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During my sophomore year of college, “Party Music” taught me, a fairly well off white kid from Connecticut, a number of valuable lessons. More from The Coup than any other artist, I realized that you should never apologize for your beliefs, and that you really can get a radical message out while making people bob their head, shake their ass, and in a number of cases laugh that ass off (e.g. “Ass-Breath Killers,” a funky, empowering manifesto against everything sycophantic). Boots and his posse are focused on affecting social change from a multi-race, multi-class point of view and sense of humor. Like most of The Coup’s five albums, Pick a Bigger Weapon is not an end-to-end masterpiece, though it contains plenty of unforgettable songs and hints that fifteen years, three corrupt administrations, several US military atrocities, and innumerable P. Diddy/50 Cent/Nelly/etc. albums down the line, The Coup only becoming more focused and more of a force to be reckoned with. Boots and Pam could care less about whether music has the capability to change things anymore. Whatever they’re aiming for, they’re hitting a target on some level.

So we've all heard the song by Nelly or have seen some rappers with diamonds and gold in their mouths by now. So what exactly is the mythical grill?

Have you ever pondered as to why some folks in the hip hop arena decorate their “grills?” To satiate your curiousity, take a lookie at the following article. As for me, the mouth is a dirty cess pool and I wouldn’t want to subject costly jewelry to food-kibbles and tooth decaying organisms.

Billy Idol, Duran Duran, David Bowie and Nelly were just a few of the names who performed on the night. Tim McGraw opened the evening with a performance of “My Old Friend” as a tribute to the victim’s in New Orleans, Louisana.

Holding a bowl of spaghetti, I turn on the television only to see Wang Chung doing a cover of Nelly’s “Hot in Herrre” on NBC. It reminds me of the time I walked in on my parents singing karaoke to a Jay-Z song. Oh wait, that was just a nightmare. No, this is much worse than karaoke. How can this be enjoyable, if not farcical?

I saw The Longest Yard with my man Andy tonight. I AM SOOOOO ENVIOUS OF NELLY!!!!

God bless/God curse this evil beat box. I'm not sure how to feel about my shameful love of Nelly.

The auction will include two "Pimp Juice" promotional vehicles, 20 cases of Nelly's Pimp Juice energy drink, an authenticity plaque, and an autographed picture of Nelly.

I�ve seen the same �Vote or Die� poster since before the Red State Captains came to town for a little party last year and even just recently laughed about how out of date it was. So imagine my confusion when upon walking past the Garden instead of being greeted by Nelly peering down at me imploring me to do my civic duty, I was instead confronted by a couple rolling in the hay and the tag line advertising a new WE show. The shock. I almost tripped in the middle of 7th Avenue, confused, disoriented. Where was I? Where was my rapper friend? As if...

Four dates on Nelly's just under way U.S. tour have been postponed this weekend in the wake of his sister's death Thursday from complications from leukemia.

Jacqueline "Jackie" Donahue, 31, had been diagnosed with leukemia on March 29, 2001. The cancer was in remission for nearly two years before she suffered a relapse, prompting Nelly to arrange a number of bone marrow drives. A match was never found.

Bling-tastic St. Louis rapper Nelly shot for the moon last summer when he simultaneously released his third and fourth albums, "Sweat" and "Suit."

Nelly is set for a busy 2005 after signing up to produce the soundtrack of his new American football film The Longest Yard.

Nelly has announced details of a UK tour.

Take the Tim McGraw-Nelly hit, Over and Over. The duo makes it almost impossible to tell who's singing what, yet somehow it remains a hit. This, for Free Sol, means light at the end of the tunnel, because they fail in much the same way.