Fans Start #HotInHerreStreamingParty To Help Nelly Pay His $2.4 Million Tax Debt

(AllHipHop News) News recently broke that Nelly owes $2,412,283 in back taxes to the federal government. The St. Louis native is getting help from the public to help pay off that debt.

Instead of launching a crowdsourcing campaign, Nelly fans started the #HotInHereStreamingParty hashtag to get their followers to stream the #1 single “Hot in Herre” and other songs by the rapper.

According to Spin, Nelly would need a lot of people to play his music on Spotify to make up for the $2.4 million. The publication reports:

At the bare minimum, you’ll have to stream a Nelly joint 402,880,500 times to make a decent dent on his tax issues. If Nelly’s lucky enough to be on the $.0084 end of the royalty spectrum, the best case scenario sees you plugging through 287,176,547 streams. (Of course, the revenue has to also be divided between labels and publishers, but let’s hope they’ll be charitable herre.)

I made a playlist of 8 hours of Hot in Herre for you to play while you sleep #DoItForNelly https://t.co/tCMxk2tkEx

— Samir Mezrahi (@samir) September 13, 2016

#HotInHerreStreamingParty I forgot how much of a bop this song is but I got u boo pic.twitter.com/BFGLMlyzj6

— Zolee (@Zoleeofficial) September 13, 2016

#HotInHerreStreamingParty I just gotta say I love black people and how we look out for each other ✊?? #SaveNelly

— move mojito (@louboutindom) September 13, 2016

Just arrived at the #hotinherrestreamingparty i got you Nelly pic.twitter.com/Xx5PhVXTl2

— ye’ (@evlyeezy) September 13, 2016

#HotInHerreStreamingParty we really doing this? because I will put that song on repeat all night while I sleep with the volume on zero

— $outh$ide Mays Gilly (@DJELZEE) September 13, 2016

Bandaids out for Nelly!#HotInHerreStreamingParty pic.twitter.com/iwbKw3AqXA

— Kodak Blue (@Sable_Soul) September 13, 2016

Me Showing up to the #HotInHerreStreamingParty This is for the Culture! pic.twitter.com/I7iyee3DXG

— Nasir? (@NasirLeigh) September 13, 2016

#HotInHerreStreamingParty ME RN pic.twitter.com/Le0ghw95sE

— Retired (@Mayberrykush) September 13, 2016

#HotInHerreStreamingParty
was playing on the way to my vegas wedding pic.twitter.com/0KcHoaTRtq

— Nicole Winchester (@noizangel) September 12, 2016

When I remember nelly said all lives matter #HotInHerreStreamingParty pic.twitter.com/6kSHNVLoNS

— hooyo (@LonelyandMoody) September 12, 2016

im tryna help Nelly pay his bills and I cant even pay mine #HotInHerreStreamingParty pic.twitter.com/NDfJe38yhF

— isaiah (@thesaddestangel) September 12, 2016