Murphy Lee was the best rapper in the bunch. Bar for bar dude could hang with anyone in his era. Disappointed he didn't get bigger.

i wouldn't go as far as the bolded.

he was dope tho.