We thought that we would present these to the guys and they’d be like, ‘Oh yeah, Spymob. That’s so cool. It’s got Spymob on it.’ But when we pulled the sessions up, I remember Chad just went. ‘Yeah, nah. Let’s just have fun here.’ Those guys just really trust the moment,” Fawcett recalls of the summer 2001 sessions, which were more spur-of-the-moment than he expected. “I think about good hiring practices in businesses—you can save yourself a lot of work and worry later on if you just hire the right person. Part of the magic of what Chad and Pharrell do is that they choose who they work with [in the same] way that they’ll choose a paint or they’ll build the palette. And so if they choose the right blue, they’re not going to worry how the blue’s going to perform when it hits the canvas or how it’s going to perform tomorrow. Just bring the blue. And I think that’s what they did with us.” Carpenter, Troy (2001-10-08). "Neptunes' N*E*R*D Pushed To November". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media . Retrieved 2009-04-05. [ dead link]

Lowe, Yohannes. "N.E.R.D ft Rihanna, 'Lemon' – Single Review". GSGM Music Magazine . Retrieved 19 February 2021. Canada's Top 200 Alternative albums of 2002". Jam!. Archived from the original on September 2, 2004 . Retrieved March 28, 2022. It didn’t take much time at all for this trio to create magic, as the band’s debut record, In Search Of…, had an undeniable impact on the culture that lasts to this day. Pharrell takes the reins as the primary vocalist—both singing and rapping—while Shay Haley often serves a more complimentary role, but one that shouldn’t be overlooked. Both ooze charisma and confidence by the boatload, and while you’ll be hard-pressed to find any “bars” on here, there’s no shortage of ingenious songwriting. Overtly sexual, rebellious, and in-tune to the realities of street life, In Search Of... embodies multifaceted and complex characters trying to navigate the equally confusing world its narrators reside in.N*E*R*D INTERVIEW W/ MARK HOPPUS". October 1, 2010. Archived from the original on October 3, 2010 . Retrieved October 1, 2010.

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Video: N.E.R.D. debuts "Hypnotize You" (Live on David Letterman)". Miss Info. September 29, 2010 . Retrieved September 29, 2010. Praxis Media. "Radio1 Rodos Greece::: UK Forthcoming Singles". Radio1.gr. Archived from the original on 2012-12-21 . Retrieved 2011-08-27. And at the end of my call with Hugo, I ask him a pretty standard question, to get a gist of just how much the project resonates with him still. I asked Chad what In Search Of... means to him today. Even with their outsized influence on hip-hop, N*E*R*D didn’t make Pharrell Williams a household name. Along with his solo career, Pharrell is famous for being one half of the prolific production duo The Neptunes, along with Chad Hugo, who prefers a lower-key approach to public life. When the duo decided to start a side-project, in 1991, they recruited childhood friend Sheldon “Shay” Haley to join their futuristic collective, N*E*R*D (No-One Ever Really Dies).