Nelly sat down with Power 105’s The Breakfast Club to discuss the current state of his career, dating Ashanti and inspiring Flo Rida’s style. As expected, Charlamagne tried to label Nelly as a has-been, to which Nelly responded: “I only had one record that didn’t have a number one record on. The last record I put out, I had a number one record. I sold five million records. Put out six singles.”

He continued by speaking on the state of the rap game.

“It’s definitely a young man’s game and it’s about survival. You get to a point where it’s just about turning pages. When you old not as in age, but old as in you been in the game for a minute, like 12+ years, it’s been a long time,” he said. “Nothing continues to excel. It’s called a career for a reason. You got your ups, you got your downs. But as long as you around, that’s the thing.”

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