Timbaland Accused Of Musical Theft
Posted on Thu Jan 18th, 2007 2:37pm PDT By X17 Staff
Hip-hop/R&B producer Timbaland is widely regarded as one of the most innovative and bankable artists working in pop music today, but allegations have recently surfaced over his uncredited use of a sample in "Do It", a track he produced for Nelly Furtado's 2006 album Loose. The sample in question comes from a forum where amateur musicians post projects without any eye towards commercial compensation, so the allegations (if true) seem doubly sleazy since Loose was one of 2006's biggest sellers. It's worth pointing out that Timbaland works with a large stable of producers to produce his tracks (note that this is pretty standard practice in production circles - Scott Storch rose to fame thanks to his work with Dr. Dre) and that it's quite possible that the lift in question wasn't his doing, but still - this is a song Timbaland put his name on, and as such he should have to answer for it.
To give you some scope of the David-and-Goliath aspect to this story, we rounded up some pictures of some of Timbo's more famous collaborators - in addition to Ms. Furtado, he's worked with Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z, and a thousand other huge names in the pop world. Will you ever listen to their songs the same way again?
He produced most of FutureSex/LoveSounds for Justin...
He's worked with the Pussycat Dolls (although not Eva Longoria)...
He's responsible for Jay-Z's all-timer "Big Pimpin'"... 
He produced a few tracks off Diddy's last album...
He put together "The Jump-Off" for Lil Kim, which is still hotter than hell three years later
And he's been working with Missy Elliot since the mid-90s!This isn't a fun story for us to write - we're of the opinion that Tim's been pretty much untouchable ever since %100 Ginuwine - but it's just not fair to the original artist in question to use his work without either permission or credit.
