"Give It to Me" is a song recorded by Timbaland, with
featured artists Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake, for
Timbaland's second solo album,
Shock Value(2007). It was released as the album's first
single (see 2007 in music). The song was nominated for the
Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals at the 50th
Annual Grammy Awards.
The song debuted at number eighty-seven on the U.S. Hot 100
in February 2007, coincidentally, it was the week when
Furtado's Say It Right took over the top spot. It reached
number one on the
BillboardHot 100 chart in April—when it rose to that
position from number forty-two in one week, making it, at the
time, the third biggest rise to number one in the chart's
history—because of sales of 248,000 digital downloads. It
became Timbaland's first number-one on his own, Furtado's third
and Timberlake's fourth consecutive. It is the sixth number-one
produced by Timbaland & Danja in under twelve months;
others include "SexyBack", "My Love", and "What Goes
Around...Comes Around" by Timberlake and "Promiscuous" and "Say
It Right" by Furtado. The single also peaked at number one on
the
BillboardPop 100.
On the UK Singles Chart, "Give It to Me" debuted at number
eight and rose to number one the following week, with sales of
27,760 that week. The song sold 275,000 copies in the UK as
stated by the Official UK Charts Company. It is rumored that
this song is about Prince for a remark he made regarding Justin
Timberlake song "SexyBack". However A rivalry flared up between
Timbaland and record producer Scott Storch in early 2007. The
tension initially started on the single "Give It to Me", when
Timbaland anonymously called out Storch, rapping, "I'm a real
producer and you just the piano man". Timbaland confirmed that
he was talking about Storch in an interview with MTV
personality Sway Calloway [35]. Storch responded with the track
"Built Like That" on February 26, 2007, featuring Philadelphia
rapper NOX, which caused a final response by Beat-Club-rapper
D.O.E. on the song "Piano Man". The end of the feud was
confirmed by Timbaland in the final issue of Scratch Magazine
[36].
On February 26, 2007, the music video for "Give It to Me"
was premiered on MTV's
Total Request Live. It shows Timbaland, Furtado, and
Timberlake performing the song at the 2007 Grammy Awards
pre-show concert, and is intercut with footage from a studio
recording session and from inside Timbaland's tour bus. The
clip also shows Furtado singing on a balcony. The video was
directed by Paul "Coy" Allen & Timbaland and appeared at
number ninety-eight on BET's
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The official remix is called the "Laff At Em Remix", and
features Justin Timberlake & Jay-Z. Timbaland's verse is a
diss to producer Scott Storch.