The-Dream on Kanye West

Welcome to Younghollywood. com. What up Young Hollywood? It's Michelle Marie hanging out backstage at the MySpace Music Concert with this man right here, The Dream, who is blowing up right now, I have to say, as a solo artist. I mean, you are just tearing it up right now.

Oh, I appreciate it. Yeah, I keep hearing that.

I like this jacket right now. Tell me about like what you got going on right here.

Obama. I got a couple of Audrey pins on here.

So we're here for the release of your new album, For Love or Money. Now, we want to know, is it for love or is it for money with you?

Love. It's always for love because through love you can get money, but through money you can't get love.

Right now, my favorite song on the radio, I have to say, no joke, is Rockin' That Thang. I love it, and you collaborate with so many different people on that. She rocking that thing like How do you feel about the success of the song?

I feel great about it. You can give the radio a single that's just for radio and they play it a lot of times but it doesn't connect with your album. With this single, it's a part of what the album is, so what I'm selling is actually organic.

Well, you've definitely been on the scene, especially behind the scenes as a songwriter, as a producer. You've worked with so many people, Rihanna, Mariah Carey, Jesse McCartney, you name it. Is there anyone that you haven't worked with yet that you have on the horizon?

Yeah, definitely want to work with Coldplay. Yeah, we just got Diddy out the way, so he's out now. So I worked with Diddy, um, did a great record for him. So Coldplay, Chris, I'm coming to see you, man.

What's the one most important thing that people need to know about how to make a hit record?

Make sure it's a good subject to talk about. That's the most important thing.

What is your creative process like? Because obviously, you have your own process for other people, but for you, what is your process like?

It's basically the same. It's my approach to writing. If there is a track playing, or if I come up with the track, it's usually me or Tricky Stewart, or my other partner, which is LOS. We either come up with the music and then I go right into the booth and kind of like, you know, just let it out, let it spazz out. So, that it's just like that. There's no three or four days or no paper, pen, none of that.

Kanye West, you're very close to him. He's here tonight to share the stage with you. And, you know, he's saying that you're his favorite artist right now.

Well, he's my favorite artist. I think he knows that. Yeah, we're kind of back and forth. Everybody needs that, you know, Paul needed his John Lennon. Paul McCartney needed his John Lennon.

Now, I know that you were saying also that you might be doing an album with Kanye.

Yeah, I want to talk him into it. I want to do an album called Galaxy because they already had Best of Both Worlds. So I'm like, two worlds ain't enough. And it's nothing standing in the way because even as great as he is, he doesn't have an ego, and I don't either. So, musically, I think most of the time we just want to please the consumer. So it's all about the fans. Make sure y'all hit Kanye up and let him know, you better get that album, man.

So besides MySpace and what other things are you doing on the internet right now?

I was reading the blog slightly and they were talking about whether I was comparing myself to Michael or Prince. And it wasn't about comparing them, it's about putting the pressure on myself to become as great as they were at that particular point. So, just to let everybody know, I'm not crazy. I know that I'm not Michael. I know that I'm not Prince. I am me, searching for greatness. Yo, what's up? This is The American Dream. Shout out to you, Young Hollywood. Right here live from LA. Keep it live.