The Latest Breaking News from Neptunes

“Such wilful, fraudulent, and malicious conduct warrants the imposition of punitive damages”: Chad Hugo is suing his old NERD and Neptunes partner Pharrell Williams

Duo are no longer on speaking terms

MusicRadar · Jan 26

Pharrell Williams sued by former Neptunes partner Chad Hugo over alleged lost earnings

The producers who helped define the sound of pop music in the 90s and 00s are in dispute over earnings from their final album as NERD

The Guardian - UK · Jan 26

Pharrell Williams faces fresh lawsuit from Neptunes' Chad Hugo

Pharrell Williams is being sued by his Neptunes collaborator Chad Hugo again, this time over unpaid royalties.

BANG Premier · Jan 25

Piece by Piece review – Pharrell’s Lego biopic deserves to be a blockbuster

Toronto film festival: The endlessly inventive musician gets an unlikely yet deserving biopic told via plastic bricks – a big swing that more than pays off

The Guardian - US · Sep 9, 2024

“He felt it was too generic at the time”: Producer Rodney Jerkins on why Michael Jackson turned down the Neptunes songs that eventually went to Justin Timberlake

“If I would have just hopped on the drum set and just started playing, he would have been like, ‘Nah, I did that with Billie Jean’”

MusicRadar · Sep 5, 2024

“Who would’ve thought that playing with these toys as a kid would evolve into a movie about my life?”: The Pharrell Williams biopic is going to be a Lego movie, and it looks like it could be pretty good

Pharrell Williams releases the trailer for his Lego biopic, Piece by Piece

MusicRadar · Jun 10, 2024

"Everything was so heavy at the time, so I was like, ‘Oh, you know what? I’m gonna completely do the opposite’": How Pharrell's pop production defined the sound of the ’00s and beyond

Producer, pop star, and pioneer Pharrell Williams' "skeleton songs" stripped music back to its bare essentials and prized the hook above all else

MusicRadar · Apr 11, 2024

Gwen Stefani and No Doubt’s greatest songs – ranked!

As No Doubt reform for Coachella, we pick out the best of their lead singer’s variously romantic and splenetic oeuvre – from Don’t Speak to Hollaback Girl

The Guardian - UK · Feb 29, 2024

The 50 best albums of 2023, No 9 – Amaarae: Fountain Baby

Refusing categorisation, the Ghanaian-American singer’s lavish second album tears through alté, punk, R&B, flamenco, trap, g-funk and soft rock in a voracious pursuit of pleasure

The Guardian - UK · Dec 12, 2023

From hip hop to Louis Vuitton — how Pharrell Williams took over the world of music and fashion

At the turn of the millennium, Pharrell Williams was in the process of making his name as one of the most coveted music producers in the world. Fast forward two decades, and he has been appointed Louis Vuitton’s next menswear creative director, a job at the pinnacle of luxury fashion.…

Evening Standard · Feb 15, 2023