With The Dream on the way to releasing his new album, Love vs. Money in a little over a month, he also plans to release a second album this year (entitled Love King), and then plans to do a joint album with Kanye West a la Jay-Z and R. Kelly Best of Both Worlds style.
“The fourth album you hear from me will probably be a record that’s done with Kanye,” he told DJ Skee on his HD2 New Music Show.
But before they begin work together, Kanye has asked that The Dream raise his celebrity status a little bit. Even though he’s penned huge hits for Beyonce, Rihanna, J. Holiday and many more, he is still pretty under the radar as far as being an artist. But The Dream assure us that he’s going to get his status up.
“I told Kanye I was gonna lift my profile,” he continued.
This will not be the first time the two collaborate. The Dream and Kanye worked together on Jamie Foxx’s new album, Intuition, and is also set to appear on The Dream’s upcoming album, Love vs. Money.
DIDDY WORKS ON HIS NEW ALBUM
Check out this video of Diddy in the studio working on his new album. Apparently, the album will be all in auto-tune (surprised, right?) and will consist of a lot of electro-pop elements and dance sounds. The female vocalist on the track is none other than Dawn Richard of Danity Kane fame.
Interestingly enough, another season of MTV’s Making the Band 4 will begin airing on February 12th. With D. Woods and Aubrey out of the picture (it also seems that Shannon doesn’t appear in the trailer that’s be floating around), and the moderate success of Day26 and failure of Donnie’s album, Diddy has a lot to do on this next season. It’s rumored that the entire show will be dedicated to highlighting Sean Combs working on his own album. We’ll see.
JANET JACKSON CANCELS JAPENESE TOUR LEG
As if things couldn’t get any worse, it seems as though Janet Jackson has canceled the Japanese leg of her Rock Witchu tour, which was supposed to kick off in 3 weeks. Is anyone surprised? It seemed like Janet had a lot of trouble keeping it together on her U.S. tour.
Jackson, 42, had planned to hit such major Japanese cities as Nagoya, Osaka and Fukuoka on the world Rock Witchu outing, which was her first major tour in nearly seven years. According to reports, the tour will be rescheduled for later this year with new dates expected to be announced in March.
According to BBC News, Japanese concert promoter Kyodo Yokohama announced on Monday that Jackson would be postponing the five dates the singer had scheduled in Japan between February 14 and February 22 “due to the impact of the economic crisis.”
Interesting.
Kanye has some nerve telling Dream to step up. Don’t give a shitznit about Diddy or his new MTB season. Everyone flopped just as predicted, he is such a shitty promoter. Janet, I hope she can get it together. She is the last Jackson left still in the game, I hope she doesn’t fade away, cause she is amazing.
Cant wait for this Ye and Dream. And everyone hates on Diddy and everyone hates on Auto-tune but im a fan.
Im not looking forward to the Dream and Ye, Dream can’t sing and has one track creativity, and I love Ye but he pushing it. Oh and nothing will ever be like BOBW Jay and Kells, just not possible esp. with wack a$$ dream.
I Pray Janet isn’t falling apart, she is a Jackson but Imma need her to use that Jackson money and get some help with whatever it is or the free rest.
And diddy… diddy diddy diddy man what can I say, you used to be the Joneses now it seem as if your just trying to keep up. Imma need for you to re-evaluate and step ya game back up, focus on Sean John, Ciroc, and all White Parties and let Bad Boy grow without pushing so hard on the wackness, go a little slower on the music side so you have time to think about some stuff you can’t be overshadowing ppl then getting made they want to shine a little. You shuda piked Deangelo (i think that was his name) for the solo spot or something. Anyway if you build it they will come my brother. And do right by Kim or somebody please.
Oops, that shuda been Mad there in the 4th line.
Something is very wrong with Janet Jackson. All five shows were sold out in Japan. She’s a Icon but is slowing killing her legacy. I hope all goes well with her. I saw her in DC last October and she was amazing.
POOR JANET EVEN JAPAN DON’T WANT TO SE HER
AND THIS KANYE AND DREAM ALBUM SHOULD BE QUITE……..
DEAD @ KANYE TELLING HIM TO PICK UP HIS WEIGHT
@ Brian don’t go there about being surprise about Janet Jackson. Who is Keri Hilson again?
I’M ACTUALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO KANYE & THE DREAM WORKING TOGETHER… I LOVE THEM BOTH & THEY ARE BOTH TALENTED IN THEIR OWN WAYS. I WONDER WHAT THEY WOULD COME UP WITH.
DIDDY & MTB, I DON’T KNOW HOW GOOD THIS NEW SEASON’S GONNA BE, BUT WE’RE GONNA HAVE TO SEE. YEAH, I DIDN’T NOTICE SHANNON IN THE TRAILERS EITHER. LMAO @ DIDDY IN THE TRAILER SAYIN’ “I WANT THE WORLD TO KNOW, I DON’T GIVE A FU(K, I DON’T LET NOBODY OUT THEIR CONTRACTS!!!” LOLLL
I WAS LIKE OK, UR REALLY SCARING ME DIDDY.
That’s cool, but I would like to see a Fabolous and The Dream collabo album. I think that would be better. Fab be spitting some lines on some of Dream’s song.
FAB AND DREAM COLLABO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FABO AND DREAM COLLABO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FABOLOUS AND DREAM COLLABO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
F-A-B-O-L-O-U-S AND DREAM COLLABO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m glad Janet cancelled that tour. It would’ve been yet another embarassment…better save the money for the nest album.
Wasn’t she released from Island/DefJam anyway?
OMG
I swear I read DK disbanded. Shannon left and Aundrea was let go, leaving only Dawn to go solo. So I guess Making The Band is gonna be another Diddy Fest. I wish he’d put as much energy in the bands as he does on hypin himself up. He’s still tryna rap/sing?? This whole Autotune obsession needs to stop! Good Luck to Dawn. She’s gonna need it…
@ #5
Nothing is “wrong” with Janet per se.
I’ve seen a recent picture (I believe Concreteloop posted it some weeks ago) of her looking a bit on the plump side, hiding from the paps. I seriously believe she is preggo.
I think ppl forgot that DK had 2 platinum albums, Dawn is going to make bank as a solo artist if it come down 2 that.
Diddy needs to focus on his other acts before he tries to make another album. I just can’t support a man who lets a group like DK go to waste. And where is Day 26?
What happened to the other post about the college student needing donations?
……..Now I like Kanye…but how dare you tell someone to lift their status up?? WTF?
……..Diddy needs to stop making and producing albums, he sucks. And Dawn is not
……..that talented nor that cute.
………Janet, Janet, Janet……well she is 42, and dancing like she did when she was
………20, so maybe she’s just tired.
“Shannon doesn’t appear in the trailer that’s be floating around”-GEEZ BRIAN, YOU STILL DON’T PROOFREAD YOUR WORK??
Any album that features autone will never be purchased by me! Im sick of hearing it, if you cant sing then just dont- simple.
The Dream cannot sing either, he should stick to songwriting cus I honestly dont think he’ll make it as an artist in his own right.
And I head DK are no longer. Lucky for Aundrea she got let out of her contract, but unfortunately for Dawn she’s a solo artist with Badboy. Poor girl, her talent will go to waste and she’ll end up like Cherri Dennis (who? you ask, exactly!) I reckon Aundrea stands a chance of making it as a solo artist if she sells herself to the latin market.
When will people learn NEVER SIGN WITH BADBOY.
THATS SAD THAT DK BROKE UP IF IT’S EVEN TRUE THEY PROBABLY JUST TELLING US THIS BULLSHIT SO WE CAN WATCH IT! AND THEN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SEASON THEY SOME HOW END UP WITH ANOTHER ALBUM…BUT N E WAYS DAWN IS HOT!!!! AND SHE WILL ATLEAST GET A GOOD COUPLE OF SINGLES…I MEAN IF KERI HILSON LAME ASS CAN DO IT I KNOW DAMN WELL DAWN RICHARDS CAN MAKE A FEW BUCKS!!!!!!! LOVE HER!
DREAM KANYE DONT GIVE A SH!T
DIDDY shitty promotor, bad boy records cant promote the artists they have its such a shame to waste some talents like that, they keep trying and keep failing, advice to any artist out there, if u want to be signed, REJECT them, look at talent like Janelle Monae, they cant promote her correctly… and we’re tired of making the band, enough is enough…SMH
And concerning his album, I hope he actually raps or sings whatever on it ALONE, no need to do an extra featuring album, SMH, he knows he is wack so thats why in every little song there is a featured artist or cameos in his videos… SMH, is he really an artist by himself then?
FIRSTLY SOMEONE NEEDS TO TELL JANET JACKSON ITS A WRAP FOR HER, ITS OVER NOW JANET, TRUTH HURTS SHE CANT SELL TICKECTS AND WHEN YOU HAVE ALL THOSE YOUNGSTERS WHO ACTUALLY CAN SING NOT WHISPER, DANCE AND ARE MORE PRETTIER WOW GOOD LUCK PPL NOW WANT TO SEE BEYONCE ON TOUR OR EVEN BRITNEY; even more talentless like Rihanna (who does that actually? ewww) Ciara who is the young Janet (talkin about choreography)…
SECONDLY SOMEONE NEEDS TO TELL HER WE ARE NO MORE IN THE 90s? STYLE HAS CHANGED CHOREOGRAPHY HAS CHANGED, VIDEOS HAVE CHANGED, MUSIC HAS CHANGED, Knock Knock Janet!
THIRDLY SOMEONE NEEDS TO TELL HER TO GRACEFULLY SIT DOWN (which is too late after three consecutive flops, last album, she is not even platinium worldwide) AND GET MARRIED WITH LITTLE MAN HAVE A DAMN BABY.
I LOVE YOU JANET u and ur extra weird jacko family!
I don’t know what’s going on in the Jackson household I’m still holding on to faith!
@1 and 3: You guys hit the nail on the HEAD! SPEAK LET EM KNOW!
Diddy is shitty.. I’m so glad Mary J left when she did.. otherwise she might have ended up like so many fallen artists under Diddy. Stop the ROGER ZAPP MADNESS.. can today’s new music HAS GOT TO COME HARDER!
MUSIC ARTISTS NEED TO STOP THROWING GIVING US LISTENERS BULLSH–T AND GIFTWRAPPING IT UP AND CALLING IT ART!!
And hell yeah, How dare Kanye not work with the little people? Even dream has a dream.. hehe..
G/L to Dawn.. we love you..
and JANET.. you will ALWAYS be an ICON.. I may not love your newer stuff so much as the old (i think the busta collab What’s it Gon Be was the last best song i liked.. or maybe the Nelly collab.. that was pretty hot)
But JANET you don’t have to compete with these younger artists.. We will ALWAYS love you, because you INVENTED performance. I think a good turn would be for Janet to retire and become a producer, choreographer or mentor for a newer artist.. What do u guys think?
(scratch the can)
CL we need to know whatsup with Kelly Rowland!
Awww my baby Dream. You’re so cute. Stupid Kanye! Dream, you’re a superstar in my eyes! Love you.
I like The Dream and all, even bought his album, but… he is just as retarded as Kanye “Lift your status up” West for agreeing to do such. He shoulda told Ye to take him as he is or kick rocks. The Dream doesn’t have to be into all that flossin’ and frilly frou-frou shit Ye has been involved in as of late. (i.e. the leopard skin tight wearin, blonde fro’ rockin, lip gloss game proper, sissy boy gang he’s been seen with recently) All Ye has to do be concerned with is if he (The Dream) is able to make any BIG money and seeing all of the aforementioned people he’s written for, I’d say thats very possible…
The Dream has good taste in clothes and he wears them well. I like his voice, but not really feeling his songs and I have to admit Kanye is really urking me these days, but it will be cool to hear how the project turns out.
Mary J. Blige was never on Bad Boy. She just worked with Diddy when he was part of the Uptown family.
Mary J. Blige was never on Bad Boy. She just worked with Diddy when he was part of the Uptown family.
Whatever??!!
Thank goodness the Loop took down that background pic of Kanye and his girls, that wasn’t a good look for Ye. Neither is him telling someone to step their game up. He has gotten to beside himself lately. I still can’t get over him renaming himself “Marting Louie the King, Jr.” Just like Beyonce lost me as a fan with that wack Sasha Fierce mess she put out, now Kanye is starting to loose me…don’t bash me ya’ll, it’s just how I feel.
Janet is really losing some fans by this. Why does she keep canceling her shows? When she did that in the U.S she never gave a reason why..that’s bullshit. Which is why I admire an artist who always keeps her word and works hard even if she breaks her ass diving down Goliath stairs.
I acutally love The Dream, but I hate Kanye so I don’t know how that’s going to work out. If Kanye didn’t screw up his life from ’08-’09 I would still be a fan but I don’t know what nonsense entered his head. If God has to give us a break and raise is Mother out of the dead (RIP), I pray he does that. Because clearly she was the one keeping him stable.
Diddy sat down.
Oh Diddy ego gets in the way of his artist DK was cool, but first came Diddy then his ego then DK and thats why the group began to look so small. That group could have worked, but Diddy ego got bruised because things were not a hundred his way, there were five other opinions and Diddy and the girls got tired of going back and forth about it especially since Diddy mind was already set on what he wanted for the girls and he proceeded his way.
im sorry i would buy it. i cant wait for the dudes run to be over with. i use to mess with kanye west like that. when his music made since and he was telling stories. now dude is just like rest of these artist out here.
Lol Kanye would say some ish like that too lol. I can’t blame him tho. I thought that The Dream didn’t really match up w/ Kanye either.
Blah Diddy. Blah MTB. BLAH!
Love The Dream, I think that would be a good collaberation, I think The Dream can pull it off but can Kanye come as hard as Jay, because R. and Jay had some real hard shit going on. They collaberated well together if you ask me. They had that vibe.
Diddy should stick to PRODUCTION!!!! He has proven time and again he is not good enough as an actual rapper. He is a great producer (preferred his 90′s stuff, but still).
Janet needs to get married, have children and MAYBE then return. She needs to separate her personal and business lives. This means no Jermaine producing her albums. She can become relevant again if she works other people. Keep in mind the racism she faced after the KKK media bullied her after the Superbowl. If she was white, she’d still be selling some records.
Diddy is a crazy producer. He still has it, let’s not forget the shit he did for almost the whole American Gangsta cd for Jay. I mean he keeps it going and keeps the good shit on lock. “Uptown” aint no fool, trust me. I love me some Dawn but, I think that Dawn and Drea would have made a hot duo. Danity Kane remains as long as you use the name. I am curious about Mark Curry’s book tho. He’s putting the Diddster on blast for his crooked ways. lmao Damn Didd
Im not really feeling a Kanye and Dream album. It would feel like Ye would always be looking back checking on Dream to make sure he hasnt passed out.-No shade. lol
[singing]
DUM DUM DIDDY!!!! lol
i’m sorry, but i’m sick of that man. i’m not mad at the individual. i think he’s a great business man, but as an artist it just bothers me a great deal that he has gotten so far. i seriously believe that if BIG wasn’t dead, he’d still be doing dancing in the foreground.
real spill, homies.
At #7 what the hell does Keri Hilson has to do with this blog. Its all about given info on Janet , Diddys work on a album, and Kanye and Dreams venture for a album together. I tell ya some people just don’t want no kinda information shared with the rest of the world.
Isn’t Diddy the “Don King” of the music business? The type that tells the artist “I can make you a millionaire if you sign with me” then give the artist a suitcase containing $1million and then he makes $30 million off of them. Look at both ways, the unknown artist probably wouldn’t have made any money without the Didfdy brand name. Just like Don King used to get the unknown fighters the big payday fights.
Kanye is to talented and to big of superstar to do an album with The Dream it is an uneven match. He would do better to get R. Kelly, Ne-Yo or some other super hot R&B dude. Ye shouldn’t told to step up his game, he should just told him “it’s not a good fit yet”.
Fabo is the sh!t, somebody smart needs collabo with him. Wish he would let me manage/market him. He would finally get the press he deserves…chicks would be swooning over that chip tooth instead of some of the current lames out here.
#40 I was talking to Brian mind your damn business.
OMG WHEN DOES HIS ALBUM COME OUT!!!!!! i love ginuwine!!! he has matured so tasteful!!!! THE SONG IS AWESOME
and kanye does have some nerve, lololol….
diddy’s album’s are hit or miss, “press play” was pretty good though. there were some great collaborations on that album.
i can’t wait till “making the band” starts, people look forward to diddy’s foolishness as much as they look forward to seeing dk, d26, and danny klang, so bring on the funny.
The Dream’s status is good with people who know good music. Everyone knows he’s the -ish, his album was the best thing out last year or so. He puts out hot fiyah!!!!!
I think a Kanye-Dream collabo would be cool. I hope they can work together.
Janet girl I liove ya bUT we need some reinvention ASAP!
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puffy looked way too pumped for that wack sounding song. and how is kanye going to tell someone to step up their celebrity status, if you’re not good, most people don’t want to see more of you. i’m not saying the dream is good or bad, i’m just saying, and i thought kanye said he was done with hip hop or whatnot.
Told him to lift his status??? If I was The Dream, I would’ve told that mofo to lift his f-ing mentally to a more stable one. You can tell Kanye has not been in the right mindset w/ his ol’ bitter ass (altho you can’t blame him for being depressed w/ the tragic events he’s had) but still lol…
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