On February 2, Justin Timberlake releases his next studio album, Man of the Woods. The record includes production from the Neptunes—the duo of Pharrell and Chad Hugo. It’s the first time they’ve worked on a Timberlake album since the singer’s 2002 solo debut Justified. In a new interview with Zane Lowe, Timberlake has now revealed the reason behind the decade-plus gap in collaboration, and it had to do with Clipse and their troubles with Jive Records.
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“Everyone remembers Clipse,” Timberlake began. “Clipse was signed to Jive Records, which I was signed to. I don’t know what went on with their deal, but I do remember that Pharrell was very adamant about getting them out of the deal. So it became—from my understanding, you know—it became challenging for him to work with any Jive artist at that point.”
“If I’m being totally honest about it I was extremely hurt being caught up in the middle of it, but at the same time I had—listen—I had a shitload of money stolen, you know, from me by somebody else when I was in the group [*NSYNC]. I had already gone through legal troubles, and I kind of felt like, you know what, I’m at this point where I feel like I have so much ahead of me, I just don’t want to be in the middle of the record label and somebody that, you know, I consider a friend. And so I feel like I kind of just removed myself from the situation.”
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