It's easy to forget that Nelly was already one multiplatinum album and four top ten hits into his career when he released "Hot in Herre," because ten years later, the summer smash of 2002 sticks out as his true star-making moment. Following the death of bubblegum pop, its seven-week run at the top of the Hot 100 helped cement the domination of urban music on the charts and turned the St. Louis rapper into a cultural phenomenon. (How else to classify otherwise sane people incorporating the line "I am getting so hot/I wanna take my clothes off" into real life?) It also feels like enough time has passed to publicly recognize "Herre" as the stroke of mindless genius that it is. A decade on, the rump-shaking percussive beat and charmingly goofy lyrics remain just as satisfying as ever. A
Ten years ago this week, "Hot in Herre" was the #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100.
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