Timbaland praises Kanye West, calls him a Greek God.
Timbaland showers flowers for Kanye West, as he calls Ye his teacher and a Greek God. Timbo made an appearance on DJ Whoo Kid’s show, where he was asked about praise from Kanye West, and he responded with some love.
“I look at Kanye as a teacher. I love that man,” Timbaland said. “Just following his personality and the switch ups… like for me, that’s intriguing. He’s giving you so much information that some of it might don’t dial in correct but it’s like, you know how some people will talk from interviews and it’s like, ‘You didn’t hear him say that?’ Because he’s like a prophet.”
He continued, “I ain’t gon’ say a God but he’s like a Zeus or one of those… Poseidon. Like a Greek god. He’s that. Then to hear one of those guys say I’m doing great… it kind of gives you affirmation that I gotta turn my stuff up. It’s like confirmation.”
DJ Whoo Kid referred to Ye’s last year interview with The Lex Friedman, where he praised Justin Timberlake and Timbaland’s Sexy Back. “You know when I made ‘Stronger,’ I did it to compete with Timbaland and Justin Timberlake because my fiancée at that time liked Justin Timberlake just a little bit too much,” Ye reveals. “So I made it to compete. And then we had the song out. It’s No. 1 on Apple, it’s blowing up. I play it in the club and it sounds muddy. It doesn’t sound the way ‘Sexy Back’ sounded in the club. So I go to Pharrell Williams to do the drums and it sounds like a different record.”
“Then I go to Swizz Beatz…. it sounds like a different record. Then I go to Timbaland, the person who made ‘Sexy Back’ and he did it in five minutes and then spent the rest of the hour talking about how nobody could have done it except for him.”
