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Timbaland
Also known as	DJ Timmy Tim
Born	March 10, 1971 (1971-03-10) (age 38)
Origin	Norfolk, Virginia, United States
Genre(s)	Hip hop, R&B, Pop and Rock
Occupation(s)	Record producer, songwriter, singer, musician, rapper
Instrument(s)	Guitar, bass guitar, mandolin, keyboards, rapping, vocals, beatboxing, vocoder, drums
Voice type(s)	Bass
Years active	1995—present
Label(s)	Blackground, Mosley Music, Interscope
Associated acts	Timbaland & Magoo, Aaliyah, Missy Elliott, Magoo, Ginuwine, Keshia Chanté, Danja, Static Major, Sebastian, Bubba Sparxxx
Website	TimbalandMusic.com

Timothy Zachery Mosley (born March 10, 1971),¹ better known by his stage name Timbaland, is an American Grammy Award-winning record producer, singer and rapper. Timbaland has produced albums and singles for a number of artists from the mid-1990s to the present day ¹.

Timbaland's first full credit production work was in 1996 on Ginuwine...the Bachelor for R&B singer Ginuwine. After further successful work on Aaliyah's 1996 album One in a Million and Missy Elliott's 1997 album Supa Dupa Fly, Timbaland became a prominent producer for R&B and hip-hop artists. Initially he released several of albums with his partner fellow rapper Magoo.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Career 2.1 1996–2002 2.2 2003–2005 2.3 2006–2007 2.4 Plagiarism controversy 2.5 2008 2.6 2009-Present 3 Thomas Crown Studio 4 Discography 5 Awards 6 References 7 External links

Biography

Timothy Zachary Mosley was born and raised in Norfolk, Virginia. Originally a disc jockey known as "DJ Timmy Tim"² or "DJ Tiny Tim",³. Mosley began making hip hop backing tracks on a Casio keyboard. While in high school, Mosley began a long term collaboration with rapper Melvin Barcliff, who performed under the name of Magoo. The teenaged Mosley also joined the production ensemble S.B.I. - "Surrounded By Idiots" - which also featured Neptunes producer Pharrell ³.

Singer/rapper Missy Elliott heard his material and began working with him ⁴. She and her R&B group Sista auditioned for DeVante Swing, a producer and member of the successful R&B act Jodeci. DeVante signed Sista to his Swing Mob record label and Elliott brought Mosley and Barcliff along with her to New York, where Swing Mob was based. It was DeVante who renamed the young producer Timbaland, after Timberland construction boots, which were popular in hip hop fashion ⁵.

Sista, Timbaland, and Magoo became part of DeVante's stable of Swing Mob signees known as "Da Bassment" crew, joining artists such as R&B singer Ginuwine, male vocal group Playa (Smoke E. Digglera, Static Major and Digital Black), and the girl group Sugah ³. Timbaland did production work on a number of projects with DeVante, including the 1995 Jodeci LP The Show, The After-Party, The Hotel the theme song to Seasame Street, and Sista’s debut LP 4 All the Sistas Around the World (which was never released).

Elliott began receiving recognition as a songwriter for artists such as R&B girl group 702 and MC Lyte. Due to Timbaland's connection with her, he was often contacted to produce remixes of her songs ⁶.

On November 26, 2007, Timbaland and his then-fiancee Monique Idlett became parents to a baby girl Reign.⁷ Monique was also a publicist working at Timbaland's Mosley Music Group record company. The two later married in their sweatpants in a quick ceremony.

Career

1996–2002

Timbaland produced songs including Ludacris' "Roll Out (My Business)",⁸ Jay-Z's "Hola' Hovito",⁹ Petey Pablo's "Raise Up",¹⁰ and Beck's cover of David Bowie's "Diamond Dogs" during this period.¹¹ He also contributed three songs, all eventually released as singles, to Aaliyah’s self-titled third album, the exotic lead single "We Need a Resolution" (featuring himself rapping a verse), "More Than a Woman", and the ballad "I Care 4 U".¹²

Timbaland & Magoo’s second album together was slated for release in November 2000. Indecent Proposal was to feature appearances by Beck, Aaliyah, as well as new Timbaland protégés—some from his new Beat Club Records imprint--Ms. Jade, Kiley Dean, Sebastian, Petey Pablo, and Tweet (who was a member of Sugah during the Swing Mob days). The album was delayed for an entire year, finally released in November 2001. It was a commercial disappointment. Beck’s vocals for the track "I Am Music" were not included on the final version, which instead featured Timbaland singing alongside Steve "Static" Garrett of Playa and Aaliyah ¹³.

The first release on Beat Club was the debut album by Bubba Sparxxx in September 2001, Dark Days, Bright Nights ¹⁴. The loss of Aaliyah deeply affected Timbaland. In a phone call to the MTV show Total Request Live, Timbaland said:

She was like blood, and I lost blood. Me and her together had this chemistry. I kinda lost half of my creativity to her. It's hard for me to talk to the fans right now. Beyond the music, she was a brilliant person, the [most special] person I ever met

—Timbaland, MTV¹⁵

2003–2005

Timbaland contributed three tracks to Tweet’s debut album, Southern Hummingbird, and produced most of Elliott’s fourth and fifth LPs, Under Construction and This Is Not A Test!¹⁶. He also produced tracks for artists such as Lil’ Kim ("The Jump Off") and southern rapper Pastor Troy during this period ¹⁷. Collaborating with fellow producer Scott Storch, Timbaland also worked on a number of tracks on former *NSYNC lead singer Justin Timberlake’s solo debut, Justified, including the song "Cry Me a River" ¹⁸.

Late in 2003, Timbaland delivered the second Bubba Sparxxx album, Deliverance, and the third Timbaland & Magoo album, Under Construction, Part II Both albums were released to little fanfare or acclaim even though Deliverance was praised by reviews and embraced by the internet community ¹⁹.

In 2004 Timbaland produced singles for LL Cool J, Xzibit, Fatman Scoop, and Jay-Z, and he produced the bulk of Brandy’s fourth album, Afrodisiac ²⁰.

Timbaland co-wrote two tracks (Exodus '04 and Let Me Give You My Love) and produced three tracks of the bilingual Japanese Pop star Hikaru Utada’s debut English album, Exodus ²¹. He continued working on tracks for Tweet and for Elliott’s sixth album, The Cookbook: "Joy (feat. Mike Jones)", and "Partytime" ²² and continued to expand his reach with production for The Game and Jennifer Lopez ("He'll Be Back" from her fourth studio album, Rebirth.)²³.

2006–2007

Timbaland started a new label, Mosley Music Group, bringing some talent from his former Beat Club Records label ²⁴. On the new label are Nelly Furtado, Keri Hilson, and rapper D.O.E. ²⁵.

In early 2007, Timbaland mentioned he wanted to work with female artist Britney Spears on her album Blackout. However, Spears refused^{citation needed}.

Timbaland provided vocals on the singles the Pussycat Dolls's "Wait a Minute", Nelly Furtado's "Promiscuous" and "Ice Box" by Omarion. In an interview published in August 2006 in the UK ²⁶ Timbaland revealed he was working on a new LP by Jay-Z and that he had been working on tracks with Coldplay’s Chris Martin ²⁷.

Timbaland worked on seven songs for Björk’s new album, including "Earth Intruders", "Hope", and "Innocence" ²⁸ and he later worked on tracks for the new Duran Duran album, Red Carpet Massacre, including one featuring his frequent collaborator Justin Timberlake ²⁹. Later in the year, Timbaland produced songs for Bone Thugs N Harmony's LP, Strength & Loyalty³⁰ and the song "Ayo Technology" on 50 Cent’s album Curtis³¹. Timbaland also produced most of the tracks on Ashlee Simpson's third CD, Bittersweet World, including the song "Outta My Head (Ay Ya Ya)" ³².

On April 3, 2007, Timbaland released a collaboration album featuring artists including 50 Cent, Dr. Dre, Elton John, Fall Out Boy, Nelly Furtado, Missy Elliott, and others called Timbaland Presents Shock Value.

A rivalry flared up between Timbaland and record producer Scott Storch in early 2007. The tension initially started on the single "Give It to Me", when Timbaland anonymously called out Storch, rapping, "I'm a real producer and you just the piano man". Timbaland confirmed that he was talking about Storch in an interview with MTV personality Sway Calloway ³³. Storch responded with the track "Built Like That" on February 26, 2007, featuring Philadelphia rapper NOX, which caused a final response by Beat-Club-rapper D.O.E. on the song "Piano Man". The end of the feud was confirmed by Timbaland in the final issue of Scratch Magazine ³⁴.

In fall 2007 Timbaland produced a single for the British-Asian R&B star Jay Sean, called "Caught", but the single didn't make the final cut on his second album My Own Way.

Plagiarism controversy

In early 2007, Timbaland was accused of plagiarism regarding his work on the Nelly Furtado track "Do It". He is alleged to have plagiarized elements from the song "Acid Jazzed Evening" by Finnish artist Tempest, without giving credit or compensation³⁵.

2008

In 2008, Timbaland helped produce many albums for various artists that include Sean Paul's Imperial Blaze, Madonna's Hard Candy, Brandy's Human³⁶, Omarion's cd,Menudo's upcoming album, Ashlee Simpson's Bittersweet World, Keri Hilson's In A Perfect World, Flo Rida's Mail On Sunday, Letoya Luckett's Lady Love, Lindsay Lohan's Spirit in the Dark, Chris Cornell's Scream, JoJo's All I Want Is Everything, Nicole Scherzinger's Her Name is Nicole, Missy Elliott's Block Party, Matt Pokora's MP3, Keithian's Dirrty Pop, The Pussycat Dolls's Doll Domination, Busta Rhymes's B.O.M.B, Lisa Maffia's Miss Boss, Teairra Mari's Pressed For Time³⁷, Jennifer Hudson's debut album, Dima Bilan's Believe , Samantha Jade's, My Name Is Samantha Jade, Brittany Murphy's debut cd^{citation needed}, New Kids on the Block's The Block and Keshia Chanté's new Album.

Timbaland has also worked with Lil Eazy-E on his debut album, Prince Of Compton^{citation needed}.

On February 8, 2008, it was announced that Timbaland would be releasing an album exclusively for Verizon Wireless's V CAST cell phone service and was designated its very first "Mobile Producer in Residence." Timbaland will be joined by Mosley Music Group/Zone 4 singer/songwriter Keri Hilson to begin work on the mobile album’s first track aboard the fully equipped Mobile Recording Studio. The only track to surface so far is Garry Barry Larry Harry "Get It Girl". In his first effort within the video game industry, he is working with Rockstar Games to produce Beaterator, a music mixing game for the PlayStation Portable to be released in the summer of 2009.³⁸

Timbaland postponed his Australian Shock Value tour which was originally set for mid July to August . There has not been a press release and no reason has been given. On August 22 Timbaland was scheduled to play at Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena and on the same date The Coke Live Festival in Poland. Timbaland has furthermore cancelled his Australian/New Zealand tour, and is suing the promoter of the concert, "Showtime Touring" for failing to pay and tarnishing his image by making it appear as if the concert didn't go ahead because of personal reasons. Instead, it was because the company failed to make its payments to Timbaland.^{citation needed}

In September 2008 it was announced that Timbaland would be inducted into the Philosophical Society of Trinity College, Dublin as an Honorary Patron in October 2008.³⁹

Timbaland is producing the movie “Vinyl” which follows the lives of 5 young women facing life-altering decisions about their relationships to members of a rock band. Timbaland’s Mosley Media Group is teaming up with Effie T. Brown's Duly Noted Inc. to create the movie. Marcus Spence, President of Mosley Music, Timbaland’s wife and publicist Monique Idlett Mosley, will be producing the film. Shooting starts in spring with Richard Zelniker as director.⁴⁰

2009-Present

In 2009 Timbaland will release a new studio album. Timbaland is working on Shock Value: Volume 2,⁴¹ due in 2009, his third studio album and follow-up to his platinum album Shock Value in 2007. It will include guests Keri Hilson, Missy Elliot, Madonna, Justin Timberlake, T-Pain, Beyonce, Rihanna, Akon, Gwen Stefani

Timbaland is working alongside The X-Factor winner Alexandra Burke for her debut album and the next single of the Mexican actress Angelica Vale.^{citation needed}

In March 2009, he filed a lawsuit against his label, Blackground Records, alleging that they attempted to blackball him after he decided to move from music performance into production.⁴²

He is currently working with Rihanna, Mariah Carey, Leona Lewis, JoJo, Chris Brown, Ginuwine, Missy Elliott, Jay-Z, Tweet, Usher, The Game, Mary J Blidge, Alexandra Burke, Sean Paul, Nicole Scherzinger, Kesha, Jennifer Lopez, Eve, Sean Kingston, Brandy, Jordin Sparks, Shakira and Wyclef Jean on new material to be released in 2009.

He is currently featured on Ginuwine Second Single and also produced his new single that also features Missy Elliott Get Involved.^{clarification neededcitation needed}

Thomas Crown Studio

Timothy "Timbaland" Mosley built a private recording studio in Virginia Beach. The studio was conceived and developed with long time engineer, Jimmy Douglas. The Studio is managed by Garland Mosley and Brian Byrd. This full service audio production center has been created in an existing (approximate) 5,000 sq. ft. two-story industrial park building. A complete renovation of the building results in a two-studio recording and post production facility, and continues the growth of the Virginia Beach music community that has spawned the likes of The Neptunes, Missy Elliott, Nate "Danja" Hills and many others.

Discography

• 1998: Tim's Bio: Life from da Bassment
• 2007: Shock Value
• TBA: Shock Value 2

Awards

References

External links

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v • d • e Timbaland Studio albums Tim's Bio: Life from da Bassment · Timbaland Presents Shock Value · Timbaland Presents Shock Value 2 Compilation albums Remix & Soundtrack Collection Singles "Here We Come" · "Lobster and Scrimp" · "Give It to Me" · "The Way I Are" · "Throw It on Me" · "Apologize" · "Scream" · "Release" Featured singles "Are You That Somebody?" · "Get on the Bus" · "We Need a Resolution" · "Ugly" · "Lovely" · "Are You Feelin' Me?" · "Promiscuous" · "SexyBack" · "Wait a Minute" · "Ice Box" · "Anonymous" · "Ayo Technology" · "Chop Me Up" · "Elevator" · "4 Minutes" · "Dangerous" · "Return the Favor" · "Long Gone" Related articles Discography · Production discography · Awards · 2007 plagiarism controversy · Mosley Music Group · Magoo · Missy Elliott · Aaliyah · Ginuwine

v • d • e Timbaland & Magoo Timbaland • Magoo Studio albums Welcome to Our World · Indecent Proposal · Under Construction, Part II Singles "Up Jumps da Boogie" · "Luv 2 Luv U" · "Clock Strikes" · "Drop" · "All Y'all" · "Cop That Shit" · "Indian Flute" Related articles Timbaland discography · Mosley Music Group

Persondata
NAME	Mosley, Timothy Z.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Timbaland
SHORT DESCRIPTION	American musician
DATE OF BIRTH	March 10, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH	Norfolk, Virginia, United States
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH