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Post by busyboy on Aug 18, 2007 6:29:47 GMT -5
Nelly's fifth studio album is scheduled for release next month. First single "Wadsyaname" has leaked yesterday.
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Post by busyboy on Aug 23, 2007 9:33:08 GMT -5
T.I., Akon, Snoop, Pimp C Get Behind Nelly's Brass Knuckles MC's first LP in three years is due October 16.By Shaheem Reid Nelly has set a tentative release date of October 16 for his first album in three years, Brass Knuckles. Earlier this year, producer Jermaine Dupri — who said Nells is "the only person I go in the studio with and party all night" — said Nelly was looking to get Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson and even Bruce Springsteen on the LP. While those names aren't confirmed, T.I., Akon, Snoop Dogg, UGK's Pimp C, Babyface and Derrty Entertainment artist Avery Storm have all jumped on the mic. In addition to Dupri, Pharrell Williams and Bryan-Michael Cox are among the project's producers. The first single, "Wadsyaname," just hit the streets and follows Nelly's tradition of allowing his Midwestern accent and slang to spill into his lyrics and spelling: He's saying, "What's your name?" to a lady he's approaching. "Shawty, shawty, shawty, what your name is?" he asks on the chorus. "Shawty, shawty, shawty what's your sign?" In the song's lyrics, Nelly doesn't have the best intentions, but he doesn't mean any harm either. "I'm trying to stay respectful and polite/ You could tell me to go to hell if you like/ I ain't the one to be paying to do the do/ Before it's over you going to say, 'I should be paying you.' " "Wadsyaname" was produced by Neff-U. Another track slotted for the album, "Cut It Out," featuring Pimp C and the Youngbloodz's Sean P., has hit the streets unofficially.
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Post by Diablo Cody™ on Aug 24, 2007 16:56:05 GMT -5
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Post by calispartan on Aug 24, 2007 17:08:38 GMT -5
i think his time is up but i may be wrong.
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Post by Player211 on Aug 24, 2007 17:36:14 GMT -5
Considering how good his new single is, I'll definately be buying this! His first two albums were great.
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Post by shaq91 on Aug 24, 2007 17:41:06 GMT -5
is the song wit mariah & janet he wanted to do gonna be here??
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Post by shaq91 on Aug 24, 2007 18:43:05 GMT -5
Considering how good his new single is, I'll definately be buying this! His first two albums were great. i like the new single also, its very good
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Post by Glove Slap on Aug 24, 2007 19:11:50 GMT -5
His new single is good, I like the "All My Life" sample.
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Post by SHOOTER on Aug 24, 2007 20:49:12 GMT -5
I hate his new single. HATE IT!
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Post by busyboy on Aug 25, 2007 3:48:04 GMT -5
I hate his new single. HATE IT! I like it. Talk about a sample besting the original song, LOL...
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Post by busyboy on Oct 17, 2007 8:54:32 GMT -5
Nelly Ready To Battle Don Imus, Other Foes With Hard-Hitting New LP Brass Knuckles, his first album in three years, also features uplifting collaboration with Chuck D.By Jayson Rodriguez, with additional reporting by Sway J. Calloway NEW YORK — In the three years between Nelly's last project and his latest — the forthcoming Brass Knuckles due out November 13 — the St. Louis rapper has learned plenty, he says. "Being away for a minute, I got a chance to see a lot," he told MTV News earlier this month. "This is probably the first time I really got a chance to pay attention to everything else [going on], and to see now from all different angles." Maybe, then, it was that new sense of perspective that led him to ask Chuck D to contribute to the album. According to Nelly, after participating in BET's "Hip-Hop vs. America" town-hall chat with the legendary Public Enemy frontman, among others, he asked the veteran rapper to collaborate on a track called "Self Esteem." "I don't think that people got [what Public Enemy was]," Nelly said, explaining how the song came together. "Well, what I took from Public Enemy before I got into the studio with them — just them in their moment of triumph when they were getting down — was be an individual. 'Don't believe the hype.' Right now, we believing the hype. We're trapped in believing the hype. ... I don't think Chuck was telling you what to be or when to be it, but just be it, be yourself. "I had always had this thing: I want to do a song and I wanted to put Chuck on it," Nelly said. "So when I got [to the BET show], I had the song. I didn't even have a chance to play it for him. He said, 'Let's do it.' Just that easy. 'Aiight, but I want you to hear the song,' 'cause I was real anxious. ... He was like, 'Don't worry about it, send it to me. It's done.' And I was like, 'Wow.' "
"Self Esteem" is an uplifting tune in the vein of PE's past classics. But Nelly is running with that topic for more than just records. He has been a target of political activists and social groups, in large part due to his video for the remix track "Tip Drill," which featured him swiping a credit card through a woman's buttocks, and Nelly has become more outspoken in his defense. He's also begun speaking out against issues he feels are more pertinent to his community than his own mistake, the latest being Don Imus' potential return to radio. Nelly felt firing the controversial shock jock was akin to a slap on the wrist compared to other punishments that could have been proposed, had the community been more patient regarding the matter.
"We jumped the gun, and we don't think before we move," Nelly said. "Right when Imus did that, instead of everybody getting all riled up and pulling him off the air, [we could have said,] 'Wait a minute, y'all. Hold up before we pull him off the air. Let's get what we can get out of the situation; because they do it to us every time. Let's think about this; this guy is a moneymaker.' It's obvious [MSNBC] didn't want him off the air, because the incident had happened two weeks beforehand, [and] they were trying to find out where it was going before they let him go. So, what can we get out of this? The guy is a moneymaker. How about we fine both of them? Let's fine both of them $50 million over the next five years; $10 million a year. ...
"Let's start the Don Imus Nappy Negro College Fund," Nelly continued. "And then for the next five years, we're sending brothers and sisters to college off his mistake. And let's hope he does it again next year! So we can get 100 million. Let's provoke him! Somebody call up there and piss him off. But again, us jumping to conclusions, because you got so many people wanting to claim the glory off of it, wanting to step in front of the camera, we got shook out of our 40 acres and a mule again. We missed it again! It was right there! Do I think he should've been fired? Hell no! Stand up, let's dock him. We could've built schools. We could have built rec centers off of that. We could have gone to college. We missed it. Now we got him fired. What did that do? It don't matter, he's rich. What is he going to do, go home, take a vacation, lay up, watch a little TV, then get a bigger deal on a satellite-radio station? [Ed. note: Imus is reportedly expected to return to radio, New York City's WABC-AM, December 3.] Now he's even bigger because now black folks know who he is. Now we're tempted to tune in just to hear if he's gonna say some other dumb stuff. Now he's even bigger. All we did was blow him up."
Right now, though, Nelly is concentrating on making himself bigger. He shot the clip to his first single, "Wadsyaname," two weeks ago in New York, and the Chris Robinson-directed video is scheduled to debut at the end of October.
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Oct 17, 2007 22:25:21 GMT -5
He needs to bring on Go Lil Mama! Get him another club banger up the charts. link-protector.com/314595/Watch the BET Hip Hop Awards performance where he performs it. Produced by The Neptunes.
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Oct 17, 2007 23:23:08 GMT -5
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Post by sdot23 on Oct 18, 2007 14:44:14 GMT -5
That song is hot!
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Post by **βécky**™ on Oct 18, 2007 15:06:28 GMT -5
Go Lil' Mama is HOT
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Post by nsfb17 on Oct 18, 2007 15:07:53 GMT -5
Can't wait! I love Nelly. I have all of his past albums, so I'll definitely be buying this one.
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Post by d.t.m on Oct 18, 2007 18:44:48 GMT -5
What happened to his dream lead duet with Janet & Mariah?
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Post by **βécky**™ on Oct 18, 2007 18:55:30 GMT -5
^ J.Dupri said that his concept wasnt good enougth, or sumthin like that, it just didnt work out?
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Oct 18, 2007 20:16:18 GMT -5
JD said that he won't be doing any kind of duet with Mariah and Janet without a concept that he knows will become a hit. Anything less is unnecessary.
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Post by d.t.m on Oct 19, 2007 14:08:07 GMT -5
JD said that he won't be doing any kind of duet with Mariah and Janet without a concept that he knows will become a hit. Anything less is unnecessary. I always wished the smash song Promiscous featured 2 girls & a guy(maybe Fergie & Nelly) and not 1. That woulda been hot, not to mention the video!
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Post by shaq91 on Nov 5, 2007 22:14:45 GMT -5
cover? tracklisting? anything?
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Post by busyboy on Nov 6, 2007 8:20:25 GMT -5
Hmmm, it's out in a week and information about the album is scarce. I wouldn't be surprised if it was silently pushed back.
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Post by sdot23 on Nov 6, 2007 12:11:48 GMT -5
I heard it was pushed back to next year.
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Nov 8, 2007 5:37:37 GMT -5
Its been pushed back to December 11th.
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Post by sdot23 on Nov 10, 2007 10:25:43 GMT -5
SOHH Exclusive: Nelly Tired Of Bum Rap, "You Can't Tell Me 'Tip Drill' Was Worse Than Halle Berry's Sex Scene"Friday - November 9, 2007 by Lauren Carter St. Louis rapper Nelly said his racy "Tip Drill" video is no worse than Halle Berry's on screen sex scene in Monster's Ball.In an exclusive interview with SOHH, the platinum-selling rapper said that there is a double standard in place when actors can simulate sex onscreen but rappers are criticized for having half-naked women in their videos. "You look at Essence magazine, and they wouldn't put a rapper on the cover," he told SOHH. "They wouldn't put Nelly on the cover of Essence. Why? I don't know. Would I like to do it? Of course I would. Why not?" [ Watch here] "You wouldn't put me on the cover because of the 'Tip Drill' video ... that's probably your main focus," he added. "But yet still, you put Halle Berry on the cover. She's had a 15-minute sex scene with some white guy in front of a couch ... I mean you can't tell me that 'Tip Drill' was worse than watching that sex scene between Billy Bob (Thornton) and Halle Berry. You can't tell me that. That was longer than four or five minutes. You feel what I'm sayin'?" Back in 2005 Essence launched the "Take Back the Music" campaign, a year-long effort to clean up hip-hop music, which targeted rappers like Nelly for their messages about women. The "Tip Drill" video finds Nelly and his St. Lunatics crew surrounded by women in bikinis and thongs dancing, contorting, and in the uncensored version - simulating sexual acts while topless. In Monster's Ball Berry and Thornton have a graphic, extended love scene. Nelly said his charity work is overlooked when he is maligned for the images in his videos. "I do numerous charity events," Nelly said. "I've got people signed up on the bone marrow, stem cell. I've got over 5,000 people registered through our not for profit and things that we've been able to do. We found 7 donors ... for people that needed transplants. We've helped saved 7 lives. Period. Have you done that?" According to the St. Louis Business Journal, the rapper has also teamed up with NBA guard and St. Louis native Larry Hughes to build a massive athletic complex on 60 acres of farmland held by Nelly's development company, Nelly Inc. "We're trying to keep this under wraps," said Christopher "Topher" Jones, managing partner of Nelly Inc. "This thing is in the baby stages. We're still in talks with the city." Nelly's new album Brass Knuckles[/b] is set to drop on December 11.
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Post by SHOOTER on Nov 10, 2007 23:11:49 GMT -5
People need to get over "Tip Drill" seriously. It was one video and one song; the world did not stop spinning because of it.
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Post by sdot23 on Nov 11, 2007 9:56:08 GMT -5
People need to get over "Tip Drill" seriously. It was one video and one song; the world did not stop spinning because of it. Word. Seriously though, why is Nelly bringing it up ALL the time? He can promote the album in other ways.
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Post by George on Nov 22, 2007 19:26:54 GMT -5
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Post by oldrockx666 on Nov 22, 2007 22:25:03 GMT -5
Is this even coming out this year? I highly doubt it.
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Post by shaq91 on Nov 24, 2007 18:04:55 GMT -5
is there a cover & tracklisting??
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