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"He's one of the first artists to really combine hip hop and country in a way that works," says Breland, who's done the same with recent genre-blending hits "My Truck" and "Throw It Back". Now, the crossovers have culminated with Nelly's eighth album, the country-inspired "Heartland." He sees it as "showing love to a world, to a whole genre of music that's been riding for Nelly since my first album."Īnd 21 years later, he's able to play in that world with a class of country performers that have a similar musical vocabulary - in part, because they grew up listening to him. In 2004, he brought Tim McGraw to the rap airwaves with their collaboration "Over and Over." A decade later, it was Nelly crashing the country world with a chart-topping remix of Florida Georgia Line's "Cruise"
Over the last two decades, Nelly has figured it out, with work that has increasingly highlighted the ties between hip-hop, R&B and country. "A couple years later, (I thought), ‘Wow, this is something that I don't think I should be ignoring, because I don't think everybody gets this type of support.’ I always wanted to understand what that love was that I was being shown."