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Nelly - "Country Nigga Fly"

Nelly is rich enough so that he can pay people to tell him what's cool.

The thing about Nelly is that he is old. The distinguished St. Louis hitmaker is 37 years old these days, which means he's pretty much an octagenarian in Rap Years. However, he is also rich enough so that he can pay people to tell him what is cool. Which is why the casual, trunk-rattling excellence of "Country Nigga Fly" is legitimately surprising even though it shouldn't be in the least. While with his last album he went straight for the major-key pop jugular and just skated over the beats, letting his natural gift for melody do the work, here he's rapping like he actually means it. Recent heroin bust notwithstanding, it's pretty cool to see Nelly doing cool stuff again. Prepare your Vokal jeans and superfluous face bandages, because his mixtape Scorpio Season drops November 2nd.

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