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Rap Sheet: ‘Timba!’ Producer Cuts Down Hip Hop

Timbaland & Justin Timberlake/Photo: MeganBG

• Pop is hot: Hip Hop is too simple for hit producer Timbaland. It’s not fresh the like the pop hits he does with Justin Timberlake. Timb: “Nowadays, I think the way Hip Hop is going, rappers don’t know nothing. They so simplistic, they’re like a jack-in-the-box. They just put an 808 behind it and then they got a song. Hip-hop is terrible. If you not making terrible music, it ain’t gon’ work.

• Not guilty: A police chief said he misspoke when he claimed that Hip Hop is the source of all crime. But he still thinks gangster rap is bad, cites a 21 year-old album by N.W.A. and adds “Gangster rappers are talking about killing police officers.”

• Rocking rap: Kid Rock latches onto the 50 vs. Kanye faux album race, claims his soon to be released Rock + Roll Jesus album will easily outsell both rappers, at least in the long term:”I bet, in the long run, I sell more records than both of those two put together.”

• Tune in to G-100: Nahright, who else, has got the “final G-Unit Radio mixtape” and offers this, “Just looking at the tracklist, you can see this is going to be better than the Curtis album.”