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on 09/16/08 | By Njai Joszor | Filed Under: Hip Hop News, Nelly
After a four year album hiatus, Hip Hop star Nelly is ready for the 'ring' again, this time out he's tapped top R&B talent for "Brass Knuckles," his fifth studio album.
"Nobody's going to give you anything, you got to work hard for what you want. You got to continue to press" says the multi-platinum rapper who approached "Brass Knuckles" with the same hunger and ambition exhibited ...Read
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on 08/31/08 | By Njai Joszor | Filed Under: Hip Hop News, Nelly
Three years after a highly publicized protest at Spelman College, Nelly has issued a candid response to the group that protested his "Tip Drill" video at a bone marrow fundraiser.
"I come down there to teach people about leukemia and help benefit and try to help save lives and try to find a donor for my sister" says Nelly who recently discussed the death of his sister a y ...Read
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A concert played by R&B/Pop singer Nelly Furtado in Moscow, Russia was marred by a stage fight after Russian rapper Timati tried to get on stage to perform a planned set with her.
Venue officials reportedly halted Timati from going near Furtado, leading to Nelly's security team becoming involved in an altercation.
The incident quickly descended into a brawl reportedly involving ...Read
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Global sales of Nelly Furtado's third album, LOOSE, have passed 6.1 million and counting. No other female recording artist has achieved this level of sales during the past year, according to Universal Music Group.
Additionally, LOOSE has racked up 7.4 million digital singles sales worldwide and 4.4 million in ringtones
This week LOOSE will celebrate it's 60th conti ...Read
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International superstar Nelly
Furtado will bring her Get Loose Tour to the United States for 17 concerts,
starting May 30 in Hollywood, Fla., close by where she recorded most of her
five-million-selling hit album "Loose."
The Get Loose Tour started in Europe with 23 shows over five weeks. The
next leg crossed her native Canada, starting in Victoria, B.C. where the
mayor's office pr ...Read
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Nelly Furtado was the highlight of the night at Canada's 2007 Juno Awards this weekend where she hosted and performed a cameo of her 3 hit songs (as well as one of her up-coming hits) and took home every award she was nominated for.
The awards show opened with Furtado, dressed in a black tutu adorned with feathers, floating down from the ceiling to the stage in a nod to her 2001 breakt ...Read
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Powered by the success of her current single, "Say It Right," Nelly Furtado's
platinum album "Loose" has returned to the Billboard Top 200 Album chart
with a strong #7 position. The album debuted at #1 when it was released
June 20, 2006.
Furtado, currently on a headlining tour of Europe, to be followed by a
concert swing across her native Canada, has also been dominating the top
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Nelly Furtado has defended her decision to drop pop and move into the R&B arena. Furtado worked with hit producer Timbaland on her new album ?Loose? that hits the shops next month. Speaking to Billboard Fortado said: "For a long time I kind of denied my R&B and hip-hop roots. "All that rap and R&B I listened to as a kid made an impression on me; I used to write R&B songs ...Read
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