Timbaland has recalled how Drake and Jay-Z helped him get via the “darkest moments” of his dependancy.
Throughout an interview on Membership Shay Shay with Shannon Sharpe on Monday, the four-time Grammy Award-winning report producer opened up about his dependancy to pharmaceuticals Vicodin and OxyContin.
Timbaland, actual title Timothy Mosley, detailed how Jay reached out to him amidst his dependancy and suggested him to keep away from interviews and Drake advised him to “test” his behaviour.
“These guys are particular to the world,” he shared. “I did not come out till the darkness man, and that is why I say, it is all love with these guys. They helped me throughout my darkest second.”
The music producer defined that he weaned himself off the medicine with out assist after having an “out-of-body expertise”.
Elsewhere within the interview, the 51-year-old praised “prophet” Jay, also called Hova, as he remembered working with him within the studio.
“I’ve by no means seen no one like Hov. Hov truly raised me, and he do not even comprehend it,” he gushed. “He raised me within the music enterprise. He was so prolific, so clever past his age, that I used to be simply amazed at simply watching him. That is why I had a special bond with Jay relating to my music. It was like we was rewriting the Bible, in a approach, or rewriting historical past because it was gonna be (sic).”