Congrats at the 2014 Grammys!!

It's time for us to extend our arms in Salute to Timbaland, Pharrell, Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake for their successes in the 2014 Grammys! Guess that's more plaques for the wall!
The awards are as follows:

Timbaland
Best R&B Song (A Songwriters Award)
"Pusher Love Girl" - J. Timberlake,  T. Mosley, J. Fauntleroy, J. Harmon

Pharrell
Record Of The Year
"Get Lucky" - Daft Punk, Pharrell Williams
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
"Get Lucky" - Daft Punk, Pharrell Williams
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
"BBC" - Jay-Z
"Blurred Lines" - Robin Thicke Ft. T.I. & Pharrell
"Happy" (Pharrell Williams)
"I Can't Describe (The Way I Feel)" - Jennifer Hudson Ft. T.I.
"Nuclear" - Destiny's Child
"Oceans" - Jay-Z Ft. Frank Ocean
"Reach Out Richard" - Mayer Hawthorne
"The Stars Are Ours" - Mayer Hawthorne

Jay-Z
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration
"Holy Grail" - Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake

Justin Timberlake
Best Music Video
"Suit & Tie" - Justin Timberlake Ft. Jay-Z (David Fincher, video director; Timory King, video producer)


Year of quality it was, especially on the JT & JZ part, well done to you both!!
A MASSIVE congratulations to Pharrell for once again paving the road for great musical enjoyment!!
And of course a major salute to Timbaland for the outstanding production he's provided during the past year, here's to you!!

Let's cap off the celebrations with a Timberlake/Timbaland mix courtesy of DJ Dome & DJ Dirty Draws to remember all the good music we received during 2013!

JT @ 2013 AMA Awards Performance - Drink You Away (First Live Performance) [HD]

As you may have already seen or are about to, Justin Timberlake performed the JT, Timbaland & J-Roc produced Drink You Away his latest single off The 20/20 Experience that won him the award for Favorite Album in the Soul/R&B category, among other awards that he picked up on the night. View the performance below as JT performs with the Tennessee Kids.

For a full list of winners check here: 

OneRepublic - "Counting Stars" (Acoustic)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

OneRepublic recently sat down at the All Saints Live Lounge to perform an acoustic version of "Counting Stars". The performance speaks for itself:



Some of you may want to add this to your music libraries, so here's a ripped version for you all to enjoy, unless a CD version comes out, of which would be better to purchase.

Timbaland Previews NEW TRACK with Drake & Jay-Z

HOLD UP, HOLD UP, HOLD UP, HOLD UP!!! Did that title say what we thought it said?? Looks like we've got a snippet of track which may be coming on "Rebirth", as of yet can't be sure of it's title, but it's safe to say the joint is by Timbo with Drizzy & Hova on the beat too!
Here listen and see what you think of the new material Tim is promoting now:

Timbaland Rockin' at Manchester Phones 4U Arena

TIm is currently DJing the 'Magna Carta World Tour' for Jay-Z and he soon join Timberlake  on his tour too, he's hitting the stage to rename himself once again, Justin & Jay are going to make sure of that!
In the meantime here's a taste of what Tim's currently up to:



One more word, our own 'DavidPrimer' will be hitting both tours, so he'll be able to come back to us with more details on the events...

Justin Timberlake - "Rock In Rio" Live Concert

Sorry peoples for no news or anything lately, Tim has not even been Tweeting lately...
Still in the meantime Justin Timberlake has been rocking his thing in Rio with The Tennessee Kids at the "Rock In Rio" event held this year, so kick back, grab your drinks, hit the widescreen button and enjoy the 4-part of 100 minutes of pure JT HD magic:

(APOLOGIES FOR THE LITTLE 30 SECOND BLACKOUT ON THIS LAST CLIP!)

JT's VMA 2013: Performance + The 20/20 Experience Continues Open Letter

As many of you may have already noticed Justin Timberlake delivered a flawless medley of his many hits from his past albums, including Sexy Back, My Love, Cry Me a River and more including a short NSYNC reunion. Check out the performance below. Also a huge congratulations to Justin for receiving the prestigious Michael Jackson vanguard awards.

Get More: 2013 VMA, Artists.MTV, Music, Justin Timberlake

Also during the day/night Justin released an open letter that included a new promotional video including studio footage of him and Timbaland in the studio. Enjoy!!! As stated in the opening letter:

The last time I wrote you an open letter, it was in January and I promised that it would be a "Big 2013." Since then, from The Grammys to the release of the first part of The 20/20 Experience to the crowd’s response at the VMAs, it’s been a wild ride. I hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as I have. This letter is to tell you that we’re not done...Not even close. On Sept 30th, the second half of The 20/20 Experience, "The 20/20 Experience 2 of 2," comes out. Since all these songs were written together over a year ago, it’s been so hard to wait this long to release them. I can’t wait for all of you to hear The 20/20 Experience in full. So... below is a short clip of the recording of the experience so you can get a feel of what those 20 days were like. It was like no other time I've ever had in the studio. Catch your breath, TN Kids. We’ve still got the 3rd and 4th quarter to go. This is too much fun.

Justin Timberlake - "Take Back The Night" Official Music Video

Here's the newest and latest official Music Video for "Take Back the Night" by JT, and to think only two weeks ago did we get the video for "Tunnel Vision", gosh how time is flying....
Before we show the video here's the plot summary:
Video is about the night-life that JT (supposedly) leads, which involves street dancing, parading through cafés, dancing in clubs, driving down the highways, and occasionally performing a live show...
The live show in question can be sourced from this performance, thank you Rap-Up!
Now one question: Excited much for "The 20/20 Eperience: 2 of 2"? (I am.)

Jay-Z Feat. Justin Timberlake - "Holy Grail" (Live)

I thought you should all check out where Jay-Z has been this last weekend, namely enjoying UK and he brought on stage to Wireless none other than Justin Timberlake! So what did they perform? Well no they did "Holy Grail" from Hova's new album, which by the way is doing extremely well... and then JayTee brought out his Tennessee Kids for the first ever performance of "Take Back the Night"... here look:





2013 is definitely the year of quality music, I'm really looking forward to the first single off of "Magna Carta... Holy Grail" and the release of "The 20/20 Experience: 2 of 2"
Perhaps hopefully "Holy Grail" could be the first single, I think Jay-Z really wants that since the song was actually recorded for "Watch The Throne" but Jay felt the track wouldn't do well on the album, and instead left for this one, a wise move from a wise businessman.... Here's some evidence to support that statement:

Robin Thicke - "Take It Easy On Me"

Well by now most of us have correctly guessed that Timbaland is copping production on Robin Thicke's next album "Blurred Lines" in the form of "Take It Easy On Me" so what I'm gonna do is delve down the degrees of confirmation.

First off, the song pretty much follows the flow that Pharrell did on the title track, both in melody, rhythm, and lyrics, if you need a reminder then watch/listen to this: (NSFW)


Robin Thicke 'Blurred Lines' (Dirty Version) from OB MANAGEMENT on Vimeo.

Secondly, it's not uncommon of Tim to premiere a demo of a song live like he did this one, he's done it before with "Hold Your Breath", I don't think I need to remind you who (disgustingly) landed up with that one in the end. Here's a reminder of the live version.

And third and lastly: well this is probably got nothing to do with it, but they both are on Interscope Records, so a collabo had to come, but more importantly you can click here for a forum thread which has had the privilege of listening and and reviewing the album exclusively.

Timbaland & Beyoncé Chime For Change Performances

Damn how I wish I could've at least watched this on TV, such a shame on my part, but in any case here are the live sets from the Chime For Change concert fundraiser.
We'll start with Timbo and Freestyle's setlist which included:

• The Reflex (Duran Duran Cover) with Simon Le Bon
• SexyBack (Justin Timberlake Cover)
• Promiscuous (Nelly Furtado Cover)

It's great to see Tim is on good terms with Duran Duran REGARDLESS of what officials say, I mean come on, they performed a duo cover of their own song, that's gotta speak for something right?
The only gripe I have is if he was gonna perform SexyBack and Promiscuous, why not bring Justin and Nelly on with him? It could've been a more explosive performance with them. Personally if I were in charge I would've had Tim perform "Hands In The Air" or "Take It Easy" you know, something recent of his to help promote himself, anywho that's just me ranting, let's continue to the official debut of the Timbaland-produced, Beyoncé hit, "Grown Woman"...



AHH I LOVE IT! (Especially since I'm from Africa). Tell you what the cameramen get such an awesome job to cover this!

Timbaland Touring!

I was riding a train this morning when I suddenly got this urge to pick a newspaper and flick through the pages, and here's what I found, an advert consuming the whole page for the Beyoncé Knowles upcoming tour, with an interesting array of supporting acts, including Ellie Goulding, Florence + The Machine, Haim, Iggy Azalea, John Legend, Laura Pausini, Rita Ora, and Timbaland! Looks like for UK only though, perhaps he'll continue further on with her in other countries too provided his schedule complies.

So Timbo is sitting quietly now and rehearsing, getting ready to jump on stage with Mrs Carter, but not only that he'll join Justin Timberlake on his "The 20/20 Experience World Tour", not to be confused with the Jay-Z version "Legends Of The Summer Stadium Tour".

Whoah Tim really is getting his hands full with these said events, which is why we're not hearing much about his music right now, it's all about JT and Queen B! I bet it's Roc Nation who is responsible for lining up Tim with such a hectic scheduke!
 Still everyone I'll do my best to keep my eyes peeled, there's bound to be more activity cropping up this May....

DJ Freestyle Steve & Bleona on X-Factor Albania

Mr International has been living up to his title by doing his international thang in that he's teamed up with Bleona (the "Pass Out" girl). Seems like they plotting some very deadly musical attack on our headphones, as here we see the duo giving their all in a hype-performance for the X-Factor Albania, it's a loud set, hear for yourselves:



Also a quickie, in case you missed it, to add to Timbaland's 2013 discography list there'll be a new song produced by him for Freestyle Steve "Sing Out Loud" and it's genre will be Electronic Dance Music.
Better keep your eyes open

New #EDM Single "Sing Out Loud" Produce By: @timbaland Feat. @freestylesteve Coming Real Soon.. #Grinding #International #EDM #DjLife
— Dj Freestyle Steve (@freestylesteve) March 30, 2013

Justin Timberlake's iHeart Album Release Party

I think I missed the buzz bus on this, but Justin Timberlake already streamed this, but I feel a re-share is fair enough, I tried to get a good link but the best I could find was the video below..
They love performing "Let The Groove Get In" does this mean we're gonna see said track as single number three? Time will tell...

(CLICK "Close to play" to get rid of advert, a new window will open, just close that window and you'll be fine.)

I'm Bored...

I'm very sorry everyone, I know you all come here looking for new Timbaland activity, so throw me ideas on what I should be posting up on here in the meantime, perhaps a Timbaland Thursdays review like I did the Shock Values? A poll of sorts? Just anything....
I'll throw this in just for something to talk about, do you think Tim will do anything like this again if he were to join Justin on his upcoming tour? You decide...


Timbalands Intermission set for Justin Timberlakes World Tour from Timbaland Passion on Vimeo.

Justin Timberlake - "The 20/20 Experience" FULL STREAM

IT'S HERE! Only a few days ahead of schedule, I've gotta say that I haven't heard such short-tracked album at such quality length! Raking in a total of 1 hour, 10 minutes and 6 seconds, and we still haven't got the two bonus tracks yet! This is the first entirely-produced Timbaland album ever since Chris Cornell's "Scream". Not even FutureSex/LoveSounds was an entire Timbo production. But who cares honestly about that? The fact is the dynamic duo are truly returned, I swear this what music needed.
Now if you want to cop that shit for yourself, then head over to iTunes here to get it.
So on a scale of 1 to 20, I rate this album 20/20!

Seeing as I can't stream the album myself I shall instead share Justin's very recent live performances of "Suit & Tie" and "Mirrors" from SNL (Saturday Night Live).

Justin Timberlake - "Mirrors" Live

A lot of you may have been asking "@Passion why haven't you posted much on the live versions of the new Justin Timberlake songs?" Well if I'm honest I'm letting my internet colleague Sam from JTFansite cover all that on his site, afterall Justin's return to music is what he and the rest of the JT fanbase have been craving, so I've been letting him have the privilege of covering the all the Timberlake media. But I was sitting here thinking that I should post something soon, so I wanted to get to you guys the 'shorter' version of "Mirrors" and now here is the chance, the performance by Justin Timberlake on "Wetten dass." in Friedrichshafen.

Catch the performance here:

Timbaland - "Take It Easy" Snippet

*Timmy Sense Tingling!*

Looks like Tim is at it again...

Donning his "Hands In The Air" glasses...

Teaming up with his sidekick DJ Freestyle Steve...

Premiering a new song live at the House Of Blues in Hollywood...

Including a little live performance of his song with Justin Timberlake, "Carry Out"...

Coming soon...

New Justin Timberlake Songs

Well well well I must be honest I wanted to wait for a more HQ versions of the two new Justin Timberlake songs "That Girl" and "Pusher Love Girl" and a cover of the INXS song "Need You Tonight" plus some covers of the Michael Jackson songs "Shake Your Body" as well as his own songs "Suit & Tie", "FutureSex/LoveSounds", "What Goes Around.../...Comes Around", "LoveStoned", "My Love", "Summer Love", "Señorita" and "Cry Me A River" (last one being mixed with Jay-Z & Kanye West's "Niggas In Paris")
Thanks to our friends (Sam) from TimberlakeJustin.com for all the above information plus these .mp3 download links here.
Meanwhile we await for the HQ versions, enjoy the clips from the performance at the Mark Cuban DirecTV SuperBowl Party

Redbone Trailer & Live Performance

The brand new Unreleased Trailer of one of the most anticipated song of 2012 "Redbone" by Timbaland featuring Sebastian and Petey Pablo with contents sampled by Lil Wayne directed by Brian Byrd. Update: Live Version