Subject: Nelly (Rapper)

• Way Cooler than Chico's

  January 24, 2007

• It's a Bird, It's a Plane...

  ...It's Brian McKnight, who wants you to know that he isn't a Superhero

  February 21, 2002

• A Change Gonna Come

  Calvin Richardson steeps deeper in the neo-soul stew on his second album

  July 10, 2003

• Fat Joe

  All or Nothing

  July 14, 2005

• Tell No Lies

  August 7, 1997

• Recent Super Bowl Halftime Highlights and Lowlights

  January 29, 2009

• Smooth Sailing at Grooves

  January 15, 2009

• Not on Your Nelly!

  Nelly Furtado refused to forget her roots or dress like a tramp. She won a Grammy anyway.

  March 21, 2002

• Top 10 Most Hated Rappers

  Who made the shit list

  January 10, 2008

• Ghostface Killah

  November 22, 2007

• Banging with Bang! Bang!

  Chicago's rumpy-pumpiest punks dispense the Dan Savage-style advice

  September 1, 2005

• Hot Shows

  Summertime concerts that will leave you sweating

  May 26, 2005

• Encore or Bust?

  Stressing about the 'Stros begins anew

  April 7, 2005

• Back in the USSR

  Break out the vodka -- The Nightfly tours Houston's Russian-themed bars

  January 6, 2005

• The Youngest Ballerette

  Ten-year-old Sucka Free signee Kayla talks about what it means to be young, gifted and brown

  January 6, 2005

• Rapping on Heaven's Door

  December 23, 2004

• Merritt Badge

  Humor is in the i of the beholder for fans of the Magnetic Fields

  December 9, 2004

• Mild On Houston

  Public access cameras pick up the slack for E! as faux rappers stalk Club Go's half-empty rooms

  September 16, 2004

• Gotta Dance

  A few tweaks here and there, and house music may survive

  May 6, 2004

• Queer Eye for the Country Guy

  Have today's C&W stars been consulting with the Fab Five?

  April 29, 2004

• Family Feud

  Hip-hop turns 25, and the battle lines are drawn

  April 1, 2004

• Pats and Cats Bring It Back

  The biggest of them all returns to Houston

  January 29, 2004

• G Unit

  Beg for Mercy (Interscope)

  January 22, 2004

• Hip-hop, Tejas

  December 4, 2003

• Stealth Statue

  Sssh! There's a secret project under way for the senior Bush

  November 27, 2003

• Best Concert Venue

  Verizon Wireless Theater

  September 25, 2003

• Drastic Unilateral Action

  Universal hopes to JumpSTART flagging CD sales with aggressive price cuts. Who benefits the most?

  September 18, 2003

• Beyoncé

  Dangerously in Love (Columbia)

  August 7, 2003

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  August 7, 2003

• Club Directory

  April 10, 2003

• Bot Love

  Schoolkids go techno

  April 10, 2003

• When Nelly Met Kelly

  A St. Louis rapper helps a hometown girl step out of the shadow of a multiplatinum band

  December 5, 2002

• Houston Music Festival

  November 9

  November 7, 2002

• The Eclectic Horseman

  Dancer George Durham is the complete package

  October 31, 2002

• Clipse

  Lord Willin' (Star Trak/Arista)

  October 10, 2002

• D12

  Thursday, November 1

  November 1, 2001

• Archrapper

  Nelly hopes his music will be a gateway to the St. Louis rap scene

  December 7, 2000

• Turning the Screw: Bun B, Trae & Lil Keke, Rihanna, Snoop, Eminem vs. Nick Cannon, Jay-Z, T.I., E-40, South Park Mexican and More

  Welcome back to Turning the Screw, Rocks Off's weekly rap post. It probably won't rhyme, at least most of the time. E-mail tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. Thanks, homies. Single of the Week: "Grey Cassette," Trae feat Bun B and Lil Keke Wire To Wire Ummm, we're not going to link to them, but should you be curious to see some pictures of Rihanna sans clothes, you presumably know how Google works. (And, wow.) All is not well in the house that Run built: Jo-Jo arrested. Snoop Dogg does not ha

  May 11, 2009

• Vince Young Can't Beat Out A Has-Been QB, But He Can Make It Rain

  Okay, imagine you're a third overall draft pick, and two years into your football career, you've lost your job as starting quarterback to an aging, recovering alcoholic, racist retread. You're teetering on the brink of being labeled one of the biggest busts in recent football history. What's more, your team fairly recently lost one of its star players in part because he "made it rain" at a performance by the rapper Nelly.What do you do?If you're Vince Young, apparently you go to a Nelly show at

  May 26, 2009

• He Said She Said: A Stripper Soundtrack

  Rocks Off has a naked lady fetish. It's shameful to admit. We really like seeing naked chicks. It's been something we have dealt with since we were four years old and started sneaking into the women's dressing room when our Mom would go clothes shopping. It's not so cute today, what with the beard and druid's cloak. Once we got older and were dominated by peer pressure, we found ourselves in some random strip club every few months or so. We soon found that our demanding musical tastes dictated

  July 31, 2009

• Hot in Herre

  August 20, 2009

• Glee, Episode 7: Inevitable Conclusions

  Easy Halloween costume idea if you have a tracksuit and an antisocial personality disorder: Sue!​I'm beginning to think that Glee never should have gotten the back-nine pickup from Fox, instead being held to 13 episodes for this season instead of a full 22. It's not that the show doesn't deserve to tell its story. It's that too often, episodes are nothing but filler that repeat plots from the week before and don't serve to advance the seasonal arc in any real way. Last week saw the boys a

  October 15, 2009

• It's Brodeo Time! RodeoHouston Announces Jonas Brothers, Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley and Brooks & Dunn for 2010

  Daniel KramerThe Jonas Brothers at RodeoHouston 2009​ Monday morning, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo announced the first four entertainers next March's musical entertainment at Reliant Stadium. Jonas Brothers, Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley, and Brooks & Dunn have all been tapped to perform at next year's rodeo. The Kix and Ronnie date will be the duo's last rodeo appearance, as B&D plan to part ways at the end of 2010. This will be the Jonas Brothers' second Houston rodeo appearance a

  October 19, 2009

• "Rock Your World" Hot Sauce, Anyone? Like Kenny "Roaster" Rogers, Musicians Will Give Their Name to Anything

  ​This is how we want to remember you, Kenny.​Kenny Rogers brings his vast collection of hits and the plastic-surgery disaster he calls a face to Jones Hall to perform with the Houston Symphony tonight, and obviously Rocks Off's extremities are sweating profusely in anticipation. Not because he can't wait to hear "She Believes in Me" with full orchestral backup, but because we're such huge fans of his Kenny Rogers Roasters chain of restaurants, featured in one of our favorite Seinfeld episode

  November 5, 2009