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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Talking with the biggest stars from our Mercedes Benz Interview
Lounge Jack Stage at one hundred jingle Ball. This is
Elvis Durant in the morning shows jingle Ball Diaries.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I got Nellie? Does anyone care that I've got Nellie?
A We're live. This is the.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Mercedes Been Interview Lounge at Elvis duran with.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Nelly well Man. Thank you boys, Such an honor to
have you.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
But I want to take you down memory lane. Okay,
twenty three years ago at jingle Ball. That's you and
Kelly Rowland. Yoh, look at that. They just showed me
that picture.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Man.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I had so much energy then and I had hair
back then. Now all my hair's on my back. You
don't want to see that, dude.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, No, I'm good. Chat.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Okay, let me take you back twenty three years ago, Nelly,
you performed here at Z one hundred jingle Ball, Avril Levine,
Destiny's Child, Justin Timberlake, Coddie Minogue, and someone named Ashanti.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I was here that night. Yeah. Isn't it weird? Yeah?
Same name, different last name. There it is there you go.
So were you guys good friends back then? Or was it?
Was it on back then.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
No, it wasn't on back then. I think it was
just admiration from Afar. I mean, you know she was
basically probably just getting started right and O two and
I was on my second album, so you know, I
was a wild boy at then.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I wasn't ready for that. You still are. I can't
see wild. I smell wild all over. You got to
wild stank all over. That's what that is, hey, Nelly?
Uh isn't it great?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
You can do one of these shows, you sing one
of your songs and people who were listening to you
back then and people are just now discovering who you.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Are now they're all singing your songs.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, it's called stamina.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Yea. That's what you that's what you hope for. That's
the only way you can have a career, you know,
twenty six, twenty seven years and counting right, and you're
just very thankful man. You know, everybody don't get those opportunities.
So I always like to thank all the people, and
jingle Ball and Ieheart has always been there for Nelly.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Well, having you here is an honor. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
But wait, you were honored with the iHeart Radio Landmark
Award celebrating in the twenty fifth anniversary of Country Grammar.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Ye, God, look at the height. Yeah they did that.
Were you in Detroit the other night? You did well?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
You have a show the other night they said you
came out on stage and even though there was a
set lest you said, nah, I want it all changed. Yeah,
and you started doing You started bringing people up and
dancing with the morning show from the State Man.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
We we just wanted to have fun.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
The crowd was electric, energy was amazing.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
So you know, you just try to keep it going.
But see what you do, Nellie, because you've been around
long enough.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
In these up and coming artists today, they should witness
you get up there and just have fun.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
You don't have to follow a set list, just do
what feels right. You try to get comfortable, though you
know it wasn't always like that.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I know you're talking to veteran Nelly now, so I
get that moment, and I think that's what separates the
legends from the up and comers.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
It's not the love, it's just the lineage.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Now, are you closing out the jingle Ball season in
Miami with us as well?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Well? I hope. So. I love Nelly's like I don't
know where I'm going.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Well, listen, you know I love Detroit, Chicago and New York.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
But it's cold. The least you can do is take
me to Miami. There you go.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
The last jingle Ball of the jingle Ball Tour is
the best one because everyone's kissing each other goodbye, because
everyone got to know each other on the tour.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
So that's gonna be a special night. But tonight it's
the Garden. I mean, not too bad, not too bad. No,
this is this is, this is a mecca.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Well, thank you for the gift of you, Nelly, all
these years, and I'm so so great to have you
here at jingle Ball.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
You're the best, Nelly. I appreciate it. Happy Holidays.