NELLY - NELLY: KEEP POLITICS OUT OF MUSIC

Rapper NELLY is urging his fellow performers to keep politics out of their music if they want to stay successful.

The HOT IN HERRE hitmaker believes music should be a source of entertainment for fans, rather than the fuel for debate.

He tells BLENDER magazine, "Some people don't want politics in their music. Some people want their music to be uplifting so they can have fun and go dance.

"If you want to do the politics things, be more involved personally, but you could talk about that and then tomorrow wake up and you're not selling records. So now you've protested the war... and you're broke!

"You're like, 'Damn! I should've kept doing what I was doing and just stuck to doing my politics on another level."