Nelly
Fri, Jul 25, 2008
Cornell Haynes Jr was born on November 2, 1974. He is well known as Nelly Nell. Under Universal, Nelly has four solo studio albums released in his name and several number-one hits. He also won Grammy Awards in 2003 and 2004. He also starred in the 2005 remake film The Longest Yard alongside Adam Sandler and Chris Rock.
Nellyville
In 2002, Nelly’s second album Nellyville was released and reached number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart; its lead single “Hot in Herre” was also a number-one hit. Other famous singles with popular singers on the side was “Dilemma” featuring Kelly Rowland from Destiny’s Child, “Work It” featuring Justin Timberlake, “Air Force Ones” featuring Murphy Lee and the St. Lunatics, and “Pimp Juice”.
Sweat & Suit
On September 14, 2004, Nelly released two albums simultaneously, Sweat and Suit. Suit, an R&B-oriented album, debuted at number one on the Billboard albums chart, and Sweat, a rap-oriented album, debuted at number two in the same week. From the Suit album, “Over and Over”, an unlikely duet with country music star Tim McGraw, became another crossover hit. On the 2004 NBC television concert special Tim McGraw: Here and Now, McGraw and Nelly performed the song.
Brass Knuckles
A street single called “Cut It Out” was released later that year for his upcoming album, Brass Knuckles, which will be released on August 19, 2008 after several delays. Initial release dates for the album targeted October 16 and November 13 but would not make the album.
Its original lead single was “Wadsyaname”, a ballad-oriented track produced by Neff-U and sampling the piano riff from the R&B song “All My Life” by K-Ci & JoJo. Nelly later confirmed that “Wadsyaname” would not be on ‘Brass Knuckles’. He explained, he “had to turn in a single, but not the whole album”. Nelly then recorded a song called “Party People” featuring Fergie and produced by Polow da Don which turned out to be his first official single off the album.
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