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Timbo Thursdays 1/13/11: “Take Ur Clothes Off”

Posted: January 13, 2011 in Music News
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Timbaland’s Timbo Thursdays has a lot to live up to. Kanye West with G.O.O.D. Fridays, and Lloyd Banks with Blue Friday, consistently dropped quality, and at times album worthy songs for well over a month. In Kanye’s case, it was a few months. Would Timbaland be providing similar work, or just supply fans with subpar throwaways? The verdict is still out, as the first installment, the Missy-helmed “Take Your Clothes Off,” is neither a home run, nor a complete strike out.

It’s hard to place the timeline of this track. The frolicking club beat has an early to mid 2000s vibe. Missy rides it well with assorted boasts. The track is nothing you’d go out of your way to hear again, but you’d definitely be nodding your head if you happened to hear it in a club.

As I’ve stated before, if Timbo does dig deep into the vaults, he’d be wise to lift unused tracks from the Supa Dupa Fly era. The main players in that camp (Missy, Tim, Aaliyah, etc.) were operating on a high level, and it’d be very interesting hearing their experimentations from that period. Sandwich those in with some unreleased Jay-Z tracks, and an unheard pop collab or two, and Timbaland would have most of his fans covered.

We’ll see what Timbo cooks up for next week.

TIMBALAND X MISSY ELLIOTT “TAKE UR CLOTHES OFF”

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Timbaland Donating 100K Xbox 360s & PS3s for Christmas

Posted: December 21, 2010 in Music News
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Producer Timbaland is feeling the holiday spirit, but not in the sense of gifts for his immediate family. This season, the sought-after boardsmith is donating a whooping 100,000 Xboxs and PS3s through his Viriginia-based foundation. Considering the fact that video game systems these days run well over $300, we’re talking millions of dollars in donations and personal money he’ll have to generate to make this a reality.

Timbo has the right idea about charity; it should be done without consideration for how much press and pats on the back you’re going to get. However, media does have a responsibility to seek this info out, and give it the attention it deserves. Hip-Hop culture too often gives off the impression of being a sad caricature due to the stories the press reports. For a second, consider the number of stories you’ve read this year about groupies and other nonsense. So, I salute Timbo’s efforts, and hopefully it inspires others to create their own drives, which could focus on generating books and other necessities for a healthy childhood.

The other interesting bit of information is Timbaland announcing that Timbo Thursdays, his own free weekly music series, will start in January.

Timbaland Joins Free Music Series Trend With Timbo Thursdays

Posted: November 2, 2010 in Music News
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No good idea in Hip-Hop goes unnoticed. Timbaland has taken a que from his contemporaries, and announced the formation of his very own free weekly music series, Timbo Thursdays.

Timbaland confirmed the news via Twitter, citing the recent work of Kanye West (G.O.O.D. Fridays) and Swizz Beatz (Monster Mondays) as his inspiration.

“So my brother told me Kanye is putting out a new song every Friday called G.O.O.D. Fridays. Swizz got Mondays,” Timbaland tweeted. “I don’t know if they are on Twitter,but you can hit them up and tell them to reserve Thursday for Timbo da king baby.”

Timbaland would be the sixth artist this year to launch their own weekly series. He follows the work of Joe Budden (Mood Muzik Mondays), Lloyd Banks (Blue Friday), the RZA (Wu Wednesdays), Rock of Heltah Skeltah (Monsta Mondays), Kanye West (G.O.O.D. Fridays), and Swizz Beatz (Monster Mondays). The trend’s originator is Crooked I, whose groundbreaking Hip-Hop Weekly series had him releasing new freestyles every week from April 4, 2007 through April 3, 2008.

Although Timbaland’s series will happen, the Virginia producer is not sure on actual start date. For now, he is taking his time mixing tracks and deciding which ones are worthy for public consumption.

“I will announce when Timbo Thursday will officially start. I can’t at the moment ’cause I’m in mixing mode,” he said.

Timbaland plans to release his fourth studio album, Shock Value III, in early 2011.

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All we need now is someone to lock up Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday to have the whole week wrapped up. There’s always a danger of saturation, but I personally like to see artists opening up their vaults and showing musically what direction they have, or are looking to go into.

With Timbaland, I hope he concentrates more on his Hip-Hop and R&B tracks than his Pop work. Tim’s been in the game since the mid 90′s, so he has a wealth of material to sift through. Imagine if he threw up some Aaliyah tracks from the One In a Million era? Or some Missy from the Supa Dupa Fly timeframe? I think he could really do something with his series if he looks back at his late 90′s work.

I hope Just Blaze jumps into the fray (Blazing Saturdays, perhaps?). At a beat session I went to last year, he played snippets of some crazy tracks like Jay Electronica’s “Exhibit B,” and a song with Twista and Busta Rhymes that had the fastest rhyming I’ve ever heard.