World Continues to Not Care About Timbaland Thursdays (Listen & Download)

I'm not sure exactly when it happened, but Timblaland, a man who was once widely considered to be one of the best producers in hip-hop, has become almost laughably disconnected from hip-hop. A lot of people have jumped on the weekly series bandwagon, but Timbaland Thursdays seems more like he heard about this new weekly series thing that the kids liked and then hired some assistant to run it. (Actually, that's pretty much exactly what happened.)

Timbo, I don't exactly know how to break this to you, but people just don't really care about you anymore. If I were to name my favorites beats from 1995-2005 he's be all over the place, but name a dope Timbaland beat from the last five years? Go ahead, I'll give you a minute. Take your time.

This could have been the perfect chance for him to become a hip-hop god again. All he had to do was release just one or two of the hundreds of unreleased songs I'm sure he has in his vault - you know he's at least got some Jay-Z or Aaliyah that never saw the light of day - or drop some truly dope instrumentals that every emcee in the game decides to spit on, but instead we get mediocre tracks like "Around Da Way Tim", a song that's obviously a leftover from his flopped album "Shock Value 3". Awesome, thanks Timbo. This is exactly what I've been waiting for all these years.

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