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Direct From Hollywood: Does Nelly Consider Himself a Country Artist? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Nelly will be celebrating
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Speaker 1: the twenty fifth anniversary of his groundbreaking Diamond certified masterpiece
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Speaker 1: Country Grammar this summer, which is undeniably hip hop but
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Speaker 1: does have the word country in its title. And on
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Speaker 1: that note, Nelly has also had big successes working alongside
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Speaker 1: country mainstays like FGL and Tim McGraw long before other
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Speaker 1: rappers dabbled in the genre. So does Nelly consider himself
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Speaker 1: a country artist in any way, Not exactly, but he
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Speaker 1: does consider himself country inspired.
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Speaker 2: Country artists are artists that each sleep brief country music.
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Speaker 2: But what country music has done is they've opened their
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Speaker 2: arms since two thousand and three with me and Tim McGraw.
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Speaker 2: I love country music. I love being a part of
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Speaker 2: such a dope genre of music and being like, if
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Speaker 2: it was on the flip, we would say, Yo, they
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Speaker 2: opened to the cookout. Hey, welcome to the cookout, So
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Speaker 2: I guess you know, I would say that they led
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Speaker 2: Nelly to the whole down, So it's all good.
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Speaker 1: You can watch Nelly on his Where the Party At
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Speaker 1: tour alongside his friends Jah Rule even more. Tickets are
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Speaker 1: on sale now direct from Hollywood