UPDATE: The-Dream's Crown release has a new drop date. Originally slated for late March, the EP now drops April 14, according to an Instagram post. Crown will be followed by a second EP titled Jewel, making one full album.  

No date has been announced for Jewel. 

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There’s no slowing down The-Dream. The newlywed is busy working on two new EPs, Crown and Jewel, to be released this year.

Crown, which features the T.I.-assisted single “That's My S**t!,” makes its debut on March 31, followed by Jewel at a later date, Vibe reports. Both projects will come out on Dream’s Contra Paris label and return the Radio Killah with his partner in making hits, Christopher “Tricky” Stewart.

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According to the talk with Vibe, the mini-albums show different styles. “Crown is more modern R&B, and Jewel will be more what you might think of as my songwriter side, the songs I might have given to other artists before,” he said. “If you put me in a box, Jewel is more what you get when that box is open. But I’m not limited by any box I’ve been put in — every year I’m expanding and growing, and it makes for a more interesting plot.”

Fans will have to wait to see if the EPs lead into a full-length studio album this year. Dream's last album, IV Play, arrived in 2013. 

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