Timbaland has responded to Bryson Tiller's claim that the veteran hitmaker told him to quit his job to work on music, and then ghosted him.

In a statement he made to The Shade Room on Tuesday, Timbo admitted that he did encourage Tiller to leave his job, but he maintains that he didn't "abandon" him like some people believe.

"Bryson is a great guy, and at that moment I remember me telling him he had to quit his job, but at that moment I was so highly focused on Tink because I didn't know if Bryson really wanted to be an artist," he explained.

"Bryson is one of the illest writers and talented guy that I know," he continued. "He was with my man who's working with me at the same time who's managing him — Rich — so I always try to put him in the right space even if I wasn't in the

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