Yo what's up? This is The-Dream, you know what it is. I'm right here at Genius and
I'm about to get into The Cosign and I'm gonna see if I rock with these new women
singers for the next generation.
First thing I do when I get a request from
Beyoncé or somebody in that likelihood which is kind of just her in her
own world, I just kind of base it on the message she's trying to put out into the
universe at whatever point of time it is in her life. It just really depends on
the read and the read from me is just basically where that person is in their
life at this point. I think with R&B, the part that holds it together is human to
human contact and relationships, ups and downs, and the world...what what the
world is going through. The times make R&B what R&B is. There are a lot of
great, great girls on the way in you know that will probably be here for the next 15
years. So yeah I'm pretty excited about it.
Oh, this is dope.
Yeah I love the vocals. The vocals remind me of Total.
I like the little kids in there dancing. You got the kids dancing!
Yeah the vocal tone that kind of reminds me of that space where Total was
in which is what I loved about them, is real simple and melodic. It's just raw
talent. It's pretty dope. Nice clean video.
Just out in the park, hanging out.
This looks fun.
I mean this space is a lot of spaces. It's India. It's Lauryn, of course. Definitely that early 2000s vibe.
Beautiful.
Beautiful. Very confident. She reminds me of the
space where trees are. Where it's just like they just grow into that space. You
can miss like the beauty of it if you're not paying any attention. Yeah that's what that is.
Yeah this is one of my favorite records.
Love.
I need to do like about nine albums with her.
Yes! This is more of my life right here, is this part of growing up.
And of course it's Atlanta. Of course. Got that 5.0 Mustang in there, shawty? Come on man!
Nostalgia at its best.
It's not really like she's breaking the rules but she's
so hood elegant. She's her own machine easily
I think she's so much bigger than this video, that my mind is like imploding.
Sounds like the song is hot and then somebody said "okay let's shoot
something to this song."
But it's bigger than that.
You know the song is the song. It's really catchy. But I think she's like way bigger
than what what this video is. I saw that in the first 20 seconds.
It isn't about improving. I'm quite sure she loves it and I love it. If you love
it I love it. It's just more so me having a bigger idea of somebody then than, not
themselves, because I'm sure she's like "yo give me the world!"
it's just trying to make sure that your team or who you're operating with
understands you know like your plight and where you could really go.
It sounds really good. There's that breakbeat again. Got that SWV vibe going on.
I feel like doing the wop and shit.
I feel like doing my Puffy shit! Oh!
Oh!
Take that!
I'm anxious to see where she goes
from is from this space. What happens with us writers is we have a lot of
different lanes we can choose to go down, and it's whether we can compartmentalize
them to stay in a certain place to deliver you that thing that you
need and fix in that space. Or we go all the way over and we lose you
know the thing we started out with. So hopefully she has another breakbeat coming after this one.
I already like this. Look at that. Coming in slow on the palm trees right there.
Damnnn B!
She's like downplaying her vocals like to the point where I'm mad.
Like, sometimes it's great to play in these
melodies, these melodic spaces, but then is there's a time and place where you
separate from you know from your counterparts, if you can. If you have and possess the talent.
Yeah I would have loved to hear that B section and hook kind of
go up and give me a lift and like let me hear the next tone up. Versus it just
staying like in that monotone stagnant place so I could tell her tell ends of
her vocals that she knows exactly how to control it. I can't place her tone
towards anybody I definitely can tell that she can probably sing
her ass off. To be honest out of the six, She probably has that bigger
place you know to go to outside of just R&B where it just becomes a phenomenon
in a different spectrum.
So today I'm here at The Cosign and I'm gonna
cosign Summer Walker. Represent ATL, Georgia.
What grabbed my attention about Summer Walker, I guess more so, is the automatic future nostalgia of who she is.
It's almost like you could put her five years out already and come back
to this moment and you can see it you know happening. She seems the most
confident and comfortable in that space and so that's my cosign.
I think they have bright futures if they want them to be bright. I just need them all to
push the envelope and I think we're just waiting on that next best thing.