Thicke has had a pretty successful year with his single “Lost Without U” becoming a number one hit on the charts and his album The Evolution Of Robin Thicke selling over one-million-copies. Even with all the album’s success, Thicke recently told MTV he’s already into the creation of his third studio album.
“…I have a vault of music, and I half about half a new album that I’m excited about. Besides that I realize that I been writing songs for about fourteen year’s straight. And I would really like to take a couple months off of not writing songs. I just want to take a break for a few months…”
-> mtv.ca
Lindsay Lohan Wants Neptunes On New Album !
Party girl Lindsay Lohan is apparently under contractual obligation from her record label Universal to record another album, as a follow up to 2005’s ‘A Little More Personal (Raw)‘. “I want do to a tour like Madonna…. I want to do what Britney was doing. I want to work with Pharrell, Timbaland, and Justin Timberlake.” Work on the album, likely to be called ‘Nobody’s Angel’, was supposed to commence mid-year this year, but was postponed due to Lindsay’s drug and alcohol trouble.
-> take40.com
Pharrell Consults For Reality Show ‘Limelight’ !
Pharrell has been tapped to help develop an upcoming reality series, “Limelight,” which follows students at a New York performing arts school. As a consultant for the show, Pharrell will be working with film producer Joseph “McG” Nichol, the executive behind NBC’s “Chuck” and the CW’s “Search for the Next Pussydoll.”
“…This project reminded me a lot of my own life growing up, Coming from a different environment where we stuck out for having abilities that we later learned, after attending a school like this, were actually gifts and talents, The moral DNA for this project is that it’s okay to dream, but to bring it to fruition requires hard work…” said Pharrell.
“Limelight” Will Premiere On ABC.
-> nobodysmiling.com
Pharrell/Nigo Opens Ice Cream/BBC Store in Big Apple !
Pharrell has opened his first clothing store in NYC with his Japanese partner Nigo. The flagship Billionaire Boys Club/Ice Cream store is located in the trendy district of Soho in Manhattan which plays host to a wide variety of up scale clothing companies. The super producer hinted that he will be whisking his brightly colored clothing and extensive array of sneakers across the Pacific to Japan next.
-> localnewsleader.com
“Hennesy Artistry” Backstage With Pharrell !
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Madonna’s Album Makes Speakers Bleed !
Pharrell has described his new tunes with pop tart Madonna as hot, with the pair even roping Kanye West into proceedings. The producer has been recording Madonna’s new album and Kanye apparently laid down a rap for them after finding himself in the same LA recordings studio. “…It was crazy. I don’t want to say too much. I’d rather wait for you to hear it. It’s awesome though. It makes the speakers bleed. It’s hot!…”
-> gigwise.com
Pharrell & The Fatburger Chairman !
Kanye West, who is deep in grief over the passing of his beloved mom, Donda West, is still planning to open a chain of Fatburger eateries around the Chicago area, one of which will soon debut in Hyde Park. He is among a few celebs such as Queen Latifah, Pharrell Williams, The Cincinnati Bengals’ Willie Anderson & Montel Williams who are all partnering with Fatburger chairman Andy Wiederhorn. There are 91 restaurants in the popular hamburger chain that is based on the West Coast.
Also Fog Cutter partnered with Pharrell in opening the restaurant at Venetian Macao Resort Hotel (located 60 km southwest from Hong Kong). Williams will be a Fog Cutter partner in opening 10 restaurants in China which Fog plans to open a total of 25 Fatburger restaurants in China by 2010.
-> suntimes.com
Ghostface Calls Wu-Tang Album “Bullshit” !
After Raekwon sounded off on his distaste for 8 Diagrams and RZA defended his production shortly after, Ghostface had now opened up and called the album “bullshit.” In a recent interview with MTV, Ghost laid his cards on the table unapologetically.
“…I feel that the new Wu Tang album is bullsh*t…real bullsh*t, It’s not really our fault. RZA chose a certain selection of beats and wanted brothers to get busy off of that. Nobody else makes beats so that’s gotta come from him. He could get a beat from Pharrell or Kanye West or whatever but he just likes to do shit for himself. If a ni**a did try to bring a beat in he’d try to co-produce it and f*ck up a ni**a track adding other sh*t that didn’t need to be added and that’s disrespectful…”
-> hiphopdx.com
Janet Jackson Working With Neptunes !
Janet just signed a new record deal with Island Def Jam and is already working on her 10th studio album, which will be out in the first quarter of 2008. Among the Producers/Collabos who contributed on the album are Ne-Yo, Jazze Pha, Syience, Polow Da Don, Akon, The Neptunes, Nash, DarkChild, Scott Storch among others
-> zm.nu