photos: Chuck Gallyon

By Blair R. Fischer



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Did you ever think you'd see St. Louis rapper Nelly get bashful? Well, it happened, and he has Playmate Nicole Narain to blame.

The mayor of Nellyville is definitely strutting his stuff these days with the simultaneous release of two albums, Sweat and Suit. But when he photographed the January 2002 Playmate, he looked more like a timid grade schooler than a haughty hip-hop giant. "He didn't walk in like some off-the-cuff rock star, like 'I'm the shit,'" Nicole told Playboy.com. "It made it cool." It may have looked cool, but when the seductive, brown-eyed beauty sprawled out on the floor in nothing but razor-thin pink panties, a rose between her teeth and surrounded by discarded lingerie, it certainly got "hot in herre." And Nelly nearly lost it.



Click here to read Playboy.com's review of Nelly's latest, Sweat/Suit.
"She looked hot," he told Playboy.com during the shoot in Santa Monica. "She looked like maybe you were looking in her window one day and you saw her sitting on the floor picking out underwear." Nelly, oddly sans adhesive bandage, was sporting a hometown University City jersey, black baggy shorts and matching do-rag. He shot 10 rolls of film of Nicole, joining the long line of Playboy.com celebrity guest photographers.


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