Who is nelly

Its single "Hot in Herre" was a ubiquitous No. Lunatics, riddled the airwaves. Suit debuted at No. In the winter of , the inevitable Sweatsuit was released. A compilation of songs from Sweat and Suit , with three new tracks, Sweatsuit launched "Grillz" into the No. In , Nelly launched Brass Knuckles , his fifth studio album, which reached No. The highest-charting single, "Party People," peaked at No. In , Nelly released 5. He also became involved in reality television fare by starring in two seasons of Nellyville , while also featuring prominently in Real Husbands of Hollywood and The Platinum Life.

Early in his career, Nelly unveiled the clothing lines Vokal and Apple Bottom. He also launched the 4Sho4Kids Foundation, which raises money and awareness for various children's health issues. Attended the same high school as actor 'Edgar L. Davis' and Disney animator Marlon West. His older sister, Jackie Donahue, lost her 3-year battle with leukemia in March , she was 31 years old.

I and his wife Tameka 'Tiny' Cottle. He sometimes appears on their reality-t. On Saturday, August 16, , Nelly announced that he had set-up and funded a scholarship fund in Michael Brown's name. It will help to put teenagers, selected by Brown's family, through college. Nelly, along with rapper T.

Louis, Missouri, USA , on Monday, August 18, , Nelly went to Ferguson in solidarity with, and support of, the people of the place he considers his hometown. I probably only cried five or six times in my life and I think four of those times was from my daddy kicking my butt".

Black boys have been dying since we came to this country, ain't nothin' changed. He [Officer Darren Wilson] will not be the last cop to shoot an unarmed black man. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro.

Getting Started Contributor Zone ». He embarked on his music career with Midwest hip hop group St. Lunatics in He is the son to Cornell Haynes Sr. His parents divorced when he was 7 years old, he lived with his mother in St. In , Haynes Jr. The album topped the music charts and sold millions of copies all across the globe.

The album received positive reviews from music critics and it peaked on the music charts, in the U. S and internationally. The film was a huge success at the box office. A year later, he made several cameo appearances on various television shows. First, there was an accusation in from a woman claiming she was raped on his tour bus in Washington. The case was dropped when the accuser, Monique Greene, refused to testify. She said the public witch hunt that resulted from her claims was too much to handle.

Even though that case was dropped, more controversy emerged from it. Two more women claimed they were assaulted by the rapper after shows in England, reported NPR , though Nelly's attorney had strong words for Greene — words that Greene says were meant to intimidate.

Rosenblum told TMZ : "It does not surprise me that she wanted to have her story publicized. That is Playbook of a person with an agenda and clearly she has one. The agenda is money, fame and notoriety. As Nelly prepped to release his album M. He took part in publicity interviews , he threw out the first pitch at a St.

Louis Cardinals game, he dropped a lead single — "Hey Porsche" — that charted on the Billboard Top , and he released a track list that featured collaborations with some of the industry's biggest stars. His album should have done well. But it didn't. Nelly played the game the way it's supposed to be played, and he still lost. The poor album sales were a career low. In fact, his previous album, 5.

Nelly was introduced to the harsh realities of a changed industry after 5. In an interview with Vlad TV , he said he learned the hard way that album roll-outs and artist popularity had changed from when he came up. This time, "I delivered a number one song, and we didn't win.