Jay-Z and Beyonce are THE power couple in the music industry. And with a household full of Grammy awards, they have been responsible for some of the biggest hits of all time. Naturally, they also worked with some of the biggest hitmakers of all time. Timbaland is one of them.
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Timbaland Says He Was High When Producing Hit Records
He produced Beyonce’s Drunk in Love off of her 2013 self-titled album. It is one of the biggest hits that she and Jay have collaborated on. Timbaland also produced Hov’s Magna Carta Holy Grail, which is considered one of the best artworks in his extensive catalog.
In a recent interview with Art of Dialogue, the hitmaker revealed that he was high on drugs when he worked on both of those projects. Along with Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 experience.
“It was fun. Those were cool albums, but my best work was done when I wasn’t on drugs. That’s facts,” he said.
“It was just fun, creating. I was doing all of those albums back to back. It was just that experience… They were great, but they don’t stand [against] my big records.”
Drunk in Love and Magna Carta Holy Grail were great projects. But Timbaland went on to add that many of the hits that he created while sober, Such as Hov’s Big Pimpin’, have really withstood the test of time.
“I look back at it now and they were great, but they don’t stand out like my big records, like ‘Big Pimpin,’ ‘Dirt Off Ya Shoulder’ and ‘One In a Million,'” he added.
“Those are drug-free, so when I look back at my highlights, that [period] is probably a dip. Even though it was still good, that’s just God-given talent in me. Like, God still having his hand on me — that’s why those songs were still beautiful, but they don’t have, like, FutureSex/LoveSounds in them.”
