the bolded has nothing to do with timbaland.
"no more pain" is just timbaland on the drums.
leave the rest of the work to timbaland and its an entirely different track.
same with most of the other devante stuff that people try to give credit to timbaland for in hindsight 20 years later.
he had his own brand, definitely.
but even that was a spinoff of what those other guys with devante was doing as well.
i do agree, that timbo changed the landscape of late '90s/early '00s commercial r&b. we can agree on that one. BUT i thought this was about hip-hop? im pretty sure the folks at the hot 97 morning show arent up there discussing r&b.
His sound also had influence on Hip Hop. Missy's "The Rain" and "Get Ur Freak On", Jay Z's "Jigga What, Jigga Who" and "Big Pimpin" just to name a few.