thank you for not making this PRINCE v NE-YO v THE-DREAM or something
― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 18:40 (sixteen years ago) link
anyway Ne-Yo all the way.
teh-draem
― deej, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 18:41 (sixteen years ago) link
battle of the hyphened R&B stars
― deej, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link
ne-yo
― and what, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link
NE-YO Songwriting credits Year Song Artist Album 1999 Don't Worry Youngstown Let's Roll 1999 Lose My Cool Youngstown Let's Roll 1999 Pedal To The Steel Youngstown Let's Roll 2001 Away With The Summer Days Youngstown Down For the Get Down 2001 Dance Floor, Pt. 2 Youngstown Down For the Get Down 2001 Down For The Get Down Youngstown Down For the Get Down 2001 Float Away Youngstown Down For the Get Down 2001 So Tight Youngstown Down For the Get Down 2003 That Girl Marques Houston MH 2004 I'm Sorry Christina Milian It's About Time 2004 Let Me Love You Mario Turning Point 2005 Kick It Wit You Cassidy I'm a Hustla 2005 So What Dawn Angelique Been a While 2006 The Letter Heather Headley In My Mind 2006 Y'all Ain't Nothin' Christina Milian So Amazin' 2006 Unfaithful Rihanna A Girl Like Me 2006 So Glad Chris Brown Chris Brown's Journey 2006 Make Em' Clap To This Paula DeAnda Paula DeAnda 2006 Walk Away Paula DeAnda Paula DeAnda 2006 When It Was Me Paula DeAnda Paula DeAnda 2006 Gallery Mario Vazquez Mario Vazquez 2006 Irreplaceable Beyoncé B'Day 2006 Like This Snoop Dogg Tha Blue Carpet Treatment 2006 Put It in a Letter Mic Little Mic Little 2006 Minority Report Jay-Z Kingdom Come 2006 My Story The Blays The Blays 2007 If Mario Go! 2007 What's It Gonna Be Mario Go! 2007 Wonderful Marques Houston Veteran 2007 Ms.Philadelphia Musiq Soulchild Luvanmusiq 2007 Flaws and All Beyoncé B'Day Deluxe Edition 2007 Hate That I Love You Rihanna Good Girl Gone Bad 2007 Good Girl Gone Bad Rihanna Good Girl Gone Bad 2007 Question Existing Rihanna Good Girl Gone Bad 2007 I Get Lonely Corbin Bleu Another Side 2007 Ain't Nobody Stupid Paula Campbell I Am Paula Campbell 2007 Work in Progress Mary J. Blige Growing Pains 2007 I'm You Leona Lewis Spirit 2007 I Got Nothin' Left Celine Dion Taking Chances 2007 Happily Never After Nicole Scherzinger Her Name Is Nicole 2008 Rock with U Janet Discipline 2008 Can't B Good Janet Discipline 2008 Discipline Janet Discipline 2008 Let Me Know Janet Discipline
― deej, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 18:43 (sixteen years ago) link
THE-DREAM Writing credits
* 3LW - "You Ain't Ready" * Ashanti - "Medicine" * B2K - "Everything" * Bayje - "Still in Love" * Bayje - "Missin' You" * Boss - "Butterfly Effect" * Billy Crawford - "Bright Lights Big City" * Brit and Alex - "Beautiful" * Brit and Alex - "Heart Breaker" * Brit and Alex - "Preachin' to the Choir" * Brit and Alex - "Thats My Baby" * Britney Spears - "Me Against the Music" (feat. Madonna) * Brooke Valentine - "Ghetto Superstarz" * Celine Dion - "Skies of L.A." * Chris Brown - "You" * Dear Jane - "Talkin' 'Bout Hisself" * Dear Jane - "I Loose Everything" * J. Holiday - "Bed" * J. Holiday - "Laa Laa" * J. Holiday - "Suffocate" * Janet Jackson - "Greatest X" * Jesse McCartney - "Leavin" * Lucy Walsh - "Forever Since" * Lucy Walsh - "So Uncool" * Mariah Carey - "Touch My Body" * Mariah Carey - "Touch My Body (Remix)" (feat. The-Dream) * Mary J. Blige - "Just Fine" * Mary J. Blige - "Shake Down" (feat. Usher) * Mary J. Blige - "Stay Down" * Mýa - "Like Crazy" * Nicole Scherzinger - "Powers Out" (feat. Sting) * Nivea - "Complicated" * Nivea - "I Can't Mess with You" * Nivea - "Indian Dance" * Nivea - "Let It Go" * Nivea - "Okay" (feat. Lil Jon & YoungBloodZ) * Nivea - "Red Cup" (feat. The-Dream) * Nivea - "Watch It" * Shawn Desman - "No More" * Shawn Desman - "Man in Me" * Shawn Desman - "Ooh" * Steph Jones - "La La Means Love" * Sugababes - "Gotta Be You" * Rihanna - "Breakin' Dishes" * Rihanna - "Lemme Get That" * Rihanna - "Sell Me Candy" * Rihanna - "Umbrella" * Usher - "Moving Mountains"
"it was Keisha..."
― Preview of the Matrix 12, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 18:46 (sixteen years ago) link
somewhere between these two polls R. Kelly is racking up votes...
― Preview of the Matrix 12, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 18:49 (sixteen years ago) link
dreamer
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 12 March 2008 18:53 (sixteen years ago) link
altho "so sick" is probably better than any of dream's solo songs
ugh no way
― deej, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 18:57 (sixteen years ago) link
i like ne-yo better for his own songs, but i guess i like more of the dream's ghostwriting. abstain!
― Jordan, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
R&B singers don't have ghostwriters, they just have songwriters.
― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link
umbrella and falsetto pwn any ne-yo thing
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 19:19 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Jordan, Wednesday, March 12, 2008 1:58 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
opposite for me maybe
― deej, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 19:20 (sixteen years ago) link
if seeing two hot girls say "Falsetto" is sexy and start grinding on each other couldn't make me like that song, nothing will. Ne-Yo can be overly bland sometimes, but compared to that chinless helium-voiced hack going AYY AYY AYY into infinity, he's a genius.
― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 19:35 (sixteen years ago) link
wow dude
― deej, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 19:37 (sixteen years ago) link
the-dream: alex :: nickelback: the rest of the world
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 12 March 2008 19:41 (sixteen years ago) link
you just took your SATs did you
― deej, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 19:43 (sixteen years ago) link
lazy zing thread, lol you young
THE DREAM v ALEX v NICKLEBACK v THE REST OF THE WORLD
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 19:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I think I can win this one.
― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 19:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Friday, 14 March 2008 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
damn is this lopsided
― The Reverend, Friday, 14 March 2008 02:59 (sixteen years ago) link
The-Dream's recorded a better album than any of Ne-Yo's ("Livin' a Lie" is one of my singles of the year), but damn if I don't prefer the way Ne-Yo's lyrics slither around those Stargate beats on his singles. "So Sick," "Sexy Love," and "Because of You" is a helluva run, and I'm not even counting "Fade Away" on the new Mary J.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 14 March 2008 03:06 (sixteen years ago) link
damn if I don't prefer the way Ne-Yo's lyrics slither around those Stargate beats on his singles
Agreed. I didn't know that Ne-yo wrote "Fade Away" but that would make sense. His tracks on Janet's new album are 3 of the best (haven't heard the bonus track) whereas The-Dream's is one of the two I don't like (isn't "Greatest X" the one with the guitar line lifted straight from the Beverly Hills 90210 theme?).
That said, I bought Because of You based on my love for the title track, but so far I don't hear anything that's even remotely as good. And I love "Livin' a Lie", "Ditch That...", "Touch My Body", and "Umbrella" enough to vote for The-Dream.
― lou, Friday, 14 March 2008 13:10 (sixteen years ago) link
That said, I bought Because of You based on my love for the title track, but so far I don't hear anything that's even remotely as good.
Yup.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 14 March 2008 13:12 (sixteen years ago) link
My mistake--"Never Letchu Go" is the one with the 90210 guitars.
― lou, Friday, 14 March 2008 13:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I will say this in The-Dream's favor: he has the better go-to producer of the two. Tricky Stewart is way more versatile and consistent than Stargate.
― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 14 March 2008 13:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I won't disagree, but I can listen to variations on those clickety-clack rhythm track and "Human Nature" harmonies all day.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 14 March 2008 13:49 (sixteen years ago) link
*rhythm tracks
seriously tho the-dream's album does so much more than ne-yo's, even if ne-yo has a more confident+consistent handle on songwriting ... when the-dream is on he's on and he definitely makes better use of his overdubs, style + asides + yeah his production is way more on point
― deej, Friday, 14 March 2008 14:45 (sixteen years ago) link
ILM has voted: The-Dream must produce a Ne-Yo album.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 14 March 2008 14:46 (sixteen years ago) link
STYLE v ASIDES v YEAH
― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 14 March 2008 14:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Saturday, 15 March 2008 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
i wonder how many ne-yo voters have heard dream's album
― deej, Saturday, 15 March 2008 01:44 (sixteen years ago) link
In My Own Words>>>>>>>>LoveHate>>>>>>>>Because of You
― The Reverend, Saturday, 15 March 2008 02:04 (sixteen years ago) link
The Dream
― I know, right?, Saturday, 15 March 2008 04:13 (sixteen years ago) link
beelovesubabe (2 days ago) Show Hide 0 Poor comment Good comment Marked as spam Reply | Spam SHE NEEDS Mii lOVE! SHE SED iM LikE DA AiR ND WiTHOUT ME SHE'D DiE! lOL MY SONG!!
― deej, Saturday, 22 March 2008 02:11 (sixteen years ago) link
love/hate is so brilliant. one of those albums where after every time you listen to it you think a different song is the best. i think it's pushed over the top by having lots of really good ideas (the "can i get a 'A'!" chant at the end of "playin in her hair" and not too many Good Ideas (the soulja boy chants in "luv songs"). it's a pretty quirky album but annoyingly so, and i'm kind of surprised at that coming from the-dream.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 29 April 2008 19:05 (sixteen years ago) link
should be a closed parenthesis after "playin in her hair"
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 29 April 2008 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link
i just think it sounds good.
― The Brainwasher, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link
please tell me that "I Luve Your Girl" isn't one of the reasons people rave about his album. wtf is wrong w/ that dude, shit is horrible.
― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link
love/hate is so brilliant. one of those albums where after every time you listen to it you think a different song is the best.
It really is the gift that keeps on giving.
― lou, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 19:12 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, April 29, 2008 2:11 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link
this is the only song i dont really like on the album
― deej, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 19:13 (sixteen years ago) link
i luge your girl
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 29 April 2008 19:13 (sixteen years ago) link
lol
― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 19:13 (sixteen years ago) link
i guess the sentiment is pretty shitty but i think the chorus is pretty irresistible for singing along to. look at shorty rooooooolll, look at shorty goooooooooo etc.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 29 April 2008 19:14 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm intrigued by the idea
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 17 July 2011 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
the problem is that jeezy couldn't pull off the part in that song where pitbull sings
challop alert
og "when i see u" > remix
― bros -izing bros (k3vin k.), Sunday, 17 July 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
^agreed
― writing down my vagina’s sorrows for all the world to see (The Brainwasher), Sunday, 17 July 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
yes
― dread the flopson (some dude), Sunday, 17 July 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
what's the part where Pitbull sings? the "excuse me" part?
― dread the flopson (some dude), Sunday, 17 July 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
― bros -izing bros (k3vin k.), Sunday, July 17, 2011 3:39 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark
lol wasn't the remix your fav song of the 00s or some thing
― dayo, Sunday, 17 July 2011 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
― dread the flopson (some dude), Sunday, July 17, 2011 3:50 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
yeah, this is the best part of the song
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 17 July 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
also i don't know how the counter challop of the remix being better than the original even started, but it's not really even a discussion
oh god are we doing COUNTER CHALLOPS now excuse me while i pull my fork out of the tofu and stick it in an electric outlet
― generous doler out of lollies (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 17 July 2011 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
RIP forks, heaven needed a mod double agent
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 17 July 2011 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
― dread the flopson (some dude), Sunday, 17 July 2011 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
Speaking of counterchallops, am I the only one who thinks "Give Me Everything" more or less sucks balls?
― bed bath and beyoncé (The Reverend), Sunday, 17 July 2011 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
Picked up that Monica album, Brainwasher, and it's pretty great. Thanks!
Also, the new Kelly Rowland album is deeeeee-lightful.
― Evan R, Sunday, 17 July 2011 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
glad you like it!
did rowland leak or did you get an advance? How does it compare to Ms. Kelly - anything on the level of "Flashback"?
― writing down my vagina’s sorrows for all the world to see (The Brainwasher), Sunday, 17 July 2011 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
(I meant to post that last msg in the R&B thread; sorry if it was off topic)
It seems a logical continuation of Ms. Kelly; though clubbier. Honestly, no huge OMG standouts aside from Motivation, but no real duds either; it just holds together really well.
― Evan R, Sunday, 17 July 2011 23:50 (twelve years ago) link
amazing to me how ships can vote ne-yo when dream wrote ALL OF how to be a lady!
― bros -izing bros (k3vin k.), Monday, 18 July 2011 06:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3208/3128894157_1bb94fac09.jpg
pictured: kevin k
― J0rdan S., Monday, 18 July 2011 06:18 (twelve years ago) link
so as not to make the whole "4" thread about dreamer, he realllllly brought it on beyonce's new album; he's got as many great songs on "4" as he did on his last solo album
― youmadin therapy (k3vin k.), Thursday, 21 July 2011 05:33 (twelve years ago) link
so he's releasing a free album on the 31st
― (oboe interlude) (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
yeah he's going on another emo twitter rant about it - i'd c&p it but i'm on my phone
― Notinnymane (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
can't wait for neyo's new free album!
― 我爱你 G. Weingarten (dayo), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.hiphoprnbworld.net/?p=8089
first single from 1977 is "Love Slave"
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 01:36 (twelve years ago) link
http://radiokillarecords.com/1977-TeriusNash.zip
― diamonddave85, Thursday, 1 September 2011 05:24 (twelve years ago) link
O_O
― the special technique of liveblogging (The Brainwasher), Thursday, 1 September 2011 05:24 (twelve years ago) link
i miss 2009 :(
― 'scuse me while i make the sky cum (k3vin k.), Friday, 3 May 2013 03:42 (eleven years ago) link
used to care so much about this thread
― J0rdan S., Friday, 3 May 2013 03:46 (eleven years ago) link
i know!
― 'scuse me while i make the sky cum (k3vin k.), Friday, 3 May 2013 03:47 (eleven years ago) link
i actually think i remember where i was for a lot of m early posts itt
― 'scuse me while i make the sky cum (k3vin k.), Friday, 3 May 2013 03:48 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2013/04/30/kelly-rowland-the-dream/2123927/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 May 2013 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
Not quite the same as 09
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FHdo7kxhW8
this song is like a year old but I just realized that it was co-written by both Ne-Yo and The-Dream and it seems like it needs to be posted here, as this thread's anticlimactic finale.
― some dude, Thursday, 7 November 2013 23:24 (ten years ago) link
lmao
― dyl, Friday, 8 November 2013 02:46 (ten years ago) link
;_;
― old homophobic boom bap rap traditionalist (The Reverend), Friday, 8 November 2013 07:15 (ten years ago) link
― lex pretend, Friday, 8 November 2013 09:54 (ten years ago) link
"Love Vs. Money""Love Vs. Money: Part 2"I'm hoping these flow into one another, the segue being announced by a sudden irruption/eruption of melodramatic strings.
― Tim F, Saturday, January 31, 2009 12:26 AM (5 years ago)
o_0
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 18 February 2014 19:34 (ten years ago) link
this thread <33
god, remember the first time you heard love vs money? we're at about the 5 year anniversary of when the songs were leaking/the album leaked. i remember going on a bus trip to NOLA (from new england) hours after the album leaked, and listening to the album at least 50 times that week
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 18 February 2014 19:36 (ten years ago) link
i believe j0rdan sent it to me over aim lol
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 18 February 2014 19:39 (ten years ago) link
is anyone discussing 'Black' anywhere?
― Sufjenga Cat Giffin (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 5 June 2014 17:06 (ten years ago) link
One of the other terius threads
― 龜, Thursday, 5 June 2014 17:14 (ten years ago) link
6/7/2011, imma drop that body work / fuck my brains out double single (TERIUS NASH aka THE-DREAM, LOVE IV: anticipation and adoration)read through to the bottom for some sad updates.
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 June 2014 17:16 (ten years ago) link
ah i see. thank u.
― Sufjenga Cat Giffin (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 5 June 2014 17:17 (ten years ago) link
well then.
― Sufjenga Cat Giffin (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 5 June 2014 17:23 (ten years ago) link
This istough, but I think the right answer is T-Pain.
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 01:37 (six years ago) link
vs. future vs. chris brown vs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWBE0sQC5L8
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 01:59 (six years ago) link
this poll is about hats right?
dare anyone to listen to love/hate after a 5 year hiatus and not be moved
― k3vin k., Monday, 18 July 2022 21:47 (one year ago) link
such a great album
― Dan S, Tuesday, 19 July 2022 01:13 (one year ago) link
Love vs Money also
― Dan S, Tuesday, 19 July 2022 01:55 (one year ago) link
https://t.co/YgdLWxqHpZ— THE-DREAM (@TheKingDream) September 20, 2023
this is good! very memoirs-y
― k3vin k., Monday, 25 September 2023 22:53 (eight months ago) link