The-Dream Reveals Why He Hasn’t Worked With Drake Since “Shut It Down” | Genius Level

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  • Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
  • In 2010, The-Dream collaborated with Drake on "Shut It Down" from his album 'Thank Me Later.' In this excerpt of the first installment of Genius Level, Terius “The-Dream” Nash explains why the two haven't worked together since.
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  • @hendersonli6594
    @hendersonli6594 7 лет назад +914

    The Dream is to me the most under-rated artist in the past two decades in the realm of r and b.

    • @breezy3054
      @breezy3054 7 лет назад +4

      Moe Li very true

    • @PlayboyYardie
      @PlayboyYardie 7 лет назад +14

      maybe for the fans that know nothing but everyone in the industry knows his pen game

    • @hendersonli6594
      @hendersonli6594 7 лет назад +19

      He gets mad respect within the industry, but these fans know nothing about how good The Dream was and is man.

    • @lavarball3641
      @lavarball3641 7 лет назад +9

      Moe Li he ghostwrote for most of the big artist of the past decade

    • @MakeFreeFamous
      @MakeFreeFamous 7 лет назад +14

      Moe Li he's not the best artist but his production goes the distance. No questions he's one of the best out

  • @chiraqg1374
    @chiraqg1374 7 лет назад +869

    drake the type of nigga to put cologne on before a FaceTime

  • @tiopapichulo2136
    @tiopapichulo2136 7 лет назад +199

    Still one of my favorite joints to lay it down to ever.

    • @truth-digger
      @truth-digger 7 лет назад +5

      Tiopapi Chulo I still bump it. It's n my playlist.

    • @Cuffy6
      @Cuffy6 7 лет назад +1

      Tiopapi Chulo great fuckin icon fam lol S/o to the witch for the hangin armor lml

  • @PostByJuice
    @PostByJuice 7 лет назад +336

    thats bc a year later Drake found The Weeknd and no longer needed The Dream

    • @PostByJuice
      @PostByJuice 7 лет назад +19

      IDK though that's just my theory.

    • @zeebutler9195
      @zeebutler9195 7 лет назад +4

      TheGuyWithTheJuice That makes sense though

    • @leon3hunna
      @leon3hunna 7 лет назад +2

      TheGuyWithTheJuice you mean Party Next Door not The Weekend

    • @Jboooog18
      @Jboooog18 7 лет назад +1

      LeonGloGang EBK he was after

    • @curtissimmons2287
      @curtissimmons2287 7 лет назад +1

      TheGuyWithTheJuice its not no year later the Weeknd and Drake were cool way before the music you dum ass

  • @ZmanCanTV
    @ZmanCanTV 7 лет назад +69

    I miss The-Dream. I know he's somewhat relevant but man this dude has classics on his belt.

  • @booreaka3442
    @booreaka3442 7 лет назад +26

    That's why Dream becomes underated. Talent is important. But attitude matters a lot. He had the chance to ask why drake didn't step onto that particular song, but he rather shut it down.

  • @D-Smooth
    @D-Smooth 7 лет назад +189

    Shut it down was the best song on that album

    • @isaacdebeila8085
      @isaacdebeila8085 7 лет назад +17

      fancy my guy... but hey that is drakes only classic album so it was filled with heat

    • @Jboooog18
      @Jboooog18 7 лет назад

      isaac debeila a classic??

    • @dwadeisajerk
      @dwadeisajerk 7 лет назад +20

      Darrin Johnson karaoke easily is better

    • @UltraMegaFail
      @UltraMegaFail 7 лет назад +8

      isaac debeila take care was a classic

    • @jalenahtx
      @jalenahtx 3 года назад +5

      The resistance

  • @Lewonlovestein666
    @Lewonlovestein666 7 лет назад +15

    I like how they said that "shut it down" came out in drake's 2009 album thank me later when the album didn't get released till June 2010 literally 7 years ago

  • @prodby.kbmontana567
    @prodby.kbmontana567 7 лет назад +46

    The Dream is Kanyes rnb goto The Weeknd is Drakes rnb goto that's how I think of it

    • @theendboss4849
      @theendboss4849 7 лет назад +7

      LiL BOMB not anymore. Weeknd and drake haven't worked together since take care

    • @theendboss4849
      @theendboss4849 7 лет назад +3

      Or kissland

    • @UknowTarryLuhsYhu
      @UknowTarryLuhsYhu 3 года назад

      PARTYNEXTDOOR also

    • @dayburks
      @dayburks 2 года назад

      @@theendboss4849 that’s awful 💀 they should have way more collabs together

  • @anjr9915
    @anjr9915 7 лет назад +39

    Shut It Down was a great song, loved that song

  • @Garenobear
    @Garenobear 7 лет назад +34

    Mannn I really wish he collabed w Drake. I would love the singles

  • @paulheredia4886
    @paulheredia4886 7 лет назад +5

    Its amazing to see how Genius has improved over the years, ive been following genius for roughly 2 years now and its outstanding how much theyve grown and progressed making theyre content better and more extent, props to you Genius!🙌🏾

  • @luigimejia5426
    @luigimejia5426 7 лет назад +6

    You only ask once! If they don't get back to you continue to make your music! Respect him for that

  • @retropickups2000
    @retropickups2000 7 лет назад +33

    DID THE DRAKE VOCALS COME IN???!

  • @tayonapearson5626
    @tayonapearson5626 7 лет назад +4

    Still my favorite song ever to this day

  • @MrEOM41
    @MrEOM41 3 года назад +5

    Shut it down down doowwwnn 🎵🎵🎶 is a classic.. would’ve loved to hear them collab more though

  • @christophergonzalez6536
    @christophergonzalez6536 7 лет назад +17

    I hope they do get on a track together because drake and the dream are super talented and let's be real, "Shut It Down" was fire when it came out. I eagerly await they're collaboration in the future.

  • @libertywalkryl3891
    @libertywalkryl3891 7 лет назад +22

    Ice cream conversations they all want the scoop

  • @debreescaemanuelle1843
    @debreescaemanuelle1843 7 лет назад +3

    shut it down was a huge song, and it still is to me

  • @jasondmarajh
    @jasondmarajh 7 лет назад +211

    People are going to look at Drake as a "bad guy" for turning it down, but in reality, he could have been going through some stuff at the time, could have been touring, working on his music/album, personal issues...artistes turn down collabs all the time so don't let this make you feel he did it on purpose. Always hear both sides of a story.

    • @LeakObamaMusic
      @LeakObamaMusic 7 лет назад +3

      Jason D. Marajh Trini fam ✊

    • @jasondmarajh
      @jasondmarajh 7 лет назад +6

      Woiii ✊

    • @Mbk1019
      @Mbk1019 7 лет назад +4

      trini

    • @DRIVENUrbanNoizeMotivations
      @DRIVENUrbanNoizeMotivations 7 лет назад +15

      Well, said. The-Dream only told his side of the story, not Drake's. Who knows what Drake could've been dealing with at the time. there is a whole lot of industry politics that we don't see behind the scenes. As well as life issues

    • @audrickpowell9575
      @audrickpowell9575 7 лет назад +10

      Jason D. Marajh naaa he's a piece of shit, a great artist and has a nack for finding a different sound well enough for him to transition over but a piece of shit never the less he's done things like this in the past present and will continue to do things like this in the future

  • @MariNate1016
    @MariNate1016 7 лет назад +21

    Back when Drake used to release good music. Before he tried to become a overproduced pop/grime star

  • @ELNikeSB
    @ELNikeSB 7 лет назад +47

    Drake no longer needed The-Dream at the OVO Sweatshop.

  • @savageaustin19
    @savageaustin19 7 лет назад +5

    People bring up The Weeknd but drake worked with The Weeknd on an actual like collaboration type of thing the dream was just a single song

  • @datcat1981
    @datcat1981 7 лет назад +3

    Dude shoulda non stop asked "DID THE DRAKE VOCALS COME IN YET" then they may still be working together

  • @MultiByron101
    @MultiByron101 7 лет назад +6

    Drake used a lot of people when he was coming up, Kanye wrote Drake's first hits, Show Me A Good Time and Find Your Love, and I believe Kanye had a lot to do with Over and Forever.... but I could be incorrect on the last two

    • @waldo3339
      @waldo3339 2 года назад +6

      He didn’t write them, he produced the beats. Drake wrote all of them. But since he doesn’t make beats, he has to collab with producers

    • @kmelfrancis4999
      @kmelfrancis4999 7 месяцев назад +1

      kanye did write them @@waldo3339

  • @lakeboshavr7101
    @lakeboshavr7101 7 лет назад +1

    I'm tired of people talking about drake like he's a next level songwriter.

  • @bumpy177
    @bumpy177 7 лет назад +9

    they should drop a new song together

  • @LucySkyDiamond
    @LucySkyDiamond 7 лет назад +3

    I think the dream is an AMAZING writer

  • @GoldmanStacks
    @GoldmanStacks 7 лет назад +7

    To me, The-Dream was a originator to the sound the both Drake and his predecessors have make a name for themselves after; namely "The Weeknd". I mean, he even name himself almost similarly to The-Dream as well. His vocals sounds like he's trying to emulate him. My woman wants to play his false falsetto ballads in the car over sometimes good and sometimes strange instrumentals and I'm like this just sounds like a knockoff of The-Dream with a Pop-twist to achieve a higher level of popular success. Having listening and studying The-Dream's writing and delivery over the past decade with the homie Tricky Stewart behind the boards, I can clearly identify that there's a level of imitation occurring and that in itself is a "Form of Flattery".

    • @TheYezunimungu85
      @TheYezunimungu85 9 месяцев назад

      The Dream confronted him on Twitter about it THE Weekend got into his feelings

  • @scubasteve6463
    @scubasteve6463 7 лет назад +3

    Just sad to me that people don't realize all these main stream "artists" do not write their own songs...its an actual fact that this guy, and 2 other dudes, write all of the hit songs we hear on the radio from artists (Taylor swift, Justin boober, Rihanna, Beyonce, etc). They don't write anything yet they get credit for it...and it's a fact that record producers try to keep it as big a secret as they can that "artists" buy their songs from real actual artists... These people are not "artists" they are performers...good looking people that are hired to perform music that was written by the real talent...this is how the world works...you got a puppet in center stage just doing or saying what someone that nobody knows actually came up with. Same thing with presidents...this is why I find it pathetic when people care about presidents so much. Presidents don't have any power, it's the same set up as the music industry. They are a puppet who are just doing what they are told by someone else behind the scenes. This is just how the world works now.

  • @visionwavey
    @visionwavey 7 лет назад +1

    The dream should do a collab with him one more time

  • @doodlebob8587
    @doodlebob8587 7 лет назад +6

    SHAWTY IS A TENNNNN 😎

  • @godsmystery564
    @godsmystery564 7 лет назад +1

    This video has more views than the actual interview.

  • @ArghRawrWhoa
    @ArghRawrWhoa 2 года назад +1

    He is so talented

  • @latashaw.322
    @latashaw.322 4 года назад +2

    I love The-Dream ❤️

  • @keyundudley6196
    @keyundudley6196 3 года назад +2

    I was told The Dream nobody like Dream. Not one person. They just deal with him when it comes to doing business

  • @krisraps
    @krisraps 4 года назад +2

    Drake is type of guy who will act friend when he doesnt have nothing and then when he gets rich he doesnt even say hi in street

  • @iamEddieP
    @iamEddieP 7 лет назад

    This whole time I didn't think that was The Dream singing those records until now.

  • @michaelvilli09
    @michaelvilli09 7 лет назад +3

    I always thought The Dream was on Cece's interlude.

  • @joeydash5891
    @joeydash5891 7 лет назад

    The fact that shut it down started my glo

  • @jciq
    @jciq 7 лет назад +1

    Shut it down is a classic

  • @mermaidprettymuch
    @mermaidprettymuch Год назад +2

    Bet you it had something to do with Wayne and Christina Milian and whoever else he got in common with Dream.

  • @guillermoavila4326
    @guillermoavila4326 6 лет назад +2

    Should be "2010", normally said "2009" on the Thank Me Later thing

  • @cantguard26
    @cantguard26 7 лет назад +2

    Shut it Down is at the top of Drake's underrated songs list.

    • @youngtobbie1433
      @youngtobbie1433 Год назад

      Cap that's one of the ones that made Drake to me

  • @ShizukaRose
    @ShizukaRose 7 лет назад

    Fucking love that song.

  • @ArghRawrWhoa
    @ArghRawrWhoa 7 лет назад

    I love him

  • @nutmaster652
    @nutmaster652 7 лет назад

    GO GO GO GET EM GIRL

  • @Shoemanati216
    @Shoemanati216 7 лет назад +3

    FALSE THE DREAM WAS ON "WITH YOU" WITH PND AND DRAKE ON THE ALBUM "VIEWS" MAYBE THIS IS OLD I GUESS?

  • @TonyMac183
    @TonyMac183 7 лет назад

    Yo dream always drops hits he was that nigga he was on firee when he came out dream he is a very talented artist

  • @youngtobbie1433
    @youngtobbie1433 Год назад +1

    Real artist like Dream, has given away so many hit songs for the Frisk.

  • @ONE_M1C
    @ONE_M1C 7 лет назад +1

    Wayne pulled the plug on that one

  • @TerrellCooper
    @TerrellCooper 7 лет назад

    Drake was like....I heard yo new shit and was KMT!

  • @WilScoto
    @WilScoto 7 лет назад +9

    Drake just didn't want to get bodied again on a track with Dream. #facts

  • @TitoBunkN
    @TitoBunkN 7 лет назад +3

    its because Drake and his people had to keep bugging him to do the record and Dream took to long so when Dream needed a favor he had already burnt the bridge

  • @301Cardosi
    @301Cardosi 7 лет назад +1

    wondered this too not too long ago that song was my shit

  • @justinprater7060
    @justinprater7060 7 лет назад +1

    dream on

  • @zachcoleman6285
    @zachcoleman6285 7 лет назад

    dream one of best singer/songwriters of this new generation. wayyy more talented than the weak-end

  • @JRD1990
    @JRD1990 Месяц назад +3

    The Dream: 1:02
    Translation: I did a favor for him and when it was time for that favor to be returned he ghosted me like a 304 so now we’re not cool anymore… he’s still a great artist, I just think he’s phony 🤷🏾‍♂️

    • @vd8491
      @vd8491 24 дня назад +1

      Drake been a snake.

  • @rumman6081
    @rumman6081 7 лет назад +5

    drake fake real bro help each other

  • @robama22
    @robama22 7 лет назад

    Thank Me Later was released June 15 2010 not 2009.

  • @haitianjack751
    @haitianjack751 20 дней назад

    Could have thought that was The Dream vocals on With You track

  • @tyreehill9877
    @tyreehill9877 7 лет назад +1

    Thank Me Later Was 2010 Not 2009

  • @anthonygetdat
    @anthonygetdat 7 лет назад +1

    damn dream...need to put them shades back on real quick playa

  • @ldlhicks
    @ldlhicks 7 лет назад

    remember when dream song the hooks for raheem the dream mid late 90s..

  • @graysonred2641
    @graysonred2641 7 лет назад +9

    Seems like a drake move lol

  • @tc2gone
    @tc2gone 7 лет назад

    and look what happened. set yur pride to the side

  • @alwaysblessed5243
    @alwaysblessed5243 7 лет назад +1

    Them pants tho...😭😭😭😭😭

  • @ebbsislove93
    @ebbsislove93 7 лет назад

    Have the Dream vocals come in yet?

  • @orionpax85
    @orionpax85 7 лет назад

    Dream. I grew up with this dude. Lol

  • @SincerelyChris7
    @SincerelyChris7 7 лет назад +1

    Get ready for a Drake and The Dream Collaboration. #ComingSoon 🔥🔥

  • @Megalodon.89
    @Megalodon.89 7 лет назад +1

    Drake prolly wasn't feeling the record, either that or Wayne told him not to

  • @HighiamDave
    @HighiamDave 7 лет назад +1

    The dream looks like a beanie baby

  • @RigbyHuxtable
    @RigbyHuxtable 6 лет назад

    0:33 is that Astro that rapper on the left?

  • @SilvLocs
    @SilvLocs 7 лет назад

    2010* debut album come on Genius

  • @soundbycandid1339
    @soundbycandid1339 7 лет назад

    wait a minute... how the fuck did we go from drake and the dream collaborating to talking about the weeknd and drake. Drake was elevating his sound and his game with Take Care. We see artist collab once with other artist and never do it again all the time. Everyone is always trying to break this man down, lol just let him make the music and sound we love.

  • @D.Middzz
    @D.Middzz 7 лет назад

    I thought it was because The Dream was on the chorus for Pusha T's Exodus 23:1. Pusha basically predicted how Lil Wayne has been fucked over by Birdman for years by taking royalties and not paying him the full amount. Wayne didn't wanna hear it and now he's taking Birdman to court.

  • @Cyrunix
    @Cyrunix 7 лет назад

    "Shawty is da shit"
    "see I dont even need no hook for this here cause......
    Shawty is a 10!"

  • @jeremyzeeky3024
    @jeremyzeeky3024 7 лет назад +1

    This is interesting because I never realized they hadn't worked together since. But are we not going to point out that fufu ass Supreme shirt in the background??

  • @BIGRENZO
    @BIGRENZO 7 лет назад

    (Mike Jones voice) back then they didn't want me now I'm hot they all on me...

  • @ikeasante6165
    @ikeasante6165 4 года назад

    shut it down wasn't the last. The dream was on Cameras/Good Ones Go during the take care era , right ?

  • @KingTahoe
    @KingTahoe 7 лет назад

    Wasn't he on that song on views with Drake and Party?

  • @luvair6765
    @luvair6765 Год назад

    The Dream is like if you told Ai to make corny early 2000s R&B

  • @teez1218
    @teez1218 Год назад

    Hundiddy Bop Bop in da fleshh

  • @darlenewakefield2071
    @darlenewakefield2071 7 лет назад +2

    why bring it up now. is it the case of dropping names to restart your brand, or to drop a project. it's certainly is not to mend association, because negativity breeds negativity. you asked him once, he had to ask you more than once. so you knew you should have asked more than once.

  • @AfricanGirl
    @AfricanGirl 4 года назад +3

    I'm on the dream side. most artists are selfish like that

  • @Jackmck02
    @Jackmck02 7 лет назад +1

    Hey

  • @jonathangee9302
    @jonathangee9302 7 лет назад

    Didn't The dream hop on Drake's with you on views?

  • @thugline06
    @thugline06 7 лет назад +1

    Nigga looks like nino Brown

  • @UncCarmkl55
    @UncCarmkl55 7 лет назад +2

    Wasn't dream on that track with drake and pnd on views?

  • @Angie_drawz20
    @Angie_drawz20 2 года назад

    Is this the same one who sung dreams

  • @Selfbaptized
    @Selfbaptized 7 лет назад

    Akademiks the type of nigga to announce his appearance in a jail shower

  • @georgeg1126
    @georgeg1126 7 лет назад

    ovo sweat shop

  • @visionwavey
    @visionwavey 7 лет назад

    wow

  • @salifyanji7889
    @salifyanji7889 7 лет назад

    I never even knew 'Excerpt' was a word

  • @JenniTulls
    @JenniTulls 7 лет назад +1

    Dream has aged since 2009 Rockin That Thang era.

  • @corneliusdillinger
    @corneliusdillinger 7 лет назад

    Drake the type of nigga to wash his hands before he picks his nose

  • @Benjemil23
    @Benjemil23 7 лет назад

    The Dream all up in his feelings

  • @porshajones8136
    @porshajones8136 7 лет назад

    i love that song! it's so sensual & sexy lol

  • @ordinaryrapper08
    @ordinaryrapper08 7 лет назад

    dream was on views tho

  • @jjbing3
    @jjbing3 7 лет назад +2

    Why is this dude wearing jeans with no knees...? 😟

    • @Blevys
      @Blevys 7 лет назад

      jjbing3 lmao