

They just put an 808 behind it and then they got a song. They so simplistic, they’re like a jack-in-the-box. If you ask me, it’s getting stronger… Nowadays,I think the way hip-hop is going, rappers don’t know nothing. Those are real, hard hip-hop beats.Īnd he’s no fan of your Crankin, Unkin, or A Bay Bayin I went to Harvard, took the rich kid and brought him to the hood, got him jammin’. Cause that’s what hip-hop used to be - new material. It got harder beats! Any of these pop acts that’s trying new things - that’s hip-hop. Oh, the new hip-hop is pop: Justin, Nelly, Fergie, will.i.am. Timbaland is in the final issue of Scratch magazine and he breaks it down to the bubble.
Despite the dismal sales, the album represents the new hip-hop. Here we are messing with pre-Halloween days and it’s safe to say it’s still at the top of the Whudat Approved list. Early this summer, after listening to Timbaland’s “Shock Value” again and again, I became convinced it was one of the best albums released up to that point.
