The very first single Nelly ever released, and proof he was primed for commercial success. The song is produced by Epperson, and see’s Nelly debuting his wildly popular mesh of singing and rapping. The track is simply about his St. Louis hometown, and how he flexes through the city on a regular basis.

The chorus is an interpolation of the “Down Down Baby” clapping game. The music video adheres to the hip-hop tropes: expensive cars, beautiful women, oversized clothes, and the entire neighbourhood backing him up.

He arrived on the charts that day in February 2000. It shot to number 1 on the US Hot Rap Songs, and began a life long love affair with the international market, charting in Australia, Austria, Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand, Sweden, the UK and Switzerland.