Today C4 brings us another trendy hip-hop release. We’ve posted a bit of Hip-Hop here and there and we try to supply you with a diverse selection of music releases. Hopefully this one by Nelly doesn’t let true hip-hop fans down. Enjoy the tunes.

Album review: Combining Will Smith’s friendliness with St. Louis slang and a down-home drawl, Nelly has mastered his own brand of crossover appeal. On his fifth album, he mostly sticks to that pop-rap formula, cranking his distinctly melodic flow to hyper-speeds and playing the good-natured hedonist on cuts like “Party People.” But when he tries to come off hard on a handful of Dirty South brawlers, he ends up sounding generic: “U Ain’t Him” finds him rhyming about gunplay and warning no one in particular about “running up on the wrong nigga.” Sixteen different guests help Knuckles through its changes of pace, with big names like Snoop Dogg, Fergie and Pharrell dropping by. And though these famous assistants may point to concerns about Nelly’s declining market position, they also deliver some highlights: Check out the Chuck D.-assisted “Self Esteem,” a Seventies funk-flavored jam where Nelly carps about racism, and hooky pleasures like “Body on Me,” where Nelly and Akon compete to come up with the catchiest way to express how horny they are.

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Track list:

01. U Ain’t Him (Feat. Rick Ross) (03:16)
02. Hold Up (Feat. T.I. & LL Cool J) (03:49)
03. LA (Feat. Snoop Dogg & Nate Dogg) (04:23)
04. Long Night (Feat. Usher) (03:15)
05. Lie (Feat. St. Lunatics) (04:21)
06. Party People (Feat. Fergie) (03:59)
07. Self-Esteem (Feat. Chuck D) (03:38)
08. Body On Me (Feat. Akon & Ashanti) (03:30)
09. Stepped On My J’z (Feat. Jermaine Dupri & Ciara) (05:04)
10. Let It Go (Feat. Lil’ Mama & Pharrell) (04:22)
11. One And Only (04:20)
12. Chill (Feat. St. Lunatics) (05:43)
13. Who Fucks Wit Me (Feat. Avery Storm) (04:08)
14. UCUD GEDIT (Feat. Gucci Mane & R. Kelly) (04:28)

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Artist: Nelly
Title: Brass Knuckles
Label: Universal
Genre: Rap / Hip-jop
Quality: VBR / 44.1 kHz / Joint Stereo
Playtime: 00:58:16
Size: 78.8 MB
Release name: Nelly-Brass_Knuckles-2008-C4

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