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Dappy has promised to reform N-Dubz.
The 'Beautiful Me' rapper found fame with the group - also featuring Fazer and Tulisa - in 2008 when they released their debut album 'Uncle B', but they announced a hiatus in November 2011 after releasing two further records, 'Against All Odds' and 'Love.Live.Life'.
However, the 27-year-old musician is keen to continue his successful solo career before he reunites the trio, despite the group originally claiming the hiatus would only last two years.
He explained: "I've had three number ones by myself, I want another two under my belt so then you get that respect, then I'll bring back the group."
The star - who has sons Gino, six, and Milo, four - is hoping to release his second solo album 'Miracles' later this year in a bid to build on the success of 2012's 'Bad Intentions', but said when the group do eventually reform, it will be "different" and "unique".
He told MTV News: "You're gonna see N-Dubz and Tulisa and Fazer in a very different way. It's gonna be something very interesting.
"If I bring back the N-Dubz, I'll definitely think of something very smart and unique to come back with."

Laura Mvula wants to make a dance record.
The 'Green Garden' singer released her debut album 'Sing to the Moon' in 2013 and is now considering what route to take with her second LP, on which she hopes to work with legendary Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers.
Speaking exclusively to BANG Showbiz, she revealed: "I keep talking about wanting to work with Nile Rodgers, because I think that could be an exciting experiment."
Although the 28-year-old singer-songwriter - whose recent show at The Paradiso in Amsterdam with The Metropole Orkest will be screened in cinemas around the world on March 5 - is in no rush to release another collection of tracks, she admitted she is considering making a series of upbeat tracks to counteract the "melancholy" tones of her debut.
She continued: "I have no idea what will come next, but I know that I can feed on myself, and at the moment I just really want to dance and be lifted. I think 'Sing to the Moon' was a real reflective album, it was very inward, and melancholy in a joyful way. I think there'll still be those colours in whatever comes next, but I would also like to make people dance."
However, she confessed she is feeling pressure following the success of her first album - which led to a Mercury Prize nod and two BRIT Award nominations - so is taking some time out to think about the themes and sound of her new tracks.
She added: "The best thing and the worst thing about my first album is it has no style. So that's wonderful because people go, 'Laura, you created something entirely new,' but that also means for me, what comes next? It's going to take a minute for me to figure that out."

Britney Spears "was like a kid in a candy store" when she first heard Iggy Azalea.
The 'Womanizer' hitmaker revealed she was really excited about the rapper when she first saw her video to chart-topping single 'Fancy', and was desperate to work with her straight away.
She explained: "I saw her song on TV and I was like a kid in a candy store, I was like, I love Iggy, I love that video, I want to work with her."
Thankfully, the 24-year-old musician heard Britney - who has sons Sean, nine, and Jayden, eight - was a fan, which led to the pair heading into the studio together in December to work on a series of tracks.
She told Extra TV: "It was really weird, because a week after that her manager was like, 'She's a huge fan of yours.' I was like, 'Let's do something together,' so it worked out."
The 33-year-old pop star is now planning on releasing one of their collaborations as the first single from her as-yet untitled ninth studio album, with Iggy - who released her debut LP, 'The New Classic', last year - previously teasing the track is "undeniably great".
She said: "We recorded a few different things and then one of those just ended up being, I think, undeniably great. Hopefully everybody will get to hear it at the beginning of next year.
"I think people are really going to love it and enjoy it. It's a really fun track."

Madonna thinks Kanye West is a "brilliant madman".
The 56-year-old singer thinks the 'Bound 2' hitmaker can be "inappropriate" with his opinions but she is astonished by some of his ideas.
She said: "He can't help himself. Like, he doesn't have the same filters other people have.
"He has to blurt things out, he's always saying inappropriate stuff. But he also has brilliant ideas, if you can get him to pay attention long enough, working with him in the studio."
And the 'Hung Up' hitmaker admits working on her new album, 'Rebel Heart', with Kanye and some of her other collaborators drove her "bonkers" because of their lack of focus and easily-distracted ways.
She said: "He would drive me bonkers, because he's got so many things going on in his life. And this seemed to be the theme of my record, working with people who can't get off their phone, can't stop tweeting, can't focus and finish a song. It drove me crazy. But when they did pay attention, it was brilliant. I was, like, running around with a butterfly net."
Last month, Kanye tried to interrupt Beck as he accepted the Album of the Year prize at the Grammy awards to signal that, like at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards - when he interrupted Taylor Swift's acceptance speech - he felt Beyonce should have picked up the accolade, and Madonna thinks he picked the wrong time and place to try and make a statement.
She told the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine: "Don't go to awards shows looking for justice.
"That's like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Just go and have fun. I never got too engaged with who wins awards or not, because I don't honestly think it's that important.
"So that part of him I can't relate to. Like, what's the point of fighting for somebody to...like, 'This person should have got it?'...I think sometimes he takes things too seriously."
While Madonna doesn't always agree with Kanye, she thinks he is good for the music industry.
She said: "I feel like the music business needs him, because everyone's become so politically correct, so safe.
"I don't always agree with the things he says or does - I don't always like his music, even. But he's a beautiful mess. I love him."

David Guetta isn't worried about making hit music.
The 'Titanium' hitmaker may have a long list of hit tracks to his name but he has admitted he feels less pressure to make chart-topping tracks now because his last album 'Nothing But The Beat' was "full" of them.
He said: "It's a terrible feeling because I don't like thinking I have to make a hit.
"I feel so happy now because the album is full of hits and now I can just go the studio and have fun and not make hits."
The 47-year-old record producer also admitted to feeling "pressure" to make songs that are different and believes his latest tracks 'Dangerous' and 'What I Did For Love' have helped him to achieve what he had wished.
Speaking on BBC Radio 1's The Official Chart Show with Clara Amfo, he said: "But that's why I took my time because I don't like working under pressure like this.
"The pressure was not so much about making hits but it was being able to make something different from before. That was a lot of pressure.
"I'm very happy, I'm very proud because I think those records like 'Dangerous' and 'What I Did For Love' are different to anything I've done before. That was my challenge."

Calvin Harris and Kasabian are set to headline at this year's V Festival.
The global platinum-selling artist, 31, and the iconic rockers will take to the Virgin Media stage across the weekend of August 22 and 23 in Hylands Park, Chelmsford and Weston Park, Staffordshire to celebrate the event's 20th anniversary.
Calvin said: "V Festival is always an incredible time and I can't wait to headline it this year."
Kasabian's Sergio Pizzorno added that the English group - also consisting of Tom Meighan, Christopher Karloff and Chris Edwards - were "very excited" to perform at the extravaganza.
The headliners will be joined by some of Britain's finest talent including; Sam Smith, Ellie Goulding, The Script, Paloma Faith, Olly Murs, Ella Henderson, Kodaline, Nero and George Ezra.
Festival Director, Simon Moran, said: "We wanted to champion British talent at this year's festival and with the likes of Calvin and Kasabian leading the way we don't think it'll disappoint."
There will also be sets from The Kooks, Marina & The Diamonds, The Proclaimers, Jess Glynne and Jessie Ware, as well as many more acts to be announced in the coming weeks.
Tickets for Virgin Media's V Festival go on sale from March 6 at 9am on www.vfestival.com.

The Overtones' Timmy Matley has been "taken back to [his] childhood" with their new album 'Sweet Soul Music'.
The Irish singer - who stars alongside Mark Franks, Lachie Chapman, Mike Crawshaw and Darren Everest in the group - says their new soul album featuring classics like Marvin Gaye's 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine' has caused him to go on a journey back in time.
Speaking exclusively to BANG Showbiz, Timmy explained: "I'm really proud of taking on some of these songs. It was a bit daunting at times, but it's definitely taken me back to my childhood, listening to that music and having a real love for it.
"I remember flicking through my mum's old LPs, blowing the dust off them and flicking them on."
What's more, he said that the new record underlined the band's growth, suggesting they've taken more risks with their fourth album.
He said: "We realised that for this album, it was about us spreading our wings. It has a bit more grit and energy, but with that, there are also some really loving, tender moments."
The album features some soul classics and Timmy revealed the five-piece harmony outfit used some old-school recording techniques to achieve the sound they were looking for.
He shared: "We're really proud of this album. It's definitely about us thinking about how they recorded songs back in the era, and back in those days, they recorded together in the same studio around a mic each.
"They created that whole feel live in the studio and that's what we wanted with this album. And I think we've achieved a fuller sound with this record. We're really singing from the heart."

Gregory Porter thinks Disclosure's new album is better than their debut.
The jazz singer has worked with the brothers on a track for the follow-up to their 2013 chart-topping record 'Settle', and believes fans will find their new material even better because it has been influenced by their experiences in the past few years.
When asked if the collection is an improvement on their first album, he told BANG Showbiz: "Any time maturity and experience enters into the mix along with musical talent, that helps, so I think the fans will be quite happy with the second record. So yeah, I'm giving it to you, yes. It is!
"There's some funky stuff coming. Rest assured it'll be a cool record."
The 43-year-old star - whose Grammy Award-winning third studio album 'Liquid Spirit' is currently at number nine in the UK album charts - admitted he is yet to hear the track he recorded with Guy, 20, and Howard, 23, so has no idea how it will sound.
He explained: "I haven't heard the final mix and I'm sure they're going to put two or three, or four or five different feels on it to see which run they want to go with. But essentially, my portion of it, I came in with my love-based soulful musical expression over the chords and beat that they had going at the time, which y'know, they may go into the musical laboratory and put a different spin on it. I'm interested in all different types of music and different ways to get my musical expressions out, so I'm excited about it."
The deluxe edition of 'Liquid Spirit' is on sale now.

Mumford & Sons will release their new album 'Wilder Mind' in May.
The 'I Will Wait' hitmakers, featuring Marcus Mumford, Ben Lovett, Winston Marshall and Ted Dwane, have warned fans not to expect their trademark folk sound on their new LP because they decided to ditch the instruments they used on their first two albums, 'Sigh No More (2009) and 'Babel' (2012), while working on their latest release.
Frontman Marcus said: "We felt that doing the same thing, or the same instrumentation again, just wasn't for us.
"We've got a broader taste in music than just that."
Bassist Ted added: "None of us had really any interest in doing a sort of 'Babel 2'. It was always going to be different."
The 12-track album, which will be released on May 5, will instead feature a move towards a more electronic sound, which is something that surprised some members of the band.
On walking into a studio filled with synthesizers, Ted said: "It was bizarre. I didn't expect we were going to do the same thing again - but this was crazy!"
As well as the change in genre, the Grammy-winning group explained the highly-anticipated LP has been influenced by New York where Marcus and Winston live, as well as the themes of love and heartbreak, after both Ted and Winston ended long-term relationships.
Ted explained: "Half of the band has gone one way towards this sort of happy marriage, and the other half has gone the opposite direction to a lonely single existence.
"So there was sort of two people writing from one spectrum and two people writing from the opposite spectrum. Certainly the sentiments expressed on the album are all drawn from personal experience, unfortunately."

The tracklist for 'Wilder Mind' is as follows:
1. 'Tompkins Square Park'
2. 'Believe'
3. 'The Wolf'
4. 'Wilder Mind'
5. 'Just Smoke'
6. 'Monster'
7. 'Snake Eyes'
8. 'Broad-Shouldered Beasts'
9. 'Cold Arms'
10. 'Ditmas'
11. 'Only Love'
12. 'Hot Gates'