Simpin Ain't Easy: The Official Thread For Drake's Sophomore Album, TAKE CARE

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Against my better judgement I'm actually kind of... anticipating... the new Drake album. I mean, look at the cover:

also, the tracklist look kind of intersting:

1. Shot For Me (produced by 40)
2. Headlines (produced by Boi-1da & 40)
3. The Ride featuring The Weeknd (produced by 40)
4. Marvin's Room (produced by 40)
5. Club Paradise (produced by 40)
6. Her Regrets (Interlude) featuring The Weeknd (produced by The-Dream & 40)
7. Her Regrets featuring The Weeknd (produced by The-Dream & 40)
8. All Kinds featuring Justin Timberlake (produced by Timbaland)
9. The Real Her featuring Lil' Wayne (produced by Streetrunner)
10. Good Ones(produced by Lex Luger)
11. Sing For Me (Interlude)(produced by Jamie XX)
12. Free Spirit featuring Rick Ross(produced by 40)
13. Lord Knows (produced by Just Blaze)
14. Doing It Wrong featuring Stevie Wonder (produced by 40 & Quincy Jones)
15. Never Enough featuring The Weeknd (produced by 40)
16. To My City (produced by 9th Wonder)
17. Take Care featuring Nas, J.Cole, Eightball & MJG (produced by Hit-Boy & Chase N. Cashe)
18. Yours Sincerely featuring Stevie Wonder (produced by 40 & Stevie Wonder)

plus I liked a coupe of tracks on his first album.

Tyler the Creator Knows White People (The Brainwasher), Sunday, 25 September 2011 01:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

tumbl dude (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 25 September 2011 01:02 (1 year ago) Permalink



Tyler the Creator Knows White People (The Brainwasher), Sunday, 25 September 2011 01:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

tumbl dude (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 25 September 2011 01:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

Ball & G seem a little out of place on that tracklist

Number None, Sunday, 25 September 2011 01:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

nah they totally fit, Drake sips lean and catches bodies now

Tyler the Creator Knows White People (The Brainwasher), Sunday, 25 September 2011 01:06 (1 year ago) Permalink

"Headlines" is like the height of 'this idiot can make any old bullshit a hit at this point'

some dude, Sunday, 25 September 2011 02:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

eh i think headlines is fine for what it is. at least he doesnt have any major clunkers on it

sorry for party blogging (D-40), Sunday, 25 September 2011 02:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

i def like the overall vibe of it more than "Over" which might be my least favorite hip hop hit of the past few years

sorry for party blogging (D-40), Sunday, 25 September 2011 02:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

Is Whiney posting the dead Angelfire img on purpose now for some sort of "hilarious" zing?

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Sunday, 25 September 2011 02:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

"headlines" doesn't have clunkers like a lot of his songs but it has a total absence of anything remotely good, which most of his songs at least have a little hint of

some dude, Sunday, 25 September 2011 02:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

i want to orchestrate a fake leak of this album that's a 79-minute loop of "we threw a party yeah we through a party, bitches came over yeah we threw a party"

some dude, Sunday, 25 September 2011 02:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Sunday, 25 September 2011 02:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol otm

sorry for party blogging (D-40), Sunday, 25 September 2011 02:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

i guess i just vibed w/ the ch-ch-ch-ch part of the beat that sounded good in a radio mix i heard

sorry for party blogging (D-40), Sunday, 25 September 2011 02:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

as i think i've said in other threads, i'm mentally preparing to have this album in my top 10 of the year

J0rdan S., Sunday, 25 September 2011 02:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

smh

sorry for party blogging (D-40), Sunday, 25 September 2011 02:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

three weeknd cameos gets the gasface tho

J0rdan S., Sunday, 25 September 2011 02:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah but two of the Weeknd songs are produced by The-Dream...... so i'm very conflicted.

Tyler the Creator Knows White People (The Brainwasher), Sunday, 25 September 2011 02:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

I'd consider that more two and a half, really. But I think the Drake-guesting Weeknd track was the only one I went back to on the last mix, so maybe they won't be awful? But, tbh, at this point I can't see myself listening to this whole thing until I get bored and its on Spotify.

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Sunday, 25 September 2011 02:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

hope that jamie xx joint has some rapping & it isn't just an instrumental interlude

17. Take Care featuring Nas, J.Cole, Eightball & MJG (produced by Hit-Boy & Chase N. Cashe)

this sounds fucking retarded tho

J0rdan S., Sunday, 25 September 2011 02:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

agl

Corn Maze to the Dark Side (Eazy), Sunday, 25 September 2011 02:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

i have definitely done some succumbing to marvin's room

flopper? i hardly know'er (flopson), Sunday, 25 September 2011 02:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

18. Yours Sincerely featuring Stevie Wonder (produced by 40 & Stevie Wonder)

i wish this was Sincerely Yours (produced by Air France)

J0rdan S., Sunday, 25 September 2011 02:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

when drake gives things titles like "yours sincerely" and "october's very own" he just seems even more twee than he already is

some dude, Sunday, 25 September 2011 02:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

only one boi-1da beat is also a point in this album's favor

J0rdan S., Sunday, 25 September 2011 02:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

mostly 40 means almost a full hour of morose submarine music

some dude, Sunday, 25 September 2011 02:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

sign me up

J0rdan S., Sunday, 25 September 2011 02:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

ugh son

some dude, Sunday, 25 September 2011 02:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

kelsey grammar...down periscope

johnny crunch, Sunday, 25 September 2011 02:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

this fake tracklist is cracking me up

Take Care Tracklist

1. Frolicking (Intro)
2. Jimmy Back feat. Meek Millz & Rick Ross
3. I Wanna Save You….(From You) feat. Trey Songz
4. My Eyebrows Say Yes, My Heart Says No feat. Swizz Beatz & Bruno Mars
5. Bar Mitzvah Money feat. Asher Roth
6. Peacock Feathers feat. Kanye West, T.I. & Lady Gaga
7. If I Were A Man feat. Nicki Minaj & Solange
8. Aub’s Interlude
9. Mr Fancy Pants feat. T-Pain
10. Heart Throbbing feat. Lil Wayne
11. Fuckin U Til I Cry feat. Justin Bieber
12. Signed, Sealed….Heartbroken feat. Trey Songz
13. Gallop To Me feat. Chris Brown & Rihanna
14. Let Me Fluff feat. The Eurythmics & DJ Khaled
15. Young Angel’s Outro

J0rdan S., Sunday, 25 September 2011 02:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

lmao, can't get over this thread title

een, Sunday, 25 September 2011 03:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

what is wrong with you guys

k3vin k., Sunday, 25 September 2011 04:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

wah wah

http://twitter.com/#!/Drake/statuses/118863263726452736

yung huma (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 04:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

"headlines" doesn't have clunkers like a lot of his songs but it has a total absence of anything remotely good, which most of his songs at least have a little hint of

― some dude, Saturday, September 24, 2011 7:08 PM Bookmark

otm, totally unmemorable in any way

Ford Cumlord (The Reverend), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 21:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

i think this is just a well written verse (except for the napkin part obv)

[Verse 1:]
I might be too strung out on compliments
Overdosed on confidence
Started not to give a fuck and stopped fearing the consequence
Drinking every night because we drink to my accomplishments
Faded way too long I'm floating in and out of consciousness
And they sayin' I'm back, I'd agree with that
I just take my time with all this shit, I still believe in that
I had someone tell me I fell off, ohh I needed that
And they wanna see me pick back up, well where'd I leave it at
I know I exaggerated things, now I got it like that
Tuck my napkin in my shirt, cause I'm just mobbin' like that
You know good and well that you don't want a problem like that
You gone make someone around me catch a body like that
No don't do it, please don't do it, cause one of us goes in
And we all go through it
Drizzy got the money, so Drizzy gone pay it
Those my brothers, I ain't even gotta say it
That's just something they know

yung huma (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 22:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

j0rdan you're slipping man, i'm worried about you

wes2gully (some dude), Thursday, 29 September 2011 00:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

we should stage an intervention

Ford Cumlord (The Reverend), Thursday, 29 September 2011 02:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

weird song

yung huma (J0rdan S.), Friday, 14 October 2011 05:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

maybe just boring? :(

niels, Friday, 14 October 2011 09:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

liked nickis verse though :) (dunno about the lyrics)

niels, Friday, 14 October 2011 09:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

no i actually like it a lot, it just feels a bit stitched together towards the end

J0rdan S., Friday, 14 October 2011 09:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

i'm feeling the rhythm sure but i guess i'm looking for something catchy in drake (my mistake?) and this hook doesn't really stick (probably because it's monotonous but maybe that's actually just how drake rolls come to think of it).

niels, Friday, 14 October 2011 09:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

rubbish

"i'm so i'm so i'm so" is not a fucking chorus

r|t|c, Friday, 14 October 2011 10:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

Whats the point? If I’m guardin
Double D up hoes, Dolly Parton

^ good

I wonder why the moon looks nice, girl
Maybe it’s just right for the night

^ bad

r|t|c, Friday, 14 October 2011 10:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

so bad and boring, briefly comes alive for nicki's verse but that's about all

lex pretend, Friday, 14 October 2011 10:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

super patronising too, like is he her dad or something??

lex pretend, Friday, 14 October 2011 10:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

I feel like this thread should be retitled "Throw on Your Best Cardigan and Celebrate Fall 2011 with Drake"

The Reverend, Monday, 24 October 2011 03:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

Celebrate Commiserate

The Reverend, Monday, 24 October 2011 03:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

I ain't saying that you have to like dude, or that you can't hate him (lol I was talkin trash against him like only weeks ago)...

just like, you seem to be unusually offended by this dude and his recent release! between criticizing people for listening to it too soon after it came out "like fanboys", etc.

aw man, cuz man, we here to stay...ay (Neanderthal), Saturday, 19 November 2011 12:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

this isn't unusually offended by my standards at all. i feel this kind of hate at least once a month, and that's just re: music

all i see is angels in my eyes (lex pretend), Saturday, 19 November 2011 12:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah neanderthal this is pretty mild rhetoric from lex, you must be new here

quit /stalking/ me 2.0 (some dude), Saturday, 19 November 2011 12:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

he the best?

Neanderthal, Saturday, 19 November 2011 13:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

HE THE LEX! WHO? HE!

quit /stalking/ me 2.0 (some dude), Saturday, 19 November 2011 14:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

this album is really cotton candy-ish that it feels like a slog around the 50 minute mark (and unfortunately it's got 29 more to go). I like this for sure but have to break up each section.

Neanderthal, Saturday, 19 November 2011 17:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

http://catswholooklikedrake.tumblr.com

ice cr?m, Sunday, 20 November 2011 00:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

hua hsu weighs in: http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7250767/drake-take-care

i liked his piece on watch the throne but this one is a little muddled, although i suppose my thoughts on the album are somewhat muddled too. just for the h8rs, he devotes a full paragraph to gushing about crew love :) anyways, he's otm a lot of the time, esp when he says that drake's swag is first and foremost a coping mechanism.

lil jon & vangelis (fennel cartwright), Sunday, 20 November 2011 05:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

just

max, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

"Spritzer in hand, he spreads himself out on the couch and acknowledges that, yes, he had a spell there when he was fucking tons of girls...but that just wasn't right for him"

max, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:43 (1 year ago) Permalink

"The fire starts to die out, Sixteen Candles comes to an end, and I ask if I can see his closet"

max, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:43 (1 year ago) Permalink

as i said on twitter, this is real deal amazing

konybrony (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

*skins peels off own body, crawls somewhere to die*

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

When I ask about the strange square above the bed, he grabs a remote, and a projection system emerges from the ceiling. Neato, I say.

"Would I have you already?" he asks. "Are you sleeping with me?"

Time to go!

It's a hypothetical question (I think), but Drake, being Drake, still wants an answer: "We had wine and dinner by the pool, I brought you inside, I brought the projector down; are you or are you not sleeping with me?"

The Reverend, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

can't believe the description of their succulent dinner got cut

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

once again i am reminded of the admonition an exec gave to a friend of mine who was editing a ludacris documentary a few years ago: "you need to put in more lifestyle porn"

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

He gestures to the pool, the tennis court, the volleyball court, the stables. "It's really difficult for me to find something that makes me feel small."

art dealin' thru the west coast (tpp), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

while sipping on a wine spritzer

just sayin, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

spritzin' ain't easy

art dealin' thru the west coast (tpp), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

4 weeks pass...

holy shit drake's flow on HYFR is the biggest trainwreck

deejeridoo (some dude), Thursday, 12 April 2012 16:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

Drake: 'I'm the first person to successfully rap and sing'

omg just DO ONE you worthless moron

lex pretend, Friday, 27 July 2012 09:10 (10 months ago) Permalink

chamillionaire would like a word w u

electric point-electric counterpoint (m bison), Friday, 27 July 2012 13:30 (10 months ago) Permalink

Missy Elliott would also like a word, as would Eve, the ghost of Left Eye, Nelly, Flo Rida, etc etc etc

keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 27 July 2012 13:34 (10 months ago) Permalink

the army of singing rappers would like a word, mr graham

electric point-electric counterpoint (m bison), Friday, 27 July 2012 13:36 (10 months ago) Permalink

at this pt, I'm ok with a trade embargo w canada that bans this fool from our country

electric point-electric counterpoint (m bison), Friday, 27 July 2012 13:37 (10 months ago) Permalink

it's really fucking embarrassing that I can't resist the beat to "The Motto" because honestly he needs to stfu

keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 27 July 2012 13:39 (10 months ago) Permalink

dan have you heard this? http://soundcloud.com/funkystepzuk/funkystepz-x-drake-yolo-miami

J0rdan S., Friday, 27 July 2012 14:58 (10 months ago) Permalink

oh god are you going to point me at more Drake songs I end up liking, because I really don't think my soul can handle that

keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 27 July 2012 15:01 (10 months ago) Permalink

I haven't been this personally invested in thoroughly despising an artist's output regardless of actual quality since... well I was going to say I was a teenager but then I remember R. Kelly

keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 27 July 2012 15:02 (10 months ago) Permalink

no that's a remix that keeps the best bits of "the motto" while rendering drake unrecognisable and slyly taking the piss out of him!

lex pretend, Friday, 27 July 2012 15:02 (10 months ago) Permalink

i love it and i am also very invested in hating drake for being a worthless damp patch

lex pretend, Friday, 27 July 2012 15:03 (10 months ago) Permalink

I listen to Take Care every six or seven weeks and find another song I can stand on the back half; but like DJP I don't wanna get too close either.

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 July 2012 15:04 (10 months ago) Permalink

oh hey this is great

although chipmunking Drake is possibly the most unnecessary thing to do in the world, lol

keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 27 July 2012 15:04 (10 months ago) Permalink

Can I just volunteer that life becomes much easier and more enjoyable when you realize it isn't really worth the time to hate Drake? He's not Chris Brown; there's no moral imperative to despise his music.

I've come to regard him as the Family Guy at this point: He's going to irk me sometimes, he's going to amuse me at others, but since he's everywhere, all the time, I might as well just get used to him.

Evan R, Friday, 27 July 2012 15:08 (10 months ago) Permalink

if I wanted an easy life I would have sacrificed two years to i-banking when I was in my 20s

keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 27 July 2012 15:08 (10 months ago) Permalink

if he wasn't everywhere all the time why would i need to hate him?

he has amused me NEVER, ftr

lex pretend, Friday, 27 July 2012 15:11 (10 months ago) Permalink

I do not hate Aubrey graham, I just wish he had never become a rapper

electric point-electric counterpoint (m bison), Friday, 27 July 2012 15:12 (10 months ago) Permalink

oh sure, i may ask "WHY MUST DRAKE EXIST" but tbh i wouldn't really mind if he existed as, like, an admin assistant in an accountancy firm or something

lex pretend, Friday, 27 July 2012 15:15 (10 months ago) Permalink

he could take John Legend's old job at Boston Consulting Group

keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 27 July 2012 15:16 (10 months ago) Permalink

Only listened to Take Care once, and I can best compare it to being stoned in some rich friend's house late at night. He's pouring his heart out and even when you want to disagree with something you can't be bothered to speak be this couch is amazing.

da croupier, Friday, 27 July 2012 18:40 (10 months ago) Permalink

speak because, rather

da croupier, Friday, 27 July 2012 18:41 (10 months ago) Permalink

that is dead on

Evan R, Friday, 27 July 2012 18:58 (10 months ago) Permalink

I haven't been this personally invested in thoroughly despising an artist's output regardless of actual quality since... well I was going to say I was a teenager but then I remember R. Kelly

― keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, July 27, 2012 11:02 AM (5 hours ago)

r kelly?

(i don't get the personal animosity for drake either tbh, his music sucks for the most part but like evan said he's not chris brown or something)

Al S. Burr! (k3vin k.), Friday, 27 July 2012 20:30 (10 months ago) Permalink

comparing him to people who have big strikes against them as people is apples and oranges, drake's music is all i need to loathe him. i mean ja rule wasn't half as ubiquitous on rap radio as him for half as long and remember how people whined about him being overexposed, i don't know why the world is still putting up with this worthless idiot.

Nutri Grane (some dude), Saturday, 28 July 2012 05:00 (10 months ago) Permalink

ja rule wasn't half as ubiquitous on rap radio as him for half

wait what? dude was totally ubiquitous for like 5 years

The Reverend, Saturday, 28 July 2012 05:50 (10 months ago) Permalink

there were 5 years between "Holla Holla" and "Wonderful" but he was only really ubiquitous in the 2 years between "Put It On Me" and "Mesmerize." Ja had 13 top ten R&B hits, Drake has 24 so far.

Nutri Grane (some dude), Saturday, 28 July 2012 11:42 (10 months ago) Permalink

11 of those Ja hits were in the space of 2 years, i should add.

Nutri Grane (some dude), Saturday, 28 July 2012 11:53 (10 months ago) Permalink

tbf that was a period when pop radio felt much more ubiquitous imo

mind your business lady (D-40), Saturday, 28 July 2012 22:37 (10 months ago) Permalink

tru

Al S. Burr! (k3vin k.), Saturday, 28 July 2012 23:00 (10 months ago) Permalink


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