In this week’s issue of Entertainment
Weekly, (March 30th) Timbaland
speaks on a few interesting topics.
On Scott Storch:
As we all know Scott
Storch and Timbaland have traded back shots during the past month on records
such as Scott’s You Ain’t Built Like That and Timbaland’s
Give it To Me featuring Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake. One time collaborator, now upset with Timbo’s shots in the single for his
album Shock Value, Storch quickly responded with a song
and video featuring artist Nox. Timbaland told EW“I know he got a little
record out … I just want to destroy his career. Because that’s what he’s doing.
But I gotta be real smart. The more I talk about him, the more I big him up … I
gotta pray on it.”
On Being Shot:
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For the first time ever, Timbo speaks publicly about being shot at the age of 17. Working as
a DJ, holding several low end jobs (see: washing dishes at Red Lobster), Tim constantly got into with a local thug.
On the night of the shooting, Tim was clocking out when approached by said “thug.”
“I got something for ya,” Tim reported what was asked by the
shooter. “Oh yeah, what you got?” was
Timbo’s reply. The shooter then let
off a gunshot from a weapon hidden in a bag; the bullet went through Tim’s neck
and lodged in his right shoulder (fragments still remaining inside today). “I’ll tell you this … if you get shot and you
survive, you feel like the incredible hulk. Them bullets don’t hurt when they
go in. But then they got that burning, that acid burn. God damn! It feels like
a stove burning in your blood. You feel like any minute you gonna be dying,” Tim says. “I been though some junk … it ain’t all peaches and cream.”
On Jay-Z:
As earlier reported by DX,
long time friend and Def Jam
president, Jay-Z was supposed to be
on a cut for Tim’s new album. While previous attempts at making his own records
weren’t successful, Tim gathered an
all-star lineup which consists of everyone from EltonJohn and Dr.Dre to TheHives and FallOutBoy. The song was seemingly done and then Jay decided that he wanted to change his verse in the 11th hour. He laid it down and sent it to Tim, who didn’t think the new verse fit the song and wouldn’t use it. By that time there wasn’t enough time to sort things out so Tim had no choice but to delete it from the record. “Jay really disappointed me,”Tim says.
