Super producer Timbaland has quite a diverse lineup of stars that will appear on his next album. The record is tentatively titled "Timbaland Presents Shock Value", and judging by what Tim has said recently, it won't be what people are expecting.

"I'm not just Hip-Hop," Tim told MTV News. "My mission is to take over Top 40 radio — what they call popular music, different genres of music — and reach all types of people."

Tim will do just that by working with everyone from Dr. Dre, 50 Cent and Jay-Z to alternative rockers like She Wants Revenge and The Hives. "I'm about to get the Fall Out Boys, Björk, Elton John," Tim added. As for his song with Sir Elton, "Last Piece of the Puzzle," Tim told MTV, "It was cool. I didn't have him sing, I had him play. I was like, 'Go ahead, Elton.' I might get a choir to sing on top of it."

Meanwhile, Tim's first single, "Give it to Me," is already causing some controversy. It features Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake, and some gossip Web sites are speculating that Timberlake's verse is aimed at Janet Jackson and their televised Super Bowl debacle. Timberlake reportedly sings, "I saw you tryin' to act cute on TV, 'Just let me clear the air'/ We missed you on the charts last week/ Damn, that's right, you wasn't there/ Now if sexy never left, then why is everybody on my shit?/ Don't hate on me just because you didn't come up with it."

Timbaland's album will be released via his Mosley Music imprint, hopefully sometime in March 2007.

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