40 Facts About Timbaland

Timbaland has received widespread acclaim for his innovative production work and distinctive "stuttering" rhythmic style.

The Timbaland-owned imprint label, Mosley Music Group, featured artists such as Nelly Furtado, whose Timbaland-produced album Loose was a commercial and critical success.

In 2007, Timbaland released a solo album, Shock Value, which was followed by Shock Value II in 2009.

Timbaland graduated from Salem High School of Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Timbaland's sister Courtney Rashon is a makeup artist and an author from New Jersey.

In 1986, when Timbaland was 14 years old, he was accidentally shot by a co-worker at a local Red Lobster restaurant and was partially paralyzed for nine months.

Timbaland did production work on a number of projects with DeVante, including the 1995 Jodeci LP The Show, The After-Party, The Hotel, and Sista's debut LP 4 All the Sistas Around da World.

Timbaland fully produced Missy's second album in 1999, Da Real World.

Timbaland continued to produce for Ginuwine and Aaliyah, as well as contributing significantly to albums by Xscape, Nicole, Playa, and Total.

Timbaland makes an appearance in Aaliyah's single "Try Again", which he produced and co-wrote.

Beck's vocals for the track "I Am Music" were not included on the last version, which instead featured Timbaland singing along with Steve "Static" Garrett of Playa and Aaliyah.

In 2004, Timbaland produced singles for LL Cool J, Xzibit, Fatman Scoop, and Jay-Z, and he produced the bulk of Brandy's fourth album, Afrodisiac.

Timbaland co-wrote two tracks and produced three tracks of the American-Japanese Pop star Hikaru Utada's second English album, Exodus.

Timbaland started a new label, Mosley Music Group along with old friend and legendary Australian music producer John Servedio, known as his stage name 'ServidSounds' who helped Timbaland bring in some talent from his former Beat Club Records label.

Timbaland produced most of the tracks on Ashlee Simpson's third CD, Bittersweet World, including the song "Outta My Head ".

The tension initially started on the single "Give It to Me", when Timbaland anonymously backlashed Storch: "I'm a real producer and you['re] just the piano man".

Timbaland produced the Russian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, "Believe" by Dima Bilan, which was co-written by Bilan and Jim Beanz.

On February 8,2008, it was announced that Timbaland would be releasing an album exclusively for Verizon Wireless's V CAST cell phone service and was designated its very first "Mobile Producer in Residence".

Timbaland spoke to MTV's Shaheem Reid back in July 2008 to confirm that he was working on the follow-up to his platinum selling Shock Value.

Timbaland said that alongside T-Pain who would definitely appear, he hoped to get Jay-Z on board, although he ultimately failed to do so.

Timbaland began working on the sequel to Shock Value in July 2008.

In September 2009, Timbaland announced that Shock Value II will be released on November 23, in Europe and November 24, in North America.

The single premiered on October 16,2009, on Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM radio show, On-Air with Ryan Seacrest with Timbaland describing it as the kick-off song from the project.

Shakira was asked to record vocals on the song "Give It Up to Me" to be included on Timbaland's forthcoming album but it was placed on her third studio album She Wolf and released as the second US single instead.

One of the songs Timbaland had produced for Beyonce's 2008 album I Am.

Timbaland was a guest host of WWE's Raw on December 28,2009.

Timbaland appeared on March 25,2010, episode of FlashForward as an evidence agent.

When questioned, Timbaland said he only took a drive to think about the burglary, as he thought the possible thief could have been someone close whom he trusted.

Timbaland was featured on David Guetta's LP, Nothing But the Beat, on "I Just Wanna F" with Dev and Afrojack.

Timbaland worked with teen star Demi Lovato; he produced and had a small feature in her song "All Night Long" on Lovato's Unbroken album.

On January 13,2011, Timbaland began his Timbaland Thursdays free music initiative, with the first song released being "Take Ur Clothes Off", featuring Missy Elliott.

On January 30,2013, Timbaland signed to Jay-Z's label Roc Nation.

Timbaland produced Beyonce's song "Grown Woman" which was featured in her Pepsi commercial and 2013 tour, The Mrs Carter Show World Tour, and the song "I Don't Have To Sleep to Dream" on Cher's 2013 album Closer to the Truth.

On November 15,2013, Timbaland released his first single for his fourth album, Opera Noir, called "Know Bout Me" featuring Drake, Jay-Z, and James Fauntleroy.

On January 7,2015, Timbaland received production credit for his involvement with the musical score of Lee Daniels and Danny Strong's television project Empire, which premiered on FOX.

On December 15,2017, Timbaland released the song "Grab the Wheel", which features 6lack on vocals.

In 2019, Timbaland began teaching through Masterclass, providing an instructional series on production and beatmaking.

Timbaland is credited along with other Virginia artist such as The Clipse, Pharrell Williams and Missy Elliot with establishing Virginia as one of the East Coast's strongholds in Hip Hop.

In January 2007, Timbaland was alleged to have plagiarized several elements in the song "Do It" on the 2006 album Loose by Nelly Furtado without giving credit or compensation.

Aaliyah's 2001 self-titled album, produced by Timbaland, contained an uncredited sample of "Alouli Ansa" by Mayada El-Hennawy in "More Than a Woman".