Nelly Proves he is the King of St. Louis

By: Jarrod Horton

Staff Writer

I’m going to ask you a question, prior to the year 2000, could you name one rapper from St. Louis? I will wait, but unless you are actually from St. Louis, the first rapper you heard to represent the city was Nelly. Almost 25 years ago he dropped his groundbreaking single “Country Grammer, and simultaneously put his city on the radar in regards to Hip Hop.

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