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Nelly
St. Louis rapper Nelly owned the early '00s with a string of hits that included four No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100. He's sold more than 21 million albums, and his 2000 debut Country Grammar is one of the only hip-hop albums to have gone 10 times platinum.