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  The-Dream and Fabolous Throw 'Mad Men'-Ready Dance Party in 'Slow It Down' Video

  April 3, 2013 – A moment of silence, courtesy of the Radio Killa. The-Dream's humble plea for DJs to stop blasting EDM'd-up R&B probably won't be any more successful than Jay-Z's curmudgeonly campaign to declare Auto-Tune "D.O.A.," but damn if he and Fabolous don't make an effective case. Now comes the video for their R. …
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  The-Dream Blames Touring Plans for Latest 'IV Play' Delay

  March 28, 2013 – The-Dream announced yesterday he would be delaying the release of his upcoming album IV Play by a few weeks to May 28. …
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  The-Dream Puts Off 'IV Play' Release Yet Again, Shares Album Cover

  March 27, 2013 – In a move that surprised no one at all, The-Dream has announced that the release date for his long-awaited and frequently delayed fifth album IV Play has been pushed yet again. Not to be outdone by Vampire Weekend (who moved their new one from May 7 to May 14), the man born Terius Nash has put off his original May 7 release date for the that-much-more-distant May 28. …
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  No Trivia's Friday Five: Beyonce & The-Dream Help Screw the World

  March 22, 2013 – Rap things worth caring about. Ranked!1. Lil Wayne Isn't Dead: So, that didn't happen. Great, right? Of course it's great. Next week, we've got I Am Not a Human Being 2 coming out. It will inevitably be painted as another dip in quality and Wayne skateboards a lot now and blah blah blah. Listen, it ain't 2008 for any of us. …
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  Hear The-Dream Pretend He's a Rapper on 'TRON'

  March 14, 2013 – Last week, The-Dream teamed up with Fabolous for pretty soft-focus R. Kelly-style jam called "Slow it Down." For that track, he implored DJs to trade in the EDM for some classic love-making music, but the results were a little light on the ear. …
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  Hear The-Dream and Fabolous Tell the DJ to 'Slow It Down' (So They Can Get Some)

  March 7, 2013 – The-Dream makes no bones about his general M.O. being bonin'. Backstage at the Grammys, he told us that he's doing his best to focus on making "authentic love-making CDs" these days, and then he announced that he'd changed the title of his next album to Fourplay, natch. …
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  Want Beyonce Tickets? Hip-Hop Mogul Would Let You Trade in Your Guns

  February 28, 2013 – Beyoncé tickets are hard to come by. Guns aren't. A millionaire hip-hop mogul has a plan to make those two realities work together.As the New York Daily News reports, Family Tree Entertainment chief Michael "Blue" Williams has proposed a program that would give mentorships and Beyoncé concert tickets to young African-American and Latino men who turn in their firearms. …
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  The-Dream Announces 'Fourplay' Album, an 'Authentic Love-Making' Experience

  February 11, 2013 – Alt-R&B maestro and R. Kelly progeny The-Dream has at last announced a realistic release date for his long-delayed fourth official album that was once called Love IV MMXXII but now bears the name Fourplay, Billboard reports. The follow-up to 2010's Love King will be out May 7 via Def Jam, of course (he's the label's executive vice president of A&R). …
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  Hip-Hop at the Grammys: The Perils of Doin' It for the Culture

  February 11, 2013 – As is always the case with rap music and the Grammys, nearly all of the rap-related awards were given out during the pre-show ceremony. Jay-Z and Kanye West's "Niggas In Paris" won both Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song. Meanwhile, Best Rap Album, which you think they could've crammed somewhere in between every single televised country award, went to Drake's Take Care. …
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  No Trivia's Friday Five: Jay-Z and Chief Keef Beat On, Boats Against the Current

  January 4, 2013 – So, Jay-Z is scoring Baz Lurhmann's The Great Gatsby, along with the Bullitts. Spare me the "Jay-Z and Gatsby are the same" blog posts because they aren't the same (Kanye has a little bit of James Gatz's phoney-baloney, self-made, self-loathing spirit, though). …
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