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Album: Drake - 'Take Care'
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DRAKE
Title: Take Care
Label: Young Money / Universal
Release: Summer 2011
Producer Line-Up: Q-Tip, 9th Wonder, 40, DJ Premier, Boi-1da & more
Collaborations: Jamie XX, Florence + The Machine & more
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Drake wants 'Take Care' to "Speak for My Generation"
Drake has a few things on his plate as he wraps up the year, from finishing his highly anticipated R&B mixtape to working on his sophomore album, Take Care.
With all of his success the past 12 months, however, the Toronto star is making sure his music remains relatable to his fans. That's the position he's taking for Take Care, as he explained during an appearance on Shade 45's morning show.
"Take Care is it's own mission," Drake told host Elliott Wilson. "I'm really going back to the So Far Gone where, first of all, as much as the label and people are fighting me, I'm not doing 14 songs, 'cause it doesn't give me enough. I want to do interludes, transitions and different moments. I have an overabundance. I've never had this many raps."
His mixtape masterpiece So Far Gone captured his rise to fame and earned the rapper critical praise and a legion of fans. But for Thank Me Later, his lauded debut, Drake said the project was entirely focused on one part of his life.
So for his follow-up, the MC said he wants the set to have more range.
"It's gonna be an experience," he said of the collection, which may include production from Q-Tip; the two hit the studio together in New York on Wednesday. "I often hear people reference So Far Gone and Comeback Season, 'Aww, we miss that.' And while that was a point in time they miss, I was an underdog, and that will never happen again, unfortunately.
"That's not to say I can't provoke those same emotions," Drake continued. "I really want to write great 'life' raps. I just want to write for the people and speak for my generation."
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Among the biggest revelations is that he's decided to call his next album Take Care. Due next spring, Drake promised his second effort will be packed with more inescapable hits like "Best I Ever Had."
"Don't think for a second I can't do better," he told the magazine. "For Take Care, I'm trying to find a way to make my raps shorter but catchier. I'm trying to condense my thoughts down to 16 bars. And it's coming out more potent."
He also explained that after the mega-hype created by his smash 2009 mixtape So Far Gone, he decided to call his major label debut Thank Me Later as a way to preemptively deflate the anticipatory hype he knew he couldn't live up to.
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Drake's forthcoming album 'Take Care': The producer spills details
Drake and record producer Boi-1da have a lot in common: They’re both 24, Canucks, kinda big deals in the hip-hop scene, and have Grammy nominations under their belts. Now, they’re working on an album together for a second time—specifically, Drake’s second and forthcoming disc, Take Care. Last night on the Grammy Awards’ red carpet, EW snaked a few hints from producer Boi-1da, who shared his thoughts on his buddy’s forthcoming oeuvre.
“It is amazing stuff. A lot of rapping, more than on the last album,” Boi-1da told us. “He is trying to go in a slightly different direction, but stay consistent enough to give the fans what they want. He is more confident, and sure that what he is doing, he’s doing right. That opens artists up to trying new things and experimenting.”
Last year, Boi-1da produced Drake’s inaugural Thank Me Later (which was nominated for Best Rap Album) and Eminem’s “Recovery” (which won Best Rap Album and was nominated for Album of the Year). Could this “slightly different direction” of which 1da speaks will be well received and will keep Drake on the path to those gilded gramophones? Probably. The rapper received four nods this year, and performed “What’s My Name?” with Rihanna on last night’s live telecast. (He’s come a long way from his acting days on Canadian teen drama, Degrassi: The Next Generation, hasn’t he?)
“We are doing a lot of work,” Boi-1da continued EW. “I did a bunch of stuff on the last record, and we worked well together, so I think we will throw together a bunch of stuff and see what sticks.”
Take Care is slated for release sometime this spring
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Entertainment Weekly
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Drake Says He Will Not Stick to 14 Songs For "Take Care"
Rapper Drake, whose best-selling Thank Me Later is sure to land atop many critic's Top 10 lists this year, is already immersed in thinking about and planning its follow up, Take Care. He wants to make like Frank Sinatra and do things his way.
The Canadian rapper stated in an interview that "Take Care is its own mission. I'm really going back to the So Far Gone where, first of all, as much as the label and people are fighting me, I'm not doing 14 songs, 'cause it doesn't give me enough. I want to do interludes, transitions and different moments. I have an overabundance. I've never had this many raps...It's gonna be an experience...I often hear people reference So Far Gone and Comeback Season, 'Aww, we miss that.' And while that was a point in time they miss, I was an underdog, and that will never happen again, unfortunately...That's not to say I can't provoke those same emotions...I really want to write great 'life' raps. I just want to write for the people and speak for my generation."
Are you excited about the direction that Drake is taking with Take Care?
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I'm so ready for this masterpiece still bumping Thank Me Later till' this day. 
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Originally posted by Naaji GaGa
I'm so ready for this masterpiece still bumping Thank Me Later till' this day. |
As well as you should be 
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Originally posted by WheresJay
As well as you should be |
Yassssssssss. 
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I need "Little Bit" Pt. 2, that song just puts me on another planet...... im ready for this sophomore effort especially since he's bringing back that SFG element!
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Member Since: 5/25/2010
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Originally posted by Reed
I need "Little Bit" Pt. 2, that song just puts me on another planet...... im ready for this sophomore effort especially since he's bringing back that SFG element!
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Let's do lunch, Reed.
I agree. I remember him saying he's going to focus more on hooks, though, since he
said that was lacking on "Thank Me Later." I don't know if that's a good or bad thing.
...Vin
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YESSSS I'm more than excited!!
I need songs like "Do it all" and some slow jams!!
And please I don't want Weezy, Nicki and the predictable guest features!!
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Originally posted by Vin
Let's do lunch, Reed.
I agree. I remember him saying he's going to focus more on hooks, though, since he
said that was lacking on "Thank Me Later." I don't know if that's a good or bad thing.
...Vin |
!!!!!!!!!!! ........... Vin, now i know im ready to traverse the world of anonymity and take this relationship to that next level. Plus, im hungry.
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Don't we already have a thread for this?
I am actually dying, I need this now! Especially since the mixtape has been pushed back, Drake is aiming for an October release with 'Take Care'
It's too far away.
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Originally posted by staracademy1990
YESSSS I'm more than excited!!
I need songs like "Do it all" and some slow jams!!
And please I don't want Weezy, Nicki and the predictable guest features!!
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Yeah, like i get it they're a family, but keep those features varying please
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Originally posted by ThankMeLater
Don't we already have a thread for this?
I am actually dying, I need this now! Especially since the mixtape has been pushed back, Drake is aiming for an October release with 'Take Care'
It's too far away.
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No, it closed a while ago
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Bring it on please. When is the first single coming out? Drizzy has been lacking in my life for too long
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Originally posted by Disco
Bring it on please. When is the first single coming out? Drizzy has been lacking in my life for too long
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Hopefully next month, I need a song with heavy instruments 
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DRAKE
So Far Gone
Sales: +500,000 copies US
Singles:
- Best I Ever Had: #2
- Successful feat. Trey Songz: #17
- Forever feat. Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Eminem: #8 (non album single)
Thank Me Later
Sales: +1,200,000 copies US
Singles:
- Over: #14
- Find Your Love: #5
- Miss Me feat. Lil Wayne: #15
- Fancy feat. T.I, Swizz Beatz: #25
Featuring Hits:
- Money To Blow w/ Birdman: #26
- Say Something w/ Timbaland: #23
- Right Above It w/ Lil Wayne: #6
- Aston Martin Music w/ Rick Ross: #30
- What's My Name w/ Rihanna: #1
- Moment 4 Life w/ Nicki Minaj: #22
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Cool, someone remade this thread  Thank You 
Florence + the Machine and Jamie Smith from the xx are supposed to be on this album!  I can't wait for this
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Originally posted by TheGeoKing
Cool, someone remade this thread Thank You
Florence + the Machine and Jamie Smith from the xx are supposed to be on this album! I can't wait for this |
Im ready to hear the Jamie collab
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Member Since: 6/7/2010
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New album
i need it now... he's one of the best out there!
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Originally posted by WheresJay
Im ready to hear the Jamie collab |
Yes
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Originally posted by TheGeoKing
Cool, someone remade this thread Thank You
Florence + the Machine and Jamie Smith from the xx are supposed to be on this album! I can't wait for this |
who is this jamie smith you speak of hmm??
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Member Since: 6/28/2010
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I love drake but thank me later compared like nothing to his mixtape. Please Drake lets do another forever. His best song imo
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