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

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

http://www.ddotomen.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Drake-Take-Care.jpg

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.

http://intestinal-gas-jokes-flatulence.angelfire.com/fart_gas_farting_dead_autopsy.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhlNG5qJy8I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwyjxsOYnys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjqP-qEIcjA

http://www.stoneyroads.com/images/cms/1/mixtapes/119jamiexxess.jpg

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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"

lol

lol otm

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

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

smh

three weeknd cameos gets the gasface tho

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

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.

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

agl

i have definitely done some succumbing to marvin's room

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

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

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

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

mostly 40 means almost a full hour of morose submarine music

sign me up

ugh son

kelsey grammar...down periscope

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

lmao, can't get over this thread title

what is wrong with you guys

wah wah

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

"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

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

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

we should stage an intervention

http://www.inflexwetrust.com/2011/10/13/ifwt-exclusive-drake-make-me-proud/

weird song

maybe just boring? :(

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

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

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).

rubbish

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

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

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

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

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

Celebrate Commiserate

as i said on twitter, this is real deal amazing

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

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?"

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

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"

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."

while sipping on a wine spritzer

spritzin' ain't easy

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

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

omg just DO ONE you worthless moron

chamillionaire would like a word w u

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

oh hey this is great

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

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.

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

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

he has amused me NEVER, ftr

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

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

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

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.

speak because, rather

that is dead on

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)

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.

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

wait what? dude was totally ubiquitous for like 5 years

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.

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

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

tru

Is there a thread for the upcoming album yet? Really enjoying how to-the-point "The Motion" is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcmELzrpraw

New song. Guessing it's the single since it has 2 Chainz and Big Sean verses? I like it, though 2 Chainz is dead weight on this and probably has no business on a beat like this.

i like this a lot. sean's good on it... tity's prob got the least good verse. beat is cool. good for key wane.

Drake declares 'disgust' at Rolling Stone bumping him for Philip Seymour Hoffman

This morning, he took to Twitter to express his “disgust” that Rolling Stone had knocked him off the cover for Philip Seymour Hoffman. “I’m disgusted with that,” he wrote in two Tweets that he has since removed (you can see them on New York Daily News’ site). “Disgusted?” Really? Maybe “disappointed” would have been a more understandable and less regrettable word choice.

Drake tweeted: “I never commented on Yeezus for my interview portion of Rolling Stone. They also took my cover from me last minute and ran the issue.”

Then followed with this Tweet: “I’m disgusted with that. RIP to Philip Seymour Hoffman. All respect due. But the press is evil.”

Next came the usual declaration…and one that will be recanted next time he needs the press for something. “I’m done doing interviews for magazines. I just want to give my music to the people. That’s the only way me message gets across accurately.” He’s kept up that Tweet.

http://www.hitfix.com/news/drake-declares-disgust-at-rolling-stone-bumping-him-for-philip-seymour-hoffman

Drake's a moron.

is it possible that his disgust was at them for quoting his less than nice comments about some of Yeezus when he thought it was off the record?

it reads ambiguous to me?

nah he was definitely pissed they took the cover

he'll get over it

https://twitter.com/questlove/status/434237240315629568
https://twitter.com/questlove/status/434237909864943616
https://twitter.com/questlove/status/434238277810274304

This album

Sorry I just unabashedly love it. I don't think I've heard any other album, rap or otherwise, so thoroughally explore the cruel reality that, no matter how much you might delude yourself, you can't bookmark a relationship and return to it when it the timing is more convenient. You either ride it out or give it up for good. Such a simple, Kundera-esque premise, and he does so much with it. Four years later it still guts me.

yeah easily one of my fav records of the decade, i think NWTS is a big step down from this