For decades, The-Dream has been producing chart-toppers and remains one of the best. With his latest collaboration with Beyoncé, The-Dream has teamed up with a number of popular artists including Kanye West to help craft timeless classics. Her new single, “Break My Soul,” has been topping charts, and she’s expected to dominate industry discussion when Renaissance is released on Friday.
Despite working with Beyoncé on “Break My Soul,” Dream is not new to collaborating with her. They’ve made magic on “Run the World,” “1+1,” “Flawless,” “Single Ladies,” and more.
Working With Kanye
The-Dream also has repeat credits with Kanye West, and he revisited the time when Ye fell asleep on him while on Deep Hidden Meaning Radio with Nile Rodgers on Apple Music 1. Ye nodded off during the recording of West’s hit single, “All of the Lights,” from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. The Dream had the following to say about the incident:
“’All of The Lights,’ oh man, wow, ‘All of the Lights.’ I was doing 4 in New York for [Beyoncé]. We were working on 4 and Kanye happened to come by the studio,” said Dream. “And Kanye didn’t know I was there and he is like, ‘Oh, happy you’re here. I got something I want you to listen to and see if you can put a hook on this thing.’ I’m like, ‘Okay, cool. Let me hear it.’ And this track came on. I was like, ‘Wow, that’s crazy.’ I knew instantly exactly what I wanted to do, instantly.”
“So, we got the booth working, brought the engineer down, recorded. And after the first take, which ended up being the song that you hear now, he said, ‘Nah, nah, nah, nah, try another one,'” Dream recalled. “Like, ‘Okay. All right.’ Got another one. ‘Oh, try another one, Dream.’ It’s like, ‘Okay.’ I got to like number eight of the song I did. I look out, Kanye is sleep. And I’m like, I’m looking through the glass like, ‘Yo, is he asleep?’ B’s like, ‘Yeah, he’s kind of knocked out.’ I’m like, ‘What?'”
“She’s like, ‘Actually, Dream, the first hook, that was the one.’ I was like, ‘I knew it. I knew that was the one,’ and so, that ended up being the one that Rihanna sings to this day.But that was so hilarious. I’m on idea number eight. He’s been asleep since idea number three.”
If you’re unfamiliar with Kanye’s hit “All Of The Lights”, check out the official video below:
