(Source: mtv.com)

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MTV: And two guys from The St. Lunatics do production on your album.

Nelly: My man Jay E [Jason Epperson], he's been with us since '96 when we did the "Gimme What Ya Got" track that was big in St. Louis. He did that track. My little brother, City Spud, he did four tracks on that album, and Jay E did the rest of them. Except for one. My man Stevie Blast [Steve "Blast" Wills] did the "Batter Up" track. But other than that we kept everything in house, 'cause we work well together. If I feel something should be in a beat or something, if I'm feeling it -- maybe anything from a clang to a high hat, I doesn't make a difference -- they feed off of that. There are some producers that are gonna be like, "Look, look, let me do the beat. You stick to rapping." But they take well off, and they take our comments and our suggestions and they coincide with what we trying to do to, as far as hoppin' on it lyrically.