Nelly Said He Had to Move After His ‘MTV Cribs’ Appearance: ‘We Got Gates and Sh*t After That’

Nelly does not look back on his appearance on MTV Cribs with fondness.

The rapper recently sat down with The Cruz Show, where host J Cruz asked him if his MTV Cribs episode from the early aughts was real.

“Hell yeah,” Nelly responded at around the 11:20 minute mark, adding that he eventually had to sell his home because people figured out where he lived. “It was the worst thing I did, being on MTV Cribs.”

He explained that while people didn’t know his address, they put two-and-two together.

“[MTV Cribs] showed a plate because I had my name engraved on it,” he said of the home, which was located in Lake St. Louis, a suburb of St. Charles County, Missouri. He explained that his home was the first house by the lake and he had a “prime spot.”

“When we did it, I’m thinking this is my end all be all. Now, I’m not knowing that [the St. Lunatics are] just getting started as a group and we were going to keep having success and things like that,” he said of his 2002 episode.

He continued, “There was no gate on the house, and people were pulling their boats up to the dock. My mom is out by the pool, motherfuckers pull they boat up on the dock, walk up the dock.”

Nelly didn’t live in the home for long, moving out after about a year.

“We moved. We got gates and shit after that,” he said, laughing. “But I thought I was going to be there forever.”

Nelly’s episode was shot after he found major success as a solo artist and as a member of the St. Lunatics. In 2000, the St. Louis rapper released his debut solo album, Country Grammar, which topped the Billboard 200 chart. The project was followed by the St. Lunatics’s first and only album, 2001’s Free City, which peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200. Then, a year later, Nelly dropped off his second solo album, Nellyville, which also peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.