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I guess coming after 'Country Grammar' and everybody thinking, 'Well maybe, that was it.' To come back with something like 'Nellyville' and to have people accept it and appreciate it the way they did, that was a great move.
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I love speed. I love racing cars, whether it's on the streets or wherever. Don't tell the St. Louis police, though.
Nelly
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I'm not a big crier.
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Sometimes as an artist when things come easy to you, you look for other avenues that are more challenging to you and you try to walk those lanes.
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A great body is a gift you give yourself
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I think rappers are the fall guy because some of us don't have the wits to point the finger back. The thing is when you take a whole generation and whip them out, string the mothers out and put the fathers in jail - the reason I know respect is because my father is the mediator between me and my grandfather. I'm the mediator between my son and my father because I'm old enough to understand where my father is coming from and young enough to understand what my kid is trying to do. When you whip out the mediator the kids run wild and the old people are scared of them.
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Lifes strange ,times change, but karma always finds the way. Stay strong, hold on. Don’t let all your dreams fade away. Yeah life can beat you down, what goes it comes around It’s not how you hit the ground, it’s how fast you get back up. And go, keep going ,till it feels like I’m giving my life away Gets hard,and harder, happiness is worth the wait.
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So many people appreciate what you've done, the doors you've opened, but some people realise they're not going to be able to make as much money as they thought possible when you first started.
Nelly
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I think parenting these days is definitely different from when a lot of people grew up. As much blame as we give a lot of our kids for what they're not doing... I also try to give them as much credit for dealing with things that we didn't have to deal with. Bullying was one on one and face to face. Now it's all over the Internet.
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I can get inspired just off the energy of Soulja Boy, just his energy, you have to take something from an artist. Everyone may not look at an artist the same way, but it's something that artist is doing that's creating his success.
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Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change.
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My nickname used to be Moses - still is Moses - for a long time, and people just call me Mo for short.
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Off in the coupe, spreadin' the loot with my family and friends, and my closest of kin.
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You never know until a song comes out and becomes what it becomes, obviously you can't predict how the masses will react.
Nelly
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I think he's going down, ... It's gonna be the 'Revenge for O.J. '
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Sometimes a relationship is what falls cause it's not fair that, that person has to fit inside your life or you have to fit inside that person's life.
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Rappers make what's in, in. If we want to bring back something like Jordache, we just say it and the girls start wearing it. We have a lot of pull.
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To get the Nickelodeon award? That's like 'it.' It's one of the best. It's definitely where you want to be in your career.
Nelly