Thursday, February 14, 2008

Throwback: Timbaland talks of leaving music

The year was 2004, Timbaland was the head of Beat Club Records and he had seen both of his artists Bubba Sparxxx and Ms. Jade fair well but not as good as expected. He also had seen an album he had put his blood, sweat, and tears into, Simple Girl not getting the acclaim let alone the release as he would have wanted. On top of it all the music indutry was going through a drastic change as the quality of the music was sacrificed for the quantity of hits that could be milked from the hottest artist of the moment. Timbaland decided the time was right for him to walk away...

****Interviewer: You've said you want to walk away from hip hop. Why?

Timbaland: It's not just hip-hop, I want to walk way from music, period. To me, the music business is too saturated, and there's too much politics with the record companies and radio. I'm not walking away right away. I'm about to totally change my whole image in 2004. It's going to shock people.****

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Thankfully for us Tim did just that. He laid low in his coffin over the next couple of years, hit the weights, and completely changed his life. It was later in 2006 that Tim once again rose out of his coffin and showed us all once again why he is Timbo The King!

5 comments :

  1. To me, some of his magic is still in the coffin, but he did the right thing getting help from danja, taking care of his health etc. I eagerly await to hear his solo stuff again.

    -Schemkee

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  2. yep those were some unsettling times. Deliverance is one of the best album in existence and maybe 100.000 people have listened to it. hey i would've quit and then quit again to be sure.

    luckily Tim did not.

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  3. i think tim still has a lot of juice left that we have yet to see

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  4. i remember seeing his retiring on mtv base and i was devastated.
    then when i found out he signed nelly furtado i was like wtf?!?!...yet still eagerly awaiting what he cooked up with her.
    shit was amazing. and still is.
    i can't wait to see more of his solo stuff myself.
    kill yourself was and still is the most amazing beat on that album...

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  5. "Thankfully for us Tim did just that. He laid low in his coffin over the next couple of years, hit the weights, and completely changed his life."

    or better :

    "Thankfully for us Tim did just that. He laid low in his coffin over the next couple of years, hit the roids, and completely changed his life."

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