Dr. Dre & Timbaland to sign Hayes

Producer and Aftermath CEO Dr. Dre is teaming up with producer Timbaland for an upcoming project for rapper Hayes.

“Me and Dre just signed this guy named Hayes from Detroit. Incredible storyteller. Incredible. Reminds me of how B.I.G. tells his stories. He kind of was around the table. He wrote some of Dre’s Detox – if Dre is ever gonna do it – but he wrote a lot of that for Dre. He’s just been around the camp. I knew him from my homeboy, so he’s been around both camps. Me and Dre both think he’s a crazy artist. So we said: Let’s do him together.”

Call it takeover. After only 2 weeks of circulating his demo on the streets, Detroit’s own Hayes incited an industry bidding war that resulted in Interscope’s snatching him up. When Hayes dropped his mixtape, 24 Songs of Power, it quickly accrued over 60,000 hits on the web. The rap wolrd is ready for a new leader and Hayes is launching rap’s most succesful campaign.

Introducing Hayes