Nelly was born Cornell Iral Haynes Jr. and signed to Universal Records in 1999. His debut album Country Grammar is his best-selling album to date, selling over 8. 4 million copies in the United States. Nelly won Grammy Awards in 2003 and 2004 and had a supporting role in the 2005 remake film The Longest Yard with Adam Sandler and Chris Rock. He has two clothing lines, Vokal and Apple Bottoms.
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Nelly is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, entrepreneur, investor, and occasional actor from St. Louis, Missouri. He was born Cornell Iral Haynes Jr. and signed to Universal Records in 1999. His debut album Country Grammar is his best-selling album to date, selling over 8. 4 million copies in the United States. Nelly won Grammy Awards in 2003 and 2004 and had a supporting role in the 2005 remake film The Longest Yard with Adam Sandler and Chris Rock. He has two clothing lines, Vokal and Apple Bottoms. On December 11, 2009, Billboard ranked Nelly the number three Top Artist of the Decade. Nelly’s fifth studio album, Brass Knuckles, was released on September 16, 2008, after several delays. In 2010, Nelly released the album 5. 0. The lead single, ‘Just a Dream’, was certified triple platinum in the U.S. It included the singles ‘Move That Body’, ‘Gone’ and ‘Body on Me’ Nelly has been referred to by Peter Shapiro as ‘one of the biggest stars of the new millennium’ and the RIAA ranks Nelly as the fourth best- selling rap artist in American music history, with 21 million albums sold in theUnited States. His single ‘Ride wit Me’ was released as a single in 2000 and went on to become one of the top ten hits of all time.
He is married to singer/songwriter/producer Lauryn Hill and has two children. He also has a son with rapper Lil’ Kim, Lil’ Wayne, and a daughter with rapper/singer Lil’ Jazzy Jeff. His music has been featured on the soundtrack to the film The Lego Movie and in the movie The Lego Batman Movie, among other films and TV shows. He released his first solo album in 2000, ‘Country Grammar’, which was followed by two more, ‘Nellyville’ and ‘Brass Knuckles’ In 2004, he released ‘Sweat’, which produced the number-one hits ‘Hot in Herre’, ‘Dilemma’ and ‘Sweatsuit’, as well as several other chart-topping hits. His second album, ‘Suit’, was released in 2007 and produced the top-ten hits ‘#1’, ‘#2′ and’ ‘#3’ The group St. Lunatics reunited in 2009 and Nelly returned to the St. Louis hip hop scene with a new group, the ‘Lunatics’ He has also appeared in several films, including ‘The Lego Movie’, ‘The LEGO Batman Movie’ and The LEGO Movie: The Second Part’, and ‘The Last Movie’, as a supporting character in the film ‘Lonely Man on Earth’ He also starred in the TV series The Walking Dead, ‘The Walking Dead’ and ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ He is the son of former St Louis resident Cornell Haynes and his half-brother City Spud.
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