We just got back from the Timbaland, Michelle Branch and MINI Countryman press conference – we’ll be revealing major info on that colossal collaboration tomorrow – and as well as mentioning the new track he’s done with the country singer, called Getaway, he revealed what he’d do with his car (when it gets delivered of course) and also his views on the UK music scene…
As you know we’re well up on all things MINI and Timbaland as we’ve already posted our MINI Countryman competition… so it was only right we were invited down to the world exclusive press conference.
The relaxed super-producer, sat opposite George Lamb and next to the award-winning country singer, Michelle Branch, is metres away from a mega shiny MINI Countryman. The car looks amazing in person by the way; a five door, A-road-ready MINI, yes please!!!
Meanwhile, while I had one eye on the car, Timbo was answering questions on music and what type he plays in his car, “I like everything,” he smiled. “I don’t just listen to one thing, I listen to everything. Right now, cos I’m working on people’s albums that is what I’m listening to in the car. That is the best place to do it.” Of a similar opinion to the producer, Michelle Branch had an almost parallel view. “I have a very bossy daughter and she controls what we have in our car. Of course, like Tim, that is the best place to listen to what I’m working on.”
Despite not revelling who he’s actually in the studio with – RWD assume Katy Perry, Justin Timberlake and Kanye West are on the list – Timbaland revelled what he’d actually do when his MINI Countryman turns up. With a massive grin he exhales, “I’ll drive around the block.” A man of simple pleasures.
And the last part of the press conference was even more insightful. “Well you know; I’m always over here,” Mr Mosely said to the question, ‘What do you think of the UK music scene?’ before continuing with a very debatable statement. “The UK scene… they’re always telling me that I started it. You have Dub-bass…” As he said that, George Lamb of T4 and son of Larry Lamb fame, interjected with ‘Dubstep?’ and Tim schooled him. “Yeah, dubstep but I call it dub-bass [as the room laugh]. It’s the bass that drives the music. It’s funny cos they went back to some of my old music that really created that sound and just, instead of going fast, they went slow with more bass. To me, I like it but they call it dubstep. I like how they dance to it now, it’s cool.”
So after now collaborating with a country singer and working with a plethora of pop princesses (Nelly Furtado, Mariah Carey, Shakira, Beyoncé and of course Katy Perry) is there anything Mr Shock Value wouldn’t do? Before thinking for a moment, he soon came up with an response. “The only thing I won’t go into is… opera!!!”
Stay locked to RWDmag.com on more on the MINI Countryman, Timbaland and Michelle Branch collaboration. In the meantime check out minispace.com/mini-countryman-events.
Tags: Michelle Branch, MINI, Timbaland
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http://soundcloud.com/stereotyp/silence
Timbaland’s been ripping off UK music for well over 15 years and getting away with it, it doesn’t suprise me he comes out with this crap, he’s a rip off artist and a ponce
142 bpm released 2002 ,so what is that then ? – http://soundcloud.com/stereotyp/silence
This is completely hogwash, this guy has been using voice filters and regergitated hip hop for years…there isnt a pinch of Dubstep in any of his whack tracks.
Next time he’s gonna say his first alias was Joker.
what a joke
I thought Timberland was a brand of boots?
Become a leader and not follower…top 40 twat!!
HAHAHAAA .. STUPID JANK LOL. epic fail timberdouchebag !! LOL
timberland didnt create dubstep, but he may as well have the way its going.
i mean it used to be much better, all the old school dubstep in the proper setting (in clubs) was class, but now all this datsic and excision shit all sounds the same and after about 2 songs get painful to the ears. bring back the old sound.
You twat, dub-bass? I’m sure the bassline is ALL that makes dubstep…I had respect for you timb, but you certainly lost it now. Please educate yourself before speaking publicly.
You people sure do care a lot about what somebody named Timberland says. I like how everyone is saying dubstep started with people like Benga who didn’t even start performing until 2002. Time to do some research. Skream and benga started dubstep is the stupidest shit I’ve ever heard.
Are some people really that arrogant!
Remember those good old 3rd base days in brixton mala, coki, loefah, pokes, hatcha, skream, kode 9, youngsta, benga, (real grafters) with Timbo at the buttons. I heard he was cutting everyone’s dubplates too.
This is both eye opening and prob one of the funniest thing i have read all year. Confirms why i Stopped reading RWD Mag years and years ago aswell. Rwd never supported dubstep, just like most of these magazine ignore the realness.
SHEEP… baa baa
So it makes perfect sense to read such a thing at RWD (clueless twats) anyone thats knows would of had him up there and them.
Timbaland and RWD Mag both full of shizz!
Propaganda.
yeah i also love how everyone dances to dub-bass its cool.
what a nob!
@trolleysnatcha hahaaha yeah those were the days!
I created Timbaland, It’s funny cos i did it once then they went back to something earlier because i did it once…..
He created how many stupid fucking faces can one person pull in a music video shoot.
hah.
what a fucking douchebag.
FAIL… wow i cannot believe this guy got a hip hop honor award. i thought he deserved it for hip hop and stuff but now i honestly think he needs to stop trying to be zeus with every genre. GOD i hope Joe Nice reads this article and just laughs his ass off… way to go timbo you started off with missy elliot and aaliyah and now your going to take what benga and skream started. THUMBS UP PRICK
yeah i hope next time your in the uk on road to do one of your “famous dub bass” sets you get beaten and then filmed crying like a bitch.
absolute tool, who does he think he is taking credit for other peoples creativity? id like to see him get on the mic at fwd say that shit..
no-ones telling him he started it? he didnt start anything just done what every other fucking rnb/hiphop producer done putting out the same sound. absolute prick!
Yeah, i remember timberland b2b hatcha at DMZ 06′ , those where the days, now it’s all mainstream maaan
WOW TIMBALAND , YOUR AMAZING , I LOVE HOW YOU MANAGED TO CREATE DUBSTEP, AFTER EVERYONE ELSE DID
Timbaland you fucking retard.if you created dubstep then my left bollock created the fucking fandango….. your a twat, everyone thinks your a twat, fuck off
Skream pretty much single handedly created dubstep. The past two years at the WMC has made me extremely proud to be British when it comes to the Dubstep and D&B line-ups, why? Because they were full of extremely talented Brits. It came from England, will always have come from England, and funnily enough MOST Americans know and respect this, lets just hope it stays that way!
What a f’ing cock, thinks he is godlike because he has earned some easy milions and thinks he can say whatever he wants.
If dubstep would have had a creator, he would be the last person to be it.
Arrogant piece of shizle.
timmy you need to stop lying about things, you didnt make dubstep silly,
your too busy playing with your imaginary friends and making below average music. Dont forget to take your vitamins timmy
love momma x
Fuck off did you make dubstep or ‘Dub bass’ as you call it. You fucking Americans taking stuff away from us as you always do. What you going to say next Timbaland you created drum and bass? Your a joke mate everyone knows it started in the UK, London infact.
What an utter asshole, this article made me realise that producers like timbaland’s success is all based on luck and douchefaggery rather than any real semblance of talent. I wish him good luck with his “dub bass” and failing career.
id like all these bro-steppers in here who’ve been listening to dubstep for 5 minutes to tell me who did invent dubstep?
what a tool
what’s next Timbo, you’re going to tell people you created Drum N Bass too?
he’s just just mad cuz his music aint even a bit hard as dubstep producers
while dubstep has pulsing basslines and hard hitting snares and heart punching kicks, he has justin timberlake’s annoying ass voice and weak ass synths and pianos
TIMBO CAN SUCK MAAA DICCCK.. created dubstep pishh!!
NO, no you didn’t … you retard! You might have made adeep sub-bass sound, but you didn’t make dubstep. STFU & GTFO.
I created dub step out of blood sweat and tears, because I was tired of being so good at the hip hopping as well pop music-ing. Some will think, “how is he that good” and to be honest I wonder how I’m so good sometimes as well, but that really doesn’t matter because it is what it is.
Dub step and timber bland suck
timbaland, YOURE AN IDIOT. lol thats about all i have to say.
Wot a complete KETTLE!
He must have invented a time machine along with dubstep, thats how he went back 10 years and spread his dub bass….
whatever respect i had for him, it is now all gone. what a fuckin’ retard.
BULL
Um…I lived in the UK for a bit and never once heard anyone mention Timbaland’s name when it was growing over there…
Subsequently I’ve been back in the states for a while, and never heard anyone mention Timbaland when the Dubstep scene started growing here.
His beats have fallen off completely, anyone with an ounce of production knowledge can see that.
This is sad.
But it will be interesting when Grime, DnB, and Dubstep fully step to the forefront here. Grime will be the first to make the jump, because it’s so closely related to hip-hop..there are 17 year old Grime MCs that could lyrically murder some of the ‘top 10′ MCs in the states
I agree, he created the dubstep genre.
All you hipsters who have been following the oh-so “underground” dubstep genre… You’re living a lie, it was all just an exercise created by Timbaland to get all you hipster wannabes to buy into a pseudo-underground genre.
Hi I’m Timbaland’s Dog. I jus gotta say this motherf*cker never feeds me! He buys dog food for me, then ends up eating it himself in front of me while laughing!
worst owner ever
Big lols to timbaland, I hope big name dubstep producers call him out
I’m Timbaland,
I take every bodies credit and call there shit my own, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
This is the height of dubstep. You think it is still up and coming, it is not. Goodbye dubstep, you had a good run.
LOL @ Creating Dubstep.
What a fucking oblivious to the world up his own arse grade A tool.
this talentless cunt created nothing.
the only reason he’s doing this is because its about to start creeping into the mainstream (watered down albeit)imo. if that’s not the case i don’t see how he can say he crated something because a genre was made around a similar sound “only slower with more bass”
Timberland didnt create dubstep, just another bitch trying to take as much good press as possible to earn more money from, dub step came from london invented in london specifically croydon WTF is he going on about?!?!?!
“It’s funny cos they went back to some of my old music that really created that sound”
FUCK OFFF! your old music was hip-hop not dub step,,,,,,,,,,, dumb prick
Well, I used to find some of his music kinda catchy, his ignorant comments about people thinking he created “dub-bass” is a huge turn off though. That’s some nerve there trying to lay claim to a massive upcoming genre (right, genre.. not subgenre) of music is inevitably going to cause quite a stir in the DNB community.