Timbaland talks with MTV on his relationship with Hov. Speaking on the BP3 leaks as well as the Jay-Z/Keri Hilson record that hit the internet early. Stating how they don’t need each other musically but when they come together they are like Dre and Snoop. Hit the jump for more…
Ever since the Tim-produced tracks from The Blueprint 3 leaked, people have been speculating about whether the two had problems. But the producer himself has a conspiracy theory about the leaks.
“There’s no beef between us,” Tim expressed to us not too long ago, admitting that the two had a serious talk about the premature release of songs the two collaborated on, most notably a record called “Rumors” that also featured Keri Hilson.
“Me and Jay is kinda weird,” Timbaland said recently in New York, when asked when he and Young Hov would work together again. “Musically, I take friendship very serious. Me and Jay, sometimes people think we have falling outs. We don’t have falling outs, it’s that we don’t communicate at the proper time. I take friendship very seriously. I wanna tell him how I might feel about a situation. The last time we talked, he understood how I felt. He saw my point with the Keri stuff being leaked out and everything. I had nothing to do with that. I would never do that to him. Nothing against his wishes. It bothered me so bad, I went on hiatus for a minute, because I would never disrespect his wishes. Like, ‘I’m trying to do this with my album, please don’t let that song get out or no leakage.’ … Four months later, the song is leaked. I felt so bad, because I would never want my friend to feel like we had some miscommunications.”
Tim explained that someone hacked into his engineer’s e-mail and stole the files of Blueprint 3 songs “Venus vs. Mars” and “Off That,” the first to be leaked from the album. He said they hadn’t determined a destination for “Rumors,” though they thought it wasn’t right for Blueprint 3 or for Tim’s Shock Value II. They decided to leave it in the vault, but it somehow made its way onto the Internet last fall. The super-producer says the leak was a blatant attempt by an unknown mastermind trying to damage their relationship.
“I felt like, ‘What in the world? Who is trying to sabotage our friendship?’ ” Tim recalled. “That bothers me. I respect my friends, because I don’t got a lot of them, and he’s one of my friends in the music industry. I felt like, ‘I’ll remove myself. If people wanna play us against each other, I’ll bow out.’ We talk about personal stuff. I don’t want him to feel like he can’t talk to me about certain things. We both said to [each other] one day, we know we don’t need each other musically, but we are friends. I’m like, ‘I hope you realize that. But I want you to realize that me and you are like Dre and Snoop.’ Sometimes I don’t think he understands that. When we get together, we do make magic.”
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that was sooo gay…
Where the fuck does he get the self entitlement to compare his shitty music to a classic like The Chronic.
^ rappers got big egos these days.. and whats funny is there makin sooo shit music they dont even know it.
This asshat just put out the single worst album this year and has the nerve to say he’s making magic? His shit is a testament to Jay’s ability to save shitty songs honestly.
Timbo…. He aint what he used to be, but is still capable of making good shit. The leaks he made with James Fauntleroy were dope, like “Back Together” and “Say”. But hardly anyone has heard of them,…
timbalands production aint seeing dre. i think tim thinks just b/c they had one huge hit, Dirt Off Your Shoulders, that all the sudden their special together…
to the “hip-hop fan” above me, You ever heard of a record called “Big Pimpin’”? Tim and Jay been making hits although imho Neptunes and Jay>>>Timbo the King and Jay
^Kanye & Jay>Neptunes & Jay
you guys forgot about nigga what nigga who, they do make a good combo
Timbaland makes me laugh.
The first half of BP3 is where the good shit is. Tim’s tracks were incredibly disappointing. Nobody cares if you dudes are friends or not… As much as I detest Kanye and the lame shit that he’s on, at least he backs up his ridiculous shit talking with *dope production*.
I’ll take Jay w/Kanye or Just Blaze over the weak shit that Tim is on… I’ll give it up to Timmy for some tight shit from the previous decade- but dude needs to shut his mouth and get back in the lab.
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