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The chemistry found on "Heartland" is on full display with the latest episode of "CMT Crossroads," which see Nelly and most of his album collaborators sharing the stage for a concert special.Īlong with the album tracks, it's especially powerful to see Nelly lead Breland, Blanco Brown and Kane Brown on "Country Grammar" - a scene you couldn't have pictured in the country world less than a decade ago. "Lil' bit hood, lil' country/That's just why she love me, " Nelly and Brown sing on "Grits." Breland recalls that both "High Horse" and the Kane Brown feature "Grits and Glamour" were written in a single night. Work on "Heartland" began in Nashville before the pandemic, and its songs, apparently, came quickly.
"As someone who's kind of one of his musical descendants in a way, to have music with him, and to be a part of this project in particular, it's been really gratifying for me."Īlong with his Florida Georgia Line buddies, "Heartland" includes collaborations with crossover star Kane Brown, as well as country-rap fusionists Blanco Brown ("The Git-Up") and country mainstay Darius Rucker.īreland and Blanco Brown join Nelly on one of the album's highlights, "High Horse." With a stomping groove that blurs the lines between The Gap Band and Alabama, Nelly manages to namecheck both Nudie's Honky Tonk in Nashville and Magic City - an Atlanta "gentlemen's club" that looms large in the rap world - in a single verse. "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."
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