**WARNING: Explicit language**
"Hot In Herre" came out in 2002 and was featured on Nellyville. As soon as the song hit airwaves, it instantly became a smash. Every single party and club in the country was continuously blasting it -- and people couldn't stop taking their clothes off to it. It would sit at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts for seven consecutive weeks. Even today, the song still goes hard!
During Nelly sit-down, he spilled some secrets gem about making it. Surprisingly, Busta Rhymes had a hand in influencing it. Busta was in a recording studio nearby when Nelly and Pharrell were working on it. When the Brooklyn rapper heard the beat, his reaction solidified the fact that the song was going to be a huge hit.
“‘Oh my God, what is this beat? This is the most courageous beat, it’s infectious,'” Nelly recalled Busta saying. “‘Oh Nelly, you laid something to this already?! Oh sh*t. You’re gonna have every b***h in the world taking her clothes off...We kinda knew we had something right there.”
Nelly Mo later added that Pharrell said that something catchy has to be in the first line of the track. That's when the rapper thought of “I was like, good gracious – a** is bodacious/ Flirtatious, tryin to show patience” and the rest was music history!
Listen to the St. Lunatic rapper speaking about the making of "Hot In Herre" above.
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