Oh dear… King of the early 00’s mainstream hip hop, reality TV star and occasional movie star Nelly has been arrested. After an unfortunate incident involving the Tennesse Highway Patrol pulling over a bus that Nelly happened to be on, the troopers happened to have come across a few rocks of meth, some weed and some guns. The troopers also mentioned they could smell marijuana when they first reached the bus.
Nelly is up for the possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, but according to a separate statement issued by his attorney, he will “not be associated with the contraband”, and was released from Putnam County Jail on a casual $10,000 bond.
Literally, Nelly. Literally.
The St. Louis rapper hasn’t released an album since 2013, and I didn’t even know about that one until I started writing this here article. Poor Nelly, how the mighty have fallen. Let us #neverforget he who brought us such jams as this one: