You guys may remember that a few tracks off the The Blueprint 3 were leaked a bit prematurely, and it just so happened that all of the tracks were produced by Timbaland! After that, many believed that there was some kind of rift between Timbo and Jay-Z that lead the super producer to purposely leak those tracks, which included “Rumors”, “Off That”, and “Venus vs. Mars”.
Well, Timbo recently sat down with the good folks at MTV News and here’s what he had to say about the leaks and his strange relationship with Jay-Z:
“Me and Jay is kinda weird,” Timbaland said recently in New York, when asked when he and Young Hov would work together again. “Musically, I take friendship very serious. Me and Jay, sometimes people think we have falling-outs. We don’t have falling-outs, it’s that we don’t communicate at the proper time. I take friendship very seriously. I wanna tell him how I might feel about a situation. The last time we talked, he understood how I felt. He saw my point with the Keri stuff being leaked out and everything. I had nothing to do with that. I would never do that to him. Nothing against his wishes. It bothered me so bad, I went on hiatus for a minute, because I would never disrespect his wishes. Like, ‘I’m trying to do this with my album, please don’t let that song get out or no leakage.’ … Four months later, the song is leaked. I felt so bad, because I would never want my friend to feel like we had some miscommunications.”
He went on to talk about the track leaks:
“I felt like, ‘What in the world? Who is trying to sabotage our friendship?’ ” Tim recalled. “That bothers me. I respect my friends, because I don’t got a lot of them, and he’s one of my friends in the music industry. I felt like, ‘I’ll remove myself. If people wanna play us against each other, I’ll bow out.’ We talk about personal stuff. I don’t want him to feel like he can’t talk to me about certain things. We both said to [each other] one day, we know we don’t need each other musically, but we are friends. I’m like, ‘I hope you realize that. But I want you to realize that me and you are like Dre and Snoop.’ Sometimes I don’t think he understands that. When we get together, we do make magic.”
Well there you guys have it! No beef between Timbaland and Hova!
SOURCE: MTV NEWS
