HIP-hop artist Timbaland left no doubt who inspired his combative song, “Give It to Me,” at club Marquee the other night, when he announced to the shocked crowd, “Scott Storch is a bitch!”
Storch, 32, the record producer who has worked with Beyoncé, 50 Cent and Jessica Simpson, used to be friends with Timbaland, 36. But they had a falling-out. Timbaland’s “Give It to Me,” featuring Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado, contains lyrics that were thought to refer to Storch:
“I get a half a mil for my beats/You get a couple grand. Never gonna see the day that I ain’t got the upper hand. I’m respected from Californ-i-a way down to Japan. I’m a real producer and you just a piano man.”
Timbaland’s reps repeatedly claimed the song was not about anyone particular in the industry, but he made liars of them when he jumped on Marquee’s turntable last week.
Celebrating after his concert with Timberlake at the Meadowlands, Timbaland was given a microphone and started improvising, clubgoers told Page Six. Rapping along to his lyrics, Timbaland yelled, “Scott Storch, I’m a real producer and you just a piano man.”
The crowd was “shocked,” said our spies. “But when he called Storch ‘a bitch,’ that pretty much cleared up any confusion over who that song is about.”
Storch released his own single via YouTube in March, “Built Like That,” in which he lashed out against his one-time ally Timbaland for stealing producing credits on Timberlake’s song “Cry Me a River,” a number on which Storch worked but was given no credit.
In his rebuttal, Storch raps about Timbaland’s pal Nate “Danja” Hills: “Your boy Danja got to hate you with a passion, man/He makes the hits while you taking all the credit, damn! I know the feeling, I’m with ya/Won’t you tell them how I made that [bleep] ‘Cry Me a River.’ ”
Representatives for both artists declined to comment.