Over the past couple of years, Timbaland has positioned himself as one of the few contemporary pop figures willing to fully embrace the use of artificial intelligence in music. He’s partnered with the AI music platform Suno (which is being sued by the RIAA for copyright infringement), started his own …
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Missy Elliott is “super-excited and thankful” that Rolling Stone just named 2001’s “Get Ur Freak On” the greatest song of the 21st century so far — and as the legendary artist reveals on our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, she’s also looking toward the future. For the first time since …
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Legendary producer Timbaland has taken his fervent embrace of AI music production to a new level, launching a new AI entertainment company, Stage Zero — and an AI-generated “artist,” TaTa, who will be dropping a debut single soon. Timbaland, who co-founded the company with his current creative partner, Zayd Portillo, …
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Not long ago, Timbaland thought he was tapped out. Since the mid-Nineties, he’s repeatedly reinvented R&B, hip-hop, and pop, lacing classics by the likes of Aaliyah, Justin Timberlake, and Jay-Z with skittering beats, future-shock synths, and his outrageous ear for samples and hooks. At age 53, though, the producer worried …
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When the AI-music start-up Suno recently introduced a feature that lets users upload audio of their own creation and have the software extend and endlessly reimagine it, one particular user took note. Legendary producer Timbaland quickly became obsessed with the process, deciding it was the future of music-making. He started …
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T imbaland and Metro Boomin are sitting in 11th Street Records in Las Vegas one afternoon in July, talking about the difference between a hit and a classic. “You did ‘Bad and Boujee,’ ” Timbaland notes, referring to the 2016 Migos track Metro produced. “That’s a classic.” Metro offers his own …
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Now that’s a legend. Missy Elliott blew the roof off Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Monday night in her historic Out of This World Tour — her first headlining tour ever. It was a celebration of her gold mind and its evolution through the years. But it was also a revelation …
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It has been two years since Timbaland and Swizz Beatz last hosted music battles as part of their popular series Verzuz. The indefinite hiatus followed the settlement in 2022 of a lawsuit against the social media app Triller. Triller acquired the rap battle show in 2021 and returned ownership to …
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That wasn’t just a dream. On Thursday night, for four-and-a-half glorious minutes, R.E.M. was back onstage for the first time in 15 years. At the Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Bill Berry had the room in a collective gasp as they performed one …
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In the Nineties, Missy Elliott and Timbaland were just a pair of kids from Virginia — but they ended up changing the sound of hip-hop and pop forever. The two geniuses would collaborate on production for their friends and eventually on Missy Elliott‘s own successful string of albums and major …
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