Prior to being a rap icon, <a href="/profile/Nelly" class="text-word" target="_blank" >Nelly</a> and his childhood friends formed their Hip Hop group, St. Lunatics, in 1993. The collective consisted of the &#8220;Hot in Herre&#8221; rapper along with his pals Kyjuan, City Spud, Murphy Lee, and Ali. They had a bit of success in 1997 with their single &#8220;Gimme What Ya Got,&#8221; but they struggled to build a fanbase outside of their St. Louis city limits. As the story has been shared over the years, the group allowed Nelly to move forward as a solo artist, but <a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/nellys-st-lunatics-member-ali-details-beef-with-ludacris-news.110572.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">according to Ali, that isn&#8217;t the whole story</a>.
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Yesterday (February 1), Ali kicked off the month by posting a video clip of himself<a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/nelly-approves-of-buss-it-challenge-keep-doing-it-news.124963.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"> with Nelly</a> and included a lengthy post detailing why he has issues with his friend. He recognized that people would call him &#8220;childish&#8221; for airing out his business on social media, but he retorted that he&#8217;s not &#8220;the type to throw a rock and hide his hand.&#8221;
Ali took readers through the history of the formation of the St. Lunatics, including a claim that their label didn&#8217;t want Nelly&#8217;s verse on &#8220;Gimme What Ya Got&#8221; but he fought for it. He also stated that he was offered a <a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/nelly-performs-throwback-hits-from-country-grammar-at-2020-amas-news.121699.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">solo record deal</a> but instead chose to ride it out with his group, but when <a href="/profile/mase" class="text-word" target="_blank" >Mase</a>&#8217;s manager, Cudda, was introduced to the crew, he only wanted to represent Nelly and City Spud.
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&#8220;They left with Cudda (went to Harlem),&#8221; wrote Ali. &#8220;The separation became The reality&#8230; <a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/nelly-talks-country-grammar-20-year-anniversary-and-virtual-concert-news.114559.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">They had left</a> !!! We(The rest of the group) felt ‘HUSTLED’&#8230;. we were *1 until, The opportunity was presented to be *2 ..they hustled us!! Fast forward Universal record signs Nelly : Nelly has his manager (my bf @stltluv )&#8230;. call me and he said : &#8216;Nelly said he doesn’t NEED YOU to help him write.'&#8221;
Ali felt slighted by Nelly because he suggested he felt used, so he took a step back and said he would no longer help Nelly pen his rhymes. &#8220;Some kind of way I ended up going &#8230;I ended up helping him write &#8230;<a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/nelly-weighs-in-on-taylor-swift-scooter-braun-feud-and-shares-story-about-bow-wow-news.85753.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"> but got no credit</a>!! Wow !! I got hustled !!&#8221; he added. &#8220;You live and you learn.&#8221; Nelly has yet to respond to his friend&#8217;s accusations, but while fans wait, you can check out Ali&#8217;s post below.
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