Nelly has regrets about his MTV Cribs episode.
During a recent interview on The Cruz Show, host J Cruz asked if his early 2000s Cribs appearance was authentic.
“Hell yeah,” Nelly confirmed around the 11:20 mark, explaining he eventually had to move because fans discovered his address. “It was the worst thing I did, being on MTV Cribs.”
He explained people figured out his location from context clues.
“[MTV Cribs] showed a plate because I had my name engraved on it,” he said about the home in Lake St. Louis, a suburb in St. Charles County, Missouri. His house was the first by the lake with a “prime spot.”
“When we did it, I’m thinking this is my end all be all. Now, I’m not knowing that [the St. Lunatics are] just getting started as a group and we were going to keep having success and things like that,” he said about his 2002 episode.
He continued, “There was no gate on the house, and people were pulling their boats up to the dock. My mom is out by the pool, motherfuckers pull they boat up on the dock, walk up the dock.”
Nelly only stayed in the home about a year before relocating.
“We moved. We got gates and shit after that,” he said, laughing. “But I thought I was going to be there forever.”
Nelly’s episode was filmed after his breakthrough success as a solo artist and St. Lunatics member. In 2000, the St. Louis rapper released his debut solo album, Country Grammar, which topped the Billboard 200. This was followed by the St. Lunatics’s first and only album, 2001’s Free City, which reached No. 3. A year later, Nelly dropped his second solo album, Nellyville, which also hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
