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Hair Show Weekend With K. Michelle And Nelly

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After news broke last week that Nelly owed the IRS about $2.5 million fans decided to help a brother out by using the hashtag #SaveNelly to encourage people to stream his hit song “Hot In Herre” as much as possible to help him generate some income and relieve his debt.

It may have sounded like a crazy idea at the time, but Billboard reports that streams of the 2002 song have increased by 90% and streams of the song jumping up from 50,000 a day to about 269,000.

If Nelly wants to completely be out of debt the song would have to get 287,176,547 streams…