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Nelly’s Right: The Rap Game Was Harder 20 Years Ago

Nelly guest stars in LeBron James' "The Shop" to discuss his career and competing with Eminem, JAY-Z, and Lil Wayne.

Drake, for example, on his first Rock Ross collab “Lord Knows,” laments having to deal with a climate in which a celebrity’s private life is incessantly mined for content by publications and people on social media, alike. Ask a rap fan why no albums have managed to sell crazy so far this year and they’ll likely point out the fact that Drake, Kendrick Lamar, and J. Cole—the venerable “Big 3” —haven’t dropped anything. Even if you add Future, Nicki Minaj and Ye, to that group, it still wouldn’t match up to the sheer number of heavy hitters who were moving units back then.

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