Editing Country Grammar (section)

==Composition==
Much of Nelly's rap style draws from his origins, as it contains [[Southern American English|Southern drawl]] with Midwestern,<ref name="Birchmeier1">Birchmeier, Jason. [{{AllMusic|class=biography|id=mn0000861351|pure_url=yes}} "Nelly – Music Biography"]. Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved on June 6, 2013.</ref> [[Missouri]] twang,<ref name="Shapiro, Peter 2005, p. 274">Shapiro, Peter, 2005, ''The Rough Guide To Hip-Hop'', 2nd Edition, Penguin, p. 274</ref> that incorporates both [[Country music|country]] and urban styles.<ref name="Birchmeier1"/> In conjunction, Nelly approaches a [[Pop music|pop]]-[[Hip hop music|rap]] singalong vocal style, which [[AllMusic]]'s Jason Birchmeier notes present within ''Country Grammar''{{'s}} tracks including "[[Ride wit Me]]" and "[[E.I. (song)|E.I.]]".<ref name="Birchmeier"/> [[Peter Shapiro (journalist)|Peter Shapiro]] described Nelly's singing and rapping as using "unforgettable [[Hook (music)|hooks]] based on schoolyard songs, double-dutch chants, and nonsense rhymes".<ref name="Shapiro, Peter 2005, p. 274"/> Much of ''Country Grammar''{{'s}} tracks are bass-heavy,<ref name="Browne"/><ref name="Ex"/> that are primarily Southern hip-hop based and minimalistic.<ref name="People"/> In the album's self-titled track, Nelly's vocals are slurred and slow,<ref name="Sutherland"/> and are a "smooth, slippery-fast instrument" with "[[reggae]] inflections".<ref name="Browne"/> ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' journalist Kris Ex found the song's lyrics to depict Nelly "riding around town in an expensive SUV with an assault weapon".<ref name="Ex"/> "[[Ride wit Me]]" is a rap and pop crossover<ref name="Sutherland"/> that samples [[DeBarge]]'s 1982 song "[[I Like It (DeBarge song)|I Like It]]",<ref name="liner"/> and its lyrics feature Nelly introspecting.<ref name="Browne"/> Ex found the chorus of "E.I." to contain the vocal style of rapper [[The Notorious B.I.G.]]<ref name="Ex"/> "Luven Me" samples "Don't Stop (Ever Loving Me)" by [[One Way (American band)|One Way]] and "[[Whatever You Want (Tony! Toni! Toné! song)|Whatever You Want]]" by [[Tony! Toni! Toné!]].<ref name="liner"/> Steve Sutherland of ''[[NME]]'' interpreted "Luven Me" as a "virtual rewrite" of rapper [[Tupac Shakur]]'s 1995 "[[Dear Mama]]".<ref name="Sutherland"/>