The-Dream talks about "My Love"

The-Dream was in-studio recently at Los Angeles' KIIS FM to talk about his new album, Love Vs. Money which drops Tuesday, March 3 (pushed back from February 17).In the interview with DJ Jojo Wright of the night show, Jojo On The Radio, The-Dream talked about the crazy story, which he calls "the inspiration for the world," behind the making of "My Love," his brand-new single featuring Mariah Carey.

"I was at Legacy Studios in New York and I started the chords on a keyboard and I was like, '[hums] Okay, this is gonna be pretty good.' Nobody knows my process. This is how it goes. Usually I start a track, I put a kick on it and a snare, then it's really simple that in the beginning stages and I just go into the booth because it actually comes from what I already have in my head as far as the hook that I may hear. So I walk into the booth and the engineer's there, we start it off and I'm like, [sings] 'Tell me what they know about my love', this would be a great record for Mariah Carey to be on. Little did I know, it was like 50 people in the studio at that particular time that I invited to kind of like just kick it in and just chill out while I was writing. One of the girls was Constance from Billboard magazine online. She writes for them. So she calls me the next morning and she's like, 'Yeah, I heard all the stuff that you was doin'. I heard the Kelly's 12 Flavor record,' and this and that, and that the record, 'Is that supposed to be a record with you and Mariah?' I was like, 'Yeah, I already got Mariah on that. Mariah's on that,' So she printed it, like, the same day [laughs]. Mariah hadn't even heard it. Mariah hadn't even heard it! So I just found out last night Mariah was like, 'Yeah, Nick brought me this' and he was like, 'You did a record with Dream?' She's like, 'I don't think so.'So this is crazy. L.A. Reid was calling me, the Chairman and CEO of Def Jam, calling me like, 'Are you crazy? Have you lost your mind? Are you on drugs?' And I had to think about that, then I was like, 'No, I'm not on drugs.' I was being very optimistic, you know. I was thinking so positive and if it didn't happen for me, nobody would care anyway. It's more that it did happen. So it did end up happening and now she's on my record and everybody was like, 'How did you do that?' 'cause she hadn't done a duet since Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.""I went to Def Jam and Karen Kwak is a great friend of mine. She's the president basically up on the L.A. Reid and she's the one that brought 'Umbrella' in and I went up to the building acting like a big kid. I was like, 'I ain't writing no record for nobody else if Mariah don't get on this record. Period.' And so L.A. looked at her like, 'Go get them, Tiger.'"

My Love - Coming on 1/27/2009

The-Dream's new single "My Love" featuring Mariah Carey, from his sophomore album Love & Money, is scheduled to go for adds at Top 40/Mainstream radio on Tuesday, January 27, 2009, according to the newly-updated New Releases list from All Access. Love & Money is due out in stores on Tuesday, February 17, 2009.

11 days before beeing released, "My Love" gathered 2.147 audience impressions and 102 spins.

Let's wait to see if the songs becomes a hit. The-Dream is responsible for Mariah's big 2008 hit "Touch my body".