Timbaland is not moved by today’s current music, and feels that despite controversy surrounding the technology, AI is the purest creative tool right now.
Appearing on The Inner Court this week, Timbo explained his reasoning.
“This election just divided us. What I mean by that – it divided the music. It sound bland, it sound boring,” he said. “We talk about AI, but shit, that’s the only thing that has a pure soul right now that you could create something and express your true feelings and it comes out beautiful.
He continued: “But I just feel like right now everything is just discombobulated. Which aligns with everything in the world.”
Timbaland calls today’s music “bland” and “boring,” admits there’s currently no well-known artist whose music moves him, and praises AI by saying it’s the only thing that has a pure soul.
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Earlier this month, Timbaland revealed he made some huge hits for JAY-Z and Beyoncé while struggling with substance abuse.
Speaking on The Pivot Podcast, the legendary producer discussed working on Hov’s Magna Carta Holy Grail, Bey’s “Drunk in Love” and Justin Timberlake’s massive The 20/20 Experience while in the throes of his drug addiction.
“It was fun. Those were cool albums, but my best work was done when I wasn’t on drugs. That’s facts,” he said.
“It was just fun, creating. I was doing all of those albums back to back. It was just that experience… They were great, but they don’t stand [against] my big records.”
Timbo went on to admit that he preferred his earlier work to those early 2010s creations: “I look back at it now and they were great, but they don’t stand out like my big records, like ‘Big Pimpin,’ ‘Dirt Off Ya Shoulder’ and ‘One In a Million.’
“Those are drug-free, so when I look back at my highlights, that [period] is probably a dip. Even though it was still good, that’s just God-given talent in me. Like, God still having his hand on me — that’s why those songs were still beautiful, but they don’t have, like, FutureSex/LoveSounds in them.”
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Let me guess, you think Drake, Playboi Carti,Lil Uzi Vert, and these other BS rappers are talented and call that crap music.
That’s cuz most today’s music are either badly created carbon copies of carbon copies or extremely gay. No individuality, lack of skills or uniqueness.
Dont blame the artist who put em on?
@U Don’t blame who put em on. Blame who buying and streaming this BS. And raising their kids on it. Enough with the weak ass excuse making and blame shifting. No other race would embarrass themselves by making this kind of “music”. So stop blaming other folks for capitalizing off it.
I think he’s talking about all of music, not just black music. Hell, Timbaland has been primarily a pop producer for 20 years now. White people are having these same conversations about pop music and rock and roll. All of this watered down shit is the standard now where music theory and actually knowing how to create songs is a lost art.
its 2025 those who want to create create, the history of music fits on a < 5micro sd card EVERYTHANG plenty of art to enjoy
“F” this dude. This dude is promoting the use of AI to replace a human art form. Don’t blame the solely blame the artist, because it is also the record companies and the industry for not promoting the art, but rather only chasing profits. The art has been narrowed. Don’t promote AI. Music and art is the true extension of the human experience. When I hear an artist do something amazing, it is amazing because it was an elevation of the human touch and mind. When AI produces it, there is no human touch other than from the person who told the computer to do something based on keystrokes. This joker is looking to erode art and human expression for profits. He is invested in the AI companies.
You are incapable of comprehending what he meant. He isn’t promoting AI, he’s saying AI can deliver a more authentic artistic expression these days than a most human artists alive today, meaning artists aren’t making music for the artform anymore. He’s saying originality has become a foreign concept and anybody old enough to embrace at least three generations of music will find this to be true.
Timbaland is an akpa amu and isi amu, efulefu
Oga be calming down 🙇🏾♂️😁😋
It aint that AI does a better or worse job, you just dont gotta pay his ass thousands for a beat or pay a sound engineer thousands to mix your vocals either. Thats their real beef. But all those young people singing and calling it “rap” does suck i admit,
But you can noticeably tell the difference. I also saw this when Frooty Loops and shit like that replaced live instrumentation, but the shortcuts are accepted by the consumer and are cheapaer, so now it’s the standard even though it sucks. Like $hort said, it’s like a silicon titty or a real one. Shit is fucking terrible. I don’t know how you get more technology, and the music gets worse, but that seems to be all parts of society. Smart phones are less functional than a PC from 10 years ago, social media is less efficient and intimate than email, etc., etc. World is getting dumber by the day.
Even though he said this on video I guarantee that in a few days he will be saying that not what he meant to say. Carry On!!!
I don’t know about all that, but these new artists pretty clearly don’t give a shit about music. It’s a generation of kids who grew up just wanting to be famous but don’t love music, music theory, or know anything about it. Corporations, which took over with the industry top to bottom about 25 years ago, does this to everything. Any company that has gotten bought out by a corporation is worse off afterward a hundred percent of the time.
He didn’t trash them, he just told the truth. But the issue is that the modern artists are going with today’s status quo on what’s “good” music.
Kendrick is probably the freshest artist out. His rap style and beat selections is super versatile but still dope as hell.