So I'm a firm believer that if you know how to write a song, you know how to write a song. And then, you start digging a little deeper. That's how I got turned on to Kenny Rogers and 'Lady' and records like that. All of these are the same words…different vibes." - Nelly "If you listen to some of the renditions of 'The Star-Spangled Banner' – you've got Marvin Gaye's, Dolly Parton's and you've got Whitney Houston's. And he turned me on to all things Lionel Richie and he made it a point that I understood not just what that man was doing, producing and being an artist, but his pen and where his pen was going with. He was a huge Commodores fan – he had the hair, he sang like Lionel, he used to play the keyboard and things like that. And my uncle used to think he was Lionel Richie. And he got me into music singing old Jackson Five records and things like that. Because my uncles and my father and them – my uncle truly, he was the one that got me into music in the beginning.
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