TIMBALAND IS THROUGH WITH HIP-HOP: Producer says genre is ‘just not the same’ anymore.

December 14, 2009

      *Timbaland says he’s done producing tracks for hip hop artists, insisting the genre is “just not the same” as when he started out.

      After working with Justin Timberlake, Nelly Furtado and the Pussycat Dolls, the artist believes he’s found his niche – insisting there are only a few of his hip-hop contemporaries who are still relevant.

      He tells MTV.com, “I was done with hip-hop a long time ago. Once my generation left, I left. I do it, but there’s nobody from my generation besides Jay-Z who’s doing it. I look at Lil Wayne as being from my generation. Some people are still acceptable. Kanye (West) is acceptable from my generation. It’s just not the same. By it not being the same, I kind of fade to black. I did music that fits where I was going to in my age bracket.

      “I figured it out a couple of years ago with Nelly (Furtado) and Justin (Timberlake) and myself. We had a tremendous run. I think it was good for me to do that. But I got this run, I’m not gonna stop until I wanna stop.”