JasonStar said:

Its not because Justin didnt want to but because Pharrell and Chad had a major dispute with the owners of Justin's record company, Jive Records. The Neptunes made it clear that they would have nothing to do with Justin's record or any other Jive recording artist. I'll c if I can find the article.

http://www.mtv.com/news/a...lines=true

CULVER CITY, California — Pharrell's got beef, and his recording relationship with Justin Timberlake might be over because of it.

"Me and Justin are good friends and I wanna work on his album, but there are political issues with where he's signed," Pharrell said recently, referring to Jive Records. "I can't get into it, but all I'm saying is Justin is my boy, he's like a little bro to me, but I can't really ... the company that he's with ..."

He paused.

"Thought y'all had me, huh?"

Pharrell refused to elaborate, but the beef likely revolves around his protégés, the Clipse, who've been unsuccessfully trying to leave Jive since the label swallowed them through a merger with Arista.

"Pharrell and the label heads got into spats," the Clipse's Pusha T told MTV News earlier this fall (see "Mixtape Monday: Game Says He's Done With G-Unit (Again), Clipse In Label Limbo"). "Pharrell was like, 'Listen, you're not going to get this music. You don't have no type of marketing plan for my group, you don't know nothing about them. Why don't you let them go?' Sh-- got personal."

Jive had no comment on the situation.

Although Pharrell refused to give specifics, he brought up the dispute again when asked about his successful recording relationship with Gwen Stefani.

"You know what it is — Jimmy's my friend, so I'm there for him. Jimmy Iovine over there at [Stefani's label] Interscope, he's my friend, he's good to me," Pharrell said of the Interscope Geffen A&M chairman. "Unlike some of those other labels. Man, I ain't even gonna say other labels — it's like one other label, honestly, just one label."

Pharrell then added once again that it's not a dispute with Timberlake, with whom he's collaborated on several hits. "I just want to make that clear before you guys do the sound-bite thing, 'He don't wanna work with you,' " the producer said.

There u have it ladies and gentlemen.

dreamfactory313 said:

You can label it politics and that is what it very well probably is. However, it does not change the fact that Justin not working with The Neptunes will probably put his album as a dud.
[Edited 3/23/06 17:23pm]

JasonStar said:

I agree. A Justin album w/o that Neptunes magic probably wont amount to much. It'll be a miracle if he can pull it off w/o Chad and Pharrell. He'll be another JC Chasez.

Just like Usher..I just aint ready 4 them 2 come back

Shapeshifter said:

I'm with you on that. I was a Justin fan for a minute until the infamous superbowl episode, after that I sold my CD, which I bought used for $10 by the way, and haven't had much respect for him since.