This and he overachieved too
Why did Nelly fall off so hard?
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wouldnt say gimmick...it was st louis style..
domino chingy even pretty willie sung rap...
shyt I would lol.
had no substance, could not rap, had shyt productionWas he like a Ja rule 2.0 ???
The prototype flo-rida, not saying that it's a bad thing to make pop music but it's very flash in the pan
that album title was so corny
seemorecizzy
Superstar
dis song is lowkey fire lol
Cobalt Sire
All Star
Forget popularity. To me, Nelly fell off artistically, and quick. He started making crap I didn't like. Pimp Juice, ooooooh oooooooh ooooh ooh. Just no lol.
to call him ja rule 2.0 is a stretch because ja did drop some classic shyt and i think VVV is classic as fukk before he switched up
Figaro
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Didn't he try his best to impersonate Flo Rida on his last album...
Country Grammar smacked hard though & Nellyville had a few joints too
Country Grammar smacked hard though & Nellyville had a few joints too
Didn't he try his best to impersonate Flo Rida on his last album...
flo rida career is wild to me..his songs were super trash to me and none of his albums went gold..but the amount of multi plat singles he has
..one song damn near recouped his album budget prollyim assuming dude has been fallen off by now lol
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He made the same mistake ja rule made, yes. He had a hit and then he discovered a comercial formula, took it and ran with it. That turned him into a pop phenomenon for a short amount of time, but also meant that his core audience turned it's back on him, so he got played out quick
Artists with longevity a) manage to reinvent themselves throughout their career and b) strike a balance between artistic integrity and mainstream appeal (Back in those days, you would have the street record and the radio record. Both Ja Rule and Nelly released lots of successful radio records and neglected the street records, making hiphop fans look at them as soft or pop).
It’s funny you say that in the first paragraph. It reminds me of this documentary of Nelly I saw a couple of years ago where his original content was more street-oriented when he was more of a local artist bubbling in STL underground circles. As a matter of fact, I recall when he was sitting in the studio listening to his Country Grammar single, he wasn’t fukking with it at first lol. Kinda like how Biggie wasn’t feeling the beat to what would soon be Juicy like that when Puff played the sample for him in the lab.
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I Really Mean It
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Jay-Z and Drake aren't in the same universe, in terms of musical impact and relevancy.
He made the same mistake ja rule made, yes. He had a hit and then he discovered a comercial formula, took it and ran with it. That turned him into a pop phenomenon for a short amount of time, but also meant that his core audience turned it's back on him, so he got played out quick
Artists with longevity a) manage to reinvent themselves throughout their career and b) strike a balance between artistic integrity and mainstream appeal (Back in those days, you would have the street record and the radio record. Both Ja Rule and Nelly released lots of successful radio records and neglected the street records, making hiphop fans look at them as soft or pop).
Ja was on the way out as soon as 50 cent dropped get rich or die trying and interscope loaded up the machine...
Clap back was ill
The ny record was ill
The joint with ashanti did well chartwise
It was simply 50 cent who took him outta here...
Nelly made no mistakes..he sold his millions of records and make multiple hits...his time came and his time went..
GreenGhxst
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Why do y'all nikkas assume superstar rappers just fall off, can't they just quit and pursue other things?
They don't want to spend their entire life making songs to make women shake their asses and make men turn into groupies
They don't want to spend their entire life making songs to make women shake their asses and make men turn into groupies