Ethereal, whereas pharrell wasn t as out there. he did, like, dance tracks. i said it s getting hot in here so take off all your clothes i am getting so hot i want to take my clothes off it was a little more gritty. it was very, very intricate, but very rhythmically driven. uh-huh this my shit all the girls stomp your feet like this pop stars figure out that you need hip-hop cred, and you need a hip-hop producer. cause i ain t no hollaback girl i ain t no hollabackgirl most interesting to me about the 2000s was that you had a grouping of hip-hop producers who were crossing over into topping pop charts. kanye is another one. you know, he s producing and working with jay-z and alicia keys and ludacris and janet jackson. but, you know, in there, he wants to be his own star. so he releases his first album, the college dropout. yo gee they can t stop me from rapping can they