Missy Elliott Tells Rick Rubin How Timbaland Almost Lost the “Get Ur Freak On” Beat

Missy Elliott recalls making the hit “Get Ur Freak On” for her third album “Miss E... So Addictive” with Timbaland and how the super-producer nearly lost the famed beat after playing it for her. Hear Missy's full interview with Rick Rubin on Broken Record here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYfbJ...

Interview Talks with Timbaland and Rick Ross

Sovereign Brands Presents: Belaire Talks with Timbaland and Rick Ross. Watch these two legends discuss the music industry, Aaliyah, and much more over a bottle of Belaire Bleu.

Timbaland & Swizz Beatz | Drink Champs (Interview)

 N.O.R.E. & DJ EFN are the Drink Champs. In this episode, we chop it up with Swizz Beatz & Timbaland! 

The legendary producers joined us prior to their VERZUZ match to talk music, life and VERZUZ! In this episode, we hear stories of Teddy Riley, Aaliyah, Pharrell and the late great DMX and much more! Swizz & Timbo talk about their friendship over the years and how it would lead to the birth of their VERZUZ platform.

Angel Lopez Talks Mentored By Timbaland, and Nearly Leaving Music

Angel Lopez is a Grammy winning music producer and songwriter who has worked with Sam Smith, Coldplay, Kanye West and many more. He has been groomed and mentored by his musical idol, legendary producer Timbaland. Angel nearly missed his calling. Before he found success in the music business, he came within inches of leaving his path in music to pursue what would have been an arduous career to becoming a gemologist.

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Timbaland Interview With Dj Khaled

Timbaland podcast with Dj Khaled , the first one.Big Pimpin Talk. THE TALK ABOUT MUSIC AND GREATNESS. Timbaland talks about his journey in the music industry.

Swizz Beatz & Timbaland Talk Verzuz Growth, Triller Partnership + New Battles

Justine Skye On Working (Space & Time) New Album

After two albums that delved deeply into dense languages of love, Skye is shedding the past and manifesting a new direction. The world will see the result of that when she releases her third studio album, Space & Time, that'll be entirely produced by Timbaland. Their relationship kicked off with a beat sent via text and, before they knew it, they were in the midst of creating something special.

"I learned a lot from him during that time and it was such an experience to be getting all these musical and personal gems from such a legend," Skye says. "The synergy was super natural."

Below, PAPER goes behind the scenes of Skye's "Intruded" video with Timbaland, out now.

How did "Intruded" come about with Timbaland?

I've always wanted to work with him. When I expressed that to my team, E&E Creative, they were already on it. They'd worked with Timbaland before and already started the conversation. When the pandemic hit, my spring tour was canceled so I was looking for other ways to put out content and express myself.

I did a side-by-side cover video with my friend on Instagram and Tim reached out via DM when he saw it. He told me he wanted to do a video, too, and I was shook. He sent over a beat to me, which I couldn't believe that The Timbaland just casually FaceTimed and texted me a beat. I immediately started writing to it and, boom, "Intruded" was born.

What was it like working with him?

I was so nervous the first day we got in because it was the first time that we had met in person. We'd been talking to each other for a couple months via FaceTime, doing these Space & Time Sessions, but now it was all too real. After the first 30 minutes or so, I started to chill out. We got straight to work and we had no time to waste. I learned a lot from him during that time, and it was such an experience to be getting all these musical and personal gems from such a legend. The synergy was super natural.

What was the creative process for the music video?

The creative process was super personal and hands-on. My creative team pulled together some references from an early 2000s Steven Meisel shoot and we expanded from that point. They had a concept about technology, and the fact that Timbaland and I had been creating via FaceTime before ever meeting in person.

We then talked about the idea of forming connections through FaceTime, but how often you're actually looking at yourself instead of the person on the call. It became an idea around how technology can make you self-consumed and obsessed. We had found this sick director, Nina Holmgren, who had created a short film we absolutely loved, so we knew she'd be able to bring the vision to life. And she absolutely killed it.

What else can we expect from your forthcoming album with Timbaland?

Straight heat! I've never been more proud of something in my entire life. We've worked so hard on this project and it shows. It's the perfect amount of music and vibe for you to want to run it back over and over.

It's a new year for you with a new era. What are you looking to accomplish in 2021?

My goal is to bust through all of the doors that I always walked by, but never felt the confidence to kick down. I stand so strong behind this body of work and what's to come after. I know these doors will be wide open for the next project.

What would you call this new chapter in your career?

"She's Arrived." I open the album with an interlude where I sing, "Where have you been, how did you get in," and that's my subconscious talking to me and addressing the fact that I'm finally present.

Stream "Intruded" by Justine Skye and Timbaland, below.

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Mosley Music Group CEO Gary Marella // Interview 🎙

The continued success of Verzuz — as well as Marella’s Mosley & Mono Music Group management firm, whose clients are up for four Grammys this year, and his new venture with Timbaland Beatclub, set to launch in the second quarter of 2021 — help earn Marella the title of Billboard’s Executive of the Week. Here, he discusses the origins and evolution of Verzuz, where things can continue to move from here, the experience of being a producer manager amid the pandemic and his new plans with Timbaland.

How did Verzuz get started, and what key decisions have you made to help it grow into the actual business entity that it is today?

Funny story. When Swizz and Just Blaze did a battle at Swizz’s house a few years ago I was watching on Instagram. And as I was making comments, I quickly realized I was signed in under Timbaland’s Instagram when I saw the feedback such as “Timbo’s in the house” and “Tim Vs Pharrell.” Fast forward, Swizz challenged Tim on July 14, 2017, at the Mayweather fight press conference in New York. I remember calling Tim and telling him right after Swizz challenged him. Tim quickly accepted the challenge on his Instagram.

A year later we had them perform at Hot 97’s Summer Jam, June 10, 2018, and it was pretty incredible to be reminded of the caliber of songs these two have been a part of over the past 15 years. For the Hot 97 show, we had a couple days of rehearsals and looking back now I wasn’t even aware at the time that the guys weren’t friends. There is something really special that’s happened this past 12 months that the press hasn’t talked much about, which is I’ve seen these guys become like brothers this past year and it’s all been over Zoom and FaceTime. They haven’t even been together in person once this past year.

After the Summer Jam performance there was quite a buzz, so we starting looking into bringing this on the road and the numbers just didn’t make sense. Then on March 24, 2020, Tim went on his IG Live and was calling out Swizz to join and the guys battled for five hours with 25,000 people watching and the rest is history. At the time, we thought 25,000 viewers was massive.

After that, Tim, Swizz and his manager Monique Blake and I focused quickly on putting the subsequent battles together. We started by focusing on producers and songwriters and then it naturally transitioned to the artist battles. We have always focused on keeping Verzuz true to the culture and I think we’ve done a great job listening to what the people want. We’ve made some mistakes along the way, but we quickly fixed them.

What factors go into choosing participants and sponsors?

Choosing participants lately has been by committee. Swizz, Tim, [Apple Music executive] Larry Jackson, Monique and I have thrown out suggested pairings to make sure it feels right, then we discuss with the artists to make sure they are on board. For each battle, it has varied on who from our team starts the conversation with talent, but since we all have relationships either with the artist or manager it’s been a smooth process.

In terms of sponsors, we’ve passed on a lot of major brand opportunities simply because they didn’t align with us as a brand.

We have paid the artists a share of our sponsorship revenue in every battle unless they had a competing brand to endorse. Ciroc was a natural partnership based on the relationship with Swizz, Tim and Diddy. We actually started hashtagging and pinning Ciroc in our Instagram Live feed before having a deal in place with them. Ciroc has been a fantastic partner because they understand the culture, which I attribute to Diddy, Deon and their team. We’ve had several battles with artists that had deals in place with other alcohol brands that they needed to support and the Ciroc team respected that.

We’ve had some other sponsors that we noticed some negative comments on. We did those so we could pay the artists more money, and of course we received some of that income as well. We quickly learned it’s not easy with multiple sponsors wanting product placement that also require deliverables from the artists. What changed recently is our format with us having to go back to the artists being in two separate locations for the time being due to COVID restrictions. This created some hurdles for us having to set up two separate shots with each camera closer to the artist, allowing less room for a tastefully, well-put-together sponsor table set up next to them.

I respect brands that need product placement. My concern, however, with us having too many partnerships that require artist deliverables and product placement is it makes our platform start to feel like a race car driver’s jacket. I am hopeful more brands aren’t as concerned with product placement and more focused on an organic integration with us and the talent.

How did the Apple deal come together?

Before the collaboration with Apple, we had conversations with several other potential partners. It ultimately came down to us being able to keep Verzuz on Instagram with whomever we partnered with. Larry and the Apple team understood the value in us staying on Instagram while also creating a new audience that would now be watching Verzuz on Apple Music/TV in high-definition video with high-fidelity audio. Utilizing the Apple production team for each battle has also been a huge help as well during the pandemic.

A company that doesn’t get enough recognition is Roland. From the beginning the Roland team offered their services and equipment to fix our technical issues on the Instagram feed and still to this day are right there with us and have never asked us for anything but a few mentions. I should also acknowledge Fadia [Kader] and the Instagram team who, from day one, have done their best to support us.

Verzuz started during the COVID lockdowns as a kind of escape for fans. How do you maintain interest, even as the novelty factor wears off and fans are no longer in quarantine?

Although it feels like just a cultural moment to some, Verzuz is much bigger than just quarantine entertainment. Hopefully with more people getting vaccines in the next three to six months we are going to slowly see more tour dates announced and people getting back to their normal lives. Los Angeles just lifted the stay-at-home order this week. Miami and other major cities are operating as if there isn’t even a pandemic. I think what we are going to see now is more artists using Verzuz as an announcement, not just for their new project, but to announce their tour dates in 2021 and so on. We have more artists wanting to do Verzuz than ever before. We have about 10 battles already confirmed with major artists coming up.

Now Verzuz is expanding with this new NFL partnership. Where else can this concept go?

We’ve been planning on launching VerzuzSports for quite some time and the NFL was the first major league we were able to get our deal locked in with. My partner in crime from day one, Monique Blake, and I have been juggling a lot. We have another league announcement coming very soon which also fits the culture of Verzuz well. VerzuzComedy is coming soon as well.

How has the management business changed amid the pandemic? How have you had to adapt?

Aside from having to shift more of my time from management to running Verzuz and Beatclub, it still feels the same, other than not getting my producers in the same room as often with artists. The concept of a Zoom session was pretty hard to swallow in March, but it’s the norm now. My clients Timbaland, Fede and Angel just had the No. 1 rhythm single in the country last week with Saweetie’s “Back To The Streets,” Rance co-produced the biggest song of 2020 with Roddy Ricch’s “The Box.” Timbaland and a major artist just finished a song and they didn’t work in the same room on it. Tim played the track on Beatclub’s Twitch page, the artist heard the track and loved it. Tim sent the track and the artist cut the record and shot the video last week, which is dropping next month. That’s one of the reasons Tim and I started Beatclub — artists don’t have to be in the studio with the producer.

What inspired the idea for Beatclub and how has the concept been received so far?

Timbaland and I founded Beatclub in mid-2019, which we are launching Q2 2021. We’ve built a great team of 15-plus employees this past 12 months, which I am proud of. The reason we started Beatclub was we began to notice a huge shift within the producer community in how they were monetizing their music and beats. There was a new digital economy that grew quickly in the creative space driven by the independent artist buying and leasing beats online from new, up-and-coming bedroom producers.

We also quickly recognized that many of the existing platforms that were involved in this new form of business were not allowing creatives to retain their publishing or participate in the back-end royalties of these transactions and also were highly curated. By that I mean they didn’t have the top producers and songwriters on their platforms. I also noticed the major label system and publishers were still somewhat disconnected from this part of the business.

That’s how Tim and I realized that we can offer a solution at scale through our new platform Beatclub. The idea was to create a community-driven marketplace of highly-curated quality, where music creators could easily connect with music buyers, while still retaining their rights. We want to provide as much value, support and opportunity to the music creators in the world as possible. We not only help facilitate meaningful transactions between independent artists and producers, but also provide A&R opportunities for placement in film, TV and major label projects. In addition to A&R curation being one of the most important components of Beatclub, we are focused on collaboration and education as well.

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Saweetie and Timbaland Are Working For 2021

Detailing its creation with legendary producer Timbaland, Saweetie says that they worked together last year during a bootcamp after spending some time communicating with his team.

"He gave me this 20-year-old, fresh energy and would have made me think that he was a brand new producer who was super talented," she says. "It took me by surprise because normally, when you work with people who've been in the game for a while to kind of be second in their era — but he was just so hip, then just fell on top of what was the hot town. So I'm so grateful for the opportunity because he definitely pushed me to challenge myself. A lot of people say that they cook in the studio," but he was literally cooking in the studio and it felt like that."

Now the song and its lyrics are frequently used across Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok — something that makes her happy because of how it's aging. "I saw it come at a perfect time," she says.

The second song from Pretty Bitch Music is "Best Friends," a track that was previously leaked by Warner Music Records in December, leading her to callout the label. While she's hesitant to speak on the situation, she does detail how the song came about last January with Doja Cat. "I really wanted to do something and release something that empowered my girl best friends,"she says. "I have a lot of dope women in my life and we all felt like we needed a record, And just going back to Destiny's Child, they had so many women-empowered anthem themes."

That's it for now of Pretty Bitch Music, but one thing's for sure: there could be more Timbaland on it. The producer tells PAPER Magazine he loved working with her on her forthcoming album. "She's a great person, and she's very intuitive about her career and her artistry," he says. "We did a lot of songs, so I don't know what songs she's going to put on the album, but I'm excited for it," he continues. "Whatever that body of work is, all the work we've done, I know it's going to be amazing. So I'm just curious to see how she keys her body of work together."

Saweetie was so excited by working with Timbaland for Pretty Bitch Music that she's ready to get back in the studio with him and potentially do even more, crediting her evolution as the spark for making even better music with him. "I think when me and Tim got together, I was trying to figure out who I was as a woman, as an artist," she says. "So I think we experimented a lot and while I think that it was great, I've got a lot to talk about now. "I'm interested in going back and starting from scratch to make even bigger songs with him. What we made sounds great, but I'm really excited to see what we can do now that I have figured out who I am."

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Timbaland & Swizz Beatz On Jimmy Fallon

Swizz Beatz and Timbaland think back to the greatest hits they've produced, share how they came up with their digital beat battle series Verzuz and share an exclusive Verzuz Season 2 announcement involving Busta Rhymes.

Justin Timberlake on Working With Timbaland

 

Justin Timberlake kicks off the first episode of Apple Music Essentials, we’re sitting down with music’s most influential artists and listening to the stories behind their songs. Watch new episodes exclusively on Apple Music’s YouTube channel. Listen to Justin Timberlake Essentials on Apple Music: http://apple.co/_JTEssentials 

  

Fatman Scoop x Timbaland talk Jay-Z, Neptunes, Aaliyah x more (Full Interview)

Fatman Scoop chopped it up with Timbaland about how much of a musical genius he is. They discussed Verzuz, The Neptunes, Missy Elliott, Jay-Z, Aaliyah, Justin Timberlake and more.

Timbaland and Justine Skye (Interview)

Justine Skye is a classic Virgo. Even in the midst of a pandemic, and on the heels of her debut independent album, Bare With Me, she’s still doing work. The 24-year-old R&B singer’s industry domination has been a long time coming, Well, sort of. She’s been getting a little help (and a lot of advice) from Timbaland, the legendary producer In the midst of quarantine, the pair has begun a heaven-sent creative collaboration, pioneering the form of the Instagram EP with their socially-distanced Space & Time Sessions—a preview of what’s to come on their forthcoming EP. While the two have never met face to face, their chemistry is nothing short of cosmic. After all, Tim is a Pisces—creative, calm, and effortlessly cool. “When I called you, it was really just like god sent a touch,” he tells Skye over the phone on a balmy June afternoon.

JUSTINE SKYE: How are you feeling today?

TIMBALAND: Today I feel good. Just waking up everyday is a blessing. Sometimes you wake up like, “Damn, it’s still quarantine.” But at least we have our health and our minds and our spirit.

SKYE: And how have you been holding up with what’s going on in the world, because I know me and you talk a lot about that and we’ve shared our perspectives. I guess things are not lightening up, but we’re starting to see some change in the world. 

TIMBALAND: I think that it’s crazy we’re in a pandemic and a systemic race war. It’s a lot going on. But at the same time I just feel like the world was going to explode sooner or later. And I feel like with us being locked down, it made everybody pay attention to a lot of things that were getting swept under the rug. So it has a silver lining. I think now we’re taking responsibility for the bad in the world that we’ve been overlooking because we live our lives day to day, always on the go. But sometimes being on the go is not the move. Sometimes we need to sit back and reflect on what’s really the problems of the world. So I believe this was actually a wake-up call.

SKYE: Exactly.

TIMBALAND: It’s good to see that people are paying attention to all of the things that we were kind of blinded to before, like the racist statues that have been put on a pedestal in all of these communities around this country. They shouldn’t have been there in the first place because they represented something that was so awful in our country and oppressed our people. And I’m glad to see that. I call you Generation Z. I always go to you because I feel like y’all generation is the leader of this world going forward. I’m glad that y’all generation are really pointing out things and taking steps forward to remove these things so we can create the new world and make it about just loving one another.

SKYE: Throughout this whole pandemic, one of the things that I can say I’ve been grateful for has been the time that I’ve gotten to think about and focus on my craft as an artist, as a musician, as a writer. And one of the things that has been most exciting has been working with you on these Space and Time sessions. Basically it started with you reaching out to me, which was super dope and a highlight of my career.

TIMBALAND: When I called you, it was like god sent a touch when I was picking up the phone. As soon as I heard your tone, it was just like, “Let’s do this.” And during quarantine it felt like it was the perfect time. I’m thankful that I was a blessing for you, but you’re a blessing for me because I get to show the world, with patience and timing, how you build an artist. It’s not just building a song; we’re building an artist. I haven’t met you face to face, but I feel like when you walk in here I will know you because the chemistry is so real through technology. In person, it’s just going to go to the next level. We have this technology, we can create the new wave of letting the people inside the recording process on how it’s done through what we have. The power of that is very huge.

SKYE: If you would have told 14-year old Jus that Timbaland would be saying these things to me right now, she would have never, ever believed you. Obviously I tell you this literally all the time, but I’m just super, super appreciative of you for being patient and working with me. I’ve learned so much throughout this process and we haven’t even met yet. But when I send you something we’ve worked on, I still get nervous. But the chemistry is so natural. 

TIMBALAND: When something is natural and it feels good, we just got to stick to it. We got to believe. The people are going to come as long as we believe. It’s almost like a cleanse for me. I feel like a lot of people are paying attention, and that’s what music does. If it’s great, it will reach who it needs to. It will touch who needs to be touched.

SKYE: I can’t wait for us to actually get into the room together and create this magic and these visuals as well, because just visually I’ve looked up to artists like you and Missy, and Pharrell and JT and Aaliyah my whole life. And so being able to just get a droplet of what you guys created is just a dream of mine.

TIMBALAND: We got to give back.

SKYE: Being signed to two labels, and now that I’m independent, I’ve just been trying to figure out what I was going to do as an artist. I just dropped my album, Bare With Me. It’s been so dope just seeing the reaction it’s getting, showing people a different side of me that’s more alternative—adding that kind of European, alternative aspect to R&B, which is just something that we’re perfecting over here on this side. So many people have been asking about when Space and Time” is coming. So we’ve got to give the people what they want, Tim.

TIMBALAND: I think we’re dropping one today. So after we drop one more, we just need to lock it down, just come down and finish those. I was thinking about it. Maybe it should be like Space and Time EP, Volume One. I think we could probably do two volumes, maybe three volumes, just because all of this will be a part of your story as you grow. These are creating a new way of mixtapes without calling them mixtapes. 

SKYE: Exactly.

TIMBALAND: You already hang with the supermodels now, and they all love you. So you got to treat it like if it was a perfume or a collection, like it’s some clothes. Your music has to be all as one, because I see you doing fashion. So let’s treat this package of music the same way. Don’t just always say, “Oh, my mixtape.” No, Space and Time, Volume One. You can see the girls and be like, “Girl, you got that set, that Space and Time whole bundle? You got that Volume One, that Volume Two, that Volume Three?” And then the next one, it’d be the same way, but we’ll name it different. Treat it like if it’s part of your brand going forward with your merch, because you that’s how I see you. I see you as something global. 

SKYE: Thank you. I‘ve been sitting here going over the mood boarding of what we see for the project visually. I’ve been super inspired. We’ve been watching movies. We’ve been surfing the internet, looking at dope pages on Instagram, just pulling inspiration from so many different places. It’s going to be sick, trust. I can’t wait to share with you.

TIMBALAND: I know it’s going to be dope because I believe in you. I’m just glad to be a part of it. I guess it’s very rare that I believe in something, but with you I believe in it. I’m just grooming you for the big-time.

SKYE: Wait, I have one personal question for you. I always ask this question to people, but I never asked you. What’s your Zodiac sign?

TIMBALAND: I’m a Pisces.

SKYE: No way. I don’t know much about Pisces, but recently I’ve been learning a lot about them. Obviously, you’re super cool and chill and passionate about your craft. I’m a Virgo.

TIMBALAND: So you got to be on point.

SKYE: Exactly. We’re perfectionists, in our own way. I’ve met some messy Virgos, and I’m just like, “How?” But their mess is perfect for them because they still know where everything is in this mess. 

TIMBALAND: For real? Wow. Swizz [Beatz] is a Virgo too.

SKYE: Oh, for real? Virgo men and Virgo women are so different, but similar at the same time.

TIMBALAND: For real?

SKYE: Yeah. One of my best friends who’s a guy is a Virgo, and he’s a little cuckoo. You do give me great guy advice sometimes. The other day we were on the phone, and I think we were talking about something and you were like, “Oh, my bad. You’re right.” And then you were like, “See Jus, that’s the type of man you want in life. Someone that’s not afraid to apologize.” And I was like, “Man, look at that. Look at this advice I’m getting from Timbaland.”

TIMBALAND: It’s the truth. History repeats itself. I know you got to live your life, but if I can lend some advice, that would be the advice to always keep in your back pocket. You’re like, “Tim told me.”

SKYE: I’m sure you’ve seen a few things in life. I’m still learning. I’m only 24, but I feel like we as artists grow fast because our lives are very fast-paced and spontaneous. And so, to get that advice from you was sick.

TIMBALAND: I’m just being the uncle. We’re in 2020, about to be 2021. What was the past cannot be the future. We’re tearing down monuments that were there in the past, but now we’re getting rid of them for the future. So I try to give a little bit of the past, and you take it for the future.

SKYE: Yeah. A lot of what I am writing about is from personal experience. So whether it’s a heartbreak or just a flirt with a guy or whatever’s on my mind when it comes to relationships, it’s dope to have these conversations with you because then it inspires me as well as to which melody I should say what I’m trying to say in. It’s real art happening over here. Real life, real time, real stories.

TIMBALAND: That is so dope.

SKYE: I feel like we covered a lot. What do you think? 

TIMBALAND: See, me and you think alike. We know when to draw the line.

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