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oh man i love get your freak on. point me to some good stuff of his. i heard his solo work and that timbaland and magoo album sucked though.

― Fred D., Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

For a second I thought this was Fred Solinger and I'm like, "Don't you already love Timbaland?"

I do like the guy a lot, but I also know there are others here who know his work far better than I do, so I'll await their thoughts and recommendations with equal interest. And I want Ally to roast him, because I know she thinks he's overrated.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i think he's overrated too. he has an undeniable style that's irresistable when you're in the mood, but the idea that he somehow brings something new rap music, and music in general, continues to elude me. anyway, the geto boys used a baby cry as a percussion device way back in like 1990. and, uh, apparently he rips off bhangra producers.

anyway, i just search for the stuff on the radio and don't buy the albums, although the new missy might be the one to break that trend. i probably just lost all my cred as a 'groundbreaking pop fan'.

― ethan, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

something new TO rap music, that is. duh.

― ethan, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Search: Try Again

Destroy: Are You That Somebody? which is the most overrated song that ever existed in the history of mankind, ever, including Bob Dylan songs and Radiohead songs and goddamn, Nirvana too. ALL SONGS.

Timbaland is...well. He's got his good points. He's got a lot of good points and can do some pretty interesting shit. His stuff that I'm familiar with has a very icy quality which I like. BUT he's also not the most important producer who ever lived (he might not even be the most important producer around now), and a lot of his devices are ANNOYING AS HELL. See: that baby thing on AYTS. A lot of his biggest fans go on and on about it: ooh, look, it's so different, it's a BABY RATTLE AND CRYING SOUND. But then you say, well, yes, but how does that make the song good? And they'll just say it again: Well who else did it? Well maybe no one else did it because it's ANNOYING AS HELL.

So I suppose that's my main problem with the mythos of Tim. He's got some good ideas and he does some great stuff, but he also does a lot of crap stuff and then when you ask a propper about the crap stuff, they never really refute you that it's crap, they just go on and on about how "new" it is, which isn't an excuse to think anything at all is good. If I recorded the sound of my stomach growling and remixed it with Train in Vain interpolated with a dying cat and had Aaliyah moan on top of it, it'd certainly be new but it wouldn't be good.

This all makes him sound worse than he is. He's not awful. He's merely overrated, which is a difference. He's the Destiny's Child of producers.

He stays at one of my company's hotels from time to time, we see him a lot. Seems like a nice enough guy.

― Ally, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't really know where to start -- but N**** What, N***** Who from Hard Knock Live is currently rocking me out. The entire Romeo Must Die soundtrack, although he only produces a couple of the songs, is all very Timbaland influenced.

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wish Timbaland liked melodies more. Yeahyeahyeah, it's all about the rhythm, but something like "Try Again" could use a decent tune - a decent lyric wouldn't hurt either. But maybe it's just that appreciation of what he does just doesn't come as naturally to me, so that when he doesn't knock one out of the ballpark like he did with "Are You That Somebody", he just sounds... okay. Just okay.

― Patrick, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Does anyone else think he has *the* dream job? I'm going to produce a hip-hop album one of these days.

I'm the kind of person who'd say SEARCH: anything with new sounds. Oh, and Tim's got 'em!

― Keiko, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i thought 'try again' had a beautiful melody.

― ethan, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Get Your Freak On" is like "Are You That Somebody" times ten. Everything in the song other than those sci-fi synths is wicked fucking annoying. His stuff works or not depending upon who he's producing for - Magoo's an awful rapper, Timbaland himself is worse, and Missy when she raps is worse than either of them. All his Jay-Z productions (especially "Come and Get Me") are pretty great. "Hit 'Em Wit Da Hee" and "Sock It 2 Me" are pretty good even though they're by Missy and one of them features Da Brat, who's somehow almost as bad a rapper as Missy.

― Otis Wheeler, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, Otis is hitting another problem with Tim for me: he works with artists I believe are absolutely shit. Aaliyah can't sing more than two notes. Missy is godawful. Etc. His work for Jay-Z is absofuckinglutely brilliant but I don't know if that says more for Tim than for Jay-Z, because I don't believe Tim's work with most other people is brilliant.

Is it bad acts "ruining" Tim's work or Tim driving down the mediocre? You decide.

― Ally, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Missy is a great rapper. Timbaland's rap on "We Need A Resolution" is the first time I've liked his though.

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, and aaliyah might just sing two notes, but what pure sharp notes they are. Also, this thread culminated in a sort of S&D.

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't care if she can hit those two notes better than anyone who ever hit those two notes before. She's still only barely higher than Janet Jackson in the "completely monotonic" range of singers. Which isn't a compliment at all.

High pitched monotones are the worst kind of monotones. I mean, Stephin Merritt might be monotonic but at least he don't sound like a dog whistle.

― Ally, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nor does Aaliyah. She sounds like a glass harmonica.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Are you that Somebody' being the most over-rated song ever? when it arrived in summer 98 on the back of the Nutty Professor, I, for one, had never heard anything like it and it invited me to investigate more RnB. The hype was due to it's arrival in a tepid RnB swamp (Brandy and Monica), weeks before Cher hit number one with 'Belie_e_eve' and the uncertain UK garage scene was finding it's feet in the mainstream. AYTS was a revelation to many, though it may not sound as fresh now (the version I loved didn't have much baby samples, it soared from speaker to speaker.)

With a steady balance of innovation and accessibility, Timbaland hasn't stopped producing fresh takes on his own invention, breaking new ground and the top 40, leaving a trail for other chart producers to follow. What's sounds new (good) depends on what you've already heard.

Bangra borrowing? Nah, no more than electronica. But he does seem to shine more brightly behind his collaborators, lacking the charisma to hold the spotlight, his music highlights their assets - eg Aaliyah's vulnerability and self-doubt on We Need a Resolution, Missy's stomp on her latests and just making a joke out of Snoop. Notice he sagely keeps a low profile in Missy's atrocious video (Get UR Freak On), skulking in the backgound like Jim Steinman to her Meatloaf.

Search: I'm sure you can find which one's to search on ILM but on my stereo recently Jay-Z - Big Pimping / Snoopy Track / Hey Papi (these contain the malevolent sub-bass growl) Up jumps the Boogie - Clock strikes (spiderman track, both fun) Get on the Bus (remix) - Destiny's Child (good at the time) Pony/'You told me'? - Genuwine

Destroy: Not on my stereo - Tim's Bio (LP)

― K-reg, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Atrocious video? I beg to differ!

― Tom, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I begged for it not to be true. What's with the detatchable head (abyssmal). I've seen better jungles on 'ambient/new-age' record sleeves, it looks like a Blue Peter set, with Tim on the sofa waiting to read out competition prizes. I happened to catch this and it set my appreciation of the song back by days, thinking it was shoddy studio assemblage as opposed to the deadly combinations my stereo revealed it to be. Admittedly Missy's presence is undeniably powerful (indominable), which is true in the song, but they're selling themselves short. It's a pan-global romp not a panto. That said, the track repaired the damage.

― K-reg, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've already listed what I consider to be the "key" Timbaland tracks in the thread Sterling pointed to, so instead here's some that I would consider to be overlooked:

Missy - We Did It (lost towards the end of *Da Real World* this is not only the culmination of Timbaland's "eerie strings" period, but also has an amazing rhythm with an utterly cool cowbell sound. One of Missy's best songs, too)

Sincere - Party (godawful song, but pretty cool attempt by Tim to imitate Swizz Beats in "What Ya Want" style, ie. latin rhythm and a melody played on recorders. Kinda endearingly childish)

Nicole - Bangin' (although Nicole and Lil' Mo are largely interchangable, I love 'em both - Nicole stands out because Timbaland always gives her the most bizarre vocal melodies - here over strings from "Hot Boys", doomy low-end horn blares and cool exagerrated slow hip hop beats)

Nas - You Owe Me (distills his style down to the essence - a startlingly compact percussomelodic measure that positively bristles. Nas is predictably on form)

Jay-Z - It's Hot (Some Like It Hot) (Timbaland's "loosest" production; I can imagine this being used in a cowboy film for the lead-up to the shoot-out at high noon)

― Tim, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ethan: what do you know about melody, rap fan?

― fred solinger, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have to add here that I've just heard Timbaland's production for the cover of "Diamond Dogs" Beck did for the _Moulin Rouge_ soundtrack. SUCKS *ASS*. Listen to it as a demonstration for how not to interpret a brilliant song.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The video is the best thing about Get Ur Freak On, actually.

I fail to see how a "glass harmonica" is a compliment, incidentally. I'd almost rather sound like a dog whistle - they're less annoying that harmonicas.

― Ally, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ned, i dunno, i like it. then again, "diamond dogs" is one of my least favorite bowie songs. ;) any suckiness on it i conveniently attribute to beck.

and as far as glass harmonicas go, i'd like to sound like one too, but that'd be a bit strange coming out of a bo-, a MAN, a full-grown MAN! (it should be noted that a glass harmonica sounds nothing like a regular harmonica; rather, it sounds more like a harmonium.)

― fred solinger, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

WOW I'm listening to the new MISSY ELLIOT album this very moment - sympathetic roommate picked it up after work, a scant hour after it had been stocked on the shelves - she said the line was out the door of Tower, they were bringing up more boxes from the basement to compensate. Tool and MIssy on the same day, huh. Delicious imagining looks exchanged in line for the registers.

1. Skits and intros are not music so i will not be covering track one.
2. Dog in Heat - big funky jam with Meth and Redman. no problems here, still skinning up anyways so...
3. One-Minute Man - Missy and Timbo smoking enormous spliffs in the studio listening to Missy's old Gillette tapes, laughing their asses off. Then they apparently went and spent millions on a song that's a pale decimal of Gillette's nasty punk assertion. The production sounds stifling on this track, like it's constricting Missy's vocal cords. Nast E. Destroy.
4. Lick Shots is ROLLIN - it's a cagey monster, an impatient kick drum joined by some insistent sandpaper percussion in the foreground. Who thought Timbaland would have any use for blue-note guitar chords, but he does and their languid swagger reminds you to relax, those technoid synths that wake up halfway thru are your *friends*. Which seems like the point to the lyrics, such as they are - "time to lick shots, time to see you dance, hey you, why you frontin?" I think Missy wants the thugs to let their guard down a little - "ya'll got your guns but you don't scare me" "hey boys why don't you sing along?" Search and play loud in car.
5. Get Ur Freak On - You know all about this.
6. Scream A.K.A. Itchin - This is low-fi jungle. And a bit of a lark. Would be anyone else's masterpiece. Dirty weird samples crudely chopped like a brick of frozen spinach (including the "fricky fricky" one that Tim's been using for at least 5 years). Search.
7. Old-School Joint. "Don't want to give it up too quick, wanna build anticipation..." sings Missy. Does she know that I've got a fast-forward on this thing? Destroy. (my imagination or is there a doubled kick drum at the end, slightly off? that's pretty old-school.)
8. Take Away - w/Ginuwine.. A ballad - It's got those overdetermined glissando chimes that can be used interchangeably with a crash swell to signify something "deep". Nooooooo
9. 4 My People - "This is 4 my people, my ecstasy people..." House tempo, dirty kick and snare hitting all 4 beats, handclaps, big acid bassline, and swirly Joe Meeker sounds barely audible, this whole joint's got a strut and attitude that makes up for Eve's perfunctory guest shot. The lyrics check off the highs and lows of a club night, "here's a glass of orange juice..." "Can't stand when a DJ fuckin up the song... Can't stand when it ain't jumpin like I want..." Search it. I don't know, on Gnutella?
10. Busta Rhymes interlude. Whateva...
11. Whatcha Gon' Do - Really wild percussion and production, blasts of static, bubbling metallic schools of fish, high keening horn riding a bassline that gets old after 4 bars. Destroy.
12. Step Off - This is a ballad but I like it! Weird. Must build critical language. Search.
13. X-tasy - A slow jam love song, Missy's voice doubled and stretched like electronic taffy, in which our heroine compares her love for a man with the feeling of getting caned. Haven't we all made that simple mistake at one time or another?
14. Slap! Slap! Slap! - OK, I'm awake! Jesus! Sounds like Eddie Van Halen playing a tape-delayed sitar back-to-front. Well, listen to it, what would you say? And then it gets rough - a broken sounding piano, off-beat kicks, shuffly sandpaper percussion, a Rube Goldberg contraption that only occasionally falls all in together. Search it search it -- Part II of this review coming later, ha ha

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 15 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This new thing is definitely a rave-ish record. You can tell Timbaland pays a lot more attention to dance producers than other hip hop guys, from the semi-latin vibe on "Scream" (you can hear the Kruder and Dorfmeister influence), or the four on the floor-ness that occasionally pops up.

― Dave M., Wednesday, 16 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've been listening to "Beat Biters" (the Missy and Eminem track off Real World) an awful lot lately. Three brilliant songs spliced together, increasingly angry and ominous. Missy doing her best voices, Eminem busting some of his smartest-ass rhymes, and Timbaland pulling out some of his better production tricks (in sequence, no less!) make this track a primer for all three artists.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 17 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Missy & Timbaland in K&D Influence Shocker! Means I'm running to the cd-shop now!

― Omar, Thursday, 17 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Most of Miss E discussions on web concentrate on other rappers on album and production ( yeah, i know this is a tim thread but id rather nick cars with Missy) what about Missy, is she on good form - haven't bought the album yetso dunno - pleeze enlighten as i need to know whether to spend the kids' milk allowance on Missy/Tool/Shuggie Otis ?

― badfukinpeni, Friday, 18 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sterling you're referring to "Busa Rhyme" right? That is a brilliant track. I love the "well actually they come from RIGHT HERE ON EARTH" sample followed by the sudden tense strings plus bounce beats. Oooh and both Eminem and Missy are right on form: the Mark Walberg reference; "You SHOT me MISSY!/BITCH GET DOWN!"

It's definitely an underrated track (actually the whole of Da Real World is to be honest), as well as being on of Timbaland's most adventurous productions. "You Don't Know" is pretty excellent along those lines as well.

― Tim, Friday, 18 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah. Busa Rhyme. oops. So Addictive: Search Old School Joint, One Minute Man, x-tasy, Slap! Slap! Slap! (very leftfield), One Minute Man (Remix) [this track is so killer, deserves to be a single, the rave squeals and stumbling beat with the orchestra darting around like a bug, damn. Sez Jay-z "Getcha independant ass outa here. Question?"). The whole album, while clearly new in sounds, nonetheless has a relentlessly retro feel, like this is how music should have sounded in '92.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 18 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Didn't music sound that way? ;) Missy's album sounds like total classic except very bad Praise-da- Lord bonus track. Other Timbaland searches: Try Again, Up Jumps da Boogie, Love to Love ya ("I'm the big bad Kahuna" sounds just very cool), all the tracks on One in a Million that he produced, esp, title track: best love- song ever.

― Omar, Saturday, 19 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Missy doesn't sing a whole lot on it which is too bad. But I like tha flow... She sounds like Da Brat more than ever, nashhty yo. I agree with the rave sentiments - the rhymes are basically good time party jamz. Thematic arc: Missy can afford to be choosy now that she's got her shit set up (i got the doves), so you better call before you come - and she derserves it because she gets more creative w/every album (yo, here, i'll bite it in two). Get yo shit on the FLO. (want some water?)

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 21 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But what's up with that "I deserve to know who you're sleeping with" line? That sounds so...not right?

― Omar, Monday, 21 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yeh, creepy. The lyrics are a little bit juvenile. In the adjectival sense.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 21 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

seven months pass...

fuck you

― , Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know if there's been a post about it yet, but have you guys heard the new (relatively) Tim & Magoo ("indecent proposal")? Haven't heard it all yet but I'd say beat-wise it's 50% bangers, 50% clangers. I do not like Petey Pablo at all and he guests on almost all of the last half of the LP. And Magoo is hardly even there. WTF gives. I like the songs with Tweet though.

― Ramosi, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

OK, just gave it another listen albeit not a full one. Current standouts are "Baby Bubba," "People Like Myself," "Indian Carpet" and what I think is easily the choice cut, "All Y'All". "All Y'all" has that gorgeous rapid backsliding flute-y waterfall noise that goes for a few bars then hits the *perfect* mellow notes, then repeats the whole thing over again - just ideal for the rhyme structure on top of it. I think I could loop this track in my discman for a week straight and I think i'm gonna.

― Ramosi, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

Fuck anyone who doesn't like timbaland because he's the best out there and that's final. Holla!!!!!!

― John Smith, Sunday, 3 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: TWEET!!!!!

― Dan Perry, Sunday, 3 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Twee?

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Drop" on Indecent Proposal gets everything right that the whole "So Addictive" album got wrong. It's loose, sly, and super-simple. Tim and Magoo don't have anything too pressing to say on it, and they don't say it well in any case, so I'd go for the instrumental.

(p.s. I just saw Monica Lewinsky on HBO answering questions in front of students and HBO production staff and fantasized the ultimate Monica DVD: Monica's commentary to Bill's videotaped deposition and Clinton's commentary track to Monica's extended moment in the HBO limelight)

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Aaliyah can't sing more than two notes what do you want her to do, be mariah? half of the reason aaliyah and tim worked so well together is that aaliyah allowed herself to be another of timbaland's instruments, woven into the mix.

that said, i have timbaland and magoo's debut album, and they must be very boring people. tim has an ear for sounds, no doubt about that, but verbally he has nothing to bring to the table (both because his rhyming is stilted and because of his subject matter: he talks about picking up missy at 11:15 and then driving and then going somewhere else and meeting magoo at 3:15 and then... you get the picture)

timbaland's beats are often compared to drum and bass, but he claims not to know what that is. i wouldn't underestimate his inventiveness or originality. i don't think he spends hours listening to beats from other cultures and ripping them off. i'm very much under the impression that they're his own peculiar quirky rhythms - they're very distinctive.

search: 'we at it again' (timbaland & magoo, from romeo must die)

― minna, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

I like Missy, Tim, and Magoo. And especially Aaliyah. When it comes to songs and lyrics, she has more to bring to the table than out of the four.

Aaliyah was well on her way to becoming a great, totally entertainer before her death.

"Are you that Somebody" wasn't overrated, Britney Spears is!! Shall I throw my Aaliyah cds out and buy Britney? HELL NAW!

But, we aren't supposed to like all the same artist, so carry on!

― Duchess, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

search: "Peepin' My Style"

― Paul, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i demand a britney cover of one minute man

― bc, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ok, I'm gonna research this, but as a recent convert to Miss E, I've got to ask; does Timbaland produce Tweet? And is she good? Does she rap and sing?

― Sean, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

produced by timbaland, sings only i think. she's 30. the single is catchy but its faded from memory quicker than most timbo singles. more masturbation pop please

― bc, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Timba is the executive producer on her album, tho only three or so songs are produced by him. The album as a whole is excellent, especially the bonus trax.

― Sterling Clover, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

eight months pass...

Ms. Jade: The bling bling bling, ching ching ching song (Ching Ching) is good. The melody and effect in the chorus when the line is repeated is cool.

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 01:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I like Timbaland because he is an exact replica, if not genetic clone, of this guy Mike (who we called Boner, because he hung out with Bone Thugs back when he lived in Cleveland) that worked at McDonalds who was fun to hang out with, and had a brother that sold decent weed.

And he did that thing with beats that was new in 96 but is kinda boring, although I do like the little sine-wave synth thing in Missy Eliot's "Work It" song. He produced that, right? He's in the video, making "I'm Whistling" faces during that part, anyhow.

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 01:45 (twenty-three years ago)

ew did i really write that

― minna (minna), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 03:03 (twenty-three years ago)

"i don't think he spends hours listening to beats from other cultures and ripping them off."

i don't think is bore out by his Wire feature, where the journalist made notes on his winamp playlist which included Gang of Four, world music and loads of other stuff he would probably claim not to know about.

i quite like Timbaland but always thought that the kinetic energy in his beats never really quite took off properly, there was something about it that always seemed a bit stunted (deliberately so?) in a way that The Neptunes don't.

― Wyndham Earl, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 07:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Not this one?

― OCP (OCP), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 07:16 (twenty-three years ago)

His bit in "Cry Me a River" truly honors all semblance of fire.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 18:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Destroy: pretty much ever Ginuwine-fronted track except that one with Aaliyah.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:03 (twenty-three years ago)

S: Timbaland/Beck "Diamond Dogs" from Moulin Rouge

I don't particularly think it's that great a version, but they were supposedly working together alot then, a colab that promised so much and never delivered. I like listening to this song for the empty promise it makes.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:04 (twenty-three years ago)

where in that article does it say
that tim is into gO4?
can someone make a definitve
c90 list of tim stuff other than the obv
this s&d is a bit barren

― _, Thursday, 26 December 2002 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Side A:

1. Missy Elliot - Get Ur Freak On
2. Ludacris - Rollout (My Business)
3. Bubba Sparxxx - Ugly
4. Jay-Z ft. UGK - Big Pimpin'
5. Nas ft. Ginuwine - You Owe Me
6. Ms Jade - Big Head
7. TLC - Dirty Dirty
8. Tweet - Oops (Oh My)
9. Aaliyah - We Need a Resolution
10. Justin Timberlake - Right for Me

Side B:

1. Beck - Diamond Dogs
2. LOX ft. Eve - Ryde or Die, Bitch
3. Timbaland and Magoo - We at It Again
4. Fabolous - Right Now and Later On
5. Snoop Dogg - Set It Off
6. Pastor Troy ft. Ms Jade - Are We Cuttin'
7. Destiny's Child - Say My Name (Timbaland Remix)
8. Ginuwine - What's So Different?
9. SWV ft. Missy Elliot - Can We
10. Aaliyah - One in a Million

― --_, Thursday, 26 December 2002 19:18 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

Are yall tripn? Tim is the BEST producer out there period. That nigga start that stuff yall aint ready for, even now. Yall ever tried guessing how his beat will end up? You can't cuz he put that twist on 'em that blow ya mind and make ya wonder. and while ya thinking about that twist he hit ya with another. yall tripn. How many producers have you seen can use a synth as skillfully as he can? NONE!!!!! Cuz there aint none. And whoever said his music is annoying need to check the balance on there radio, cuz that stuff plays right in with the music. without them sound all ya have is that dead on and on same-o same-o beat. why you think he leaving rap? cuz its the same-o on and on over and over again. The stuff he dropped with ludacris brought it to a new level. If he aint all that, why all the artist running after him. Now i aint gonna lie i do like other producers Pharell Dre and others, but to get that tunes or that TIGHT HOT off-beat tune Tim is the way to go. Yall tripn. What yall need to do is give that man his props and go cop that Disc. Or better yet go cop 'em all

― , Monday, 27 September 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

"Are You That Somebody? which is the most overrated song that ever existed in the history of mankind"

you are completely out of your mind k thnx bye

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)

haha the top of this thread has filled me with rage.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

What timbo done with Luda?

― Marcus, Tuesday, 28 September 2004 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

phat rabbit comes to mind immediately.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 04:43 (twenty-one years ago)

rollout

― adam west (adamwest), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 04:58 (twenty-one years ago)

repost from another Timbaland thread:

CD80 portable Timbaland Go!

1. Aaliyah - One In a Million
2. Ginuwine - Pony
3. SWV - Can We
4. Missy Elliot - The Rain
5. Aaliyah - Are You That Somebody?
6. Jay-Z - Nigga What, Nigga Who
7. Ginuwine - What's So Different
8. Nas - You Won't See Me Tonight
9. Missy Elliot - Hot Boyz
10. Jay-Z - Big Pimpin'
11. Aaliyah - Try Again
12. Missy Elliot - Get Ur Freak On
13. Aaliyah - We Need a Resolution
14. Bubba Sparxxx - Ugly
15. Tweet - Oops (Oh My)
16. Justin Timberlake - Cry Me a River
17. Missy Elliot - Work It
18. Lil' Kim - The Jump Off

(77:13 - chronological)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd scratch that Lil Kim song in favor of another Bubba track.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

s: 'Shake That Shit' by Shawnna w/Ludacris

― \(^o^)/ (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha I like the people who post on this thread thinking that general ILM opinion is anti-Timbaland or something.

― FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Search: 'Get On the Bus' - Destiny's Child.

Destroy: He's never done anything worth hating. His stuff with Magoo is let down by the rapping, obviously.

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Get on the Bus is classic.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

FU in SF OTM

― Symplistic (shmuel), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

S/D: those TIGHT HOT off-beat tunes

― jake b. (cerybut), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish Timbaland liked melodies more.

In that case, search Simple Girl.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 08:38 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

best completely unacknowledged tim track: attitude - tell me ya wit it

― jermaine (jnoble), Friday, 18 March 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

Does Timbaland wear Timberlands?

― Eleventy-Twelve (Eleventy-Twelve), Friday, 18 March 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

I always loved that thing on the first Tim & Magoo record where the girl on the radio calls them the boot guy and the cartoon character.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Friday, 18 March 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

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