I'M BACK!!!
And you're gonna sit there and enjoy reading while I review Drake's album TAKE CARE
Im a fan of DRAKE b'coz I like his style and the difference he brings to songs...he's not just your usual rapper...you hear a bit of his feature or a recommendation and you feel a need to check the whole track out...and more, it's not like that for everyone.
This album has a nice feel to it, a variation of vibez and some definite stand outs
but it goes without sayin that its pretty obvious drake is hurtin...this album has some emoootions behind it...which are reflected in the lyrics as well as the vibes you get from some of the songs.
Even from the album cover...he sits in what is obviously a mansion (an old school one so no doubt a pricey one too) but his slumped gloomy unshaven look shows he's not as happy as he should be...my guy looks like he just .........ANYWAYS (before I go off on one) here's my review....
1. OVER MY DEAD BODY
This track is nothing but Drake basically boasting of his success.
In the start it's simply a piano being played and someone else's voice...my guy's too good to start the album with his OWN VOICE lol, we have to be introduced to his bit. But as well as his bragging, he manages to bring in elements of sadness in his life showing that things are great...but not in total.
2. SHOT FOR ME
Drake is so good at merging moods in his songs; he manages to mix arrogance, sadness, tenderness, care and self-pity in one track,
THATS TALENT!
In this number he is boasting again but this time it's about how his ex's basically can't replace him and are struggling without him. In a condescending yet caring voice he tells them
'the way you ____, that's me' , 'first I made you who you are, then I made it'...you just have to laugh and give the man credit because he's making it seem like he really cares about their unhappiness but then he goes and after saying 'i could tell that you've been crying all night, drinking all summer' then he encourages her to
TAKE A(nother) SHOT for him, not even stop you know!
loool Drake took the piss.
3. HEADLINES
Well, at least the man is honest in the first lines of this song, saying things many people might think: that he's 'too strung out on compliments, overdosed on confidence...'
It's as if he's just saying I hear what y'all are saying...thanks....anyways!!!
Amongst the other darkly tinted tones of other tracks on this album, this song is a light hearted, ego boosting apology for his fame and success. A brilliant track to release as a single with its catchy beat, Drake knew that
this could be widely played as a single and people would STILL not skip it on the album coz they can't...
.its just something THEY KNOW...THEY KNOW, THEY KNOW, THEY KNOW
4. CREW LOVE
I like the feature on this song, THE WEEKND does a nice job in taking most of the song accompanied by the echoed snare effect. This track is Drake just biggin up his crew and those he considers 'the realest', his close friends showing that that's all he really needs...a good, reliable group of family and trustworthy people around
him who he would have no problem shelling out a few coins (of 50k) for. NICE ONE!!!
5. TAKE CARE
RIGHT PERSON WRONG TIME
After hearing this song for the first few times I said 'Isn't it wierd/awkward how these two (Drake and Rhianna) have both been together...knowing they've been hurt and aren't totally over their ex's, but attempted to get together and TAKE CARE of each other'???
Many people can identify with this song...not totally being over someone but still wanting to be taken care of, it's sweet how they're trying to assure one another that this is what they will do.
Drake reached out to both his male and female fans here. This song is different to Drake's usual choice of background music...starting with a R'n'B/Dance vibe before going into the tribal/funky bit...which seems a bit random but also somehow...it fits, THUS meeting the criteria for the vibe of the song.
6. MARVIN'S ROOM
It seems that Drake went full circle; he started out the album bragging about how he's the one at his best and laughing at his ex missing him, when in actuality this song shows that he's the one suffering, convincing himself that she isn't over him and that he's better than the man she is with at the moment. In this song it's his drunken honesty mixed with his talents of singing and rapping that really make the song.
Drake is a sick!..who else could call an ex, spill feellings of mistake, regret & struggle, manage to get them to stay on the phone while they tell them
'f*ck your man, you could do better' and STILL achieve an emotion of sympathy from the person. WOW!!!
7. UNDERGROUND KINGS
AND HE'S BACK!!!
Drake is simply back in his arrogant yet attractive ego-filled state and goes in...bragging about how he
GOT RICH OFF A MIXTAPE and came from the bottom to the top.
It's a very Lil-wayne-esque type of flow but Drake nicely makes it his.
8. WE'LL BE FINE
Mr man delivers this song that has such a thugged-up flow with such ease and elegance...like it's nothing. It reminds me of UP ALL NIGHT the way he glides over the heavy based beat so effortlesly.
Drake here? Swag here? Mic here?.....Well fuck lets get it then
JHEEZ!!
9. MAKE ME PROUD
One thing D never fails to do is deliver a hook.
The hook in this one definately takes over this song! I personally prefer the singing to the rapping throughout the song, especially from Nicki Minaj, although Drake could have done this song without her.
10. LORD KNOWS
The album flow is changed up again here with the gospel choir singers over a stomping beat; it sounds busy but yet...Drake (and Rick Ross) can be heard and come out on top (...get the message???)
Y(ou) O(nly)L(ive)O(nce): with this in mind Drake took the opportunity to address the haters and those that call him too emotional as well as those claiming that he stole their flow. Rowsss just added that boss effect to the song...he just has that effect...
.'Only fat nigga in the sauna with Jews' lool, gotta love him.
11. CAMERAS, GOOD ONES GO
A two-part song starting with...
CAMERAS: I like the intro to the song. Here Drake has a very 'rolled out of bed' voice, like he's said it before. He's telling a girl not to believe everything she sees in the magazines coz not everything is as it seems through the lens of a camera, which is very true...don't judge by view of what you get told by the camera. As he repeatedly asks...
ARE YOU ME
It then goes into
GOOD ONES GO:
This one (I'M SURE) many guys can relate to. Its almost like Drake has a split personality...he starts by detailing to her what he does with his time now (as if she should care lol) before talking to himself about how the right girl for him will leave if he waits too long, then, he tells her to go BUT instructs her not to find someone to settle with, rather, she should go, but wait for him.
This is what alot of guys do and girls know it! You find a girl that meets the criteria and all that good stuff but you aren't ready yet , so you then think you have the right to allow us to go our way, yet you still want the option of having us back ....some lay away package KMT! LOL...MEN!
I like his honesty though, saying
'Can't lose you, can't help it, I'm so sorry, I'm so selfish'
DRAKE KNOWS!!!
Coz men do this...then wanna be singin
'why are all the good girls taken everytime' loool
12. DOING IT WRONG
EMOOOSH!!!
I love how D lays it plain here...his singing voice over the chords and the harmonica in this number make the song. Helping him tell his story of how his endeavours to get over this girl have been failing because he's still been involved while trying to move on. He comes to the painful realisation of what he needs to do and how to do it.
I don't see why people are crying over the fact Drake got a lil emotional in this album...I think it adds to it....
'so cry if you need to' *closes eyes and sways*
13. THE REAL HER
The tune is just another day in the life of Drake. The all-star collab is a good one as Weezy delivers his bars in his usual easy-going way, however for me, Andre 3k steals it.
<3 EVERYBODY HAS AN ADDICTION...MINE HAPPENS TO BE YOU <3
14. H(ell) Y(a) F(uckin) R(ight)
This one is more a Drake feature as Lil Wayne is on most of it but they both deliver and Drake comes hard as this is the first time on the album we've heard him spit at whiplash pace.
15. LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE
Here Drake reverts to just bein Aubrey and pays homeage to the parental figures in his life: his mother and his uncle. While dismissively acknowledging his absent father 'Black American dad story'' as nothing new in America, he also exposes that its 'his one button' that makes him tick, a very sensitive issue.
I think it's very touching and respectable that he is thanking them for raising him and putting the work in with him and now he's made it, he assures them he will take care of them, instructing them to sit back and look at what they've done and helped create.
16. PRACTICE
Not a bad one at all. Its one with that sexy undertone to it, like what we got from him in
SHE WILL, PUT IT DOWN and songs such as those.
BACK DAT ASS UP ;)
I've heard a few people say the album is 'soft/homo' but to be fair, people would have complained if he did the same old thing rappers do and say 'I'm hustlin, makin paper, accumilating /vain goods, effin hoes, and Im
the best' in as many ways as he could. Give him a break and stop sippin the haterade...let the guy expose us to the different side of his art.
Nothing wrong with expressing a bit of emotion...he's human.
Drake definitely hits out with some classic Drake flows as well as changing it up and I like it. I've definitely had it on repeat an shuffle a few times.
GO LISTEN AND ADD IT TO YOUR PLAYLISTS!!!
LATERZ GOONZ!!! ....TAKE CARE :)
