mixtape maestro (2.0)

After a year that’s seen him score his very first Grammy, pen chart-topping anthems for divas Mariah Carey, Beyonce and Mary J Blige, continue his reign as one of the urban world’s top go-to hook-crafters, and drop one of the still-infant year’s best contemporary R&B albums, The-Dream deserves to do a little bragging.

Here, he blows his own horn to the tune of Kanye West’s “Amazing”, daring others to “call me ah-choo” cause “I’m sick” and dishing out over-the-top promises that album #3 will “be better than Thriller“. MM doesn’t know about that last line, but frat-boy props will be given to him for his ability to snatch up R&B/ pop cutie Christina Milian (featured here on her own verse) as his newest arm candy. Now that’s definitely something one should be boasting about.

DL: “Amazing (Kanye West Cover)” (alt)