Maybe Nelly should stop telling you to take your clothes off and pay his taxes instead?

TMZ reported yesterday that Nelly’ been hit with a federal tax lien that amounts to $2,412,283. The St. Louis native also reportedly owes $149,511 in state taxes. Yikes.

Fans quickly went into action to #SaveNelly by streaming “Hot in Herre” but the patron saint of bandages on the face has a ways to go before the feds will get off his back.

If you decide to stream some Nelly on Spotify, the Swedish company recently said that the payout for artists “per stream” lands between $0.006 and $0.0084. So at the bare minimum, you’ll have to stream a Nelly joint 402,880,500 times to make a decent dent on his tax issues. If Nelly’s lucky enough to be on the $.0084 end of the royalty spectrum, the best case scenario sees you plugging through 287,176,547 streams.

 

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