Producer Timbaland had a big hand in crafting beats for Jay-Z's recent release "Magna Carta Holy Grail," as can be seen in the series of Samsung commercials that show clips of Hova and friends in the studio. But the pair's ability to work together has only just recently come back into being. Jay explained his fall out with Timbaland on BBC Radio on Monday.
According to the rapper, Timbaland's ego was leading him to step on Jay's toes a little too much during the recording of the rapper's 2009 album "The Blueprint 3."
"The fall-out happened at the end of that album," Jay said. "A couple of songs was getting leaked and they were his songs, and it just ruined the whole process... Kanye, who was executive producer of 'Blueprint 3' was like, lets get Tim, let's bring Tim in, and we were all inviting of him and he just wasn't accepting of the process. It seemed like it was more about him than the actual album. When you go and make an album, you have to put all ego aside... he wasn't accepting of that thing and that was almost the last straw type of thing, and we just went our separate ways."
2009 was a little after Timbaland's apex of popularity, but the producer could have still been feeling the superstar vibe. Either way, if Jay can handle Kanye West's ego as a producer, Timbaland couldn't have been that bad. Perhaps Jay was just mad about Timbaland's work on the Chris Cornell solo album "Scream" from 2009. Regardless, somehow the pair patched things up.
"After those concerts and he came back, I'd seen a new Timbaland, he had this maturity and this growth and I was like, 'oh, ok, this is gonna work out'," the rapper said.
Now Jay and 'Ye just have to see eye-to-eye about the next Watch The Throne album.
