‘Me and Dre both think he’s a crazy artist,’ Tim tells Mixtape Daily.
By Shaheem Reid

Timbaland


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The O.D.: A Mixtape Daily Exclusive

Several months ago during Miami Week, we introduced you to a cat named Billy Blue, who Timbaland and Akon are backing. Well, Tim is teaming up with a music heavyweight to bring you another newcomer. It doesn′t get any bigger than this: Timbaland and fellow super-producer Dr. Dre are joining forces on an upcoming project.

“I got two hip-hop artists, believe it or not,” Tim said Monday, running down what’s coming up for him besides his just-released Timbaland Presents: Shock Value II. “One is this guy me and Akon signed, Billy Blue. The other one, I think people gonna wanna know about. Me and Dre just signed him, this guy named Hayes from Detroit. Incredible storyteller. Incredible. Reminds me of how B.I.G. tells his stories.”

Timbo the King explained that Hayes has been around for a while and no one brought him to the table.

“He kind of was around the table,” Tim said. “He wrote some of Dre’s Detox — if Dre ever is gonna do it — but he wrote a lot of that for Dre. He’s just been around the camp. I knew him from my homeboy, so he’s been around both camps. Me and Dre both think he’s a crazy artist. So we said, ‘Let’s do him together.’ ”

Other artists on Tim’s lineup for 2010 include Brandy, a.k.a. Bran’ Nu. Tim envisions half her album being rap, half being her traditional R&B. Then there’s Soshy, who appears on Shock Value’s II’s “Morning After Dark.”

“She’s from Paris,” the Virginia native explained. “She’s like Amy Winehouse to the 10th power. But not crazy. Sane. Not saying Amy Winehouse is crazy; she’s ambitious. Soshy is ambitious, but she has a point to prove.”

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‘The times that I′ve joked about wanting to be president, I′m taking [it] somewhat serious,’ he tells MTV News.
By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Tim Kash

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With a nickname like “Mr. President” and a band called the Administration, it’s pretty easy to see that Nick Jonas feels some sort of connection to the world of politics. Plus, several of the songs from his side project’s debut, Who I Am, reference the White House. So does Nick one day want to leave the entertainment business behind for Washington, D.C.?

That might be looking too far into the future. “Not so much [fascinated] with politics, but more just about the fascination with the president,” he said. “The opportunities that we′ve had to go to the White House, the times that I’ve joked about wanting to be president and all that, I’m taking [it] somewhat serious.”

With all the presidency talk surrounding him, he felt like he needed to come up with a few songs that mirror that theme in his life. “Rose Garden,” “Olive and Arrow,” “State of Emergency” and “Conspiracy Theory” made the cut. “Obviously, I have a lot of time to think about that, but it was something cool to do with this,” he said. “And it gave me some inspiration, and having a list of a hundred of these things that I could take and make them double meanings … only four of them stuck.”

He jokingly added: ” ‘Oval Office’ is a song that didn’t sound that cool.”

So what steps does Nick need to take before he starts campaigning? Well, college, of course, and he’s already started looking. “We’ll have to wait and see,” he said. “The first step to the whole process is going to college and getting that in there. I visited a couple colleges this past summer. It was interesting to see how it would all work out and what the timing would be, but that might be in the future some day.”

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Clip was inspired by the relationship drama in Martin Lawrence′s ‘A Thin Line Between Love and Hate.’
By Shaheem Reid

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Hey, if he can get on the same stage with his D-Block rivals, 50 Cent can share the screen with former love interest Vivica A. Fox. The actress appears in 50’s new video for “Do You Think About Me.” In the clip, a distraught, crying Fox might literally blow up the spot if you mess with her emotions.

In the video, Fox walks in a restaurant and sees Fif with his new girl, actress Tamala Jones. Vivica’s character goes into a tizzy, slashing tires, stabbing voodoo dolls of the G-Unit General and, at the end, bringing C-4 to his door. Throughout the video, we also see real photos of the two when they were together as a couple, including during the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards.

50 said the treatment for the video was inspired by watching Martin Lawrence in “A Thin Line Between Love and Hate.”

“I actually wanna write a sorta ‘Thin Line Between Love and Hate’ — a piece that kind of has that energy that the film with Martin Lawrence had to it,” Fif said. “You know, of course they were happy in the beginning. [Then] she only sees what she wants. She was so angry, she could hurt him.”

Last month, 50 also told MTV News that the song was written after analyzing past relationships.

“So many people are gonna identify with it,” Fif told us about the single, his favorite on the album. “The 55 percent of people that have been married and divorced are gonna identify with it.

“I was writing about the difference of how it felt when it was only about money, once it got down to me dealing with the child-support situation,” he continued. “The friendship we had was forgotten. I believe people invest in each other, and it’s never even when you’re in a relationship. One person is loving harder than the other. When the expectations aren’t being met, they kinda resent the other party. A lot of times they don’t go from being boyfriend and girlfriend or to getting engaged or being married back to being friends. They kinda gotta part ways from each other because one still has feelings and one is ready to move on.”

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Congratulations, Haleybrit!
By MTV News staff

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Last month, as part of MTV News’ celebration of all things Britney Spears, we undertook a search for Brit’s biggest fan. We asked fans to submit videos explaining why they qualify for that title, with the winner being promised a copy of Britney Spears: The Singles Collection.

And after digging through many videos submitted to Your.MTV.com, from the heartfelt to the offbeat, with many imaginative explanations of why fans feel they’re #1, we have a winner: Congratulations, Haleybrit!

In her video, Haleybrit, in a top hat, explained that she saw Britney three times on her highly successful Circus tour, and showed off her Britney-poster-plastered bedroom and how she plays Britney on Wii. Her collection of Britney memorabilia goes far beyond posters, with magazines and photo albums full of Britney memorabilia also in her collection.

Along with her video, she wrote, “My name is Haleybrit and I am Britney’s #1 Fan! She is my idol, my inspiration, my motivation, my everything. Ever since ‘… Baby One More Time’ came out, she has always been my #1 fave. Thirty seconds was not nearly enough time to show and explain just how big of a fan I am or to show all of the Britney things I own, but here is a snippet of what I do have.”

Not only does Haleybrit win bragging rights, but also the album — which includes all of Brit’s biggest hits, including ” … Baby One More Time,” “(You Drive Me) Crazy (The Stop Remix!),” “I’m a Slave 4 U,” Toxic” and “Oops! … I Did It Again” and many more, including her latest single, “3.”

So congrats again to HaleyBrit — and thanks to everyone who submitted their videos!

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Mixtape Daily: Play-N-Skillz, Shawn Chrystopher, Gudda Gudda

The Dallas producers, Play-N-Skillz, give us a peek at their new mixtape, Recession Proof.

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‘That girl can sing so good,’ super-producer says of their collaboration on Shock Value II.
By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Shaheem Reid

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When Timbaland hooked up with Miley Cyrus for the track “We Belong to the Music,” from his album Shock Value II, the super-producer was thoroughly impressed with the “Hannah Montana” star. He thinks she′ll be able to make a smooth transition from teenybopper to full-fledged pop star, like another guy he’s worked with a time or two.

“I look at Miley as a female Justin Timberlake,” he told MTV News. “The reason why I say that is her work ethics are incredible. That girl can sing so good that I was very impressed. I couldn’t believe it. I’m like, ‘This is Miley Cyrus? She’s singing the song?’ ”

Timbaland said he and Cyrus sat for hours trying to get the song — which he says is about needing only the music and nothing else, — just right. “She went in and knocked it out. She killed it,” he said. “She loved the song, so she killed it.”

He’s just hoping the 17-year-old will be given the creative freedom to make the leap into making more adult music. “When you go that [teenybopper] route, you can only be big in two places — either TV or music,” he said. “And hers, unfortunately, is TV. So she’s big at TV and music. She’s got to build up to that.”

But he has no doubt that she’ll be able to bridge the gap.

“She gonna get there — watch,” he said. “We developed a great relationship.”

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