As evidenced by previous posts, I am a major Timbo fan. Have been since the mid 90s. Dude seems to have finally gotten connected. Timbaland is now on Twitter AND Facebook. Follow him, fan him, check it out!
He’s opening up the vaults and hitting fans with unreleased goodies 
Also – props to Unreal – fellow BeatClubber – who posted this before me…HERE
Category Archives: Music
Andreaz – new music.
check out this young cat i’m working with.
Andrew Avaire Brenyo was born on March 23, 1993 in Asunción, Paraguay. His biological mother
was twenty-one years old, illiterate, and working as a traveling domestic. She wanted to give her son
a chance for a better life and more opportunities than she would be able to provide for him, so she placed him for adoption. Andrew was originally placed in an orphanage, but eventually moved to a foster home as he was malnourished and needed special attention.
Andrew was adopted at six months and he went to the United States with his adopted parents-
Mike and Mimi Brenyo. Upon evaluation, the American medical doctors felt that he would have a
number of educational problems. These problems were not evident until school age. Andrew always
struggled with his school work, but he was successful as his parents tutored him at home in all subjects.
He was also determined to succeed and he put a lot of effort into his schoolwork. Andrew was homeschooled in 6th and 7th grade. During 8th grade he was evaluated and it was determined that he had a minor learning disability-but with his strong work ethic and support from home he continued to experience success.
During junior high and high school, Andrew discovered his love of music; including singing, composing, and recording original songs. He immersed himself in all aspects of music completing short term goals and preparing for long term goals. Andrew attended guitar and piano lessons as well as show choir. He entered a contest (Club Tech Digital Arts Festival) through the Boys and Girls Club of America (BGCA) submitting an R&B song titled “I’m Changing” that he composed and recorded in three hours. He won this international contest placing first out of 219 entries in the music category. Andrew traveled to Minneapolis where he and the other winners in different categories were hosted by Best Buy and Microsoft. At a later date, Andrew was selected the Navy Youth of the Year for the Pacific through the BGCA. This process included first a nomination, then an application and interview process.
Andrew was one of eight teenagers that represented the Yokosuka Teen Center at the Navy Child and Youth Program Conference that was held in Tucson, Arizona. This annual conference is geared to bring to light the latest in Youth Programs around the world. During this conference, Andrew performed original and cover songs. For the Arizona efforts, the Yokosuka Teen Center was awarded a $25,000 grant from the Commander of Navy Installations to expand their music program.
Andrew performed in various venues around Yokosuka Naval Base and at his high school.
Some of the base performances were for: Spanish Diversity Day, a Bali poverty awareness event,
“Month of the Military Child” and “Friendship Day.” During his high school experience, Andrew performed in the high school talent shows, represented the high school at the regional Kanto Plain performance, and traveled to Guam as a representative to the Far East Jazz Festival. He is a member of the high school show choir performing at various events throughout Japan, Madrigal Dinner Theater, and at several school assemblies. Andrew also had the lead in the musical “Back to the 80’s.”
Andrew demonstrates a strong sense of giving back to the community and family. He is involved in outreach programs such as assisting local nationals at functions, feeding the homeless, volunteering at children’s orphanages holiday parties, as well as providing manual labor to local auctions/bazaars for charitable groups. Andrew is also very close to his parents as well as his sister, Katerina, who was adopted from Moscow, Russia at 22 months old. She is moderately to severe mentally challenged. Andrew is kind and gentle with her, and he often assists in her daily care.
Currently, Andrew is demonstrating his music talent on You-tube (www.you tube.com/andreaz16music). Andreaz is working on his upcoming debut.
Album Round-up
The last couple of weeks this year had some nice albums come out (or about to drop).
Here’s a quick round-up -
R KELLY – LOVE LETTER
Kells’ latest studio album is produced by his damn self, with just one feature. He abandons the hiphop this time around to focus on what he does best R&B. Great record. And don’t frown at him covering MJ’s classic YOU ARE NOT ALONE. R Kelly wrote and produced that for Mike, so if anyone has the right to remake that, it’s the R…
DIDDY/DIRTY MONEY – LAST TRAIN TO PARIS
Puff Daddy is back with his fifth album, this time joined by Dirty Money, the real stars are the trackmakers on this album tho. Great instrumentals from Danja and Polow Da Don, among others…
KERI HILSON – NO BOYS ALLOWED
Zone 4/MMG’s songstress Keri Hilson’s new album has more of a poppish lean than her last album, but great songs on there courtesy of Polow, Timbaland and Danja, among others…
JAMIE FOXX – BEST NIGHT OF MY LIFE
Jamie Foxx’s third is another solid effort keeping in line with the hiphop/r&b pattern. Fave track on there is FREAK feat. Rico Love
MICHAEL JACKSON – MICHAEL
Say what you will, this is probably the only way people are gonna get to hear the unrelased MJ stuff. I’m still waiting on some unrealeased R Kelly and Devanté Swing production, but for now the Teddy Riley contributions do just fine.
KEYSHIA COLE – CALLING ALL HEARTS
My fave KC album of the three she’s released, standout song is LAST HANGOVER feat. Timbaland
Cribs – Pharrell Williams (of the Neptunes)
Pharrell Williams is one half of super-production team The Neptunes. A few days ago, I posted Chad hard at work in the studio…now here’s Skateboard P showing off his Miami home.
Looks like he loves BAPE, KAWS, FamilyGuy and Louis Vuitton among many other things…
More pictures here – Pharrell’s Crib
Chad Hugo X Apple
Chad Hugo is unfortunately the lesser known half of the superproduction team The Neptunes – neptunes.org
Nice to see Mr Hugo in the studio, and lovin all those macbookpros laying around, I count four.
Also – The new NERD album, NOTHING, recently dropped, go cop if you haven’t already.
LL Cool J – Imagine That
Here’s another music video I was a part of. Once again Hype Williams in the director’s chair, the red hot (at the time) production by Rocwilder. LL Cool J with the lead single for his project that year.
Shot in a club just south of Hollywood. It looks like the club is poppin but all that was shot diring the daytime from the early morning The rest of the video was shot at Raleigh studios , across the street from Paramount on Melrose Ave.
Jagged Edge – Promise
Let me go back again to a music video I worked on. This time, cause they got a brand new album dropping at the end of September, it’s Jagged Edge. The song was PROMISE. Great track from a their solid sophomore album JE Heartbreak.
produced by Jermaine Dupri.
Check out THE REMEDY dropping Sept. 28th.
Lead single is out now on iTunes – LAY YOU DOWN
KANDI – Don’t Think I’m Not
A decade ago, working on music videos, I was on this one as a PA in 2000. Shot in a mansion in Malibu, I remember I ditched the second day of this shoot in favor of HEY PAPI….sorry, but Hype Williams>>>>>all other music video directors.
Produced by Shek’spere (what happened to him?!?), this was the lead single for Kandi’s solo debut after leaving Xscape.
Lil’ Kim – No Matter What They Say
Here’s another music video i worked on. This one is from TEN years ago, and is in fact the first music video I ever worked on as a PA (production assistant). I got to assist Lil’ Kim most of the time. It was a very interesting experience. One set I met Puffy, Junior Mafia, Missy Elliott and Mary J Blige.
The video was directed by one Marcus Raboy, who was doing a lot of Bad Boy videos at the time, and whom I had the pleasure to work with on a couple more times.
As a sidenote, this shoot was also cool cause I met Misa Hilton-Brym (stylist, and Diddy’s babymomma) and chatted with her extensively on Sista, Jodeci, Devante and Timbaland. I also provided her with a copy of Sista’s unreleased classic 4 ALL THA SISTAS AROUND DA WORLD(!!)
Hey Papi
When I first moved out to Los Angeles in the hopes of pursuing the ‘Hollywood’ dream, I did work as a PA (Production Assistant) on a variety of projects – music videos, commercials and movies.
A huge deal for me, was being invited to the set of HEY PAPI by Hype Williams himself! My favorite director to this day, I met him on the set of Mya’s BEST OF ME rmx (ft Jay-Z) video. Both those were shot in LA over the same long weekend.
Fun times, I even got to take my future wife to set!
The video was shot at a mansion in Malibu (was originally supposed to be at the Playboy mansion), and the Long Beach Airport.
Jay-Z – HEY PAPI (ft Memphis Bleek) is produced by TIMBALAND.
