What's makes you think that you are on that level that I was just talking about you? I was speaking to who ever needed to hear it.
Who in this thread needed to hear it? Who suggested anything that would require that?
but I guess you want to just completely ignore the second album because Timbaland is all over that fukking album.

Who's ignoring the second album. He was clearly a superstar before the second album came out though, so bringing up the second album after you stated that he owes his career to Timbo makes no sense when we can just use the first single/album to counter that point.
Before his solo career he was famous as fukk for being in the most popular boy band during the TRL era and banging the biggest pop star in her prime.
As others mentioned stuff like
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbRwSI8yi1o"]N Sync - Gone - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUuGPBy1eyk"]*NSYNC - Girlfriend (The Neptunes Remix) feat. Nelly - YouTube[/ame]
started getting him play among black people.
His first solo single, produced by the Neptunes hit
#11 on Billboard and his first album sold 435k before Timbo's single was even released. When he performed at the Super Bowl, he was performing the first Neptunes single when he showed Janet's titty to the world. The argument that he owes his career to Timbo doesn't fly.