Timbaland Exiting The Rap Game: “I Was Done With Rap A Long Time Ago”

Saturday, December 12, 2009 11 PM | No Comments »

Timbaland Exiting The Rap Game: “I Was Done With Rap A Long Time Ago”

Timbaland said he’s leaving the game because in a nutshell most ofthe rap music being released is shit and most of the rap artists are not even comin’ close to what rap used to be. Do yall agree or disagree with Tim?

Here’s what he said about rap in a recent interview:

“I was done with hip-hop a long time ago,” he said in an interview. “Once my generation left, I left. I do it, but there’s nobody from my generation besides Jay-Z who’s doing it. I look at Lil Wayne as being from my generation. Some people are still acceptable. Kanye [West] is acceptable from my generation. It’s just not the same. By it not being the same, I kind of fade to black. I did musicthat fits where I was going to in my age bracket. ‘What does Tim listen to in his car all the time?’ I love ’80s music. So how do I infuse ’80s with modern-day music? You Timbo the King, you gotta figure it out. I figured it out a couple of years ago with Nelly [Furtado] and Justin [Timberlake] and myself. We had a tremendous run. I think it was good for me to do it that, because some people would say ‘Tim is cold.’ The same people who smile in my face would be the same ones to talk behind my back. But I got this run, I’m not gonna stop until I wanna stop.” (MTV)