{"id":1230,"date":"2026-07-09T17:13:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T00:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2026-07-10T20:47:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:47:54","slug":"the-dream-love-hate-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/the-dream-love-hate-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"The-Dream &#8211; Love\/Hate II"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/embed.tidal.com\/albums\/540959424\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width:100%;height:700px\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nineteen years later, The-Dream finally drops the official sequel. <em>Love\/Hate II<\/em> is here\u2014seventeen tracks of pure Radio Killa magic. This is his first major-label album since <em>IV Play<\/em>, and he went all the way back to the sound that made him. Same vocal chain, same vibe, same freaky, glamorous, late-night energy that made the original a classic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is Dream in full auteur mode. Sex, obsession, luxury, revenge, devotion\u2014all the classic themes, just refined and darker. <em>Love\/Hate II<\/em> doesn\u2019t try to reinvent him. It just reminds everyone why he was one of the best to ever do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nineteen years later, The-Dream finally drops the official sequel. Love\/Hate II is here\u2014seventeen tracks of pure Radio Killa magic. This is his first major-label album since IV Play, and he went all the way back to the sound that made him. Same vocal chain, same vibe, same freaky, glamorous, late-night energy that made the original [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,21,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album","category-rb-rhythm-and-blues","category-rhythm-and-blues","category-rnb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1259,"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions\/1259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}