Rapper Nelly released his latest album, "5.0," earlier this month on Universal Mowtown and sold a reported 63,000 copies in its first week, a number Nelly apparently is not happy with.  He vented as much over the weekend in a series of messages posted to his Twitter account.  Read the posts below.

"A record deal is a 50/50 partnership! As a artist its your job to provide the record company with music that they (record company) can sell, Thing about the partnership is that n the public eye the responsibility is not 50/50! The artist is always the 1 who catches 90% of the blame."

Nelly continued the rant, sharing, "If u only ship 200 thound [thousand] of an album how many are u f#cking tryen [sic] to sell? The artists does control that nor does he or she control marketing."