Style/Genre: Hip Hop

Location: St. Louis, Missouri

Members:
Nelly (Emcee)

In the summer of 2000, Cornell "Nelly" Haynes Jr. did the unbelievable. Nelly, an unknown rapper from St. Louis, Missouri, sold over a quarter of a million copies of his debut album, Country Grammar during its first week of release. On the strength of his first single "Country Grammar (Hot . . .)," the album would spend seven weeks atop the Billboard 200 chart. His subsequent hits, "E.I." and "Ride Wit Me," would push the album to over 9 million units sold domestically. Not bad for a kid no one had ever heard of before.

Two years later, in the summer of 2002, Nelly proved to be ...(Read Entire Nelly Biography)

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