Generative AI is new technology. But the debate over its legal issues sounds awfully familiar. Is it just a little bit of history repeating?

Williams reminisced over setting the stage for his musical legacy as a teenager while building with fellow Virginia music makers Missy Elliott and Timbaland. To hear him tell, it was all about the ...

Timbaland, a legendary and influential producer ... It’s so easy to make beats. They giving you all these computer packets that has the drum loop, has this… Y’all had to make the loop ...

Legendary producer Timbaland quickly became obsessed with the process, deciding it was the future of music-making. He started spending more than ten hours a day on Suno, reworking beats from his ...

The partnership between Timbaland and Missy Elliott is maybe best described as prolific. In the latest edition of the Rolling ...

Timbaland believes Metro Boomin produced a classic ... I played that last night too on everything and they went crazy. As soon as the beat dropped, I said ‘this a classic.’ ...

If I play him 20 beats and he’s not really feeling them, I’m going home and cooking up. You need that.” Timbaland peppered Metro with questions to learn about the younger producer’s ...

They are no longer available from the Apple Store and have been removed altogether from Beats’ own website. But it’s not all bad news: a major refresh is still coming soon. Or with the variety ...

Timbaland and Metro Boomin are sitting in 11th Street Records in Las Vegas one afternoon in July, talking about the difference between a hit and a classic. “You did ‘Bad and Boujee,’ ” Timbaland notes ...

This month marks the 40th anniversary of The Age Of Consent, the landmark debut album from British synth-pop trio Bronski Beat, initially made up of musicians Jimmy Somerville, Steve Bronski ...

Metro Boomin: I played that last night too [laughs]. And they went crazy as soon as the beat dropped. Timbaland: I knew that right away. When I go to the studio with Missy, she always beats me up.

Timbaland’s intricate percussion work and industrial melodies make his beats instantly recognizable. Metro, 31, has followed in this auteurist lineage, his heavy bass and relentless bounce ...