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Cornell Haynes Jr., is known better as Nelly and was born in Austin Tex on November 2 1974. After his parents divorced when he was seven, his mother in University City, Missouri raised the American rapper and singer. While still at high school, Nelly would from the St. Lunatics who enjoyed localized fame from their single “Gimme What Ya Got,” but Nelly opted to go solo when a major record deal did not materialize, and signed with Universal Music Group which in 2000 released his first studio, and debut album “Country Grammar.” The title track enjoyed success as a single peaking at number seven on the Hot 100 and number one on the Hot Rap Tracks saw the album itself debut at number three on the Billboard 200 and the album would earn nine times platinum certification by the RIAA in 2004.
He followed up in 2002 with “Nellyville” which debuted at number one on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart, and its lead single “Hot in Herre” was a numebr hit, alongside “Dilemma” which featured Kelly Rowland, “Work it” featuring Justin Timberlake, “Air Force Ones” featuring Murphy Lee and St. Lunatics and finally “Pimp Juice.””Nellyville” would go multi-platinum six times by June 2003. Nelly won the Grammy Award for Best Male Rap Solo Performance in 2003. HE also contributed the single “Shake Ya Tailfeather” featuring P. Diddy and Murphy Lee for the soundtrack of Bad Boys II. The same song won him the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group.
The years 2004 and 2005 would be busy as Nelly released two albums: “Sweat” and “Suit.” The former was a rap focused album that debuted at number two on the Top 200 and Suit featured a slow balled, “Over and Over” a duet with country music’s Tim McGraw became a crossover hit. In late 2005 came “Sweatsuit” a compilation of the tracks from both 2004 albums, including three previously unreleased and unheard tracks including the numebr one hit single Grillz. To date, over five million copies of “Sweat” and “Suit” have been sold.
After a number of delays, Nelly’s fourth album “Brass Knuckles” was released in September 2008. The lead single was a ballad oriented track “Wadsyaname.” The albums second single, “Party People” featuring Fergie, followed by “Stepped on My J’z” featuring Dupri and Ciara, and finally “Body On Me” featuring Akon and Ashanti. The album would debut at number three on the Billboard 200, and was certified Gold by the RIAA in December 2008 and has since sold over 223,000 copies in the USA.
In 2009, Nelly confirmed that he was working on a fifth album, that would feature a plethora of artists including T-Pain, Chris Brown, Akon, Kelly Rowland, DJ Khaled and Diddy-Dirty Money amongst many others and confirmed in May 2010 that the album was simply titled, “5.0” and it was finally released in November 2010. Its lead single “Just a Dream” in August and peaked at number 3 in its fourth week on the Billboard Hot 100, his highest charting song since 2005 single “Grillz.” The album’s second single, “Move That Body” featuring T-Pain and Akon hit the air in October and debuted at number 54 on the Hot 100 and the third single is “Gone,” a sequal to his 2002 global hit Dilemma, also with Rowland.
Where Nelly goes from here, is anyone’s guess.
