Remember when Nelly had an alchemist beat?

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Nelly could have changed his whole direction and still been around. If he rhymed like an emcee not the prelude to the r kelly rnb verse on the rap album.
Literally r Kelly swiped-ski'd nelly's whole demo to appear on a rap record.


Now this shyt in this era is literally a bite off Nelly and he gets no credit.

Which is bogus but what happens when you sell out.
Nelly fukked up with this album just like fiddy on his followup to a diamond record. You never ever release a rnb collab.
as the first single after a diamond album.
It connotates you only selling five to six million. Plus crediting rnb for sales. As opposed to a diamond former underground rap solo album with no rnb style singer which em and Nelly both did. As both were grassroots drawing artist in Michigan to start. As Nelly performed country Grammer at msu in like 1996. That is how slow burn that record took to blow up.
So for Nelly to just go so big budget. It ruined his draw from diamond to below. That soon after that happens. A label will get rid of you as their flagship.

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Early Nelly and St Lu




Even in this. Nelly is the only one trying to get the le flah leflah eskoshah parody dance routine right.

This song lacked direction and to far down the ol school biter rabbithole.
Plus the lack of technical accumen on this. Including you could have gotten sued and the break was too cliche. Just a bad choice trying to chase commercial appeal.
Especially when redman was out murdering shyt using an ol school delivery like it was new at the time.

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I don't get why it would be weird for a rap fan to be listening to an entire Nelly album.


It was taboo as a bboy to spin Nelly breh.
Culturally you guys have disconnect.
So Culturally ways and points of life Culturally In hiphop.
Such as boycotts of artist who have extreme misappropriation and cultural disconnect like Nelly is and was not far fetched among bboys in actual hiphop culture.

I owned Nelly album because the a&r of Janet Jackson Control to gangstarr platinum plaque lived next door. So all that commercial promo or cutouts I got as throw away back then. Anything from tha clipse debut before grindin to any obscure anything I had cutouts or promo for in that era.
Whether I wanted it. to keep or not.


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