RECORDING – TIMBALAND CONTRIBUTES TO ALBUM
With the majority of the album completed in Australia already, it seemed very unlikely that Timbaland was going to appear on Aaliyah's project. It wasn't until the very last minute that Aaliyah reached out and convinced Timbaland to join the project, despite his differences with Background.Tim Barnett: "We went back to New York and did them in either Sound King or Manhattan studio. We did them right after the New Year. Part of the problem was Timbaland and Missy weren't even going to be on the album because of problems with Blackground. Aaliyah talked Tim into producing records for the album, so Timbaland did it out of love for Babygirl."
SINGLE SELECTIONBlackground had some very important decisions to make as the album was ready to be finalized. After spending a couple of weeks in Australia and also a couple of studio sessions with Timbaland, the label had to decide which song they wanted out as the first single.Rapture: "Over the last week before they closed the album and picked the songs, Timbaland came on board. Timbaland was so busy that he wasn't able to do his songs until the last week and they didn't know if he was going to make it in time for him to do it, so the first single was going to be "Loose Rap". But when Timbaland did his records, because they had that connection, they decided the first single had to be a Timbaland record and that's how "We Need a Resolution" came about."
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