Detroit, MI -- Lots of folks are crediting rapper Nelly with popularizing the double consonants in his song, "Hot In Herre," but one Detroit-based rapper says he's been doing it since 1997.

Poww Brothers rapper J. Poww said he started doubling his "w's" because people used to pronounce his name as "J. Po" like Edgar Allen Poe, instead of Pow, as in Powder.

Poww thinks Nelly might have copied him, but, quote, "I don't think he'd admit it if he did."

The Poww Brothers debut record, "Faithful," hits stores October 22.

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