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Get a first listen of Timbaland’s new single “Pass At Me” featuring David Guetta & Pitbull in the provacative (NSFW) video trailer for Culo by Mazzucco - a collection of photos celebrating a woman’s curves.

Exclusive Video: A First Look at Culo by Mazzucco from Jessica Glavin on Vimeo.

About Culo by Mazzucco

Judith Curr, Executive VP and Publisher of Atria Books, announced a deal to publish a collection of stunning, provocative photos that celebrate a woman’s curves by prolific fashion photographer Raphael Mazzucco. The book, entitled CULO BY MAZZUCCO, available in stores and as an e-book on November 22, is at the forefront of an emerging trend in art, fashion and pop culture in which the bottom (or culo in Italian) is the new epicenter of female sexuality, desire, and empowerment. Inspired by a film will.i.am made in Brazil and conceived and shepherded to publication by acclaimed Interscope music executive Jimmy Iovine, the $65 art book tastefully and creatively recognizes this shift in society’s long-held ideals of physical perfection toward a shape that is more authentic and bold.
Well-versed in bringing women of extraordinary beauty to the forefront of mainstream popular culture, Mazzucco searched the globe for the world’s most stunning women to appear in the book. The result is a 248 page collection of color photographs and art pieces showcasing a diverse group of women—some already legendary, some about to become so—who embody the spirit of culo and the start of a new era of beauty.

“Interscope Records has always been a heat-seeking missile when it comes to shifts in popular culture, whether inciting them or reacting to them swiftly. The impetus for this book is a little of both,” writes Iovine in the Foreword.

“I have enjoyed every single moment I’ve spent in the company of these breathtaking women, of having the air sucked out of the room and feeling my heart race from the sheer joy of seeing my vision come to life,” says Mazzucco.

Producer Timbaland has reporters at a Michigan newspaper to thank for helping him save his Miami, Florida apartment from foreclosure after they alerted him to the property trouble.

The hip-hop star, real name Timothy Mosley, was hit with a $18,833 lien by the building’s owner last August after allegedly failing to keep up with assessment fees for the $2.6 million condominium.

The quarterly bills soon grew to $27,000 – but Timbaland was unaware he was about to lose the property until journalists from The Detroit News contacted him for a comment on the story.

Their investigation prompted Timbaland to look into the matter himself and he instructed his representatives to settle the outstanding payments in full to avoid foreclosure.

Timbaland’s financial advisors claim they did not receive notification of the bills and insist the discrepancy was just a big misunderstanding.

The producer-singer, who has collaborated with musicians ranging from Justin Timberlake to Nelly, has found a new duet partner in Rockstar Games. Timbaland is teaming up with the developer behind the “Grand Theft Auto” franchise on the handheld music-making application “Beaterator,” but the hip-hop impresario doesn’t think the app will put him out of a job.

“I can give you everything,” he teases, “but you’re not gonna think like I would think.”

“Beaterator” features nearly 1,300 sounds and loops created by Timbaland and about another 2,000 from the developers at Rockstar Games. The application is split into three modes: Live Play, Studio Sessions and Song Crafter. Unlike rhythm titles like “Guitar Hero” and “Rock Band,” there’s no game element to “Beaterator.” Everything is unlocked from the outset.

Amateur mixmasters can layer vocals, drum machine sounds, kicks, snares, bass loops, synth sounds and a myriad of other noises to create unique beats and melodies. The only game-like aspect of “Beaterator” is Live Play, which allows users to create a song by mashing buttons alongside a virtual Timbaland, who the real Timbaland insists could use some more muscles.

The Grammy winner – whose real name is Tim Mosley – wasn’t prepared for how long it took to transform “Beaterator” from a simple application that originally appeared on Rockstar Games’ Web site in 2005 into a full-blown beat machine program that will be available for the PlayStation Portable on Sept. 29 and the iPhone and iPod Touch later this fall.

“They broke it down and said, ‘Tim, this is not like music. It’s gonna take three to four years. Are you prepared for that?’” says Timbaland. “I thought about it just like this – let me try it. And so here we are today. It’s all about timing. Sometimes you look at those years and think it’s a long time, but it’s really not. It’s really not.”