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

thx bro!

its jarring, not at white-people-dropping-it level, but more like he-doesnt-sound-like-hes-used-to-saying-it level

it is definitely jarring, but is that just down to the fact that it's being sung (and sometimes held out at the end of a line)?

i dunno other R&B singers have been dropping it for awhile. maybe they just made it seem more conversational while he's plumbing it for significance or something

lovin this so far I have to say, ouch at the acapella bit at the end of "headlines" but otherwise yeah

esp. dig the synth in "Buried Alive"

okay the beat for "We'll Be Fine" sounds like it was made out of the same pattern/file as the beat on "She Will"- the bassline is diff. but the skeleton of the rhythm itself sounds way similar

kinda think this is up there w/ LVM & LTTP as the best produced rap or r&b albums of the past few years. the fact that it's a drake album means i won't ever love it as much as those (obv) but from a pure "holy shit all this just sounds AWESOME" perspective, it's up there

the debate i'm kinda interested in is how many people will think this is better than 'late registration'

not better than late registration (which is still maybe my secret favourite Kanye albums, notwithstanding the bloat) but this is really quite nice and way better than anything i expected from fuckin' drake.

yeah it's not better than LR i agree, but you could draw a lot of similarities there so i'm wondering how this is going to be received vis a vis LR

whoah that stevie wonder cameo on harmonica, wowzers

Yeah that was cool and unexpected.

the Andre verse is killer too

This will come as no surprise, but I really fucking like this.

And this is miles better than Thank Me Later. I'm really impressed by how Drake's really developed his own sound and nailed this one very specific aesthetic, thanks of course to 40, too. Those two are like Guru and Premo /ridiculouscomparison

it always seemed to me like regardless of whatever else you say about him, drake pretty much staked out his own particular aesthetic since way back on so far gone?

yeah if anything i would say i love this album not bcuz he nails his specific aesthetic (which was just kinda predictable post 808s boilerplate) but bcuz it really uses that aesthetic to go places that he never really hinted at going

Right right, but he keeps diving deeper and deeper into it, fleshing it out in a lot of ways, I mean.

i guess -- i would say its an outward growth not an inward growth

prolly doesn't matter either way tho

Outward how? I don't think we're disagreeing in terms of ideas, here.

quick srs q: can Canadian television star Aubrey Graham rap now?

ummm, sort of but it's kinda irrelevant

do ya'll have 16 tracks of 17

Also, great Jon B sample on "Cameras."

The Minaj collab is okay; I prefer his bit on J. Cole's "In the Morning."

3 songs in only like the first joint, but I already knew "Headlines" sux

"headlines" sucks so, so bad, it bears repeating

"Headlines" > "Over," solely by virtue of having few clunkers and a really great beat.

a great beat, really?

the production on this weeknd track is cool, but the hook is really, really stupid.

The Minaj collab is okay; I prefer his bit on J. Cole's "In the Morning."

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, November 7, 2011 9:36 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah i don't think any leak has that purported final track

yeah the "headlines" beat is rudimentary as fuck

whoops i didn't mean to paste alfred's post there

was drizzy even on "crew love"?

yeah the shitty thing about those weeknd tracks is they sound like straight weeknd tracks

Rudimentary, yeah, but I'm a sucker for synths and 808s like that.

my copy has got a little blip at around 3:50 on the first track

The rip going around now is pretty lousy, that's why, dayo.

title track is good as everyone has said. would def. be happy if this was a single.

my copy has got a little blip at around 3:50 on the first track

― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Monday, November 7, 2011 9:44 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

yeah mine too

12. Signed, Sealed….Heartbroken feat. Trey Songz

12. Signed, Sealed….Heartbroken feat. Trey Songz

12. Signed, Sealed….Heartbroken feat. Trey Songz

12. Signed, Sealed….Heartbroken feat. Trey Songz

12. Signed, Sealed….Heartbroken feat. Trey Songz

ive decided i dont like drake because he's not authentic and i prefer my rappers authentic. thoughts?

nope

the problem with "crew love" isn't that it's basically a weeknd track so much as it's just 3 mins of "THEY LOVIN THE CREEEWWW THEY LOVIN THE CREEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWW" rly tho?

lol xp

yeah i dont like that song at all

"headlines" sucks so, so bad, it bears repeating

― some dude, Monday, November 7, 2011 9:39 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

ive decided i dont like drake because he's not authentic and i prefer my rappers authentic. thoughts?

How I Got Over is the ninth studio album by American hip hop band The Roots, released June 22, 2010 on Def Jam Recordings. Production for the album was primarily handled by band members Black Thought, Questlove, Dice Raw, and Rick Friedrich during 2008 to 2009. It contains a subtle, somber sound that incorporates musical elements of soul, jazz, indie rock, and gospel music, and features lyrics concerning themes of existentialism, perseverance, and modern society.

the problem with "crew love" isn't that it's basically a weeknd track so much as it's just 3 mins of "THEY LOVIN THE CREEEWWW THEY LOVIN THE CREEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWW" rly tho?

so the problem is that it's basically a weeknd track?

what the fuck is this spoken word shit

ive decided i dont like drake because he's not authentic and i prefer my rappers authentic. thoughts?

― AFAP Raggett (D-40), Monday, November 7, 2011 7:47 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

LAWL. Authenticity doesn't exist.