The Sad Death Of The Neptunes (Star Trak Entertainment) 

Chad never cared about the limelight like Pharrell he just wanted to be behind the scenes produce get his bag and go home

Don't forget N.E.R.D. their debut, "In Search Of..." was banger after banger and still holds up today.

Because they had their own sound, the music is timeless. Some stuff still sounds futuristic

I’m from the 757 and was around when Teddy Riley, Pharrell, Pusha & Malice was running the streets. That was a fly ass time to be alive.

The Neptunes unreleased discography are phenomenal too. The album from Latrelle, & tracks from Vanessa Marquez, Natasha Ramos, etc🔥

Im 38 and the Neptune's were well apart of my teenage years

Its crazy cuz in my mind is a classic for me personally

Truly great times for skateboarders, finger skaters, roller bladers, and roller skaters made plenty of there own classics within Star Trek Records yeah.

the Neptunes are legends!!! I REMEBER hearing the neptunes Productions on the radio they ruled the radio in their prime 2001 to 2004

I was the biggest neptunes fan in high school. Their sound was so distinctive and the same drum 🥁 on 80% of the tracks lol hit hard EVERYTIME way ahead of its time In search of… was an underrated classic for a time full of classics!

It's sad no producers have ever been more influential to all genres of music than Neptunes they should have a music academy in reality because they mastered music sonically

The wrong cover for NOTHING is killing me. 😩

um, Neptunes weren't a thing in 1992. Pharrell wrote Teddy Riley's verse for Rump Shaker but The Neptunes were never involved in anything regarding Wreckx n Effects production - that's all Teddy Riley. Pharrell told that straight during Drink Champs appearance. After that they went through Bad Boy sweatshop and really emerged in the scene in 1998-99 with productions for Noreaga, Mase and ODB and that's when Kelis debuted whose first two albums were more or less a Neptunes showcase and only after that they got their footing in pop and the rest is well known.

Man this video just took me back to my whole childhood

That Spaz if you want to had me going crazy back in 2009!!!

The band is called SPYMOB, not SKYMob. Good video regardless. 💯

The Clones and (n My Mind are still my favorite albums of all time.

glad you got kelis' name right this time🙌

In My Mind is one of my favorite albums and I didn’t even realize it didn’t go gold. Bought that album stationed in Germany 2006 and ever since I can’t takeoff on a flight without playing “How Does It Feel”. It’s now a weird superstition thing

Well… Pharell apparently tried to snake Chad now.

In my Mind was a great album that was highly slept on.

Chad's production for Kenna was 🔥🔥🔥

Man Kelis was Star Trak's princess kinda like what Aaliyah was to Timberland, Magoo and Missy.

Maybe if they dressed the same like jimmy jam and Terry Lewis they'd stick together🤷🏿‍♂️. 43% of the music on the radio was them for awhile. Those dudes are filthy🤑

If Chad's publishing was setup right. He'll never have to work another day in his life.

Pharell stole kelis money

The sad truth now is Pharrell and Chad are beefing in court.

The whole Star Trak movement really opened a lane for the black skater kids such as myself. 🖖🏽

They didn’t write Rump Shaker. Pharrell did write Teddy’s verse though.

As a Houston native. I was hype when Slim Thug signed with them

You just had to be there the Neptune’s era was one of a kind !!

Wait At 3:22 in the video.. N.O.R.E is not N.E.R.D ????

Man they have to be my favorite production duo of all time . They had a incredible run, I wish clones 2 would come out a dream lol

Inside sources says, the neptunes as a production duo split over publishing percentages. Things start getting a little uneven between the two. Depending on the work put into the production and writing credits. Pharrell got bigger chunks due to his input. And the agreement was 50/50 no matter what, from the beginning. But things changed. That’s from two sources. It was said that Chad really didn’t see an issue with that. There was no hard feelings between the two. Because of technology changes and production equipment being more mobile and personal, plus downsizes. It caused them to eventually work on music totally separate. Pharrell just took more opportunities than Chad in the long run, plus hustled a little more and got more placements. But is there a bad bone between the two? Not til this day.

He worked with Nore before jay Z, Brittany spears and jadakiss.. gotta get the facts In order to tell hip hop stories man

KENNA IS SO SO SLEPT ON, MAD TALENTED! BOTH HIS ALBUMS "NEW SCARED COW" ,& 'MAKE SURE THEY SEE MY FACE" ARE FUCKING CLASSICS!!!!!!!

NERD need to do a tiny desk concert

They sold a lot of records and albums they made a great impact in music culture as whole all genres of music

They also had Charles Hamilton on star trak

What about Fam-Lay!? He had a couple absolute bangers! It was a shame he didn’t get the recognition he deserved imo.

Snoop r and g is a classic Love that album

“The Evolution of Robin Thicke” album is SUCH a great production. Not only does Robin sound great on it (this is like 10yrs before Blurred Lines BTW) but every single track is its own little vibe. He covers multiple genres and song types in one album without it being completely overwhelming

I'm surprised you didn't mention Pharrell's (or was Neptune's) work with Daft Punk

Neptune's presents the clones is one of my favorite albums!

BRUV, THIS WAS A PHARRELL DOC, THOUGHT WE WAS GONNA HEAR FROM THE REAL TALENT FROM THE NEPTUNES, CHAD HUGO

What this story is missing is Timbaland & Magoo. Timbaland & Pharrell are related & had a group together (with Magoo) back in the day.

My imaginary Super Group that I still think could be possible: Chad Hugo, Mike Shinoda, Kenna

Damn Pharrell was a down low thief in the music industry also

They’re buggin’ “IN MY MIND” was a really good album. 4/5 for me

Fact check - "Nothin" is a single produced by the Neptunes for the artist N.O.R.E aka Noreaga....it is not a N.E.R.D album....

You put the wrong record cover up for Nothing album at 3:21 You used the cover of the N.O.R.E. single Nothin'

U missed how what really blew them up was the Nore song Super Thug - I was at Virgin - and they gave them a sing deal when that hit and that’s what really got them known in the consciousness of the culture - from there they went bananas

As a va beach native. The Clipse "Lord Willin'" will ALWAYS have a special place in my heart ❤️

Pharrell probably should break off his boy Chad with like 15% he makes off everything else to pay him back 💰

Damn no love for Philly Most Wanted

In search of is one of my favorite albums of all time

I still don't understand how "In My Mind" was not a classic, it is if ya ask me.

Chad Hugo being on them videos def influenced me to get into making music🇵🇭💪

I can’t believe these guys are at this point. It should have went half and half for both parties. Soooo sad.

Pharrell done the adlibs on SWV - Right Here

Don’t sound like too many people are “happy”

It's so weird I can't see any of the Neptunes albums from post-2000 that include artists such as Vannesa Marquez or Latrelle who were really big R&B artists back in the day. It's so sad.

It’s not too late to delete this because the neptunes are still active

Nothing about Roscoe?

Love listening to the instrumentals and zoning out on individual melodies chords and sounds of the neptunes hope I’m not the only one who listens like this.

Teyana capp’n , Skateboard T 😂 u serious shorty

This was a doc about Pharrell, not the Neptunes; I'm disappointed that I didn't get to know more about Chad and what production elements he brought to the group and how HE lives. Video needs to be retitled....

Nothing ever really dies.

I can't wrap my mind around 03:22 why did you mention Nore - Nothing as a NERD album....... Am I buggin?

You used the cover for NOREs single Nothin instead of the NERD album lol

Chad Hugo is the winner Purell is just a faker

Why did you delete the jay is an untrustworthy snake video? Been watching you around that time and was looking for it but its gone

salute on this content , great work and love the entire presentation.. how VA formed the powerful 90s music is amazing.. love it ..

Im from the 757 p town to be exact, i was at south Hampton correction center when the clipes blew up

In 1999 he produced his first major hit by Old Dirty bastard and kelis “I got ya money” and Shake ya A**” in 2000 by Mystikal.

In my mind is slept on.. album was 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

You forgot N.O.R.E.'s first album that put them on the map.

"HOV's got a young girl, HOV's got a young girl... Well not that quite young... 21. So high strung, such a vibrant thang. I introduced myself "Hi, Ms. Thang"" Jay didn't spit about a 19 year old on that cut. Pharrell did, Jay upped it up a bit. 😅 Yeah, I copped the album. smh

The Neptunes were my favorite growing up, I used to listen to that Clones album everyday. But I remember being so disappointed in high school when he dropped his solo album because it was lowkey trash.

Can i have it like that, number one, and that girl are all classics. straight fire. i still listen to them in 2024

It’s been a couple of people that have said p doesn’t really speak up for them. Teyana said it and malice said it in a song as well. You can see how that can be taken as selfishness or discontentment. It doesn’t seem like it’s on purpose though. Also in my mind is a classic, and can’t nobody tell me otherwise.

There is also a picture of NORE's Nothin' (a single) instead of the actual album by NERD, Nothing. lol

Now his beats all have a tropic sound like steel drums… not the same vibe. It sucks. Nobody will beat y2k Neptunes

I remember grinding i remember my cousin knew how to play that beat on the table a few did but me lol

I love just yelling STAR TRAK. Even the Star Trak logo is so hip and cool. The three best songs the Neptunes/Pharrell Williams ever made in order 1) The Clipse "Grindin" 2) Snoop Dogg "Drop It Like It's Hot" 3) Gwen Stefani "Hollaback Girl"

The reason why Pharrell is doing way more aside from music should be obvious with the absence of Chad Hugo at the helm

It makes me laugh that to become a fashion icon, only takes the ability to wear overpriced clothes made in sweatshops.

I know them personally, they all grew up with my children’s family and I remember when they was locking everyone up left and right. That mess was crazy.

In my mind was unsuccessful if you wasnt outside at the time.. that was a interesting time... That Bape IceCream Billionaire Boys Club era was different... Bape would drop a hoody and have 5 total in the USA with just a store in NYC AND Japan... and that was pharrell like 3rd run... talk about EXCLUSIVITY 💯💯💯

The Neptunes have produced so many hits for other artist and made great music for everyone to listen to and to me Pharrell wanted to be in the limelight more then Chad. And on a side note I have a you tube channel type in Russell Mills May 22, 2017 to find me.

As much as I feel the Neptunes are amongst the greatest producers ever like many producers and/or artists they don’t know how to run a label and are/were terrible ceo’s

As for hip hop duos that are brothers: Run DMC, Project Pat and Juicy J, Master P and Silk da Shocker, Layzie and Flesh n Bone.

Everybody is a thief in the industry Period

What ?!?! Nothin’ by N.O.R.E ? 2010 ? That came out in 2002… N.E.R.D and N.O.R.E are two different things. 😂

The Neptunes the production. NERD are the artists. The Neptunes are still working. N.E.R.D hasn’t dropped music in a while.

That blurred Lines lawsuit was some BS…..!!!!!!

This is kinda interesting coz couple of weeks i got myself thinking what happened to the other members of Neptunes, then 4 days ago i see this video 😢.

You forgot Rosco P Coldchain and Fam-Lay. Star Trak coulda been what Alchemist's school of rappers, Roc Marciano, and Griselda are today with their street rap. And that's on the strength the Clipse, Fam-lay, and Rosco P Coldchain. Their rap arm was truly ahead of it's time.

A talent show wasnt how they got discovered! The Neptunes Pharrell & Hugo went to Teddy's on their bikes everyday and would be paying their music instruments outside the gate of Teddy's mansion everyday. Untill Teddy said F it and let them in and the rest was history.

I had no idea Pharrell had triplets!