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Pretty Willie broke into the major-label rap game in the wake of fellow St. Louis rapper <a href="spotify:artist:2gBjLmx6zQnFGQJCAQpRgw">Nelly</a>'s phenomenal success. Though the city had a fertile rap scene long before <a href="spotify:artist:2gBjLmx6zQnFGQJCAQpRgw">Nelly</a> became an overnight success in summer 2000, fellow St. Louis artists such as Pretty Willie never had a shot at major-label success. However, in 2002 -- a year or so after, first, <a href="spotify:artist:2gBjLmx6zQnFGQJCAQpRgw">Nelly</a>'s breakthrough and, in turn, the similar success of <a href="spotify:artist:2gBjLmx6zQnFGQJCAQpRgw">Nelly</a>'s <a href="spotify:artist:6rxiUsSvkn5yTs1kfuV8Le">St. Lunatics</a> posse -- Universal unsurprisingly introduced the masses to Pretty Willie, another St. Louis rapper with cute looks and a singsong-y pop-rap style, both much like <a href="spotify:artist:2gBjLmx6zQnFGQJCAQpRgw">Nelly</a>. And, again unsurprisingly, Pretty Willie's debut single, "Roll Wit Me," bared more than a coincidental resemblance to <a href="spotify:artist:2gBjLmx6zQnFGQJCAQpRgw">Nelly</a>'s popular hit from a year earlier, "Ride Wit Me." However, unlike <a href="spotify:artist:2gBjLmx6zQnFGQJCAQpRgw">Nelly</a>, Pretty Willie struggled to scale the charts. ~ Jason Birchmeier, Rovi
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