(knocking on door)
- [Interviewer] Hey Timbaland, open up.
- What's up?
(bell dinging)
I know why y'all here.
Y'all here to see my gym, my fridge.
That's what I want y'all to see come on.
♪ I'mma kill this beat like it's not live ♪
♪ If you knew me ♪
♪ y'all would probably be up in your top five ♪
(gentle music)
- [Interviewer] All right Tim, show us that fridge.
- Well, health is well.
Right now, I just do as a body builder would do.
They eat very plain Jane.
There's no taste.
You're not eating for taste.
You're eating for it to be fuel,
for your body to keep going.
A day of eating look like for me,
I get prep meals, which will look like this.
They'll deliver it to me.
It's a difference when you're trying to hit a destination.
You have to be on-point, very precise.
Which I like to be, because I'm very focus minded.
I don't like to break or bend the rules.
- [Interviewer] What do you always keep in your fridge?
- What I always keep in my fridge
is a gallon of water, Alkine water.
And I put a little amino and lemon
and the amino help me from not gettin' sore,
keep me hydrated, be able to work out the next day.
And as you see I keep another one prepared for the next day.
- [Interviewer] What do you put in your protein shake?
- Sometimes I use this for protein shake.
Pineapples, cantaloupe,
and just kiwi and strawberries to give it a little flavor,
and I add some kale to it to give it that thickness.
Oh, this the baby spinach, either one.
- [Interviewer] Do you ever have a cheat meal?
- You know, once I started to train I always look at food
as fuel, so I don't miss nothing.
I would like to have something sometimes.
Maybe like a Krispie Kreme or a crispy chicken sandwich
you know stuff like that, but I don't need it.
Like I don't crave it and the only time that it gets me
is when we got to the movie theaters,
'cause we go to this certain movie theater, CMX,
and just like you gotta order something off the menu.
So, I try to order a salad,
knowing that's the only healthy thing,
that's really probably not healthy that I'm gonna get.
- [Interviewer] It's no secret
that you've struggled with weight issues.
Tell us about your fitness journey.
- Okay, my turning point for getting really healthy
was just how I would look at pictures and I'm like,
no way.
One time I was looking at a girl
and I looked at my breast and I looked at her breast
and I'm like we both can.
You know what I'm saying,
I can suck yours, you can suck mine.
That just can't.
And then it's just like I knew through all
what was under the fat, I knew what I could look like.
I always saw this vision and that vision stayed in my head.
And then I went to the doctor.
The doctor say you almost have diabetes.
You gotta lose weight, you gotta do this,
your sugar's high, just certain little things.
It was a point in my life where I was very in the dumps.
I was on drugs, prescription drugs.
I beat that, I did it.
Nobody can really help you unless you help yourself.
I know that I didn't get to be Timbaland
without the perseverance that I always had instilled in me
and with that being said, I just had to straighten up
and I really did a two year 360
and just went like when I set my mind to something I go.
I went through the shakes and just gotta beat it.
You gotta go through it and I went through it.
I'm not gonna say it went through easy,
but because I knew, I had all the know how
and had God's help, I knew that I could beat it.
So, everything was, I'm not gonna say smooth,
it was tolerable, like I did it.
Got off of that, never went back to drugs
in five, six years.
Then I just started getting my body right
and my health right, eating right,
stopped going to restaurants,
stopped doing all these other things, and just aligned
myself in the way I was supposed to be aligned
and just be very healthy.
- [Interviewer] Wow, sounds like fitness
has changed your life.
- I believe that it helped me to be
more focused on my business.
To be sharper, because I use to have a problem
of getting up, going, being, on time.
Now, I'm the earliest person to the place.
So, it changed my whole outlook of Timbaland.
You know, when you're on narcotics you kinda,
for me messed up relationships,
had to go back and repair relationships,
because your not in the, I'm in the sunken place.
When you're in the sunken place, it's not you.
That demon inside of you just talkin' for you.
So, I just understand what life is for as an artist,
it helps me create better, it helps me think better,
new ideas, and it helps me find the next thing just like me.
Like another producer or another hot kid that's going.
It makes me not focus on just Tim.
It makes me understand what the brand of Timbaland is.
The kids called me a legend.
So, Timbaland was the guy who did the most prolific beat
to make people dance.
So, now I have all these kids under me who does the same.
It made me sharp as a business person
and understand my value,
because I don't believe that I understood my value
when I was the other Tim.
So, now when I look at myself,
I always call myself Nutty Professor,
Professor Clump is gone.
He's almost gone, all the, and Buddy Love is coming.
It's coming, he's coming,
but not the attitude of Buddy Love,
but you know the swag of Buddy Love.
- [Interviewer] Do you ever use any supplements?
- Supplements.
Because I was a pill popper,
I try not to take to many supplements.
I Just provide on the protein shake
and the amino's that you saw in my water earlier.
That's really it, protein and some cinnamon
and of course I take flax seed oils,
fish oil, multivitamin.
All right, guys so y'all know my routine.
So, now we gonna do the hard part.
You saw my fridge, saw what I do, saw the house.
Now we going to the gym, the real house.
(claps) Let's go.
What's up, what's up?
My goals is to look like a action figure.
You see all these great people who work out here?
See all that?
I got to be on that wall?
Not as an athletes, but just as Tim.
- [Interviewer] You've had a long and successful career
and you're still making music.
How do you keep yourself motivated?
- There ain't no such thing as not being motivated.
I'm always motivated.
The gym is like your natural drugs.
To some people it's like having coffee in the morning.
So, me not going to the gym,
that's not in my regimen, I have to go to the gym.
- [Interviewer] How do you start your mornings?
- I wake up about seven o'clock in the morning,
go to the gym about nine, then start to work out 10 o'clock.
- [Interviewer] So, what's the key, to fitness?
- First just having a partner that believes in your goal,
which is David, he believes in my goal
and he's always on me.
So, really is having that partnership.
Having somebody that cares about what you're trying to do
and really walk you through the process
and not lying to you about the process
and a lot of people want it overnight.
I'm the person that want it for longterm.
Having a guy like David and the whole DBC staff.
Like they always when I come in in the morning,
what up Tim you look great.
Wow, you look amazing.
It's always uplifting to come in this gym.
I think that's what keep motivated.
Come in here in the morning, even if I feel like crap.
Just Dave and the team, the best.
- [Interviewer] All right Tim,
It's time for our rapid fire questions.
Seven AM workout or seven PM?
- Seven AM
- [Interviewer] Squat or deadlift?
- Squat.
- [Interviewer] Crossfit, yea or nay?
- Crossfit.
- [Interviewer] Pull-ups or chin-ups?
- Pull-ups.
- Dumbbells or kettlebells? - Dumbbells.
- [Interviewer] Run on the treadmill or the great outdoors?
- Run outside.
- [Interviewer] Big legs or big arms?
- Big legs.
- [Interviewer] Cardio or weights?
- Weights.
- [Interviewer] Biggest compliment.
Jacked, ripped, swole, or cut.
- Ripped.
- [Interviewer] If you could work out with anyone
dead or alive, who would it be.
- Phil Heath
That's who I wanna workout with,
because first of all he's jacked, number one
and his diet regimen looks insane, so.
All right, all right, it's been nice.
Glad y'all came, saw my fridge, y'all came to the gym,
but now you gotta get the hell out of the gym.
You have to go,
you gotta go,
now.
Bye, bye.
(upbeat music)