News featuring Timbaland

Friday 10th May

• “Cher's mother, 86, makes chart debut”

  Georgia Holt, mother of US singer Cher, turns back time with the release of her country music collection recorded 33 years ago

  Cher's mother has made her chart debut, 33 years after the material was recorded.

  Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk

Monday 6th May

• “Justin Timberlake Takes His ’20/20 Experience’ To Roseland, Brings Out Timbaland: Watch”

  It’s good to be Justin Timberlake in 2013. With a musical comeback attempt that really could have gone either way, given the long hiatus — and, trust, with 1.5 million copies of The 20/20 Experience sold in just over a month, plus two Top 5 hits off the record dominating radio, it’s going the right ... More »

  Read the complete article at idolator.com

• “Justin Timberlake Brings Surprise Guest To New York Show ... And It's Not Jay-Z!”

  Longtime collaborator Timbaland joins JT onstage during encore performance of 'SexyBack.'

  By Cory Midgarden

  Read the complete article at www.mtv.com

Wednesday 24th April

• “Destiny's Child – a classic interview”

  With Beyoncé's UK tour opening imminently, we visit Rock's Backpages – the world's best archive of music writing – for this classic Q feature on Destiny's Child, from 2001

  "She invited us to her 35th birthday! We were so excited!" trills Beyoncé (pronounced Bay-onsay) Knowles, founder member and lead singer of Destiny's Child. She's reminiscing about the first time they met Whitney Houston, in 1998.

  Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk

Friday 12th April

• “STREAM: Jay-Z - Open Letter”

  Just like Beyoncé before him, Jay-Z returns to the solo game by putting the music industry, media, NBA and US government on notice with the vicious, curmudgeon rap of "Open Letter." Produced in over-night session by Swizz Beatz and Timbaland and rapped just as quickly, Hov responds to recent controversies (Nets ownership! Cuba!) with his trademark icy coolness and a dose of powerful old-man anger.

  Read the complete article at rcrdlbl.com

• “Stream: Jay-Z, “Open Letter””

  Jay-Z recorded “Open Letter,” an imperial rant, last night in New York with producers Timbaland and Swizz Beatz. On the track, debuted this morning on New York’s Hot 97 and Jay’s Life + Times, Jay … read more »

  Read the complete article at www.thefader.com

Thursday 11th April

• “listen to Jay-Z address his Nets ownership, 'fucking dweebs', Chief Keef, his Cuba trip & more in new song "Open Letter"”

  Jay-Z, who is allegedly selling his "minuscule stake in the Brooklyn Nets" and moved Roc Nation to Universal, just recorded the track "Open Letter" with producers Timbaland and Swizz Beatz. FADER writes:

  On the track, debuted this morning on New York's Hot 97 and Jay's Life + Times, Jay expresses disgust at the outsized interest in his recent Cuba anniversary trip, which was criticized by by three Republican members of Congress and approved by the U.S. Treasury Department. "Open Letter" also acknowledges Gwyneth Paltrow's favorite rapper Chief Keef, quotes Bob Dylan's 1975 track "Idiot Wind" and brushes off reports that Jay is looking to sell his small stake in the Brooklyn Nets and become an NBA agent. Would have brought the Nets to Brooklyn for free/ Except I made millions off you fuckin dweebs/ I still own the building. I'm still keeping my seat, he says. By "seat," he…

  Read the complete article at www.brooklynvegan.com

• “Jay-Z Addresses CNN, Brooklyn Nets and Detractors in "Open Letter"”

  Last week, when Jay-Z was in Cuba with Beyoncé, he tuned into CNN in hopes of hearing an update on the North Korean missile threat, and instead saw footage of himself strolling Havana streets. Outraged, the rapper took to a New York City studio last night (April 10) to record "Open Letter" over a Timbaland and Swizz Beats production. The result finds Hov waxing pissed off about the media, addressing a number of other news stories plaguing him these days, including selling his share of the Brooklyn Nets ("Would have brought the Nets to Brooklyn for free / Except I made millions off you...Read More

  Read the complete article at exclaim.ca

Monday 8th April

• “The secret diary of a Beyoncé fan”

  There was meant to be a new Beyoncé single today. Instead it looks like being the latest letdown in an album launch campaign that's been more torture than teaser

  Have you ever been trolled by a pop star? I only ask because as a fan of Beyoncé it feels like me and millions of others are currently pawns in a game of see-who-can-break-first when it comes to the campaign for her seemingly mythical fifth solo album (current release date: the twelfth of never). Starting in October 2012 with the announcement that she'd landed the Super Bowl halftime slot, to last week when she unveiled a clip of a new song buried inside an advert for Pepsi (we'll suspend disbelief and accept the Cuban trip was only a holiday), it's been a journey littered with false starts, double bluffs and more hopes raised and dashed than a wrong number message…

  Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk

Thursday 4th April

• “Preview Beyoncé’s “Grown Woman” In New Pepsi Commercial”

  Last month, Beyoncé effectively ripped faces off with her bizarre and excellent new single “Bow Down / I Been On.” And now she’s following that up with something that seems much more conventional: A way-more-linear new single, debuting in a Pepsi ad. The new song is the Timbaland-produced “Grown Woman,” and we hear a chunk [...]

  Read the complete article at stereogum.feedsportal.com