6/7/2011, imma drop that body work / fuck my brains out double single (TERIUS NASH aka THE-DREAM, LOVE IV: anticipation and adoration)

am i making this thread unreadable? i keep eating cookie dough and hitting refresh on this video on youtube.

i have to go to dinner, damn!

most oooh moment is putting "since then ain't been a lot going on" over the obamas.

ENOUGH PAIN CAN MAKE A WHOLE RACE BITTER

for real, though, this line makes me think about how while i was teaching a unit on the narrative of the life of fred douglass, one of my students pulled me aside and whispered (because i had a white paraeducator in the room) i can't read stuff like this; it makes me hate white people. and i was just like, i know. and could not think of a damn thing else to say. teaching american lit to black kids feels like aggression sometimes. for all i know, they'll be like do we have to talk about race again??? tomorrow.

i'm not really sure what we're all s'ing our h's at, "classism is the new racism" is maybe not the best phraseology but it's not like dream is denying the continued presence/effects of racism in this country -- quite the opposite, in fact. i suppose recognizing linked struggles has fallen out of fashion lately but overall i thought the message was pretty coherent -- the basic idea is that the rulers oppress us in ways less "obvious" (for want of a much better term) than traditional racism but which have similarly dehumanizing effects. (though interesting to note that i didn't pick up on any women's issues in the video, though if may have missed something.)

like if you think that recognizing the connectedness of the struggles of the variegated oppressed is somehow counterrevolutionary i just don't know what to tell you. here's noted racism denier huey newton on the linked struggles of the black, gay, and women's movements - http://www.workers.org/2012/us/huey_p_newton_0524/

the song is ok too i guess

i don't think it's counterrevolutionary at all, and i don't think they're unconnected. Of course they overlap, especially for people in more than one category (and race is inextricable from class in this country). I do think that montage can overly simplify and i think it is imprecise to suggest that all these struggles are the same struggle, which the video tends to suggest. i also think my students will likely take issue with the notion that black is a feeling unmoored from a particular racial experience.

tbh i was the only one sing my h itt though. i did post a million times; i can see how it seemed like "we all" were.

xp yeah i mean saying that being gay or being poor is just like being black is clearly sacrificing nuance in favor of an easy narrative, but i think there's value in pointing out that while the experiences might be different, there is still a common enemy. worth noting too that the guy who made this happens to be black, it's not like this is a macklemore song or something. about to go deep into mindreading here so you'll have to excuse me but it's possible that dream intended for the audience to be fellow blacks, to say "these groups are oppressed too, these are causes we should support"

and "classism is the new racism" is too glib to be worthy of the song, which i appear to like a lot more than you do

that said "classism is the new racism" is clearly a clunker but who is terius but a man whose constant tripping over his own words obscures his talent? and yet we love him

xp ha! no the song is def good

horseshoe otm

lol k3v i am understatement-impaired

i didn't even know i still liked the-dream! i love this day!

After an April report by TMZ saying that he punch, kicked and strangled his ex-girlfriend while she was pregnant, The-Dream has turned himself into NYPD on charges of felony assault & strangulation, misdemeanor assault, reckless endangerment & child endangerment.

The original assault of ex-girlfriend Lydia Nam resulted in no charges for the singer in April 2013. Nam didn’t report the incident until 7 months later.

http://dayandadream.com/2014/05/07/the-dream-arrested-for-felony-assault-in-nyc/

urgh

wow whata dickhead

Yeah, I thought I was growing desensitized to musicians doing repulsive things, but this is next-level vile. Disgusting.

jeez

just terrible and depressing.

wow fuck him

grim

Sounds like a truly horrible incident. yet another musician whose music I love that I now will never be able to hear the same way again.

What an asshole. Not really able to enjoy his music anymore atm.

this is up now fyi

this is really fun

beatjack i never knew i needed

so stoked for this download. 1977 had some pretty dope songs imo, though super cheesy.

yeah this is really fun

♫ wedding bells ♫ is p t bombish idk im feeling this hard

all?i'll? have a moment like
hell nah he aint right
aint your type
my sister like
hell nah she aint right
she aint your type
we aint right for each other

fuck it
it's nothing

if all was perfect im sure there still would be somethin

http://www.vulture.com/2014/11/the-dream-beyond-the-lights-interview.html

i for one would like to hear a 'private property' dream vocals demo if that exists pls

sez two part album "crown" - "more of what you expect from me" & "jewel" - "all those records that i write for ppl that i usually give away"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NfaGJJUCTg

https://soundcloud.com/3lxi/the-dream-fruition

I dig this

hey, this is good!

:)

this is okay!

LQ rip of his new single prod by tricky & featuring T.I. ... dare i say it sounds GOOD? http://nahright.com/news/2014/12/30/the-dream-ft-t-i-thats-my-shit/

and by that i mean "good" not kanye's good

on some "i luv your girl" shit or maybe a reaction to "i don't mind"

i know how to push that button
trust me, y'all just fuckin

too bad I had to add Terius to the list of people I'll never consciously listen to again

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/food/main%20Valua%20Vitaly%20shutterstock_51910012.jpg

'that's my shit' is the best dream song since love king

aka the last time he made a good song

Also into fruition.

he's playing the new EPs he did with tricky for writers today -- i'm not going but i'm allowing myself to get hyped up

@3rika
the EPs as one whole entity is special too. (you'll get it soon.) all genres & classic "love vs"-type of flowing, lush songs & transitions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hSNromRfXkc

great interview. i especially enjoyed the bit about people paying dream not to work on anything for 90 days at a time in the lead up to working with them

I really wish they'd asked him about Electrik Red

i don't think the 90 hold thing is for real, ebro just speculated it and the-dream went "it's something like that." probably more accurately when beyonce or whoever is in album mode they just pay him to stay in town in case they need him.