The-Dream – Ménage à Trois: Sextape Vol. 1, 2, 3 (2018/2023) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

The-Dream – Ménage à Trois: Sextape Vol. 1, 2, 3 (2018/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:35:56 minutes | 1,76 GB | Genre: Soul, R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Craft Recordings

Much of The-Dream’s underappreciated body of work has been about eliminating distinctions between rap and R&B. He was a trailblazer that brought hardcore rap sensibilities to an edgeless R&B era. Now, as rappers have adapted soulful songcraft as cover for being selfish lovers, the longtime sensualist has become more interested in making a clear delineation between the two.The whopping 40-song, triple album, Ménage à Trois: Sextape Vol. 1, 2, 3, is a full-on immersion into R&B, opening with “No Rappers Allowed,” where he declares: “I ain’t no rapper, I just fuck a lot.” On his first album since 2013’s IV Play, The-Dream re-establishes himself as a musical tour de force, all while separating himself from the rap pack. “I’m calling all bodies to the bedroom/I know all the trappers, I know all the rappers/They who you see in the club, and I’m who you fuck after,” he sings on “Bedroom.” This one’s for the bump n’ grind.

Longer than either volume of Lars von Trier’s 2013 erotic epic Nymphomaniac, Ménage à Trois isn’t a listening experience without its pitfalls. The three albums are inundating and unevenly sequenced, but they are also completely and utterly fixating. The-Dream does what he does best: make love songs that treat sex as intrinsic to romance. The key to any moment of true love, he argues, is desire, and he has a rare gift for emulating and exploring that hunger, not just in his writing but in his gently cooed melodies. “Ecstasy” is a word that comes up often on the album, and his never-ending search for it takes him through hotel lobbies, into the depths of tour buses, the backseats of convertibles, turning every sexual encounter into a pas de deux.

Tracklist:

1-1. The-Dream – Hardcore Pleasure (00:52)
1-2. The-Dream – No Rappers Allowed (03:12)
1-3. The-Dream – Forever (04:37)
1-4. The-Dream – Challenger (03:11)
1-5. The-Dream – Back in Love (04:21)
1-6. The-Dream – Night Thang (04:19)
1-7. The-Dream – Tuxedo (03:48)
1-8. The-Dream – On the Regular (07:00)
1-9. The-Dream – Platter (05:15)
1-10. The-Dream – Top (04:46)
1-11. The-Dream – Hell Mary (02:02)
1-12. The-Dream – Life (04:27)
1-13. The-Dream – It’s Yo Birthday (04:16)
1-14. The-Dream – It’s Yo Birthday (Live Interlude) (00:33)
2-15. The-Dream – Temptation (01:49)
2-16. The-Dream – Bedroom (04:01)
2-17. The-Dream – NDA (07:13)
2-18. The-Dream – Ready (03:58)
2-19. The-Dream – Pull Out (04:10)
2-20. The-Dream – Change You (04:59)
2-21. The-Dream – Gorgeous (05:04)
2-22. The-Dream – Make It Rain (04:05)
2-23. The-Dream – Yours and Mine (04:26)
2-24. The-Dream – I Like (03:42)
2-25. The-Dream – Rise (05:51)
2-26. The-Dream – What It Look Like (02:56)
3-27. The-Dream – Drop Some New Shit (Intro) (00:57)
3-28. The-Dream – Drop Some New Shit (04:26)
3-29. The-Dream – Super Soaker (04:44)
3-30. The-Dream – You and I (04:05)
3-31. The-Dream – Runaway Sex (04:27)
3-32. The-Dream – Human Beings (03:19)
3-33. The-Dream – Gimmie That (03:22)
3-34. The-Dream – The Paris of the West (04:27)
3-35. The-Dream – Nikki’s Dialogue (02:35)
3-36. The-Dream – You (04:51)
3-37. The-Dream – Everytime I Kill Her (02:52)
3-38. The-Dream – Back to My Room (03:40)
3-39. The-Dream – U Got a Fan (03:07)
3-40. The-Dream – Body Fall (03:51)

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