Shout out to Mikael Wood for having great taste in websites! Check out a snippet from the story about how “it’s time to wake up” to The-Dream:
Assessing Love vs. Money upon its March 2009 release, I regarded The-Dream’s lyrical obsession with name-brand luxury goods as evidence of a heart as cold as the moon on which he claims to walk on the album’s Kanye-assisted single. (Further evidence: “If you got a booty, shorty, show me your thong.” Poor form, bro, even when you’re throwing down with Lil Jon.) Yet after nine months of continued listening—and several viewings of a fascinating TheLifeFiles.com interview wherein the man born Terius Nash describes his wedding-day outfit in lovingly meticulous detail—I think I’ve got a firmer grip on this self-anointed Radio Killa. Unlike plenty of his power-hungry hip-hop peers, The-Dream doesn’t wield his Dolce and his Louis and his Tom Ford equestrian boots like top-dollar truncheons; instead, he uses the stuff as designer armor to protect what may actually be r&b’s most self-consciously sensitive soul. In a year conspicuously absent an album of Kanye’s own, Love vs. Money illuminated the violence of vulnerability more compellingly than any other.
Read the whole thing HERE, tell ‘em we sent ya…
