The Songs canon
Sourced and sung.
Every song chosen by hand, with the recording to play it.
Browse all 2,393 songs or filter by genre, subject, artist, and year.
Browse all 2,393 songs or filter by genre, subject, artist, and year.
Shake Ya TailfeatherNelly
Shake Ya Tailfeather
2003
A stadium war chant repurposed for the Bad Boys II soundtrack, and a Grammy for the three of them.
★ 2.9
Just a Dream
2010
Jim Jonsin and Rico Love built the beat, and Nelly took the heartbreak to number three.
★ 3.9
Country Grammar
2000
A children's clapping rhyme, "Down Down Baby," rebuilt into a hook by Jay E, and St. Louis had its record.
★ 5.0
Ride Wit Me
2001
A DeBarge interpolation from 1982, Jay E producing, and Nelly making must be the money a national catchphrase.
★ 5.2
Dilemma
Nelly and Kelly Rowland
2002
Bowser's beat interpolates Patti LaBelle, Kelly Rowland sings the hook, and it spent ten weeks at number one.
★ 5.7
Hot in Herre
2002
The Neptunes flipped Chuck Brown's "Bustin' Loose," and Nelly rode it to number one and the first male solo rap Grammy.
★ 6.6