How The-Dream Wrote Rihanna’s “Umbrella” | Genius Level

In 2007, The-Dream wrote one of the biggest hits of the decade—Rihanna's "Umbrella." In this excerpt of the first installment of 'Genius Level,' Terius “The-Dream” Nash explains how quickly the song came together.

[Exyume]

The dream wrote every hit in existence

[feyrol]

He wrote a lot of the 2000s-2010s pop hits. Crazy talent!

[MrEternity]

The dream wrote quite a few of Rihanna's music and I didn't even realize it

[dcmavel]

This guy doesn't get nearly enough credit

[brittanicunningham]

who's the idiot texting during this in the back, I'd be so excited to be there..

[DinosaurSuccess]

some extra info from wikipedia:

Stewart was "messing around with a walloping hi-hat sound", which he found in the free music software GarageBand, which is included in all Mac computers. With his attention caught by the sound, Nash asked Stewart what he was doing: "Oh, my Gosh, what is that beat?". When Stewart incorporated chords onto the hi-hat, "immediately the word popped into [Nash's] head"; he went to the vocal booth and started singing.[1] Nash wrote the first two verses and the chorus over Stewart's skeleton track.[2] They quickly wrote the lyrics, completing the first verse in 60 seconds. They continued into writing, adding the hook while "[Stewart] would put the next chord". In a matter of hours, they had recorded a demo of the track.[1]

[brianscottblowers]

JUST SO Y’ALL KNOW.. the drum loop that was found for this song was from Garage Band. A free recording software. Just goes to show you, if you know what you’re doing, you can make a hit with ANYTHINH

[Mr.Meeseeks.]

my cousin tricky won a grammy for producing this

[tizdaszn]

Should've known by the Ella Ella eyy eyyy that eyyy eyyy in most of his songs

[missluna]

The Dream, I loved you back then, I love you now!

[RexTheWolf]

So he wrote my favorite song by my favorite girl

[kingtraf]

So....did you write it, freestyle it, did somebody else write it or what? Im so lost

[zayis]

If this was Drake’s song y’all would be sayin I knew he had a ghostwriter.

[TheNadiagabriela]

Yo escuche hace tiempo la canción umbrella cantada por un grupo de varones afroamericanos de la década de los 50 o 60 capas. Pero si era de hace muchísimo

[ykchosen]

I have a hard time believing rihanna writes her own music. cause on loud she was too lazy to do anything except record.

[phonzthezomb]

shit future wrote blue berry yumyum by Ludacris

[loveandpeace_totheworld]

Thought he said he wrote this song with Britney in
You can stand under my umbrella - as in hey britney come stand under my umbrella I will protect u

[sayless]

He was most likely channeling demons, because the song is demonic, and says that there is no God in Hebrew, "La Elah." Think about it, the song and all of its lyrics came to him... he didn't have to think or write anything down...Jesus is the truth yall, believe in him and be saved.

[TheNicoMalone]

Crazy how there was a dude on the phone the entire time he was talking..cmon bruh

[gangster]

the dream we want rihanna and jessie j on a song