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'Brass Knuckles' may not land a hit

By Julian Benbow
Globe Staff / September 16, 2008

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Nelly was a hitmaker back when rappers were rewarded for making hits. In 2000, he turned a jump-rope rhyme into the No. 1 rap record in the country ("Country Grammar"), and then built on that to sell 15 million copies of his debut of the same name. (Full article: 501 words)

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