Timbaland Working With Jay-Z, Picturing A Chart Showdown With Dr. Dre

[Elano]

A few weeks ago, Timbaland was making predictions about the whole 50 Cent vs. Kanye West chart battle. Now that the numbers are in, he would like to see more Super Tuesdays — and he even has an idea about who he would want to be up against on record-store shelves.

"I gotta go against my daddy," he said Friday from the ABC studios in New York, where the super-producer is filming a guest spot for the soap opera "One Life to Live." "I call [Dr.] Dre my daddy. To make it be some talk, I gotta go against my big brother. He's my big brother. [Who are] the two quarterbacks? Peyton Manning and Eli? When they have to go against each other, it's like, 'Do I really wanna go against my big brother?' Dre is my mentor. That would drive people to the stores. Like, 'Oh snap, Tim and Dre!' That would be big. I asked Jay-Z who he would go against. He said, 'The only person I would go against is my other homeboy: my friend Eminem.' "

Tim says Jay has approached him about working on his American Gangster album .Jay is looking for a follow-up to the Pharrell-produced lead track, "Blue Magic."

"He wants me to do the next single," Tim said. "He just does it for fun. We talked about [his next album]. He says it's just a hobby, ain't nothing else to do. When a person tells you that, what you supposed to say? 'You crazy'? He said, 'I don't wait for nothing. I'm there. I'm doing it for the love of music.' What am I supposed to say? 'You wack for doing it'? ... Some people think Jay fell off. Or he's just over people's head. I think that's what it is. That's another thing: It could hurt him or it could make him be not the legend he is. That's the only thing I'm scared of for my friend."

Another friend Tim has studio visions for is Missy Elliott. He maintains that he will definitely be producing on her next album, just not the entire album.

"I probably won't do the whole thing 'cause I gotta get my own thing up and poppin'," he said, referring to his Mosley Music Group label. "I can't make [Missy's recording home] Atlantic [Records] money. Nothing personal. We had a time and a crazy run, but I gotta get my own indie label poppin'. I couldn't do the whole thing. I had to do partial and try to oversee it the best way I can for her. But I can't make Atlantic a ton of money and leave Mosley Music with nothing. That don't make logical sense. Missy is my sister, but I got a family: Nelly [Furtado], Keri [Hilson], One Republic. If I don't function, then they don't function and they can't get their careers off.

Hilson and One Republic were in tow at the "One Life" taping, where Tim and his artists will be performing. Tim said the next videos coming from his album Timbaland Presents: Shock Value will be "Apologize," which features One Republic, and probably "Miscommunication," on which Keri (co-star of the Billboard smash "The Way I Are") makes another guest appearance. He's also thinking about releasing "One and Only" featuring Fall Out Boy.

"We shot the video for 'Apologize,' " he said. "The concept is me in the studio. I just wanted my part to be 'shoot me in the studio recording my part.' They got other stuff going on, but I left. I couldn't stay.

"These are all my people I'm putting out," he added about his label. "Up-and-coming stars that are gonna keep me laying low for a minute so I can chill out and take a vacation. I went on one for the first time in 15 years. I wanna take more. While they are working, I can chill out and collect the money. ... Well, not collect the money, just be involved as a daddy figure — 'Nah, do this. Change this' — like I used to be. I put my face out there and became this great star. Now I'm worldwide. From Africa to Israel. I gotta do a tour in Australia. I'm there."

[Laconic]

Shit if Dre and Timbo drop the same day there will literally be no one at the record store to buy Timbaland's album.  Okay...maybe a few people.

[wcsoldier]

Timbo is a great beatmaker but the day he will make a whole classic album will never come ..

[Meho]

Timbo is a great beatmaker but the day he will make a whole classic album will never come ..

Yep. He wouldnt have a fair chance againts Dre.

Jay vs. Em sounds more realistic but the whole release date saga wont work everytime like it did with Kanye and 50.

The Tim track better make the cut this time!

[T-Dogg]

A Jay-Z vs. Eminem might be interesting if Em can spit some decent shit.

[Jip]

eminem would dick jay in sales

lets be real

all those white kids against the bootlegging black ghetto community, come on

[Sriram619]

GAME AND 50 should drop on the same day

[hey hey hey hey smoke weed everyday]

GAME AND 50 should drop on the same day

that could be interesting 

[wcsoldier]

Jay wouldn't come up even  against the currently washed up  Em... he still has nightmares about how badly he got murdered on his own song 

[BANANAS]

eminem would dick jay in sales

lets be real

all those white kids against the bootlegging black ghetto community, come on

why is it gotta be racial? every white guy i know uses bit torrent, negroes dont know about that, its one of our secrets

[eS El Duque]

Timbo only sold 500K so far? hes been out for a long ass time aswell.


Dre would crush him =/

[Chamillitary Click]

Timbo only sold 500K so far? hes been out for a long ass time aswell.


Dre would crush him =/

of corse he would...were talkin about the most anticpated album in history of like music lol. and even if timbo can double what this album did dre is gunna sell like 8543543513453452345 and sum odd albums 

[blunts40sbitches]

goin against dre equals career suicide......


or it might give better promotion for timbo since his last album flopped....

[~Lucien~]

GAME AND 50 should drop on the same day

[KURUPTION-81]

quality wise and sales wise timberland would lose to dre.