Although the summer is pretty much over at this point, music lovers are still wanting it to get "Hot in Herre."
However, if you start hearing the song of the summer of 2002 over and over again this week, it's really not because the former popular rapper Nelly is making some kind of major comeback.
Instead, devout Nelly fans are streaming "Hot in Herre" on repeat in an attempt to help dig him out his alleged hole of debt now that he has found himself in some hot water with the IRS.
TMZ reported on Monday that Nelly allegedly owes the IRS more than $2 million in taxes, along with almost $150,000 owned to the Missouri Department of Revenue for unpaid state taxes from 2013.
If there is any truth to this story, then fans are willing to prove that they still ride with the rapper. After all, he is responsible for giving us some of the best songs of the '00s, like "Ride Wit Me," "Country Grammar," and hit debuts with Kelly Rowland and even *NSYNC.
So, fans have started the #SaveNelly movement that consists of streaming "Hot in Herre" — arguably the rapper's best song — so that he can get his royalty money.
I turned on Hot in Herre on @AppleMusic and will leave it on repeat for the rest of the night. Join me #SaveNelly
— Martenzie Johnson (@Martenzie) September 12, 2016
While the trending campaign has good intentions, a lot of people would need to listen to the song a lot of times before it made any kind of real money. That's because record labels make deals with streaming services to allow the platforms to add their artists to their libraries. The record company gets a cut from a stream, which then gives the artist a cut from that cut.
So, while it's true that millions of streams could help save Nelly, according to the calculations from Spin, "Hot in Herre" would need to be streamed on Spotify anywhere between 287 million and 402 million times in order to pay off his debt.
Of course, this depends on how much the rapper really gets per stream after taking into account that Spotify pays $0.0006 to $0.0084 per stream.
Nelly would need the song to be streamed on Google Play more than 341 million times to clear his financial troubles at $0.0075 per stream or more than 426 million times on Apple Music at $0.006005 per stream.
However, it might be his best bet to have Tidal subscribers play "Hot in Herre" over a few times, since the platform reportedly pays artists the best. At $.0070 per stream, the song would need to be played more than 365 million times.
However, this isn't stopping fans from doing their part by listening to the throwback. At the end of the day, it will probably just be easier for Nelly to sell some of his prized possessions or go on tour, where the real money is at.
