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2002: St. Louis rhyme-slinger Nelly made a boisterous and bolstering debut with his first studio album, Country Grammar. But it wasn't until his sophomore LP, Nellyville, released on June 25, 2002, ...

Cornell “Nelly” Haynes, Jr. had black people bumpin’ Tim McGraw in the hood, so he’s always gon’ be good. Not “good” as in superior mediocrity, but as in legendary. The six-time platinum selling album ...

"It might blow up, but it won't go pop," De La Soul once famously vowed, making explicit rap music's long-simmering distrust of widespread mainstream success. As memorable as it might be, that pledge ...

When Nelly emerges from his dressing room at CBS Television City half an hour before taping his performance on “The Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn,” he looks as spry and hale as a morning talk-show ...

On a hazy spring afternoon, Nelly strolls through Rolling Stone‘s offices, clean-shaven, big diamond studs poking out from the sides of his face. The 42-year-old rapper quickly hones in on a framed ...