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Members
Pharrell Williams (Born April 5, 1973, in Virginia Beach, VA)
Chad Hugo (A.K.A. Chase Chad) (Born Charles Hugo, February 24, 1974, in Portsmouth, VA)

N*E*R*D:
(acronym: No One Ever Really Dies)
Pharrell Williams (Born April 5, 1973, in Virginia Beach, VA)
Chad Hugo (A.K.A. Chase Chad) (Born Charles Hugo, February 24, 1974, in Portsmouth, VA)
Sheldon Haley (A.K.A. Shay)

See Also: Clipse

Albums
The Neptunes Present... Clones
N*E*R*D - In Search Of...
N*E*R*D - Seeing Sounds

Singles
Pharrell - Angel (Single)
Pharrell - Can I Have It Like That (Single)

Also Featured On...
Mary J. Blige - No More Drama (Pharrell)
Busta Rhymes - It Ain't Safe No More
Cee-Lo - Cee-Lo Green Is The Soul Machine (Pharrell)
Clipse - Lord Willin' (Pharrell)
Clipse - Exclusive Audio Footage (Pharrell)
Clipse - We Got It 4 Cheap Vol. 2 (Pharrell)
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury (Pharrell)
Common - Electric Circus (Pharrell)
Common - Uncommon Classics (N-E-R-D & Pharrell)
Daddy V & Snoop Dogg Present Blaze It Up: High 'Till I Die (Pharrell)
DJ Smallz & T-Pain - Dirty RNB 11: Are You Sprung? (Pharrell)
DJ Smallz & LeToya - Dirty RNB 14 (Pharrell)
DJ Whoo Kid - Smokin' Day 2: The Official G Unit/Tha Pound Blunt Wrap Mixtape (Pharrell)
Dynamic Certified - Rise To Power (Skateboard P (Pharrell))
Faith Evans - The First Lady (Pharrell)
Foxy Brown - The Hits And Unreleased Vol. 1 (Pharrell)
The Game & Snoop Dogg - Westside Connection (Pharrell)
Jadakiss - Kiss Of Death (Pharrell)
Jay-Z - The Dynasty: Roc La Familia (Pharrell)
Jay-Z - The Black Album (Pharrell)
Jay-Z - The Black Album A Cappella (Pharrell)
Jay-Z - The Grey Album (Pharrell)
Jay-Z - Kingdom Come (Pharrell)
Jay-Z - The Black Mixtape (Special Limited Edition) (Pharrell)
Juice - 100% J.U.I.C.E. (Pharrell)
Ludacris - Back For The First Time (Pharrell)
Mystikal - Let's Get Ready (Pharrell)
Mystikal - Prince Of The South...The Hits (Pharrell)
Ol' Dirty Bastard - Nigga Please (Pharrell)
Ol' Dirty Bastard - In Loving Memory Of Russell Jones (Pharrell)
Ol' Dirty Bastard - A Son Unique (Pharrell)
Q-Tip - Abstract Skillz
Ray J - This Ain't A Game (Pharrell)
Royce Da 5'9" - Rock City (Version 2.0) (Pharrell)
Royce Da 5'9" - Build & Destroy (The Lost Sessions) (Pharrell)
Royce Da 5'9" - Defending The Crown Part III: The Coroner (Pharrell)
702 - Star (Pharrell)
Skillz - Got Skillz??? (Pharrell)
Skillz - I Ain't Mad No More (Pharrell)
Sleepy Brown - Mr. Brown (Pharrell)
Snoop Dogg - Paid Tha Cost To Be Da Bo$$ (Pre-Release)
Snoop Dogg - Paid Tha Cost To Be Da Bo$$ (Pharrell)
Snoop Dogg - R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece (Pharrell)
Snoop Dogg - Ego Trippin' (Pharrell)
The Source Hip-Hop Music Awards 2001 (Pharrell)
This That Gangsta Thug Shit
Training Day
Usher - The Masterpiece (Pharrell)
Welcome 2 Tha Chuuch Mixtape Volume 2 (Pharrell)

Bio From All Music.Com
The Neptunes quietly emerged from Virginia Beach at the turn of the century and quickly became the hottest producers within the rap industry, then the entire pop music industry. The peerless duo began their ascendance in the late '90s with a few party-themed hits: Ol' Dirty Bastard's "Got My Money" (1999), Mystikal's "Shake Ya Ass" (2000), and Jay-Z's "I Wanna Love U" (2001). The Neptunes crossed over from rap to pop in 2001 and began producing tracks for the likes of Britney Spears ("I'm a Slave 4 U"), *NSYNC ("Girlfriend"), and Usher ("U Don't Have to Call"). In addition to these pop stars, the duo continued producing hits for the biggest names in rap, working with everyone from LL Cool J ("Luv U Better") and Busta Rhymes ("Pass the Courvoisier") to Bow Wow ("Take Ya Home") and Nelly ("Hot in Herre"). Furthermore, the Neptunes began their own rap-rock group, N.E.R.D., and introduced another one, the Clipse. By this point, the duo — Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo — had become the pop-rap industry's most demanded producers, on a par with other big-name producers like Dr. Dre and Timbaland, if not perhaps even supplanting them. Their debut album, Neptunes Present... Clones (2003), confirmed their across-the-board popularity, topping Billboard's album chart and moving roughly 250,000 units during its first week. Amid all of this success, they continued to churn out hits, most notably alongside Justin Timberlake ("Rock Your Body") and Snoop Dogg ("Beautiful") as well as for their longtime standbys (Jay-Z's "Excuse Me Miss") and even themselves (Pharrell's "Frontin'"). - Jason Birchmeier

N*E*R*D Bio From AllMusic.Com
The acronym N.E.R.D. stands for "No One Ever Really Dies," but childhood friends Chad Hugo, Pharrell Williams, and Shay most certainly used the group to proudly emphasize the nerdier aspects of their musical personalities. Before this side project took shape, Hugo and Williams — as the Neptunes — had established themselves as giants in the field of pop production, whether they were working with hardcore rappers, smooth crooners, or teen pop groups. Although their faces were known to many due to this prominence, N.E.R.D. allowed the duo to take center stage, as rock stars, even if a new alias was being used. The trio recorded its first album, In Search Of..., and released it in Europe in late 2001. Not entirely happy with the results, they reshaped the album using live instrumentation — with significant assistance from the funk-rock band Spymob, to further differentiate the material from Neptunes productions — before issuing it in the U.S. in March of 2002. Singles "Lapdance" and "Rock Star" made minor indentations on the singles charts; despite this, the album didn't come close to achieving the kind of commercial success won by the average Neptunes production. In March of 2004, after another endless influx of hitmaking Neptunes work, they resurfaced with Fly or Die. This time out, Hugo and Williams handled more of the instrumentation. Unrelenting in their knack for the absurd, lead single "She Wants to Move" was promoted with a video that depicted the three members performing in the rear "compartment" of a female-shaped space vessel — a very literal interpretation of the line "Her ass is a spaceship I want to ride." The trio's third album, Seeing Sounds, followed four years later. - Andy Kellman

Pharrell Williams' Bio From AllMusic.Com
Pharrell Williams didn't only help change the face of pop music during the late '90s and early 2000s. He also was one of the faces of pop music — as a charismatic star who often stole the show when producing and/or guesting on other artists' hit singles. His presence was unfading, whether he was in front of a music video or behind a beat. To trace the beginning of his ascent, you have to go back to 1992, when Teddy Riley tapped him to write a verse for Wreckx-n-Effect's "Rump Shaker." Since the late '90s, Williams and longtime friend Chad Hugo — known together as the Neptunes — began scoring songwriting and production assignments that slowly but steadily infiltrated mainstream music, whether it was via dance-pop (Britney Spears' "I'm a Slave 4 U"), hardcore rap (Clipse's "Grindin'"), or contemporary R&B (Babyface's "There She Goes"). Williams and Hugo were relatively obscure during the mid-'90s, doing spare work for the likes of SWV, Total, and Mase, but they would eventually develop a style that would become as recognized and as mimicked as that of fellow Virginia Beach native Timbaland. (Prior to stardom, all three producers were in a band together called Surrounded by Idiots.)

As the duo took on more work, Williams' voice became increasingly familiar. He was now more likely to provide the chorus and the background vocals of the same song, in addition to appearing in the video. (Hear/see Jay-Z's "Excuse Me Miss" and Snoop Dogg's "Beautiful" for two examples.) It wasn't until the summer of 2003 that he truly stepped out on his own. He released his first solo single, "Frontin'." Produced with Hugo and featuring a guest verse from Jay-Z, the song built anticipation for The Neptunes Present... Clones, a compilation of all-new tracks from artists produced by the duo. "Frontin'" was a ubiquitous summer hit and kept Williams' momentum running up to the release of Hugo and Williams' second funk/rock-oriented N.E.R.D. album, released in March 2004. Williams' first solo album, In My Mind, survived a number of delays and was finally issued in July 2006. - Andy Kellman

Official Site: Star Track, N.E.R.D., Pharrell Williams, Pharrell Williams' MySpace