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  • American hip hop singers
  • African-American male rappers
  • Grammy Award winners
  • American hip hop record producers
  • Midwest hip hop musicians
  • African-American male actors
  • American male television actors
  • African-American record producers
  • American beverage industry businesspeople
  • American businesspeople in retailing
  • American fashion businesspeople
  • American male film actors
  • American philanthropists
  • Republic Records artists
  • World Music Awards winners
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  • African-American investors
  • Businesspeople from Missouri
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  • Military brats
  • Musicians from Austin, Texas
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  • Rappers from St. Louis, Missouri
  • Rappers from Texas
  • Shoe designers
  • African-American sports executives and administrators
  • American nonprofit businesspeople
  • People from St. Louis County, Missouri
  • Charlotte Bobcats owners
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  • American rapper born on November 2, 1978 in Austin, Texas, and raised in St. Louis, Missouri.
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  • Cornell Iral Haynes Jr. (born November 2, 1974), better known by his stage name, Nelly, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, entrepreneur, investor and occasional actor from St. Louis, Missouri. Nelly embarked on his music career with Midwest hip hop group St. Lunatics, in 1993 and signed to Universal Records in 1999. Under Universal, Nelly began his solo career in the year 2000, with his debut album Country Grammar, of which the title-track was a top ten hit. The album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 and went on to peak at number one. Country Grammar is Nelly's best-selling album to date, selling over 8.4 million copies in the United States. His following album Nellyville, produced the number-one hits %22Hot in Herre%22 and %22Dilemma%22 (featuring Kelly Rowland). Other singles included %22Work It%22 (featuring Justin Timberlake), %22Air Force Ones%22 (featuring Murphy Lee and St. Lunatics), %22Pimp Juice%22 and %22#1%22.With the same-day dual release of Sweat, Suit (2004) and the compilation Sweatsuit (2006), Nelly continued to generate many chart-topping hits. Sweat debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 342,000 copies in its first week. On the same week of release, Suit debuted at number one, selling around 396,000 copies in its first week on the same chart. Nelly's fifth studio album, Brass Knuckles, was released on September 16, 2008, after several delays. It produced the singles %22Party People%22 (featuring Fergie), %22Stepped on My J'z%22 (featuring Jermaine Dupri and Ciara) and %22Body on Me%22 (featuring Akon and Ashanti). In 2010, Nelly released the album 5.0. The lead single, %22Just a Dream%22, was certified triple platinum in the United States. It also included the singles %22Move That Body%22 (featuring T-Pain and Akon) and %22Gone%22 (a sequel to the 2002 single %22Dilemma%22 in collaboration with Kelly Rowland).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. He has been referred to by Peter Shapiro as %22one of the biggest stars of the new millennium%22, and the RIAA ranks Nelly as the fourth best-selling rap artist in American music history, with 21 million albums sold in the United States. On December 11, 2009, Billboard ranked Nelly the number three Top Artist of the Decade.
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  • US rapper
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  • 1974-11-02
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  • Pop
  • R&B
  • Hip Hop
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