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

'that's my shit' is still A+ classic to me, song after it was kinda cool in that dramatic way that makes you feel like you're at the climactic moment of a film, the rest of it was zzzz

It's nice but rarely special. Your review was on point, deej.

yeah i've come to love 'that's my shit.' very reminiscent of the early singles.

I still really haven't come around to that's my shit completely but the 'she met you out tryna find me' line is nice

to me (and i guess this chimes in with evan further upthread) this album is almost kinda like a magically transported and retooled unearthed terius debut from the 90s, from that once upon a time atl r&b c-lister who did minor regional heat for raheem the dream and b-rock & the bizz etc, only instead of shanaynay from around the way singing bout pagers it's beyonce singing bout that siri

naturally i can see how that may not be of much allure to dreamer aesthetes but imo better the local and lo-qual vitality of this record than the sadly diminished returns of love king and 'slow it down'

― r|t|c, Thursday, 23 May 2013 18:31 Bookmark

https://open.spotify.com/album/21NBVHJWyX8BGcBajPrHFg

ooh i was not aware that rtd had since put these together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5MIV31Ep80

most impt thing to know is that carl mo (in posting the dirty version on youtube) (he produced it) has inadvertently revealed that terry was known during this period as KASHMERE!!

http://pitchfork.com/news/62644-the-dream-releases-sam-cooke-covers-album-iamsam/

didn't that make the rounds earlier?

let the boy cooke, that's all i'm asking

― r|t|c, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 14:58 Bookmark

wonder if he'd ever stoop so low as to do a full saadiq retro album on his sam cooke shit. mightn't even be so bad?

― r|t|c, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 14:57 Bookmark

goddamn i'm good

lol props rtc

Genesis
January 8
The-Dream x Tidal

Do we think this is an LP? Just a single?

Lol tidal

The-Dream is the new Prince*

*releasing music exclusively on Tidal where nobody will hear it

does anyone actually tidal

http://thekingdream.com

i do

i did for a while but when my credit card # changed i didn't feel motivated to update my billing info

any non-professionals actually use tidal

these songs are boring :(

I use Tidal but I don't even want to listen to this. I don't need excessive art in my rnb. :-/

So Crown Jewel leaked and it sounds like reference tracks for... hits?

not sure exactly what u mean but they do sortof remind me of his vers of betcha gon know but no where near as good as that obv

I basically meant it's pop terius and i just discovered how much I've missed him?

1st time in paris sounds p good yea tho idk i dont really hear 'hits' here.. if anything this sounds closer to his 1977 terius album imo

there shd also maybe be a 'boat' rmx w a lil yachty verse

The main thing about this to me is that it's thoroughly uncool. And the lack of coolness - or attempts at being cool - is just such a relief. He sounds free again.

This is totally the best thing he's done since Love King. The 80s teen-movie gloss on "Love Me Back" is a really good fit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCLC5rVp9ek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR8BeN-AiN4&ebc=ANyPxKoAIOwLDCdFtY949sabhNraQ39tYi9MENQnir27uNXHOYPG5Shi20ylbbmgxQTIiw1oHXtoCXt6A_RuvC1DhcN2Y4czYA

OMG, this is niiiiiiiiiiiiiice

I reviewed an earlier leaked version in July before it (the album) got yanked. How much different is it?

Nothing from Crown, but ten tracks so I'm guessing a couple of more songs?

new Tinashe track written by Terius (with lots of his backing vocals across the track) and co-produced with Tricky Stewart. any other big Terius writing/production credits in the past few months? I feel like he's been quiet, even on the writing tip.

got a good one on the Usher alb too

yeah "bump" on the usher album is good

woah 'bump' is excellent, thanks for the tip. reminds me of some of their best writing work for Mariah.

ma kyai bu

hauq lah? ayan kyah ba deh.

he had two new dream songs on the radio recently, slow one lemon lean is real nice

I don't want to derail the Solange thread with this, b/c it seems like a conversation nobody wants to have, but I've had a hard time listening to this dude since the domestic assault allegations. I haven't cracked why these kinds of allegations stick to some artists but bounce of off others, but I imagine the fact that the allegations came against The-Dream at a time when his career was in a lull actually ended up working in his favor, since nobody was paying attention to him. So he got a pass, but it's all I can think about when I hear him now, and I cringe every time I hear him on "F.U.B.U."

new one with sevyn is decent too

New one with Sevyn is incredible despite being obviously in debt to You Da One

Girl we like Susan Sarandon
Girl we go back, let's go back like old times

yea lemon lean is nice

really liked "Rih-Flex" on a first listen this morning

frank ocean song so embarrassing

This EP is vile.

The whole thing is so lifeless and sexist and hateful. "College Daze" is as bad as anything The Weeknd has done.

Terius stated at his Seattle show last week that his new album is dropping in 2 weeks...

genesis is uncommonly bad