Nelly feat Justin Timberlake : Work It

Nelly feat Justin Timberlake : Work It

Elastoplast’s greatest benefactor returns with more from party-rap’s first concept album ‘Nellyville’. Here the Utopian visions of palm trees swaying to the rhythms of a thousand neon ‘Gentlemens’ clubs are neglected in favour of a...

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Nelly feat Kelly Rowland : Dilemma

Nelly feat Kelly Rowland : Dilemma

Evidently exhausted by the propulsive rudery of 'Hot In Herre', Nelly kicks back, exchanging fragrant billets-doux on 'Dilemma' with Kelly out of Destiny's Child . " Nelly, I love you " she coos blandly, but Nelly 's stricken with an unlikely...

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Nelly : Nellyville

Nelly : Nellyville

A persecution complex can often be put to good use. Now that Nelly has had eight million satisfied customers for his 'Country Grammar' debut - and has reaped the usual benefits of envy, jealousy, spite, money, and the attentions of the opposite...

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Nelly : Hot In Herre (sic)

Nelly : Hot In Herre (sic)

Produced by R&B Midases The Neptunes, ‘Hot In Herre’ is so ripe that it manages the nifty trick of making Prince look straightedge. Full of references to " bustin’ loose ", " spillin’ juice ", " shootin’ steam " and other such Channel...

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Nelly : E.I

Nelly : E.I

At my school, if someone called you Nelly you had 15 seconds to get their head down the nearest bog or you'd never get your sports kit back from the top of the bus shelter. These days, it seems, they let Nellies become multi-platinum hip-hop...

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Cash Money Millionaires/Nelly/Kandi : Boston Worcester Centrum

Cash Money Millionaires/Nelly/Kandi : Boston...

Like Missy 'Misdemeanor' Elliott before her, Kandi has an impressive CV, having penned TLC's 'No Scrubs' and Destiny's Child's 'Bills, Bills, Bills'. She has the tight-bodied slick dancing and R&B trimmings too, but the crowd just isn't buying it....

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Country Grammar

Country Grammar

They call it Nellymania in the States, where this idiosyncratic St Louis rapper's adept fusion of digital funk and spliff-enhanced party rhetoric has swiftly become the hip-hop sensation of the year. Doing for the cesspool of his hometown what...

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Country Grammar

Country Grammar

In the States right now, Nelly is Number One. Straight there from nowhere. Well, not strictly nowhere. St Louis actually, which wasn't even on the hip-hop radar until this young thug and his St Lunatics started in with the sweet local slang on...

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