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

“I got two hip-hop artists, believe it or not,” Timbaland said on monday. “One is this guy me and Akon signed; Billy Blue. The other one, I think people gonna know about. Me and Dre just signed him, this guy named Hayes from Detroit. Incredible storyteller. Incredible. Reminds me of how B.I.G. tells his stories.” Hayes, a Detroit rapper, has been around for quite some time. However, this is the first time producers took the opportunity to sign him.

“He kind of was around the table,” Timbaland said. “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.”