# Question about the Hip Hop Star Nelly.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-hip-hop-star-nelly/119433>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 17, 2002, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-hip-hop-star-nelly/119433 "2002-07-17T16:00:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Breezy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b3f665/32.png) [@Breezy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Breezy)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-hip-hop-star-nelly/119433/1 "2002-07-17T16:00:58Z")

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Why does he always have a band-aid on his left cheek? I’m sure there’s a factual reason that he puts it there, but I dont’ know why and I have wonered about that every time I’ve seen him with it.

Surely he hasn’t had a scratch on his face for a year, right?

thanks!

:):)🙂

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**Author:** ![RGillen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/848f3c/32.png) [@RGillen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RGillen)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-hip-hop-star-nelly/119433/2 "2002-07-17T17:09:48Z")

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[Here you go.](http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1446499/20010809/story.jhtml)