just B.E.

We here at B.E. would be foolish to deny the hotness that is The Dream’s new album, Love (me all summer)/Hate (me all winter), but we’d also be falling off our game if we didn’t recognize his heavy swagger-jacking of some certain music greats.

Take the new single, “Fast Car,” for example. As much as dude samples Prince’s sound through both music and adlibs, he should have just called it “Red Corvette.” You aren’t fooling us on “She Needs My Love,” either—hardcore Jodeci fans know a K-Ci run when they hear it, Dream. And didn’t Ginuwine just come out with “Falsetto” about a year ago? Yeah…it was called “When We Make Love.”

The album is solid, but it’s hard to respect genius when it’s just a remix of previous genius. We’d get to the R.Kelly impersonations, but we figure he doesn’t deserve any more credit until a judge tells us he’s innocent of freaking the same children his music helped make.