Nelly
Nelly
Cornell Iral Haynes, Jr., known professionally as Nelly, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, entrepreneur, investor, and occasional actor from St. Louis, Missouri. Nelly embarked on his music career with Midwest hip hop group St. Lunatics, in 1993 and signed to Universal Records in 1999. Under Universal, Nelly began his solo career in the year 2000, with his debut album Country Grammar, of which the title-track was a top ten hit. The album debuted at number three on the Billboard...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRapper
Date of Birth2 November 1974
CityAustin, TX
CountryUnited States of America
Certain artists can get away with certain things. Certain things are acceptable for certain people. It's a difference.
I'm liver than Jay, Davy, and Kathy and Regis, been on more MTV shows than Butthead and Beavis.
Sometimes as an artist when things come easy to you, you look for other avenues that are more challenging to you and you try to walk those lanes.
My whole staff love to laugh and count the money. On the couch, hands in our pants like Al Bundy.
I can get inspired just off the energy of Soulja Boy, just his energy, you have to take something from an artist. Everyone may not look at an artist the same way, but it's something that artist is doing that's creating his success.
Two is not a winner, and three nobody remembers. What does it take to be number one?
I'm privileged that I'm an artist.
I stand for the Midwest. That's why the album's titled 'M.O.,' 'cause I'm still holding it down like that. My friends and family all call me Mo, so it's kind of like really representing where I'm from and me at the same time.
I think he's going down, ... It's gonna be the 'Revenge for O.J. '
Nobody got paid, it's all donation, it's all going to charity,
On fame: It all happened so fast. I'd wake up in the night and go, 'I can't believe it. I've gotta go to the bathroom!
It's more or less a unity thing, ... I think everybody wants to do something. Nobody knows exactly what to do, so everybody is doing a little bit of everything.
Strength of 100 men? I'd probably just get mad and hurt somebody and end up in jail. I think invisibility would probably be the best thing. I could be like, 'You know what, let me just see what these folks are talking about over here.' Then you could sneak into Rams cheerleaders' locker room.
I won an MVP trophy with the St. Louis Amateur Baseball Association. I didn't even start. I was a sub on this team. This was, like, an All-Star game where we had athletes from different teams, different mixtures. We had, like, the only black team in the league, basically. We had four players go to the All-Star game.