Dawn Richard Released From Bad Boy, Releases New Song “Change”

Dawn Richard has parted ways from Bad Boy and is now focused on doing her own thing.

In an interview with Bossip, she recently revealed that although she’s still working with Diddy when it comes to Dirty Money, he has released her from the label so that she can work on her solo project independently.

“Puff has been really great with being supportive of me starting a solo career, and he’s agreed to let me go from Bad Boy. I’m really grateful to him. He didn’t have to do that. He could have been what they say that he would be, and he wasn’t at all. He gave me a business decision. It was a very amicable decision. Now, it’s just about the music, and I want to make him and them proud of believing in me enough to let me go try it.”

Mind you, artists aren’t able to get out of their contracts that easy. It took Mase ten years to get Diddy to release him from his Bad Boy contract.

Dawn is now trying to bring a different sound to R&B which she says is “raw and militant,” and she just released a track that captures it. Titled “Change” it’s a song that finds Dawn in a place where she needs to stop taking her man for granted in order to keep him with her. She sings over the laid-back beat, “It ain’t changed. It’s still the same. I still love you like the angels do.”

Listen below.

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Video: Dawn Richard – “S.M.F.U.” (Save Me From You)

Dawn looks gorge in the black and white video for her new single“Save Me From You.”

While going through heart-wrenching emotions with her dancers, Dawn rocks a new asymmetrical cut, shows off her butterfly wing back tattoo and gives viewers some choreography straight from her Danity Kane days.

“SMFU” is the first single from Dawn’s upcoming solo debut ‘Goldenheart,’ which is the first in a proposed trilogy of albums she’ll release in the future. This track shows Dawn doing her thing on the ballad side, which she always excels in, but it sort of reminds us of Brandy’s entire ‘Human‘ album. Even with that, the track has a cool concept: Your boyfriend is a superhero, but he always saves you last.

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Video: Dawn Richard – Passion In Motion

Dawn Richards dancing to her single "December Sky".

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Dawn Richard Featured in Edge Magazine

It’s been six years since Dawn Richard was chosen to be a part of Diddy’s ‘Making the Band,’ picked from over 10,000 auditions nationwide. As a member of Danity Kane, Dawn toured the world, topped the charts, and became a part of Bad Boy history, but the trials that she went through during and after her catapult to stardom is what really helped shape the singer to what she is today. Dawn caught up with Edge magazine and talked about her new mixtape, ‘A Tell Tale Heart,’ how she found her strength after Danity Kane disbanded and how Dirty Money came to pass after she was unemployed and without a label:


On Her New Mixtape
“I wanted people to literally fall into my heart. And if they could hear each beat of my heart those songs would be the sound. If you took a walk in my heart those songs would be the soundtrack.”

“Releasing the mixtape was the best thing I could have done but I was so scared. The day it came out I just shut my computer, I really didn’t want to bomb. I didn’t even know if people wanted a solo project from me and I didn’t want to force it on them.[...]Literally if A Tell Tale Heart is a fall into my heart then Golden Heart [her upcoming solo project] is the actual putting on the armor and walking to the journey of it all.”

On Finding Her Strength
“No one will trust in you if you don’t trust in yourself. In the beginning it was feeling sorry for what I’ve been through but as a woman now? I love who I am. Every time I fall, I feel like I dodge the next crack.”

On Life After Danity Kane’s Break-Up
“There was no solo career, contrary to popular belief. I didn’t know where the next check was coming from and I refused to stay in that position.”

After that, Dawn began submitting new records to former boss Diddy daily, and it was then that he approached her about forming a new group with songwriter Kaleena Harper, birthing what we now know as Dirty Money.


“Kaleena and I were going through our own paths and journeys in love. We felt that if Puff wanted to tell a story of a woman he needed to have a woman’s perspective.”

“There are a lot of girls like me”, she says with intensity, “I represent reality. There are those artists who are untouchable and larger than life and then you have those artists who are you and people need that, the artists that you feel are really telling your story.”

Dawn is one of those artists that you want to see win

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