Get Involved, Internet: Save Nelly by streaming “Hot In Herre” on repeat
Yesterday morning, TMZ reported that R&B star Nelly had been hit with a $2.4 million tax lien from the IRS. And while Nelly is reportedly in talks to find the best ways to settle that debt—presumably involving asset seizures and the world’s biggest cosmetic Band-Aid sale—the artist’s fans have taken it upon themselves to organize another path for the Country Grammar star to overcome his financial woes.
Inspired by a piece in Spin—which estimated that it would take, at bare minimum, 287,176,547 streams of Nelly’s hit song “Hot In Herre” on Spotify to cover his debt—fans have launched the #SaveNelly campaign. The idea is simple: Every time someone finds the right time to shoot their steez and play the song, Nelly gets somewhere between $0.006 and $0.0084. So all people have to do is play “Hot In Herre” for a collective 2,647 years or so, and the debt will easily be paid.