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

[FlyRy]

I don't care what anyone says I still fukks with country grammar. Then he switched his voice and style up on the next album and i stopped fukking with him.

 

[Ninjaz In Paris]

country grammar is a personal favorite...

dude took a huge risk with that style he had... nobody was on that...

and to sell diamond out the gate when dude was basically a universal records tax write-off is impressive i don't give a fukk who you are...

 

[Wacky D]

its amazing to me how everybody and everything becomes credible as time goes by, sh!t is hilarious. when nelly was actually out i cant think of one person who didn't think he was pure garbage and a mockery, lol.

you buggin. nelly had that universal appeal. im no saying that dude was a contender for the title or anything but you had to have hung around a bunch of stiffs.

dude literally had fans of every variety. from niccas coming home from doing bids asking bout that "green hate envy" jawn to little white girls. TRU TALK, MY GRANDMOM HAD THE NELLYVILLE ALBUM.

Drake's story>>>>>>>>>>Nelly's

drake's story is the exact opposite and it personifies most of what is wrong with the rap industry today.

He received MAJOR backlash from that Tip Drill video and his career wasn't the same since

yea, that hurt him. up until that point, he somehow maintained a squeaky clean image, despite a good portion of his content being hard and of course his past. you gotta respect him for taking some of the chances he did.

the 2 albums in one day thing was another one. yea, it was a success, but imagine how many more records he wouldve sold if he just dropped 1 album? you gotta respect the chances that dude took.

Dude just keept selling...and selling...i couldnt believe how popular he got

I could play that right now and blast BATTER UP or lovin me today like it was the hot new shyt...

it was just something contagious about dude. i vividly remember being in my pop's car, riding thru gtown ave when E.I. came on the radio. i suddenly started doing that stupid @$$ arm-dance with a serious look on my face.

i wasnt a nelly fan per se. he was kind of hit-or-miss with me. but i always liked him, and when he was one, HE WAS ON.

Damn, everything looks good to nikkas after a few years I guess. Nelly was like a southern Drake musically. Lots of ballads and simp anthems to go alongside the "hard" club tracks. Eventually nikkas got tired of his shyt and he disappeared.

This is what they call historical revision

lol @ drake having hard songs.

you cant compare the two at all.

 

[SubLyminalz]

Nelly: Air Force Ones (NIKE) - YouTube

this song is a classic.


I fukked with murphy lee more than nelly though


[ame=http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ_rXp6nYKQ]YouTube - Murphy Lee - Wat Da Hook Gon Be ft. Jermaine Dupri[/ame]

[ame=http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DE1_6WJ371A]YouTube - St. Lunatics - Midwest Swing[/ame]

 

[28 Gramz]

also,this is a post from 2-15-10 from the ghost town we used to hang out at:



Something's going on,this is brainwashing
As far as the people in this forum that don't see what's so special about drake,i'm with you. I'm not saying he has zero talent. However his whole career is a result of behind the scenes connections,in my opinion. He's the only rapper i've seen in my life that blew up without a trail of heat behind him. Even rappers i don't care for,i can clearly see how they blew like wayne for example. I remember him dropping the squad up series and *****s thought it was hot.I remember noticing him on a lot of guest (low level) spots. Not because the media told us so,not because some fancy mtv coverage or celebrity cosign,i really remember him simmering before **** started to boil. DMX (one of my favs) I remember him killing guest spots (24 hours to live/money,power,respect etc) and me being very impressed on the edge of my seat waiting to hear more. Snoop, we all heard deep cover (in my age bracket,i'm 30) and we heard these masterful performances on the chronic album, which clearly created the build up for doggystyle. 2pac, I remember the emotinal impact of brendas got a baby and how people felt off that, i remember pac getting his 1st "hits" with keep ya head up and i get around. I remember almost any dude i passed that had a walkman was bumpin thuglife in 1994. I remember all the controversy and the news coverage it got. The movies,the jail time, hearing dear mama on the radio for the 1st time and how he had white boys talkin bout "even as a crack fiend mama,you always was a black queen mama". I remember hearing suge was gonna bail him out and the whole world was waiting for the next move. I could go on forever,but the bottom line is what i'm about to say. Right now the media is treating drake like Dmx, AFTER he dropped "it's dark and hell is hot". They're treating him like 2pac, after 2pacalypse now,strictly 4 my *****z,thuglife,me against the world and signing to deathrow. They're treating him like snoop AFTER the chronic. They're treating him like wayne, after, two hot boy albums, Block is hot,lights out,500 degreez,carter 1, carter 2, all them mixtapes and guest appearances. So basically it takes wayne 9 years as a mainstream (doing everything i previously named) artist to be considered a frontrunner in this game. Meanwhile drake walks in with a luke warm mixtape and is billed as the next one and has instant collabos with back to back legends (mary j blige,jaimee foxx,eminem,jay z),mixtape singles in REGULAR radio rotation across the country. Name me any artist that's been giving these type of favors. Even if you like drake,you know he hasn't done anything as impressive as the accomplishments i've named for the above mentioned artists. Something IS going on. The days of us falling in love with an artist, and that arist bubbling up are gone. If they pull this off,we'll be told who's hot from now on.

Wish I could dap this twice.

 

[Wacky D]

country grammar is a personal favorite...

dude took a huge risk with that style he had... nobody was on that...

and to sell diamond out the gate when dude was basically a universal records tax write-off is impressive i don't give a fukk who you are...

basically. he couldve easily been genoveese, SPM, miracle, etc. but instead he turned into a household name.

people in here talking about he was promoted as "THAT GUY in the midwest" are lying thru their teeth.

also,this is a post from 2-15-10 from the ghost town we used to hang out at:



Something's going on,this is brainwashing
As far as the people in this forum that don't see what's so special about drake,i'm with you. I'm not saying he has zero talent. However his whole career is a result of behind the scenes connections,in my opinion. He's the only rapper i've seen in my life that blew up without a trail of heat behind him. Even rappers i don't care for,i can clearly see how they blew like wayne for example. I remember him dropping the squad up series and *****s thought it was hot.I remember noticing him on a lot of guest (low level) spots. Not because the media told us so,not because some fancy mtv coverage or celebrity cosign,i really remember him simmering before **** started to boil. DMX (one of my favs) I remember him killing guest spots (24 hours to live/money,power,respect etc) and me being very impressed on the edge of my seat waiting to hear more. Snoop, we all heard deep cover (in my age bracket,i'm 30) and we heard these masterful performances on the chronic album, which clearly created the build up for doggystyle. 2pac, I remember the emotinal impact of brendas got a baby and how people felt off that, i remember pac getting his 1st "hits" with keep ya head up and i get around. I remember almost any dude i passed that had a walkman was bumpin thuglife in 1994. I remember all the controversy and the news coverage it got. The movies,the jail time, hearing dear mama on the radio for the 1st time and how he had white boys talkin bout "even as a crack fiend mama,you always was a black queen mama". I remember hearing suge was gonna bail him out and the whole world was waiting for the next move. I could go on forever,but the bottom line is what i'm about to say. Right now the media is treating drake like Dmx, AFTER he dropped "it's dark and hell is hot". They're treating him like 2pac, after 2pacalypse now,strictly 4 my *****z,thuglife,me against the world and signing to deathrow. They're treating him like snoop AFTER the chronic. They're treating him like wayne, after, two hot boy albums, Block is hot,lights out,500 degreez,carter 1, carter 2, all them mixtapes and guest appearances. So basically it takes wayne 9 years as a mainstream (doing everything i previously named) artist to be considered a frontrunner in this game. Meanwhile drake walks in with a luke warm mixtape and is billed as the next one and has instant collabos with back to back legends (mary j blige,jaimee foxx,eminem,jay z),mixtape singles in REGULAR radio rotation across the country. Name me any artist that's been giving these type of favors. Even if you like drake,you know he hasn't done anything as impressive as the accomplishments i've named for the above mentioned artists. Something IS going on. The days of us falling in love with an artist, and that arist bubbling up are gone. If they pull this off,we'll be told who's hot from now on.

 

[ROFL_GUY]

NELLY A LEGEND

fukk what you heard...

his debut went DIAMOND.. and the music was

 

[KEEPITTRILLA]

the-coli has me agreeing with wacky d and shyt

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

Wish I could dap this twice.

when i first wrote that people swore i was hating,i was just tellin it like it is. He was selected not elected as hiphop royalty.

 

[KEEPITTRILLA]

wait so far gone was a lukewarm mixtape? that shyt was heat all around, hella people was bumping it before he really blew up off that forever remix

 

[Capitol]

It's really not that hard to figure out why Drake caught traction man. Also, have you ever heard of paragraphs? WTF

 

[MoneyBags]

yeah, he sold madddddd records so clearly some people f*cked with him, but i'm talkin about "hip hop heads", or just n!ggas in general, ha. now it seems like everybody acts like they always loved him. that ish happens with every rapper. i've heard n!ggas say hammer was a genius recently

c/s, real shyt

 

[MoneyBags]

Nelly lowkey had lyrics though. Not on some Nas shyt, but he had metaphors and similes that are much better than today's popular artists.

And some shyt that I definitely didn't catch back then, being in middle school.

"My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonic and chronic
fukk bionic it's ironic, slammin nikkaz like Onyx" I definitely didn't catch that back then.

nikka if you don't get outta here with that wack ass line. those were low key lyrics to you? I slam nikkas like Onyx? that's like me saying, "You can't touch this like Hammer". Nelly was never even close to being nice as a rapper, just made catchy radio songs, that was his lane. ahahhahahaa @ I slam nikkas like onyx, too much.

 

[STEVE]

i remember i was starting my freshman year of college and i was hanging around in my dorm just kind of getting used to being there. from two stories up one of the RA's was blasting either the single for E.I. or the album, i can't remember which. but i do remember hearing E.I. sort of distorted from two stories up and at first thinking, "is he listening to joke music?" then i thought "is this in spanish?" and then i thought "no, this is joke music..."

 

[King Sun]

It sounded like another step back for hiphop intellectually when i first heard it. Everything from the sesame street beat to the nursery rhyme lyrics.

he blowing up with the beginning of the end