Singer/Songwriter/Producer Terius “The-Dream” Nash has had his fair share of ups and downs in the industry. As any great, creative artist should have. While he continues to exceed success with his songwriting work, the ‘Love King’ is on the rebound with his singing career. With a free digital album dropping later this month, and his fourth studio album through Def Jam coming later this year, Dream spoke with HHNM about the new album title, The Love IV: Diary Of A Madman, and being a writer vs. a singer.
See what he had to say below.
“What Madman means to me, is that I’m going to tell you what you don’t want to hear, but what you need to hear. Not politically correct, true, real and raw! There’s a Real World out there where people break up, fall in Love, break up again. There are real relationship problems that don’t taste like candy and more of those exist than the sweet toffee ones we think we know about. Life is Real. Failure at all points of a life is necessary and inevitable, because you never learn from success you learn from failure.”
As the conversation went on, he talked about his favorite role out of writer, producer and singer. Mr. Nash says:
“I would rather be a writer by nature because that’s what I am. But I’m starting to incorporate Sean Carter’s thinking and Sean Combs’ style of Vision into that and building on it day by day. Adding that vision to the Vision I already have is like building a telescope that would see into the birth of Hip-hop and would give me the least amount of mistakes while making decisions for myself and other artists. Also it would increase the knowledge of what to do when I do fail, the right chess moves. As I’ve practiced lately, ‘If the World sees you as Bad, fuck it, be bad, sell bad! Only you know who you really are!”
