Legendary Virginia producer, Pharrell Williams had one of the greatest comebacks in urban music history in 2013; which was reflective last Sunday at the GRAMMY Awards. Skateboard P took home awards for Album of the Year, Best Pop Duo/Group Performance and Record of the Year with Daft Punk; but his biggest accomplishment was winning Producer of the Year.
In the midst of already announced his long-awaited solo album and the imminent Clipse reunion, Pharrell will be lending help to the KANG T.I.P. as executive producer for his upcoming album. T.I.’s ninth studio effort, Paperwork: The Motion Picture is set to be released later this year and will feature another reunion with Justin Timberlake.
Check after the jump for more details regarding the big news.
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“I tell Pharrell and the rest of the gang over here, we set the bar extremely high. And we are incredibly hard on ourselves in what should and what should not be accepted. People forgot how fun gangster shit is. People forgot how exciting it is to really live on the dangerous side of life. Just people forgot the feeling that you got when [you] watched Boyz In The Hood for the first time. Or when you heard All Eyez On Me for the first time. Right now, music is going in a different direction and it is in a different place. I salute and celebrate that path as well. However, there’s a place for the story that needs to be told from our perspective.”
“Also, me and Pharrell have a plethora [of songs]. We probably done recorded 14 records. Pharrell and I alone. Words couldn’t even begin to describe how cutting-edge, left-field and just how broad these records are. But they still have that texture that I speak of. They still have that Curtis Mayfield, Bobby Womack, a ridin’ dirty kind of … but a new way to present it to the world because it has that thing that Pharrell does to music that sets it apart from any and everything else that’s being played. And of course I had to give it the pulse of what I know. It’s incredible work. I did incredible work with Keno. I did incredible work with Sham [“Sak Pase” Joseph]. I have B.o.B did a record for me. It’s awesome.”
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