Take Care Drake

Genres: Hip Hop/Rap, Music
Released: Nov 15, 2011
℗ 2011 Cash Money Records Inc.







TRACK LIST MUSIC!

1. Over My Dead Body 4:33
2. Shot For Me 3:45
3. Headlines 3:56
4. Crew Love 3:29
5. Take Care 4:38
6. Marvin's Room 5:47
7. Buried Alive Interlude 2:31
8. Underground Kings 3:33
9. We'll Be Fine 4:08
10. Make Me Proud 3:40
11. Lord Knows 5:08
12. Cameras / Good Ones Go Interlude 7:15
13. Doing It Wrong 4:25
14. The Real Her 5:21
15. Look What You've Done 5:02
16. HYFR (Hell Ya Fucking Right) 3:27
17. Practice 3:58
18. The Ride 5:51
19. The Motto (Bonus Track) 3:02
20. Hate Sleeping Alone (Bonus Track) 3:33

Take Care is the second studio album by Canadian recording artist Drake, released November 15, 2011, on Young Money Entertainment and Cash Money Records. It is the follow-up to his 2010 debut album Thank Me Later. Production for the album took place during 2010 to 2011 and was handled by Noah "40" Shebib, Boi-1da, T-Minus, Just Blaze, The Weeknd, and Jamie xx, among others. With the album, Drake sought to record a more cohesive recording than his debut album, which he viewed was rushed in its development.

Expanding on the sonic aesthetic of his debut album, Take Care features an atmospheric sound that is characterized by low-key musical elements and incorporates R&B, pop, and electronica styles. Drake's lyrics mostly eschew boastful raps for introspective lyrics that deal with topics such as failed romances, relationship with friends and family, growing wealth and fame, concerns about leading a hollow life, and despondency. The album has been noted by music writers for its minimalist R&B elements, existential subject matter, conflicted lyrics, and Drake's alternately sung and rapped vocals.

Take Care expands on the low-tempo, sensuous, and dark sonic aesthetic of Thank Me Later. The album's languid, grandiose production incorporates hip hop, R&B, pop, and electronica styles. The music is typified by an atmospheric sound, muted textures, slow tempos, subtle chords, melodic synth tracks, low-end grooves, and sparse, ambient arrangement.

Expanding on his debut album's theme of ambivalence and conflicted feelings toward fame, Drake's lyrics on Take Care detail failed romances, missed connections, relationship with friends and family, maintaining balance with growing wealth and fame, concerns about leading a hollow life, the passage of young adulthood, and despondency. The album's slow jam-styled tracks explore themes of loneliness, heartbreak, and mistrust. The topic of women is prevalant on the album, with songs concerning past and potential lovers ("Marvins Room", "The Real Her"), and about revering ("Make Me Proud") and lavishing them ("We’ll Be Fine").

The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 631,000 copies in the United States.