The way Nelly was Drake before Drake was Drake

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  • Jul 12, 2022
    Oblivion X

    Nelly a legend but cmon he's not winning a verzuz against drake lol

    Nelly is top heavy with the hits, his biggest hits are hard to deny. Drake has the legs/endurance to win overall.

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    Oblivion X

    Nelly a legend but cmon he's not winning a verzuz against drake lol

    This how you know they really dislike Drake to the point of discredit

    Nelly just doesn’t have 20 SOLID all around hits that will hold up. He got 3 or 4 classics but the rest is forgettable. Drake can truly give you 20 highlight songs.

    • Best I Ever Had
    • Over
    • Headlines
    • The Motto
    • Marvin’s Room
    • Started from the Bottom
    • Hold On
    • 0 to 100
    • Back to Back
    • Energy
    • Jumpman
    • Hotline Bling
    • One Dance
    • Controlla
    • Passionfruit
    • God’s Plan
    • Nice for What
    • In My Feelings
    • Wants and Needs
    • Knife Talk

    After EI, Country Grammar, Hot In Herre, and Ride Wit Me how the hell Nelly holding up against all these?

    This list legit not even including collabs

    SICKO MODE, Forever, F***in Problems, I’m On One, Right Above It, All Me, Look Alive, etc demolishing Nelly collabs.

    S*** you pull out Work and Nelly might not even win with Dilemma

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    iHype

    This how you know they really dislike Drake to the point of discredit

    Nelly just doesn’t have 20 SOLID all around hits that will hold up. He got 3 or 4 classics but the rest is forgettable. Drake can truly give you 20 highlight songs.

    • Best I Ever Had
    • Over
    • Headlines
    • The Motto
    • Marvin’s Room
    • Started from the Bottom
    • Hold On
    • 0 to 100
    • Back to Back
    • Energy
    • Jumpman
    • Hotline Bling
    • One Dance
    • Controlla
    • Passionfruit
    • God’s Plan
    • Nice for What
    • In My Feelings
    • Wants and Needs
    • Knife Talk

    After EI, Country Grammar, Hot In Herre, and Ride Wit Me how the hell Nelly holding up against all these?

    This list legit not even including collabs

    SICKO MODE, Forever, F***in Problems, I’m On One, Right Above It, All Me, Look Alive, etc demolishing Nelly collabs.

    S*** you pull out Work and Nelly might not even win with Dilemma

    Last sentence

    None of these songs can compete with Hot In Here, Ride With Me, Dilemna, Country Grammar. Those are iconic fam. Drake would still win but you being disrespectful.

  • iHype

    This how you know they really dislike Drake to the point of discredit

    Nelly just doesn’t have 20 SOLID all around hits that will hold up. He got 3 or 4 classics but the rest is forgettable. Drake can truly give you 20 highlight songs.

    • Best I Ever Had
    • Over
    • Headlines
    • The Motto
    • Marvin’s Room
    • Started from the Bottom
    • Hold On
    • 0 to 100
    • Back to Back
    • Energy
    • Jumpman
    • Hotline Bling
    • One Dance
    • Controlla
    • Passionfruit
    • God’s Plan
    • Nice for What
    • In My Feelings
    • Wants and Needs
    • Knife Talk

    After EI, Country Grammar, Hot In Herre, and Ride Wit Me how the hell Nelly holding up against all these?

    This list legit not even including collabs

    SICKO MODE, Forever, F***in Problems, I’m On One, Right Above It, All Me, Look Alive, etc demolishing Nelly collabs.

    S*** you pull out Work and Nelly might not even win with Dilemma

    Nah you reaching with the work Dilemma round. Dilemma washing work

  • Jul 12, 2022

    Drake stans should feel its a compliment, not a diss, whenever Drake is compared to Nelly. Nelly is a f***ing legend man

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    There was never a Drake before Drake and comparing him to niggas with no bars who had nothing more than crossover hits is some slick undermining Drake as a legit MC s***

    Drake is like if Jay Z and Usher were combined or Eminem and JT. End of discussion

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    AP3

    Last sentence

    None of these songs can compete with Hot In Here, Ride With Me, Dilemna, Country Grammar. Those are iconic fam. Drake would still win but you being disrespectful.

    Those songs have like a 10-15 year difference on peak Drake, nostalgia is the main reason those are even holding up.

    Guarantee you that when the dust settles Marvin’s Room and Headlines clearing any song from Nelly’s debut.

    The rest of his discography is so average/mid that even nostalgia wouldn’t save it.

  • Jul 12, 2022

    9 pages lol

  • ColeWorld905

    I love how drake fans thought I was dissing drake comparing him to nelly

    As if nelly trash or something

    Get off ur high horses

    Nelly is a legend. It’s a honour

    Definitely an insult to Drake. Nelly legendary but he ain’t that

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    iHype

    Those songs have like a 10-15 year difference on peak Drake, nostalgia is the main reason those are even holding up.

    Guarantee you that when the dust settles Marvin’s Room and Headlines clearing any song from Nelly’s debut.

    The rest of his discography is so average/mid that even nostalgia wouldn’t save it.

    Then why go through a verzuz in the first place, two different eras.

  • Jul 12, 2022
    iHype

    Nelly does not have better hits either lmao.

    Y’all letting nostalgia of 2 or 3 songs when you were 10 years old cloud your judgement.

    Nelly not winning 20 vs 20 hits against Drake. Aside from them 2 or 3 classics his stuff was mediocre. Nobody about to lose their s*** hearing Shake Ya Tailfeather or Cruise Remix.

    Ride Wit Me is bigger than any drake song. No shame, its bigger than any Kanye, Jay, Wayne song too. One of the biggest singles of all time

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    AP3

    Then why go through a verzuz in the first place, two different eras.

    I also don’t agree with Verzuz scenarios for different generations since ppl will naturally have bias to their time

    But objectively, Drake’s discography got more highlights when the dust settles than Nelly’s. I don’t even think that’s a matter of preference.

    People gonna look back and Drake’s run is gonna have much more memory and reference.

  • Jul 12, 2022
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    iHype

    Nelly was a slightly more respected B.O.B.

    Cut this nonsense out

    lol now you're just trolling.

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    El Nigga

    lol now you're just trolling.

    I would definitely argue Nelly opened the door more for a B.O.B. than a Drake type of artist

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    iHype

    I would definitely argue Nelly opened the door more for a B.O.B. than a Drake type of artist

    Nelly was the man bro. BOB never had anywhere near the hype. Everybody wanted to wear a bandaid on their cheek cause of that man dont disrespect him like this

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    El Nigga

    Nelly was the man bro. BOB never had anywhere near the hype. Everybody wanted to wear a bandaid on their cheek cause of that man dont disrespect him like this

    You misreading. I didn’t say they had similar success.

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    There was never a Drake before Drake and there'll never be another Drake after Drake.

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    No Drake song is anywhere close to Ride Wit Me. None. But as I said, it ain't a slight. I don't think Ye, Jay, Wayne, Kendrick, Cole or even Snoop have as big a song as that one worldwide

  • Jul 12, 2022
    iHype

    You misreading. I didn’t say they had similar success.

    BOB is a totally different artist tho. Nelly was singing and rapping. Only BOB song ive ever heard was that airplanes song so iono lol

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    El Nigga

    No Drake song is anywhere close to Ride Wit Me. None. But as I said, it ain't a slight. I don't think Ye, Jay, Wayne, Kendrick, Cole or even Snoop have as big a song as that one worldwide

    You d***riding that song heavy.

    Stronger way bigger than Ride Wit Me.

  • Jul 12, 2022
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    No one is denying that. Fact remains that commercially, he's outdone everyone who came before him and no one before him had the kind of run he's had. No rapper before him dominated as long as he has. He's 1 of 1.

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    BRAVE

    There was never a Drake before Drake and comparing him to niggas with no bars who had nothing more than crossover hits is some slick undermining Drake as a legit MC s***

    Drake is like if Jay Z and Usher were combined or Eminem and JT. End of discussion

    His first two albums are classics and the third one was really good. Such a shame Nelly still doesn’t get his proper respect.

    Girlfriend Remix was literally the reason rap music merged into pop. This was in the 2000s when rap was ultra conservative.

    He had bars when he wanted to spit, but he was ahead of his time and showcased versatility. By making songs like Pimp Juice, making real r&b records like My Place, and working with artist like John Mayer.

    Drake is more of a rapper than Nelly sure, but his melodies can be traced back to Nelly.

  • Jul 12, 2022
    AP3

    His first two albums are classics and the third one was really good. Such a shame Nelly still doesn’t get his proper respect.

    Girlfriend Remix was literally the reason rap music merged into pop. This was in the 2000s when rap was ultra conservative.

    He had bars when he wanted to spit, but he was ahead of his time and showcased versatility. By making songs like Pimp Juice, making real r&b records like My Place, and working with artist like John Mayer.

    Drake is more of a rapper than Nelly sure, but his melodies can be traced back to Nelly.

    Drake's melody game >>>>>>>> Nelly's.

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