Nelly is the father of today's rap (no hate)

[wideawake]

Nelly has his own lane

Weezy and Kanye all have a unique style

Comparing nelly w/ other is like apples and watermelons--bad comparision

 

[northtoledoboi]

I wouldn't call Nelly the father of anything but his kids...BUT he did open the doors for rappers to think outside the box and do other genres of music. I'm not saying he was the 1st one to do it but he was the 1st one to do it with that much success. Even though it was 1 song, it did a lot.

 

[_Ozymandias_]

i would say Andre 3000 had a bigger impact on this generation of rappers than Nelly. "the love below"(also from '03) was one of the most experimental hip hop albums ever and it was a commercial and critical success. after that these hipster/nerd rappers that it was ok to be "different". plus his sense of style opened the door to what a lot of this generation is doing as far as style as well.

 

[KillaCham]

If anything, Nelly fathered almost everything y'all hate about hip-hop today. He kicked down the doors for it being cool to not know how to rap again.

 

[usmarin3]

The Love Below was a rip off of Ceelos album.

 

[damobb2deep]

If anything, Nelly fathered almost everything y'all hate about hip-hop today. He kicked down the doors for it being cool to not know how to rap again.

so u sayin nelly can't rap?.....

 

[_Ozymandias_]

so u sayin nelly can't rap?.....

can you quote 5 classic nelly verses? 10 classic nelly lines?

 

[Tha Originator]

T/S is so for wrong in this

kanye came into the game with his own vision and style hes nothing like nelly

Nelly was a hitmaker rappers who follow his style to me are 50cent and flo-rida

 

[northtoledoboi]

so u sayin nelly can't rap?.....

I hope thats not what he saying. Nelly can rap, but niggas hated on him cuz he blew up and outreached us & got pop. But that's also how he lost his popularity too. But anyways, he always came correct spitting. It may be a couple of lines you can poke at and say it was lame but overall he was decent.

 

[_Ozymandias_]

The Love Below was a rip off of Ceelos album.

cee-lo was always a singer, and 'love below' was a much more emotional album than 'perfect imperfections'. cee-lo was still talking about street shit, dre made an album about falling in out of love. now artist like kanye, cudi and drake talk about emotions and it's ok.

 

[KillaCham]

so u sayin nelly can't rap?.....

Didn't say that...but look what followed after he came out.

 

[Tha Originator]

Didn't say that...but look what followed after he came out.

rappers never wanna sound like rappers Label Execs. always put out music thats hot at the moment thats what the industry does

 

[KillaCham]

rappers never wanna sound like rappers Label Execs. always put out music thats hot at the moment thats what the industry does

Ok? lol

 

[jdborough]

yea mayne, listening back to College Dropout, I can totally hear Nelly's artistic vision and style.. Threadstarter is the G.O.A.T., someone should call Kanye out for this.......

/s

P.S. please answer this... If Nelly pioneered the same shit that made Kanye & Wayne go plat. in a week and multi. plat overall...... Then WAT DA FUK happened wit Brass Knuckles and all of the singles none of which I can remember...

 

[damobb2deep]

yea mayne, listening back to College Dropout, I can totally hear Nelly's artistic vision and style.. Threadstarter is the G.O.A.T., someone should call Kanye out for this.......

/s

P.S. please answer this... If Nelly pioneered the same shit that made Kanye & Wayne go plat. in a week and multi. plat overall...... Then WAT DA FUK happened wit Brass Knuckles and all of the singles none of which I can remember...

he went gold off his name on that cd.....

the problem was they was tryna push him and ashanti bein a item too much...

 

[Tha Originator]

he went gold off his name on that cd.....

the problem was they was tryna push him and ashanti bein a item too much...

the problem was it was wack on all levels

 

[KillaCham]

The problem is that nobody cares about Nelly anymore,he has no buzz, he sucks now and cant produce a hit single, and his sound is outdated.

 

[KillaCham]

But anyways, the threadstarter is right about nelly fathering some of today's music...but it's the Plies and the Gucci Mane's, not Jay, Kudi, Kanye, ect. Like I said, Nelly made it cool to not be able to rap again. Who else you think put Chingy, J-Kwon, ect on the map?

 

[MacOne]

If anything, Nelly fathered almost everything y'all hate about hip-hop today. He kicked down the doors for it being cool to not know how to rap again.

Shut up fagg0t you dont know shit about hip hop, stick to beyonce and rnb

 

[jdborough]

he went gold off his name on that cd.....

the problem was they was tryna push him and ashanti bein a item too much...

Yea, you also gotta remember that that gold certifaction was extremely long to achieve.. If I remember correctly he debuted with like 60 something thousand and not even in the top ten(