When Timbaland began working on his latest collaboration, the process didn’t start in a recording booth or with a clearly defined concept. It started at home, where a simple chorus followed him from ...

Not long ago, Timbaland thought he was tapped out. Since the mid-Nineties, he’s repeatedly reinvented R&B, hip-hop, and pop, lacing classics by the likes of Aaliyah, Justin Timberlake, and Jay-Z with ...