So it’s not an awards show per se, but tonight is the night MTV says goodbye to Total Request Live (or TRL as it’s more popularly known). While the right way to send it off would be to play 1/4 of a video, have some obnoxious kid screaming over it, and feature lots of “whooooooooo!”s, they are sending the show off with a 2 1/2 hour special that’s sure to feature some serious star power. I have selflessly decided to sit through this event with my trusty bag of sour cream and onion Ruffles (Frito-Lay, y’all need to pay up). Worst comes to worse, it should be interesting. I will suspend my Jackson alert for this particular event (ironically, just as some video footage of Michael standing on top of a car (relax, it’s from 2001) pops up on the screen).
Tag: Nelly
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Catch a Falling Star: Nelly
Nelly. Photo by reeb0k2008. Actually, if you think about it, Nelly’s six or seven year run was longer than probably should have been expected. The St. Louis rapper’s career was more or less based on a gimmick-Nelly pretty much spilt the difference between your average singer and your average rapper…and make no mistake, he was pretty average at both. The failure of his current album “Brass Knuckles” and his label’s yearlong campaign to turn shit into sunshine to no avail should put the cap on the career of one of the biggest selling pop rappers in recent history.
Make no mistake, Nelly was a superstar from the moment he appeared on the scene in the summer of 1999. At a time when Midwest rappers from Bone Thugs n Harmony to Eminem were making waves, the rapper was in the right place geographically, and his sing-song flow had massive amounts of pop (and youth) appeal. Despite the occasionally sexually explicit lyric, he was the MC that was playable to a street audience as well as the Nickelodeon set.
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Chart Chat 9/28/08: Kanye, Raphael Saadiq, David Archuleta & More!!
Happy Sunday folks. We’ve just taken the first day off in recent MHW history, and I’m back, refreshed, and ready to do another Chart Chat column! YEAHHHHHHH!!!
Overexcitement aside, here be this week’s charts. Courtesy of the fine folks at Billboard Magazine.
- Top 20 Singles
#1) Whatever You Like-T.I.
#2) So What-P!nk
#3) Love Lockdown-Kanye West
#4) Disturbia-Rihanna
#5) Love Story-Taylor Swift
#6) Paper Planes-M.I.A.
#7) Closer-NeYo
#8) Can’t Believe It- T Pain feat. Lil’ Wayne
#9) Hot N Cold-Katy Perry
#10) American Boy-Estelle feat. Kanye West
#11) Forever-Chris Brown
#12) Got Money- Lil Wayne feat. T-Pain
#13) I’m Yours-Jason Mraz
#14) Miss Independent- NeYo
#15) Crush-David Archuleta
#16) Viva La Vida-Coldplay
#17-Dangerous-Akon feat. Kardinal Offishall
#18) Better in Time-Leona Lewis
#19) One Step at a Time-Jordin Sparks
#20) In the Ayer- Flo Rida feat. will.i.am- Top 20 Albums
Darius Rucker. Photo by Master Sgt. Val Gempis. #1) Death Magnetic-Metallica
#2) Year of the Gentleman-NeYo
#3) Brass Knuckles-Nelly
#4) Rock & Roll Jesus-Kid Rock
#5) Learn to Live-Darius Rucker
#6) The Recession-Young Jeezy
#7) We Global-DJ Khaled
#8) Black Butterfly-Buckcherry
#9) Tha Carter III- Lil’ Wayne
#10) L.A.X.-The Game
#11) A Little Bit Longer-Jonas Brothers
#12) All Hope is Gone-Slipknot
#13) Mamma Mia Soundtrack-Various Artists
#14) Good Girl Gone Bad-Rihanna
#15) Love on the Inside-Sugarland
#16) Overcome-All that Remains
#17) Viva La Vida or Death & All His Friends-Coldplay
#18) Do You Know-Jessica Simpson
#19) The Way I See It-Raphael Saadiq
#20) Breakout-Miley Cyrus
