In case you haven’t heard by now, singer-actress Christina Milian and super songwriter The-Dream have ended their marriage after only three months.

The pair first got hitched in a quickie Vegas ceremony back in September, but The-Dream’s rep has now confirmed that they’ve been separated since late 2009 — meaning they had officially split before Milian even popped out their first child Violet in February.

“Terius ‘The Dream’ Nash is saddened to announce that his marriage to Christina Milian was unsuccessful,” his rep told E! News.

“The couple reached this decision in late 2009, but decided to keep the news private in efforts to protect their baby daughter, Violet. They ask for consideration and respect for their family moving forward.”

That’s all well and good, but what does this mean for Christina’s serially-delayed fourth album Elope? The story of Elope is a long and tangled one, but I’ll try to give you the Readers Digest version.

After being dropped from Def Jam and taking some time out of the spotlight, Christina inked a new deal with MySpace Records in 2008 and begun recording a new album (which was then called ‘Dream in Color‘). One of the collaborators booked for the project were duo The-Dream & Tricky, and after a few recording sessions, Christina and The-Dream started up a romantic relationship.

After a flop single with MySpace Records (“Us Against the World”) and a newfound romance, Christina ditched the struggling label and moved over to The-Dream’s own Radio Killa Records. She then scrapped the whole ‘Dream In Color‘ project, re-titled her new album ‘Elope‘ and got The-Dream & Tricky Stewart and Los Da Mystro to produce the entire thing.

After recording a host of new music with the threesome, Christina met with Interscope Records, and after a hugely successful Elope listening party, she inked herself a distribution deal for the album. The album was then put on hold when songs from the project kept leaking online, and was then further delayed when Christina got pregnant and eloped with The-Dream for a quick Vegas marriage.

At the time, the pair were so in love that their romance even seeped into their music, with Christina recording two songs that were rumored to be about their relationship: The title track “Elope” about their impending marriage, and the boppy 80s-throwback “Too New”, which detailed their whirlwind romance and the criticism they received for getting so serious so fast.

The honeymoon period obviously didn’t last long, and the couple have now been separated since late last year. One would assume that means no Elope, right? Well, according to Christina, that’s just not true, and just last month she tweeted that she was hitting the studio in July to finish up the album. The-Dream’s girl group Electrik Red also confirmed recently that the singer is happy and still in the studio recording.

The future of Elope all depends on the current relationship between The-Dream and Christina. As of now, she’s still (to our knowledge) signed with Radio Killa Records, and unless confirmed otherwise, still has her distribution deal with Interscope. Radio Killa may not be the biggest label in the game, but they have co-released The-Dream’s reasonably successful solo albums, as well as Electrik Red’s ‘How to be a Lady Vol. 1.’

Unfortunately, things aren’t looking too good between C-Milli and her Ex right now; He was just snapped romping on the beach with his personal assistant and rumored mistress, to which Christina re-tweeted a fan’s tweet which read: “I’ve officially lost my appetite”. That was then followed by a “Ugh” tweet from Christina herself.

The-Dream & Tricky are key to Christina’s Elope working. The current stack of leaks from the album were so good that people were even speculating that The-Dream was playing favorites and giving his girl all the best beats, and if you’ve heard the original recordings from the Dream in Color project, then you’d know how badly she needs her ex on board to make things work.

What are your thoughts on the future of Christina’s music career?

The-Dream dropped by Jimmy Kimmel today to promote his just-released third album ‘Love King‘.

Backed by a bevy of beautiful babes, the songwriter performed his new single “Make Up Bag”, which is currently sitting at #47 on the R&B/Hip-Hop chart.

As always, The-Dream tries to put on a good show and gets an ‘A’ for effort, but I was too distracted by his struggle to keep his fedora on to really notice anything else.

In related news, wifey Christina Milian is still working on her long-awaited Elope album, and will hit the studio in July to finish it all up.

The-Dream is channeling his idol Prince yet again, this time on a freshly leaked song, “Yamahah”, from his upcoming Love King album.

The Prince influences are undeniable on the song, from the production (which even sounds like it could’ve come from Vanity 6) to the sexual innuendo of the lyrics – possibly a nod to Prince’s “Little Red Corvette”.

The C.S. Perspective also keenly pointed out that “Yamahah” is quite similar to The-Dream’s “Fast Car”, which appeared on his 2007 debut, ‘Love Hate’.

Anyway, anything even remotely Prince-related gets my stamp of approval, so this song is a definitely winner.

Christina Milian’s baby daddy The-Dream opens up his “Makeup Bag” in the official music video for his new single, the second to be lifted from his upcoming album ‘Love King’.

The-Dream didn’t splash much cash in the clip for his last single “Love King”, so he’s making up for his stinginess this time around with the very slick ‘n’ sleek “Makeup Bag”. Perhaps he’s trying to impress the song’s feature artist, T.I?

Mr. Milian’s Love King is set to drop on June 29, and as far as production goes I think it’s pretty obvious that he probably wrote the whole thing while Tricky and Los Da Mystro produced it. While it’s fun to clown on The-Dream, his last two albums were actually smooth R&B gold, so the new one is definitely something to keep an ear out for.

Singer, songwriter and hubby to Christina Milian, The-Dream, has taken it upon himself to cover Aaliyah’s R&B classic “One In a Million” for a new mixtape he has coming out, with truly awful results.

Though it’s hard to choose one single shining moment in Aaliyah’s near flawless back catalog, “One In a Million” sure comes close to one of the best things that the late singer ever recorded, so it’s hard to listen to The-Dream destroy what is one of the greatest songs from the 90′s from one of the greatest female artists in the history of R&B.

You take a listen to Dreams cover below if you want to out of morbid curiosity, and then to numb the pain you can watch the Aaliyah original.

As with the vast majority of Aaliyah’s music, the original “One In a Million” remains an ageless classic to this day.

The-Dream previously stated that his upcoming LP Love King will be his final solo album, but late last month he got a few pulses racing when he hinted at the possibility of a fourth album by tweeting “Love/Affair 4th LP?“. Don’t get your hopes up though, because Mr Milian is now saying that it wasn’t him who actually sent out the Tweet.

“We was having a conversation in the studio, about how if I would do another album, I would name it Love/Affair. Funny thing is, my computer was open and someone else typed it in. They put it in with a question mark and I was like ‘Why did you do that? They’re going to think it was me,’” he says.

There’s still hope though, but The-Dream says that he’ll only do the album if he can release it with a movie, similar to the Prince’s Purple Rain.

“I would have a big chance of wanting to do one if I was able to turn it into a movie like Purple Rain. Nobody wants to see someone do another album just lyrically based. When I’m telling a story, I’d much rather have someone see it,” he says. “But I don’t even know if I’m going to do Love/Affair. If I can do the movie than Love/Affair would be the soundtrack to that movie.” {source}

What the hell does he mean nobody wants to see another album that’s lyrically based? I do! If I want to watch a movie I’ll go to Blockbuster.

“Honey I’m home! I just bought this new album but it’s full of all this weird stuff like music and good lyrics. Where is the added DVD with the 3D glasses and bonus key chain? Hopefully I can still get a refund on this junk. Now hurry up honey, Avatar is about to start and I’ve only seen it ten times so far.”

The-Dream hasn’t exactly been known to be much of a ladies man, but after wifing and impregnating mega hottie Christina Milian and then dropping a few pounds himself he must be feeling pretty confident because the hitmaker is strutting around like he owns the place with a seemingly endless bevy of beauties in the music video for his new single “Love King”.

“Love King” ain’t no “Rockin’ That Shit”, but the video (and song) is pretty cute and fun.

So far it’s reached #92 on the Hot 100 and #37 on the R&B charts, but it’ll probably start doing a little better soon. “Rockin’ That Shit” took a little while to warm up but once it did it ended up being a pretty big hit.

The Love King album will be out on May 18 June.

We now have out second official leak from Ciara’s upcoming fourth album with The-Dream assisted “Speechless” hitting the web not long ago.

The-Dream & Tricky production is a romantic, dreamy mid-tempo that still knocks pretty hard. Think of it “Ribbon” from Mariah Carey’s Memoirs album, but with Ciara’s style, and you’ve got “Speechless”.

Check it out below.

It’s a good day for CiCi fans, because not only have we got this new song “Speechless”, but we’ve also got a preview of the video for her new single “Ride” with Ludacris. You can’t see too much but you can hear the song playing in the background and it doesn’t disappoint.

“Ride” sounds like a sexy, breezy, urban summer jam and I love it!

Last year The-Dream made a big fuss by carrying on and insisting that he would retire and stop releasing solo music once his third album Love King was released, but now, just like every other star in R&B and Hip-Hop that says they’re retiring, it looks like he’s gone back on his word after a recent Tweet alluded to a fourth LP.

I think we need new laws in place that specify that if anybody in urban music says that they’re retiring then it’s legally binding and they have to follow through with what they say.

Anyways The-Dreams new single “Love King” is currently No.92 on the Hot 100 and No.37 on the R&B charts, and a remix video for the song will be released on April 1st. The album is due out on May 17th. {Via yk2Daily}

Drake’s new single “Over” made a huge debut on the Hot 100 last week by storming in straight to No. 35, but the Boi-1da produced track wasn’t originally intended to be the first single from his highly-anticipated debut Thank Me Later.

The first single was, at one point, scheduled to be the Omen produced “Shut It Down” featuring The-Dream, which thankfully just made it’s way online today.

The smoldering ode to female confidence comes off like a cross between a sexy old-school Prince jam and “Houstalantavegas” from Drake’s So Far Gone mixtape, and focuses more on Drake’s R&B side rather than the harder Hip-Hop feel of “Over”.

“This song is sort of like an anthem for women, like pre-the club.” says Drake of the track. “It’s like an anthem for you to be at your house with your girlfriends getting ready, what you listen to before you get there. It’s a song for the non-famous woman to make her feel special and just to let you know that even though I’m up here and have the option to mingle wtih these ‘upper-echelon’ women, if you will, that sometimes I’d rather be with the girl from back home or a student or a girl that works at Wal-Mart. They don’t have to be a star or rich or anything like that; that’s kind of the gist of the song. It’s an empowering song for all women.”

Nice! *erases Best I Ever Had video from memory*

This song is so smooth that I actually wouldn’t be surprised if it gets sent out as the next single so it can chart high on the R&B side of things whilst “Over” handles the Hip-Hop charts.

Thank Me Later hits stores this May. Are you excited?

Mariah Carey reminds us that she has a new album coming out at the end of the month with the official remix to her song “Ribbon”.

The new version of the Memoirs… cut still has the same production from The-Dream & Tricky, but now Ludacris and The-Dream have both been tacked on with a quick cut and paste verse from the two.

I liked “Ribbon” better before, but Angels Advocate is a remix album so obviously she had to do something with the song.

Currently the lead single from Angels Advocate, “Up Out My Face Remix” featuring Nicki Minaj, is at #43 on the R&B/Hip-Hop charts after peaking at #39 last week.

What do you think the album will debut at when it’s released on March 30? I’m gonna predict somewhere around #30 or #40 with a steep drop in it’s second week.

It’d be the understatement of the century to say that Ciara’s been given a hard time by the blogs and the media since her third album Fantasy Ride tanked last year, but instead of hiding from the criticism Ciara is addressing it head on with a brand new leaked track “I’m Up In The Bank” featuring The-Dream.

“Ya need to stop actin’ all funny and stop thinkin’ about me and think about your money” spits Ciara over The-Dream & Tricky production, which is most probably still unfinished and in demo form.

“See I tried to be humble / But they be hatin’ on the pie / Hatin’ on the fly / Hatin’ on I / And they don’t even know why / What cha doin’ looks so lame / Writin’ on the blogs / I’m in the bank / And who really care about what the hell you think?”

The song returns Ciara to her urban roots, whilst showing that she’s back with a new attitude, confidence and sound. Ciara knows that this fourth album is make or break for her and she’s definitely not taking any chances. Also expect production from Darkchild and Bangladesh when the albums hits stores later this year.