Nelly Shoots New Music Video With Brother, St. Lunatics' City Spud

 
via My Fox - St. Louis

Nelly and the St. Lunatics are releasing a new album called, City Free. This is the first time in nearly ten years since the St. Lunatics have been in the studio together. The group stopped recording after their debut album was released nearly ten years ago because rapper and co-producer, City Spud was sent to jail on an assault charge. The St. Lunatics vowed not to record again as a group until he was released. Well, City Spud is back after serving nearly nine years behind bars, and he's excited about the project. "It's real special to us because it's all of us in the studio again having fun being brothers like we are," said City Spud.

Nelly looked on admiringly as City Spud rapped on the St. Lunatics' new single, 'Money Talks' during the filming of the music video for the project at Visiontracks in Fenton. "We didn't feel right doing another project without him being involved. the time has come and we're excited about it."

Nelly says,"The first album was called 'Free City' which was in honor of my little brother City Spud. Now he's free so the new album is called 'City FREE'."

At one point during the filming Nelly conferred with City Spud and couldn't stop beaming. "We're just excited that he's enjoying it. You know what i'm saying so that's a big thing for us."

Nelly is one of the biggest names in rap music, selling millions of albums. He hasn't forgotten how hard he worked to achieve his success. "It took nine years, you what i'm saying? You talk to some people they've been doing this for nine months and expect it to happen, and you're like man it took us nine years and you think it's going to happen like that."

Nelly is a native St. Louisian who still lives in the city and gives to the city, not because he has to, but because he wants to. "This is home. I'm one of them kids that comes from St. Louis that life wasn't always the easiet and always didn't have what they needed at the time, but i thought it would be cool to give kids something unexpected to them."

Now that City Spud is back with Nelly and the St. Lunatics, expect more big things from the dynamic duo.

Photo link from the video shoot:
Nelly/City Spud/St. Lunatics 'Money Talks' video shoot

See the full Nelly interview below.

 

St. Lunatics' Murphy Lee In-Store & Toy Drive Event @ Vintage Vinyl St. Louis

 
As reported by Jeff Bernthal at St. Louis Fox TV

ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI-FOX2now.com) - A Grammy winner from St. Louis is in the U-city Loop, (Dec. 16) Wednesday night. Murphy Lee of St. Lunatic's Fame is behind a toy drive that he hopes becomes an annual tradition, "I had a dream last night. It was just one person in the store. It was just me and one of my, my number one fan." His nightmare did not come true. Plenty of fans lined up at Vintage Vinyl for a chance to meet him. He said, "Feels good to be Murphy Lee today."

You could say he's living a dream. That's because this multi-platinum selling artist is about to reach another milestone. He's releasing his latest project, Age of 21 along with a DVD. He decided to combine this signing event with a toy drive, "It's just, it's just my duty, you know, I have kids and they kind of get what they want out of me, so it's great to be able to help, help others."

Lee hopes his success story is an inspiration to others. The St. Louis native now owns his own recording label, "I went to school. I graduated. I formed my career, took my career to another level, now I'm an entrepreneur."

Lee also hopes to bridge what he calls a generation gap. He thinks parents have a hard time understanding today's kids, "All we see is that they're wilding out, they're going crazy out there and really they're striving and asking for attention so much."

Lee hopes the attention on this toy drive will remind his fans success isn't just about making money - it's also about giving back.

Some of the toys will go to Project Ark, an agency helping kids affected by AIDS. The others will go to a Christmas wish party sponsored by the Demetrius Johnson Foundation.

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Nelly's 4th Annual Black & White Ball In St. Louis Recap

Courtesy of the St. Louis American

Last night (Sun., Dec. 6) at 1 a.m., the Chase Park Plaza had to shut the party down to make it stop at Nelly’s 4th Annual Black and White Ball. When staff informed Nelly and the powers that be it was time to call it a night, people were still going hard.

They were on the stage and on the floor rapping’ and dancing along to some of the songs that Nelly and the St. Lunatics made famous as well as hits from back when they first started on the scene mixed with current hip-hop hits. Folks got down, but the whole point of the event was to help students move forward with their education.

Earlier in the night, Nelly announced – along with the Black Student Union of Lindenwood University – the launching of the 2010 Black and White Scholarship Program that would provide a full tuition scholarship for two deserving students.

“I feel like I don’t have a choice to do this,” Nelly said about his decision to use his star power on behalf of the community. “This is something that I must do.”

In the short formal element of the program, Nelly kept his comments brief. He was preceded by video footage of scholarship recipients expressing their thanks and gratitude to the Grammy-Award winning multiplatinum selling rapper for aiding them in their educational endeavors.

Following the short formal program, partygoers got down to business and hit the dance floor while Mario, Nelly and the St. Lunatics performed on stage for the duration of the night.

Jermaine Dupri, Mario, Bill Bellamy joined dozens of local notables – including legendary athlete Jackie-Joyner Kersee – were among the evenings special guests.

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