In order to tide us over until The Love IV: Diary Of A Mad Man dropped, Terius Nash — The-Dream — put out 1977, an underrated, free mixtape at the end of the summer last year. The Love IV, which was supposed to be out last fall, got pushed back, but today Nash put out [...]

“Murderer”, the new song from airy R&B auteur The-Dream, is a breathy Auto-Tuned reverie, and it doesn’t sound the slightest bit violent, title notwithstanding. The song shows up in Colombiana, the new movie where Zoe Saldana does a whole lot of gun-pointing, and the track’s video doubles as a Colo...

Aug 03, 2011 Day in Pop digest

R&B leading light/libido The-Dream is back with the full-album followup to his Love trilogy this fall, titled The Love, IV (Diary Of A Mad Man). Two songs are now streaming, each tackling the US’s ballooning global debt and the increasing likelihood of its technical default to China. Just kidding they’re about fuckin...

I opened my December Mix with “Let Them,” a track that finds jj transforming T.I. and Akon into another example of their weirdly icy, warm Swedish pop. The song’s also supposedly showing up on their forthcoming Kill (or jj kills or jj fucking kills, a mixtape set to appear, appropriately, on Christmas Eve. This [...]