{"id":483904,"date":"2022-08-12T22:43:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T19:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/tink-says-timbalands-lauryn-hill-aaliyah-comparisons-hurt-her-career\/"},"modified":"2022-08-12T22:43:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T19:43:30","slug":"tink-says-timbalands-lauryn-hill-aaliyah-comparisons-hurt-her-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tink-says-timbalands-lauryn-hill-aaliyah-comparisons-hurt-her-career\/","title":{"rendered":"#Tink Says Timbaland\u2019s Lauryn Hill &amp; Aaliyah Comparisons Hurt Her Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f9af34af50\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f9af34af50\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tink-says-timbalands-lauryn-hill-aaliyah-comparisons-hurt-her-career\/#%E2%80%9CTink_Says_Timbalands_Lauryn_Hill_Aaliyah_Comparisons_Hurt_Her_Career%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Tink Says Timbaland\u2019s Lauryn Hill &amp; Aaliyah Comparisons Hurt Her Career&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CTink_Says_Timbalands_Lauryn_Hill_Aaliyah_Comparisons_Hurt_Her_Career%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Tink Says Timbaland\u2019s Lauryn Hill &amp; Aaliyah Comparisons Hurt Her Career&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"image large\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hiphopdx.com\/2022\/08\/Tink-and-Timbo-1200x675.jpeg\" alt=\"Tink Says Timbaland\u2019s Lauryn Hill &amp; Aaliyah Comparisons Hurt Her Career\" class=\"large\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"news-caption\">\n<span>Bennett Raglin\/Getty Images for 2016 Essence Festival | Paras Griffin\/Getty<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"body-copy  js-entry-text\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\nTink has said that comparisons to\u00a0Lauryn Hill and the late Aaliyah\u00a0made about her by Timbaland ended up damaging her career, and that it \u201cwasn\u2019t really necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hitmaka and Tink stopped by\u00a0<em>The Breakfast Club <\/em>on Friday (August 12)\u00a0to discuss some new music they have in the works, and Charlamagne opened the dialogue by asking if she felt that \u201cTim had oversold\u201d her.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mobile outerAdHatch\">\n<div class=\"ad-border\">\n<div class=\"innerAdHatch\" inserted=\"shortcode\">\n<div id=\"contentUnit200\" class=\"adUnits\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n                        if(isMobile){\n                            window.catalyst.cmd.push(\"loadAds\", [[\"incontent\", \"contentUnit200\", \"section_post_inarticle\"]]);\n                        }\n                    <\/script><br \/>\n\u201cIt was a lot,\u201d Tink said. \u201cThe comparisons, I caught a lot of backlash, you know? I dropped the record \u2018Million\u2019, and it was a really dope song, but I felt like with him kinda comparing me to her, you know, telling people I\u2019m the next Aaliyah, you can\u2019t play with legends like that. And I had a lot of work to do at the time so it wasn\u2019t really necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She continued: \u201cAnd I remember we dropped a record with\u00a0JAY-Z and Rick Ross \u2026 but yeah it was just a lot of things on the business end that weren\u2019t tight and it kinda just affected everything it was like a snowball effect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tink &amp; Hitmaka Talk New Music, &quot;Cater&quot;, Harsh Realities Of The Music Industry, Manifestation &amp; More\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zLTm72wrUgE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Angela Yee asked how those business interferences impacted her creatively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had albums ready to go,\u201d Tink said. \u201cI had music in the can but the label couldn\u2019t promote my music cause you know we had a album to release. So it was just like everything got put on hold, so as an artist that\u2019s the worst thing. Like, I can\u2019t drop and I got heat? I wanna be in the market too and you got somebody making a schedule for you. So yeah, it just makes you kinda like, kinda frustrated.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mobile outerAdHatch\">\n<div class=\"ad-border\">\n<div class=\"innerAdHatch\" inserted=\"shortcode\">\n<div id=\"contentUnit300\" class=\"adUnits\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n                        if(isMobile){\n                            window.catalyst.cmd.push(\"loadAds\", [[\"incontent\", \"contentUnit300\", \"section_post_inarticle\"]]);\n                        }\n                    <\/script><br \/>\nTink was right in saying Timbaland really showered her in praise early on in her career. During an SXSW <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earance in 2015, the producer told the audience that Aaliyah <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/0gt6wUPyWd\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=cd8b0306-b0b1-4f35-9024-b6c3f5d254b6\">appeared to him in a dream<\/a> and told him that Tink was \u201cthe one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After major backlash ensued from Tink\u2019s remix of Aaliyah\u2019s \u201cOne In a Million,\u201d the \u201cSelfish\u201d singer parted ways with Tim in 2018 and signed to EMPIRE.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just felt like nobody was paying attention to what I had going on outside of me and Tim,\u201d Tink told <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/2018\/02\/tink-talks-cutting-ties-with-timbaland-and-becoming-independent\"><em>Complex<\/em><\/a> at the time. \u201cFor me, that was the red flag. I stepped into the deal just hoping that I would be accepted for whatever I created. It wasn\u2019t that type of situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tink has been rolling out new music all summer long. She dropped <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8-Yyjzb4l_Y\">\u201cCater\u201d<\/a> with 2 Chainz in May, followed by \u201cGoofy\u201d at the end of July. 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