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Timbaland, Missy Elliott: New Albums Due in June

Posted Feb 8th 2012 12:30PM by Kenneth Partridge
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One of the great duos in hip-hop history, producer Timbaland and singular singer-rapper-producer-whatever Missy Elliott, is getting ready to return, albeit with separate solo albums. In an interview with MTV, Timbo has revealed that he and Missy will end their long hiatuses and drop new records in June.

"Right now, we're preparing to get both our videos, our first singles, shot kinda at the same time," Tim said. "We want to do it as a movement and spontaneously."

Missy's album will be her first since 2005's 'The Cookbook.' In the interim years, she's worked as a songwriter and producer for other artists, and last year, she told People magazine that she'd been diagnosed with Graves' disease, an autoimmune disorder that many have blamed for her dearth of new product.

Tim's 'Shock Value III,' meanwhile, follows three years after his last full-length, 'Shock Value II.'

"I just don't want to move too ahead of her and she don't want to move too ahead of me," Tim told MTV, proving that, some 15 years after their game-changing 1997 collaboration 'Supa Dupa Fly,' these Virginians haven't lost sight of what they're capable of together.