Nellyville by Nelly
Nellyville is the second studio album by American rapper Nelly. It was released on June 25, 2002. The album debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, with 714,000 copies in its first-week of sales, and remained in the top spot for four weeks. To date the album has sold 6,488,000 copies in the United States. It was also nominated for "Album of the Year" at the 2003 Grammys. The album was certified Sextuple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on June 9, 2003 in the United States, and 4× platinum by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) (400,000 copies) on December 2002 in Canada. Nellyville has gone at least gold or platinum in over thirty countries
Pop music has been filled with utopias, but few sound more fun than <i>Nellyville</i>, a hip-hop candy mountain where reparations take the form of "40 acres and a pool". Nelly is mayor, of course, and he fills this LP with the sort of joyous, hook-heavy rap you'd expect to hear in such a village. "Hot in Herre" bounces on a shimmering Neptunes beat that feels as dynamic and liquid as the flows on top of it, while "Air Force Ones" cruises on stomping, slimy synths.
