Long before Drake or Lil’ Wayne were heard rapping and singing on a track, Nelly was already using the technique, delivering hits on hits on hits for the most part of the 00’s.
This week’s From The Vault pick is the veteran’s signature smash, ‘Hot In Herre‘
Produced by The Neptunes back in 2002, ‘Hot’ was the second offering from the artist’s sophomore album ‘Nellyville‘.
With its catchy chorus and various hooks, the tune was both Nelly and The Neptunes’s first of many a Billboard Hot 100 chart topper. It also reached the top spot of the Canadian charts and placed #4 in the UK. Alongside the Kelly Rowland-assisted ‘Dilemma’ – from the same album – it is considered Mr. Haynes’ signature track, and thanks to its sleek production never sounds out of date, to this day, when it’s party-o-clock.
It was with flying colors that director Little-X managed to translate the urgency of the lyrics into a fiery video taking place in a red hot kind of club where the ladies are anything but unhappy to oblige at the song’s request to take off their clothes. Although sportsmen Carmelo Anthony, TJ Duckett and Julius Peppers make brief but notable appearances during the clip, it is Cedric The Entertainer who steals the show with his now infamous “Roof Is On Fire” segment.
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With 2014 marking ‘Hot In Herre’’s 12th anniversary and the past few years in music focusing on “living for the moment”, you’d think a plethora of CLASSIC party-tunes would have emerged by now. Well from our vantage point there haven’t been that many jams that established themselves as club classics the way Nelly’s single did. The Black Eyed Peas’ ‘I Got a Feeling’, Rihanna’s ‘We Found Love’ and Usher’s ‘Yeah’ come to mind as contenders for that category, can you think of others?
What are the club-classics of the past decade?
Nelly’s career didn’t last long at all and I believe that Jay would be a flop today too if he didn’t get with Bey.
EXACTLY!!!
Dont mind the h-oes that be disliking your comment for saying the truth.
Jay a mediocre rapper. If it wasn’t for Beyonce, nicca would be working at McDonald right now… like Foxy Brown
Excellent question TGJ! I love ‘Hot In Heree’ and
the other choices you made.
Here is my list:
1) Rihanna – Umbrella
2) Janet – So Excited
3) Beyonce – Single Ladies
4) Estelle feat. Kanye West -American Boy
5) Foster The People – Pumped Up Kicks
6) Peaches – F*uck The Pain Away
7) Solange – Sandcastle Disco
8) Mariah – Obsessed
9) Nicki Minaj – Moment For Life (the only Nicki song
I like)
10) Janet – Don’t Stop
I can think of few (Totally based on where i lived at the time 2000-2010) :-
1.50Cent – In Da Club
2.Madonna – Hung Up
3.Justin Timberlake – S*** Back
4.D.C – Lose My Breath
5.R.Kelly – Ignition (Rmx)
6.Mariah Carey – It’s Like That
7.Ja Rule ft. Ashanti – Always On Time
8.Sisqo – Thong Song
9.Joe – Stutter
10.Beyonce – Naughty Girl
11.Lil Kim – How Many Licks
12.Kanye West – Gold Digger
13.Flo Rida – Low
14.Nelly,Diddy and Murphy Lee – Shake Ya Tailfeather
15.Mary J Blige – Family Affair
They may not have been classics or even hits in some places but these songs were everywhere in my area
Beyonce – Crazy In Love
Ashanti – Foolish, Only U
Mariah C – We Belong Together
Amerie – 1 Thing
Alicia Keys – No One
Cassie – Me & U
Shakira – Whenever Wherever
PCD – Don’t Cha
Rihanna – Don’t Stop The Music
Timbaland – The Way I Are
Ciara – Love S** Magic
Justin T – What Goes Around…
50 Cent – Candy Shop
Will Smith – Switch
Outkast – Hey Ya!
Ne-Yo – So Sick, Closer
Kelly Rowland – Can’t Nobody
JLo – Get Right
Gwen Stefani – Hollaback Girl
Gym Class Hereos – Cupids Chokehold
Gnarls Barkley – Crazy
Estelle – American Boy
Kanye – Gold Digger