Guests on the album include Cee-Lo, Q-Tip, Chico DeBarge, Big Pun and Eightball.

Two music videos were made: "Don't Stop" (directed by Diane Martel) and "On Point" f/Big Pun & Eightball.

Dawn, elegiac tone poems like 'Ask Heaven' and 'Dancin’ in the Night' stretch rap’s definition well beyond typical r&b structures.

"[7] The Orlando Sentinel wrote that "the New Yorker's production contains a winning combination of rocklike, sultry and R&B tracks.

"[8] The New Pittsburgh Courier deemed it D's "most personal album to date," writing that "the range of topics and themes go from 'go-for-yours' party jams to songs dealing with grief, loss and pain.