It went on to be nominated for Best Rap Album at the 2000 Grammy Awards (along with its title track for Best Rap Solo Performance) and Nelly was crowned Best New Artist at the 2001 BET Awards.Ĭountry Grammar digital deluxe edition is out on July 24 and can be pre-ordered here. Lunatics on ‘Steal the Show,’ ‘Thicky Thick Girl’ and ‘Batter Up.’ The album went on to sell more than 9 million copies, making it the ninth best-selling rap album of all time in the U.S., and Billboard crowned it the 85th best album of all time on their Top 200 Albums of All Time list. 1 Bonus DVD album - including song video, artist biography, translations and more: Aight. The pair drew deeply from the sounds that surrounded them in the Midwest - urban, country, hip-hop - and fused them into a fresh, infectious, unforgettably hooky whole.Ĭountry Grammar’s evergreen appeal also stems from its astonishing array of guests, including Cedric the Entertainer on ‘Intro,’ Lil Wayne on ‘For My,’ The Teamsters on ‘Never Let ‘Em C U Sweat,’ and most or all of his trusty collaborators St. Country Grammar Lyrics by Nelly from the Hip Hop Masterz, Vol. After Jay E workshopped the music with Nelly, they shopped for labels in New York and the rapper was signed to Universal Records in 1999. The album peaked at 1 on the Billboard 200, spawned multiple chart toppers and won three Grammy awards. Lunatics, and became a hip-hop superstar after the success of his solo release, Country Grammar, in 2000. The album Country Grammar went diamond and sold over 10 million copies worldwide which solidified Nelly’s net worth and fame as a solo artist. Born to a half Tunisian father and American mother, he has been active since 1993 as a bandmate of the rap group St.
Lunatics in 1993 with his childhood friends, MCs ‘Ali’ Jones, Torhi ‘Murphy Lee’ Harper, Lavell ‘City Spud’ Webb, and Robert ‘Kyjuan’ Cleveland. He first started his career by performing with Tim McGraw in 1996. in Austin, Texas, the rapper showed early promise, forming The St. The best-selling album by NELLY is NELLYVILLE, which sold over 11,000,000 copies. The album was produced by Jason ‘Jay E’ Epperson, who himself did a tremendous amount to craft the sound of 2000s Midwestern hip-hop.īorn Cornell Iral Haynes Jr.
3) and the airwaves-conquering title track have dominated global culture for two decades. Whether revisited digitally or on wax, Country Grammar’s beloved hits, like ‘Ride Wit Me’ (No. The 20th anniversary edition of this landmark album will be released as a digital deluxe edition with bonus tracks ‘Icey,’ ‘Come Over,’ ‘Country Grammar (Instrumental),’ and ‘Ride Wit Me (Instrumental),’ all four of which have never been released digitally before. Nelly gave fans in Las Vegas a taste of the album at the music festival, even performing with Florida Georgia Line, who appear on Heartland (Nelly famously collaborated with the country duo for.