In 2003, Cleveland, Ohio native Amanda Berry went missing until May 2013, when she was rescued after a decade of imprisonment and rape.
In a story that shocked the United States, it was revealed that Ariel Castro, who was sentenced to life and 1,000 years in prison just this week, kidnapped Berry and two other women, and had been holding them in captivity for years. All three women, and the six-year-old daughter of Amanda Berry, who Castro fathered, were saved.
Berry, now 27, has begun to acclimate herself to the world as it is in 2013. But along the way, she went back to a time before tragedy struck.
On Saturday (July 27), Berry came on stage with her family at a Nelly concert in Cleveland. Nelly’s career, of course, was at an all-time-high in 2003, just one year removed from Nellyville, which has gone six times platinum in the United States.
“He said, ‘Everyone, here’s Amanda Berry,’ and she came out with a friend, another young woman,” said concertgoer Kayleigh Fladung to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “She didn’t say anything, but she was smiling and happy. “She waved to the crowd, everyone went crazy cheering, and she went backstage. Nelly did his set, four or five songs, and then he brought her out again and everyone cheered.”
“It was cool to see but still very surprising,” added Fladung.
As he brought Berry out, Nelly said, “I want to make sure we get a chance to thank you… because I can’t even imagine the type of strength and the type of courage that it took to keep it going. So for that, again, I commend you…and for that, I want you to stay here,” before dedicating his peformance of “Just a Dream” to Berry:
The event marked Berry’s first public appearance since her horrific ordeal.
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Wow first being held captive then having to attend a Nelly concert. Poor girl
Those were my first thoughts, lmao!
Being locked up in a basement for 10 years is the only place Nelly is going to find people who still thinks hes relevant.
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Comment of the year. lmao!
That’s f’n hilarious!
Nelly propelled Cruise this year to the top 5.
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LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL
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People always forget rap is a business. He made tons of money, off music and endorsments. I doubt he will trade in his funds, just to be relevant. “You inspire to be known,I inspire to be we’ll off”-Wale. Nelly been in the game for over 10 years. People think rappers supposed to be relevant forever. It’s like the NBA and NFL. You can’t be good forever. lol At the same time. This clip wasn’t even about Nelly. It’s about bringing a kidnapping victim on stage to show her love for over coming what she did. People are so lost!!!!!!!
This is why I’m cool with the white youth of America! They actually buy shit and still support when our own people get on sites like this with that corny, Uncle Tom ass shit about who is relevant and who is not…..This man has made and is still making his paper….I say that definitely makes him or any damn body else relevant!!! Ol’ Stupid MF’ers on these posts!!!!!!!
those are white boys on them posts ya dummy, lol
Good for him
You young kids are really the dumbest group ever. So uneducated. It’s called respect. You don’t respect hip hop or black history if u clown on nelly. Read a book illiterate niggas
Why do people who make fun of Nelly have to be young and illiterate? Nice sweeping generalization there. That’s just as idiotic as the person below claiming that all the people who posted were “White boys”.
I’m Black, educated and I love hip-hop. I also happen to think Nelly’s music is garbage. He’s about as hip-hop as Chingy and Lil’ Zane. Get out of here with your self-righteous BS.
fuck off black history bullshit hiphop isnt about that trash now its about money girls and cars you bitch ass nigguh
nelly is hip-hop LOLOLOL
damn lol this girl aint lying about the 10 years wow
Aye, Nelly created his own lane in hip hop(albeit a more commercial friendly 1) & rode that bish until the wheels fell off & he is still doin world tours no doubt. & he is dope for this. Word up.
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Too Bad is show is wack.
Not sure the first thing you want to do after a decade of being someone’s sex slave is to go to a Nelly concert.
Dude should have brought out Charles Ramsey to perform Dead Giveaway. #BIG TESTICALS