Nelly spoke the truth. 3 prime examples are Ciara, Mariah Carey and Christina Aguilera. Ciara's first 2 albums sold 8 million albums and produced 8 hit singles and videos in one area or another, Jive promoted the hell out of Fantasy Ride, but the album leaked and people didn't buy it, it has only sold around 350,000 copies worldwide, so the music industry for some reason began to label her as flop artist and Jive didn't do anything, now look at her, they're barely promoting Basic Instinct, they booked her TV shows the week before and during the album's release. Mariah's last album, Memiors was critically acclaimed but Def Jam didn't promote it because they were too busy promoting Rihanna's Rated R album which didn't perform as well as expected and Christina Aguilera had a really good album which Bionic, but becasue Not Myself Tonight was compared to Lady Gaga her record label stopped promotion and only shipped 300,000 copies which is why it has only sold around 235,000 copies in the U.S. It's sad that the talented artists are the ones who always suffer but the sell outs are the ones who have all the success. Honestly, Ciara, Nelly, Mariah and Xtina need to leave their labels and sign with a new label or become independent artists.