Nelly's Country Grammar turned hick-hop dialect into an
international language, and his last single sported one of the most absurd
misspellings in a genre that revels in syntactic excess. So Noam Chomsky he
ain't, but with "Hot in Herre" certified as the official hit of the summer, and
collaborations with both 'N Sync's Justin Timberlake and Destiny's Child's
Kelly Rowland smashing the singles charts, the St. Louis native is arguably the
biggest pop star out there right now. On Saturday, his tour with Big
Tymers and Lil Wayne hits Meadows Music in Hartford (203-265-1501);
on Sunday, he's at the Tweeter Center (617-931-2000) in Mansfield. |