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Timbaland reportedly refused to perform at the Flint Water Crisis Charity Show due to a champagne related incident.
The Club Bleu owner and promoter who booked the rapper, Mitchell Jaworski, told the Daily News that the club did not stock Timbaland’s favourite champagne, Jay Z’s Armand de Brignac, AKA Ace of Spades. Dom Perignon, which was offered instead, was not sufficient.
Nevertheless, Timbaland and his entourage still continued to polish off the remaining alcohol in the VIP section, including two bottles of Patron, three bottles of Ciroc, two bottles of D’usse, and one bottle of Disaronno Originale Italian Liqueur.
“They had about 15 bottles of liquor and champagne, which is extremely excessive especially for a charity event,” Jaworski said. “They seemed more concerned about getting every drop of liquor.”
On top of it all, Timbaland failed to DJ for the previously agreed 30 minute set and instead decided to stand at the front of the stage and nod along to another DJ’s set.
“His management (took) classlessness to a new level when they said Timbaland did ‘not feel like’ performing,” Jaworski said. “They then insisted that we show them the signed contract for the night and where the stipulation was for the ‘live’ performance. Finally management relented and literally had to wake Timbaland up so he could proceed to stand behind the decks and nod his head for 30 minutes.”
Over Christmas last year, Timbaland dropped a new mixtape entitled King Stays King, whilst earlier that month, the rapper came under fire for sampling a Hungarian folk song on ‘Drunk In Love’.
