As the unofficial leader of the platinum-plus selling unit St. Lunatics (which includes the 9x platinum solo rapper Nelly), Ali is somewhat of a soothsayer. In the mid-90's the St. Louis native conceived the group, pulled the group together and went so far as to predict that the crew's 1996 independently-released single, "Gimme What You Got" would be a regional hit, spending weeks at #1 in St. Louis. Soon after achieving local success, the St.