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"Umbrella" fans can still hope for a couple more April showers before the competition starts up for a song of this summer. The-Dream, who wrote Rihanna's enjoyably lightweight hit and has sung a couple of his own-- including "Falsetto" and "Shawty Is a Ten" (also, "Da Shit")-- returns in fine form with the third video from his widely overlooked December release, Love/Hate. After an intro from Young Jeezy that calls out Hillary, Barack, DJ Drama, and Osama in a matter of seconds, "I Luv Your Girl" settles into an easygoing keyboard groove, leaving plenty of space for The-Dream's smoothly R. Kelly-esque vocals about a love triangle. Not sure how this will sound on radio, because a high-pitched f-bomb/n-bomb one-two punch is this song's equivalent of the "Umbrella" ella-ella and "Falsetto" ooh-ooh. However, the video is the usual in-da-club fare, with Jeezy and The-Dream sporting a variety of baseball caps and partying while scantily clad dancers do their thing in front of multi-colored lights. "I pray that y'all ain't serious, 'cause seriously she's on my dick," The-Dream explains. Try using that line at a bar and then, as The-Dream does here, draping yourself in the American flag. Ahh, spring.

[from Love/Hate; out now on Def Jam]