Nelly upset at record label for poor sales

Nelly has gone on a twitter tirade against his record label after disappointing sales.

The rap star has sold many millions of albums in the past, but his latest, titled 5.0, barely made a dent in the charts when released in mid-November.

It scraped into the US Top Ten upon debut, barely snuck into the Canadian and Australian Top Twenty, and didn't even make the UK Top 50.

So Nelly has tweeted that it's all the fault of his record label, Motown/Universal. Or at least half theirs.

Rolling Out reported a string of tweets, beginning with: "A record deal is a 50/50 partnership!' then, 'As a artist its your job to provide the record company with music that they can sell! Thing about the partnership is that n the public eye the responsibility is not 50/50! the artist is always the 1who catches 90% of the blame

Another eight emotional tweets followed, complaining about 'disciplinarian' labels, and seemingly chiding the owners of not capitalising on his previous number one single that sold '2mill' in '2.5month'.

Following the rant, he responded to some comments, including telling one follower: 'm not the 1st artist 2lash out at the label n I'm sure I won't b the last!hell they even made 1artist change his name 2a symbol!lol'

Undercover.com.au