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‘Shawty Is Da Sh*t!’. Now that’s how you start an album! Terius Youngdell Nash AKA The-Dream is not just another R&B bling bling ‘Give me something to poke’ guy. He’s a true ‘artiste’. Ok, that’s a little bit too much maybe, but he’s really talented.

Having written stuff for a lot of artists including Rihanna (’Umbrella’), J.Holiday (’Bed’ well that is his only song right?!) and even for Usher (’Moving Mountains’ maybe isn’t something you would put on your resume applying to be accepted to the ‘artiste’ community, but still they did sell a lot of records!

And now Def Jam Records showed Mr. Youngdell that he could go ahead and chase his dream. We should be happy that this album came out, because maybe it’s not a masterpiece, but it has some great songs on it. And it’s something different than the indie rock, electro, whatever everybody that claims to be ‘artistic’ listens to!

The best songs are: ‘Luv Songs’, ‘I Luv Your Girl’, ‘She Needs My Love’ (not with an ‘u’ this time and sounds a lot like a Timbaland track!!). But the best two songs are the before mentioned ‘Shawty Is Da Sh*t!’ Ft. Fabolous and ‘Nikki’. So maybe the rest of the album isn’t that good, who cares? You get five good songs to pump in your car when you’re driving in the hood! That should be enough.

By the way did we mention that he’s an accomplished artist and has created many paintings and sculptures! Put that in your ‘Artiste’ community application!!