For Timbo, linking up with Jay would force him to step up his production skills.
"Jay cool. Jay's a family man. My dream is to do a whole album with the dude. That's my goal. I pray on that. I know what it could be," Tim said in an interview. "Even if we didn't put it out, it would be fun. It would push me somewhere I've never been as a producer. Since Jay had his child [Blue Ivy Carter], I haven't really talked to him lately. I sent him gifts for his daughter. When you're married, it's a different life -- We went from a Range Rover to now. This dude is an icon." (Power 105.1)
Back in 2009, Tim caught heat after his Blueprint III-produced tracks began leaking online.
"Let me tell you something," Timbaland told radio personality Ed Lover, "me and Jay-Z are great friends. It's going to be times of miscommunication, that's between any friendship, real friendship is always gonna be miscommunication so what trips me out is how they got into it when we only talked about it. So I called like, 'Is somebody tapping our phones?' When we talked, he said, 'Dawg, I don't get it. This world is crazy.' So what happened was, when I was working, a lot of my music got leaked too. So music started getting leaked and I'm like but I told him I didn't understand that when we were doing a record it was mixed a certain way. I didn't understand why they wanted us to do it that way, send it MP3's to his engineer, evidently, people was getting it and we didn't know. Nobody knew and as it was going through, I guess somebody hacked through his engineer's computer, well, my engineer's computer and just got us...And whoever got us tried to put it on me, like make me sabotage him." ("Ed Lover Show")
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