Nelly - E.I. (Lyrics)
Album: Country Grammar
Released: 2000
Label: Universal/Fo' Reel
Watch the Official Video of this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNaMR8AyeWc
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"E.I." is a song by American rapper Nelly. It was released as a single on October 17, 2000, taken from Nelly's 2000 debut album, Country Grammar. It peaked at number 11 on the UK Singles Chart and 16 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. A remix of the song, called "Tip Drill", was released in 2003 along with lyrics and a music video that drew controversy for its misogynistic themes.
"Tip Drill", or "E.I. (Remix)" is the name of a 2003 remix of the song. It appeared as the fourth track on his 2003 remix album Da Derrty Versions: The Reinvention. An alternate version featuring vocals from Nelly's group, the St. Lunatics, which is listed as the "Tip Drill Remix", appears as the final track on Da Derrty Versions: The Reinvention. Both versions were produced by David Banner.
The song's music video (directed by Solomite), made for the version featuring the St. Lunatics, became controversial for its overt depiction of women as sexual objects. It was meant to be a single but was withdrawn due to its potentially offensive content. Despite this, Nelly's solo version of the song received moderate airplay on urban contemporary radio stations in the United States and peaked at number 65 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart in early 2004. Features cameo appearances by Jermaine Dupri and David Banner.
In one interpretation of the song's meaning by Mark Anthony Neal, the phrase tip drill is a "ghetto colloquialism for the proverbial ugly girl with a nice body."
In 2004, women's studies students at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia protested against misogyny in rap music and "Tip Drill" specifically. The students criticized the negative portrayal and sexual objectification of African-American women in the video, which showed women in bikinis dancing and simulating various sexual acts, men throwing money on women's breasts and buttocks, and Nelly swiping a credit card between a woman's buttocks after which it starts bouncing. Nelly's 4Sho4Kids Foundation was scheduled to hold a bone marrow drive on campus to help his sister who suffered from leukemia: Spelman Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance President Moya Bailey and Leana Cabral named Nelly the "Misogynist of the Month" and the flyers they and other members placed on campus prompted the foundation to cancel the drive. The president of the Student Government, Asha Jennings, said: "Nelly wants us to help his sister, but he's degrading hundreds of us." According to Spelman students, Nelly's Foundation refused to hold the drive unless the university promised that students would not confront him about his song and the video. The Foundation canceled the drive.
In 2008, Nelly stated that his own daughter, Chanelle, had never seen the video.
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Hi nelly I'm a big fan of yours um I
haven't eaten eating salt coming out with band aid s 🎉 see snoop gin and juice do you Missy Higgins
Kellaway.❤
Yep Omaha NE
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I remember when I brought this home. My mama said what is this telletubies sounding bs 😂 Before long she loved it too & I'm still listening all these yrs later.
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Takes me back to them streets....
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I wish every morning and every day I can hear this song
ОтветитьI have not heard this song in a long time I mean I have not even heard this song before
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I still have his country grammar and nellyville cassettes, lol
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Still better than anything Drake or any other current rap artists released. Y’all can come at me if you like, but there is no way in hell Drake & any other current rap artists (I can’t even tell you their names, that’s how much they suck) are better than Eminem, Nelly, OutKast, Petey Pablo, 50 Cent, Ja Rule, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, Fat Joe, Nas, Biggie, Tupac, Snoop Dogg, Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz, Wu Tang Clan, Ice Cube, NWA, Beastie Boys, T.I., Ludacris, Ice-T, or even Pitbull. Hell even Baby Bash, Biz Markie, MC Hammer, Will Smith, TLC, Goodie Mob, Bones N Thugs Harmony, Vanilla Ice, Akon, Blackstreet, and Kid Rock (back in the late 90s), is better than half of these posers on the radio calling themselves rappers. Hell, I’d rather listen to a full Soulja Boy album than to spend one second listening to any modern rap song (and that’s going a bit, because Soulja Boy is annoying, but at least the sumbitch is somewhat coherent when he raps). I just wanna thank God I was in and grew up with 90s & 2000s music. Everyone sounded different (for the most part), and all those people I mentioned above, I can tell them a part when they rap. Because surprise surprise, they had…. originality.
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As a kid I just loved the song but being grown this nigga was talking on this joint 😂🔥🔥
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beat hittin like tyson
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God I love this song!!
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Nelly what happened to your face? I got in a cat fight with my grandma in the Hoochie had E. coli under her fake finger nail
The producer thought I was cracked out and he said just put a high-quality Band-Aid over it but nobody had any Neosporin
I hadn’t heard this song in a long time
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