What happened to Tink?

[JustCKing]

Timbaland gets bored with new artists he signs very easily. If they don't have that instant fame he drops them. He's used to working with major pop stars that give him major ratings, press, ect. He tries to go back to his R&B Hip Hop roots because I really believe it's the music he loves making the most but it just doesn't have the same effect in the grand scheme of the music BUSINESS. Tink is talented, but R&B is a dying art form unless you're doing the trap soul style stuff Tiller & PnD are doing and those lanes are already locked down by those two. It's real hard for a female in the music business especially in R&B because it's driven by men singing love songs to women.

Tim has broken more Hip Hop and R&B acts than he has Pop acts. With Pop, he's saved careers (Nelly Furtado) or he helped legitimize them as solo acts (Justin Timberlake). He's never had a Missy Elliott or Ginuwine in Pop where he entirely produced a debut album and it took off. So Tink is an artist that should've been a no brainer.

IMO, what stopped Tink from blowing up is three things:

1) Music that wasn't exceptional

2) Timbaland's ego and arrogance. This plays off point #1. He put out records that sounded like Timbaland songs and not Tink's. That wasn't her sound and was a departure from her base. On top of that, he kept comparing her to Aaliyah and Lauryn Hill instead of allowing the people to make comparisons. He should've stayed a silent co-sign like he did with Bryson Tiller. He managed to give Bryson Tiller two bangers and one of them charted without Timbaland ever going overboard with promo and comparisons.

3) Movin' Bass. This is perhaps the biggest misfire. Ross and Tim dropped the ball with this because the fans were cheated out of dope record. Jay Z's verses were cut from the song and the one on Ross's album is completely stripped down. That's really neither here or there. If Timbaland had waited to drop this after Ross dropped the video for the song and gotten permission from Ross, Tink's version might've taken her further.

 

[LauderdaleBoss]

Shorty talented, but I just don''t fukk with her music. Like she doesn''t make good songs to me.

I think she need to go harder at the rapping and chill with all the singing/hybrid shyt she be doing sometimes. She got some bars.

 

[JustCKing]

Terrible name, terrible hype and Timbo is not musically relevant

I agree about the hype thing, but Timbaland is still musically relevant (as a producer). All these trap-soul producers are his children and that's evident from Bryson Tiller's album.

 

[TrebleMan]

Yeah the book isn't officially finished on her yet. She has the potential to come back with something down the road, just have to wait for folks to kind of let the overhype chill. They really set her up with expectations that'd be hard for some mega-stars to live up to.

I was expecting some incredible singer or an equally charismatic female rapper.

 

[mson]

Timb hyped her up way too much, talking about Aaliyah came to him in a dream saying Tink is the one ,

Not to mention charlamagne tha God shoving her down our throat in every conversation he was having

Some people don't have "It"

Who does have "it"?

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

this Dreezy chick done came out & lapped her with that r&b rapper style. plus she has authentic hoodrat appeal.

and dej loaf is still pushing.

 

[CrimsonTider]

Who does have "it"?

What kind of question is this?

 

[Cheercomp]

three things:

1) Music that wasn't exceptional

2) Timbaland's ego and arrogance. This plays off point #1. He put out records that sounded like Timbaland songs and not Tink's. That wasn't her sound and was a departure from her base. On top of that, he kept comparing her to Aaliyah and Lauryn Hill instead of allowing the people to make comparisons. He should've stayed a silent co-sign like he did with Bryson Tiller. He managed to give Bryson Tiller two bangers and one of them charted without Timbaland ever going overboard with promo and comparisons.

3) Movin' Bass. This is completely stripped down. That's really neither here or there. If Timbaland had waited to drop this after Ross dropped the video for the song and gotten permission from Ross, Tink's version might've taken her further.

This was the biggest snake move to me. The guy who produces your record puts out a version thats bigger that the one he got paid for on the day your album comes out?? Without your permission?? I wouldn't blame Ross if he pulled whatever strings he had with DJs and labels in order to suppress her shyt a bit.

 

[Art Barr]

She only had one song that had drawing appeal in bonnie and Clyde and timbo commercialized her appeal past the point of forced and no return
To the point she never made another song in that series of records to create a fan base.

I was the first and only person on this motherfukker who posted her real grassroots hit in the chi and the responses here were dismal.


When outside althea heart ghetto love and tinashe.
I don't give anyone a chance on the rnb side at all.

So, for me to like tink's only grassroots hit and the lack of responses.
probably means she was not a draw commercially past the Chicago YouTube unsigned community's listening.

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/tink-bonnie-clyde.65675/

Bonnie and Clyde is still the shyt, but for timbo to keep trying to market her as this female emcee meets singer was a stretch.
As tink is no bgirl or emcee and he should have stopped her from rapping and made her just sing immestediately.


Art Barr

 

[A Tribe Called Quest ™]

Timbo burned bridges with DJs+labels by being his typical a$$hole self, and Tink is "too dark." I think she's a beautiful woman (tho that weave is ridiculous) but it's hard to sell a dark skinned woman in music. When I worked at a label they had research on listeners hearing a song, enjoying it...and then enjoying it less when shown a picture that showed it was a dark black woman. Other listeners shown a picture of a lightskin black woman=liked the song more.

She not that dark breh

 

[Hood Critic]

Because we have her:

What I need Tink for?

 

[prime]

I agree with @Art Barr tink need to make songs like Bonnie and Clyde,can I,count on you and treat me like some body again she doesn't need to rap TBH she had females playing her shyt hard when she was singing. H2o and I like are good she need to make a mixtape with songs like that and she would be good

 

[mson]

What kind of question is this?

A simple one

 

[Big Boss]

 

[Da King]

They were trying way too hard to make her happen on Breakfast Club. Timbo and the BC crew had me thinking she was about to be status.. shyt was weak. nikkas was saying she was the new Aaliyah/Lauryn Hill.

Yup

Also didn't help her career that timbo fukked her over with that Ross beef when he leaked out a Ross/jay track and added her vocals to make it seem like it was her track