article_snippet: The St. Louis rapper who shot to fame back in 2000 with The St. Louis rapper who shot to fame back in 2000 debut album Country Grammar put on a surprise concert for Kurdish fighters battling ISIS in the city of Erbil in Iraq.
article_snippet: It was all part of a charity concert put on by the Rwanga Foundation, a non-profit created to help those in the area, and in a press release Kurdish fighters battling ISIS in the city of Erbil in Iraq claims that Rapper Nelly is now 'the first American artist to perform in the city of Erbil in Iraq’s 8,000 year old history.'
article_snippet: Rapper Nelly performed in Kurdistan on Friday at a benefit concert .
article_snippet: a benefit concert was originally supposed to be headlined by Akon a benefit concert seems, and Rapper Nelly made an announcement Rapper Nelly would be going over last month according to Newsweek, but it seems Rapper Nelly dropped out for unknown reasons.
article_snippet: Ranj Talabany wrote on Twitter; 'So apparently #Nelly has been paid $650,000 to perform in #Erbil for peshmerga's.
highlights_snippet: Rapper Nelly performed in Kurdistan on Friday at a benefit concert to benefit troops fighting ISIS and those impacted by the recent conflict in the area .
  