Nelly to release Tippin In Da Club

NELLY’s highly anticipated sixth album, 5.0., will be released by Universal Motown Records on November 16, 2010. Produced by Jim Jonsin and Rico Love, “Just a Dream” has been serviced to Top 40 and rhythm crossover formats. Entertainment Weekly raves: “It’s getting hot in here, part 2: NELLY makes a worthy follow-up to ‘Hot In Herre’ with his new single, ‘Just a Dream.’” NELLY is also gearing up for the release of 5.0 with a second single, the infectious club jam “Tippin’ In Da Club,” produced by Dutch, which is heating up the airwaves at urban radio.

5.0 is the eagerly awaited follow-up to NELLY’s gold-certified 2008 album, Brass Knuckles, which debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 chart. The new album marks a solid return to form for the St. Louis native who recently teamed up with the Ford Motor Company to feature a tricked-out 2011 Mustang GT customized by DUB magazine on the cover of 5.0.

NELLY has been busy gearing up for the release of 5.0 since the start of 2010. In January, ESPN The Magazine enlisted him as its VIP celebrity red carpet reporter at the sixth annual NEXT Super Bowl event at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach. In June, he kicked off a 10-city summer club tour sponsored by the Crown Royal Company. In July, NELLY headlined a free concert in his hometown of St. Louis in support of the city’s bid to host the 2012 Democratic National Convention. And in August, NELLY joined the St. Louis urban radio station Hot 104.1 (WHHL-FM) for a five-week run as the temporary afternoon drive-time host.

Ranked No. 3 on Billboard’s definitive list of the best-selling artists of the 2000s, NELLY has sold 30 million albums/singles in less than 10 years. He emerged in the summer of 2000 with his groundbreaking debut CD, Country Grammar, which sold an astonishing 250,000 copies in its first week of release. The landmark album spent seven weeks atop the Billboard 200 chart and sold more than 9 million copies. Two years later, NELLY’s sophomore album, Nellyville, entered the Billboard 200 chart at No. 1, sold more than 6 million copies, and won two Grammy awards for Best Male Rap Solo Performance (“Hot in Herre”) and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration (“Dilemma,” featuring Kelly Rowland). In 2003, NELLY dropped a platinum-selling remix album called Da Derrty Versions: The Reinvention, followed by a dual set of releases in 2004 with Sweat and Suit, which collectively sold more than 4.5 million copies and earned NELLY his third Grammy award for Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group (“Shake Ya Tailfeather,” featuring Murphy Lee and P. Diddy). In 2008, NELLY released his gold-certified fifth album, Brass Knuckles.

Beyond his stellar artistic output, NELLY is the CEO of his own label, Derrty Ent., owner of the popular Apple Bottoms women’s clothing line, co-owner of the Charlotte Bobcats NBA expansion team, and founder of two non-profit organizations, 4Sho4Kids and Jes Us 4 Jackie.

THE FACTS:
Birth name: Cornell Haynes, Jr.
Birth date: November 2, 1974
Hometown: Born in Austin, Texas; raised in St. Louis, Missouri
Parents: Rhonda Mack and Cornell Haynes, Sr.
Children: Chanell Haynes (born February 27, 1994), Cornell Haynes III (born March 2, 1999)
Hobbies: Basketball, baseball, poker, bowling
Occupation(s): Rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, entrepreneur, philanthropist
Genre(s): Hip-hop, rap, R&B, pop
Year’s active as artist (1999–Present)
Record Label: Universal Motown Records (1999–Present)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
With the release of his dual set of 2004 albums, Sweat and Suit, Nelly became the first solo artist and the first hip-hop artist in history to debut at No. 1 and No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart
Named one of the “Breakthrough Stars of 2001” by People magazine
Tied with Sir Elton John for the most consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart by a male solo artist
Ranked No. 3 on Billboard’s list of the best-selling artists of the 2000s
Ranked No. 39 on Entertainment Weekly’s 2002 “101 Most Powerful” list
Featured in Teen People’s “25 Hottest Stars Under 25” issue in 2001 and 2002
Topped Billboard’s 2000 Year-End Chart as Top Hot Rap Artist–Male
Topped Billboard’s 2002 Year-End Charts as the Top Pop Artist, Top Pop Artist–Male, Top Hot 100 Singles Artist–Male, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artist–Male, Top Hot Rap Artist, and the Top Hot Rap Single (“Hot in Herre”)
Ranked No. 29 on VH1’s 2003 list of the 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Artists
“Hot in Herre” ranked No. 65 on VH1’s 2003 list of the 100 Best Songs of the Past 25 Years



"Tippin In Da Club" by Nelly - release date: 11/16/10..