St. Louis Music Blog

We all know that Nelly can play basketball. And act. And make platinum records. And for good measure, at Sunday's celebrity softball legends game at Busch Stadium, Nelly was named co-MVP. Why? Well, he slammed a homer in the first inning and made an impressive -- for any game -- diving catch. Even Bobby Knight seemed speechless after that play. Clips below.

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Tega

St. Louis rapper Tega, of the group Da Camp, died last week from injuries suffered in a May 16 shooting in Wellston, reports the Post-Dispatch.

The 25 year-old (given name Ortega Devon Henderson), died on Wednesday May 27 at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.

(Photos by Annie Zaleski; words by Keegan Hamilton and Annie Zaleski)
 
Keegan Hamilton:
It was foolish to arrive on time. Our tickets told us that 'Doors open at 7 p.m.' but as soon as we arrived and saw the line wrapped around the block waiting to get in, we knew, deep down, that we were in for a long night.

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It's a concert ten years in the making: Nelly is headlining a show at the Pageant on Sunday. 

My pal Quick Draw McHarper in Kansas City blogged these before I had a chance to, so here goes: Britpop stalwarts Doves and Canadian electro-popsters Metric are releasing new albums in the coming months. The latter's new one, Fantasies (publicist issued a correction), comes out April 14, while the former's Kingdom of Rust arrives a week earlier. Click those links to grab the first MP3 from each album. Metric's "Help, I'm Alive" sounds far less abrasive than most of the act's last LP, Live It Out, while Doves' "Jetstream" is no relation to New Order's song of the same name, but is a stylistic cousin: It's a pulsating, meandering electronic number that sounds like the soundtrack to an '80s episode of Nova. 

Nick passed along this tidbit from yesterday, via PerezHilton.com: Nelly and Ashanti finally made their coupledom public. Aww. Check out this cute photo of the happy couple. According to Perez's post:

In a new interview, while celebrating his 34th birthday party at Lavo in Vegas on Sunday, Nelly spoke about his gal pal

He says, "That's the thing between me and her, we just like having fun."

Deep!

Unfortunately, Ashanti wasn't at his birthday party this weekend, as she's currently in Japan.

Nelly did admit though that the two of them have been "hanging out for a minute." Though they've been linked together, on and off, for over five years.

And as to how serious their relationship is, Nelly opens up about that as well.

He says, "I think it's always serious when you can hang with a person continuously … and [“still”] have fun."

Awww. So cute!

Nelly -- whose long-awaited album Brass Knuckles is in stores now -- is also guest-starring on CSI:NY tomorrow night. He plays evil -- and judging from the preview clip on the CBS website, you do not want to fuck with him. The show airs tomorrow night, October 8, at 9 p.m. on CBS.

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Last night's Lil Wayne concert at the new Chaifetz Arena included a slew of surprise guests, including Nelly and Birdman, but ultimately it was Weezy's night.

The show, which was announced a little more than two weeks ago, brought in concert-goers who filled the lower portion of the 10,000-seat arena. (The top bowl was nearly empty; not sure if tickets were being sold for that section.)


Slide Show

Last week I met with Nelly at his Skybox restaurant on Laclede's Landing to talk about Brass Knuckles, his upcoming fifth studio album. We'll be unrolling these videos for the rest of the week, so stay tuned for more chatter about Kanye West, the state of hip-hop, the latest on the St. Lunatics and more. (For more segments of the interview, click here.)

Last week I met with Nelly at his Skybox restaurant on Laclede's Landing to talk about Brass Knuckles, his upcoming fifth studio album. We'll be unrolling these videos for the rest of the week, so stay tuned for more chatter about Kanye West, the state of hip-hop, the latest on the St. Lunatics and more. (For more segments of the interview, click here.)

Last week I met with Nelly at his Skybox restaurant on Laclede's Landing to talk about Brass Knuckles, his upcoming fifth studio album. We'll be unrolling these videos for the rest of the week, so stay tuned for more chatter about Kanye West, the state of hip-hop, the latest on the St. Lunatics and more. (For more segments of the interview, click here.)

Last week I met with Nelly at his Skybox restaurant on Laclede's Landing to talk about Brass Knuckles, his upcoming fifth studio album. We'll be unrolling these videos for the rest of the week, so stay tuned for more chatter about Kanye West, the state of hip-hop, the latest on the St. Lunatics and more. (For the first two segments of the interview, click here.)

"I did a lot of collaborations on this album; probably more than I ever have."

"This was like, early '98... Kanye was in New York...He was just getting his grind on and I came up and met him...and we talked and found he was from Chicago and I was from St. Louis...he always said he was going to be exactly where he's at, maybe in a different way, but he knew it. No one believed in himself as much as he did."

Remember what I said last week, that the Jermaine Dupri hint in the '90s Hip-Hop Jam of the Week was important? Here's why: Last week I met with Nelly at his Skybox restaurant on Laclede's Landing to talk about Brass Knuckles, his upcoming fifth studio album. We'll be unrolling these videos for the rest of the week, so stay tuned for more chatter about Kanye West, the state of hip-hop, the latest on the St. Lunatics and more.

"Kids were skipping school ... Jordans come out on a Wednesday or a Tuesday... There was about 2,000 other kids...There was a line at the Foot Locker, there was a line at the Champ's, there was a line at the Athlete's Foot...That was just that."