shyt is mind blowing breh that both would turn down the Neptunes and you KNOW that shyt made their souls burn slow because a lot of labels ate off of that prime Neptunes run and Pharrell/Chad are still cooking along with all the side ventures they have going on.
They about about their business, do the music and keep it moving with no BS in the middle and basically don’t let the artist chime in since they are hired guns. But they’d sure make concessions to fukking MJ and Prince.
When Pharrell was working with Madonna she said he made her cry because dude was basically on some Ike Turner “sing this motherfukka the way I wrote it” type shyt and she caught feelings. A lot of these stars have egos so of course you are not talking to them any kinda way, unless you’re Pharrell
Madonna: ‘Pharrell made me cry’
Madonna: 'Pharrell made me cry' | NME
“I was in a sensitive mood, I was singing and I didn’t understand the rhythm that he wanted me to sing in, and he was kind of giving me a hard time and I was sort of taken aback by the way he was talking to me, so I said ‘You know what? we need to talk’”, she said “So we went upstairs and I’m like ‘You can’t talk to me that way!’ and then I just burst into tears and he was like
‘Oh my god, Madonna has a heart!’, and I was like ‘What?!’ and I started crying even more, and we had it out. Now I love him and we make great music together, but I think we had to go through that.”