Tink explains her upcoming collaboration with Missy Elliott.
“Missy’s on the album,” the Chicago artist says in a video published to SwaysUniverse. “You know when I talked to Missy, it was like I was talking to a big sister. She kind of just wrapped her arms around me. She does give me advice. It was just a big sister relationship, tell me to pick my head up and stay strong. I wear braids and beads in my hair. A lot of people were tryna make me feel a way about it. Her thing was be unique have your own style. They’ll hate it at first but then they’ll love it.”
Tink’s album, Think Tink, is planned for a summer drop.The 20-year-old Chicago artist signed to Mosley Music Group describes how her music got into the ears of Hip Hop super-producer Timbaland.
“We was in the studio with Da Internz, and we had a song with Da Internz called ‘Don’t Tell Nobody,’” Tink says. “So they just played him the record. Timbaland heard my voice, got on the phone and said, ‘Hello, I want to meet you. I like your song,’ and two days later I was flying out to LA to meet him. From there, we got in the studio a couple of days after that and dropped a couple of songs and he said he wanted to produce my album. It was like a destiny type of thing because after that we just started making more songs and Tim got even more excited and that’s when he started inviting people to hear. It was really organic. We don’t force any of it.
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“When I first starting talking to him, it was really genuine,” Tink adds. “We talked about why I got into music, who influenced you. I started in the basement. You started in the basement. It was a real chemistry.”
Timbaland recently compared Tink to Aaliyah.
“Tim never said, ‘She’s the next Aaliyah,’ there will never be another Aaliyah,” Tink says. “Tim was basically saying that Aaliyah gave him confirmation that this was going to be something. Tim’s passionate. You can’t work with people that aren’t passionate.”
