Timbaland praises JAY-Z & Drake for helping him during his addiction days.
Timbaland shouts out to JAY-Z and Drake for being there for him during the toughest days of his life. The super producer was the recent guest on Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay podcast, where he recalled his OxyContin addiction when he was taking around 160 milligrams daily.
“Everybody that I know who done that have died, so I think I even died at one point in time,” says Timba. “I had an out-of-body experience where I was laying in the bed, and I saw myself laying in the bed. From that point on, God has changed my mind, and I didn’t go to a doctor. I did it cold turkey.”
The producer then revealed how his rapper friends reached out to him when he started acting weird in public. “Jay-Z is a prophet,” Timba states. “God sent him. I ain’t never seen nobody like him. Hov actually raised me, and he don’t even know it. He raised me in the music business. He was so prolific, so wise beyond his age, that I was just amazed at just watching him. That’s why I had a different bond with Jay when it comes to my music. We was rewriting the Bible, in a way.”
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“Even Drake told me. That’s why I’m like, these guys are special to the world,” he added. “Now, once they give you the information, it’s up to you to use it. I didn’t come out until the darkness, man, and that’s why I say, it’s all love with these guys. They helped me during my darkest moment.”
JAY-Z and Timbaland previously fell out while making the album “The Blueprint 3” in 2009. In an interview with Zane Lowe, Hov revealed ego was the reason behind their differences. “The fall-out happened at the end of that album. 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.”
