Timbaland has come under fire after saying Britney Spears should have a muzzle put on her following recent comments she made about Justin Timberlake‘s alleged blaccent.
The comment was made amid a conversation with 9th Wonder while on stage at ‘Sound Architects: A Producer Conversation with Timbaland’ last week at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
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When a fan asked about Britney recently alleging that the *NSYNC singer forced her to get an abortion and that he used a blaccent when talking to Ginuwine, Timbo defended his boy.
“She going crazy, bruh,” he said. “I wanted to call JT and say ‘Man! You should have put a muzzle on that girl, man!’”
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Reactions from fans were unsavory to say the least.
“I’m glad britney is speaking up, their reactions are just proving that everything she said is true,” one person wrote, while another said: “Timbaland is the one who needs a muzzle. We didn’t forget about his gross Aaliyah comments. He’s still upset Britney didn’t want to work with him. A nasty man.”
One fan proclaimed they would no longer be streaming Timbaland’s music, while another asked: “Why do men feel like they can silence woman, he’s a weirdo.”
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In an excerpt of the audio book version of Britney Spears’ new memoir The Woman In Me, actor Michelle Williams narrates the pop star’s account of the reported interaction while doing her best impression of Timberlake’s alleged “blaccent.”
“His band NSYNC was what people called back then ‘so pimp,’” Williams began. “They were white boys but they loved Hip Hop. To me, that’s what separated them from the Backstreet Boys, who seemed very consciously to position themselves as a white group. *NSYNC hung out with Black artists.”
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She continued: “Sometimes, I think they tried too hard to fit in. One day, J and I were in New York going to parts of town I’d never been to before. Walking our way was a guy with a huge blinged-out medallion. He was flanked by two giant security guards. J got all excited and said so loud, ‘Oh yeah, fo shizz, fo shizz. Ginuwine! What’s up, homie?’
“After Ginuwine walked away, Felicia [Britney’s former assistant] did an impression of J. ‘Oh yeah, fo shizz, fo shizz. Ginuwine!’ J wasn’t even embarrassed. He just took it and looked at her like, ‘Okay, fuck you, Felicia.’”
While Timberlake has been facing backlash over to alleged incident, Kandi Burruss has since come to his defense.
“I don’t want anybody to, like, down Justin because you’ve got to remember the times that we were going through at the time,” she told Page Six at BravoCon 2023. “That era of pop and R&B, it was a lot of boy bands that did, like, urban music, urban routines and dancing, the whole image. That was in at the time, and nobody was passing judgment.”
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She continued: “I just feel like that was young Justin. Leave him alone, y’all,” she said. “He was a really, really good guy.”
Justin Timberlake has not yet responded to his ex’s claims.
