Drake's Take Care Album is a masterpiece

[lilojmayo]

http://rapfix.mtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/drake-take-care1.jpg

A month after it got leaked, i can now appreciate music as an art form when regarding drake. Top of the line production Best album i have heard since Enimem's Marshall Mathers LP. 15 out of the 17 tracks are quality songs.

The versatility of the album/artist is shocking it is hard to believe, if i didn't hear it with my own ears.

It has :


Radio hits: Make Me Proud ft. Nicki Minjai
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P9kVNvwkLQ

Slow songs: Real Her
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTK46FJNA44&feature=related

Rap songs : Hell Yeah F*ckin Right http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muUEyXj-iqk


http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo356/kamerond89/hater.jpg


Drake once again proves he is the most talented mainstream artist since Enimem in his prime. :applause:

[Stuckey]

:roll:

ok

[lilojmayo]

5 star thread.
hell yeah hell yeah f*cking ****ing right :cheers:

[lilojmayo]

:roll:

ok
name 5 main stream artist that are better







, still waiting.

[lilojmayo]

http://glamazonsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/drake.jpg

look at the god. making people "appreciate music as an art form"

:bowdown:

I am more shocked that in the show Degrassi which was littered with Music, they never allowed Drake to showcase his music ability on that show.


Oh the irony.

[A.R.T]

Make me Proud is ****ing horrible though, so it's already not a masterpiece. Nicki Minaj is irredeemably awful at rapping.

[IGOTGAME]

I'm guessing sarcasm?

[lilojmayo]

wait do you really think his name is enimem?

he has similar qualities to enimem. What made Eminem arguably the goat, in my eyes ( and many others) was his ability to do everything regarding music. he can write, freestyle, make pop hits, slow songs, fast songs. It didn't matter.

Enimem's Hallie s Song : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCrQL8D_r6c

Enimem Loose Yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4Uv_4jGgAM


that's versatility. Artist like the Game sound the sound in every single song.

[lilojmayo]

I'm guessing sarcasm?

Drake's Take Care Album was #1 on Billboard Charts. he must be doing something right.

[ballsohard247]

Aubrey "Drake" Graham
http://joeljamescomedy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/d21.jpg

[lilojmayo]

Make me Proud is ****ing horrible though, so it's already not a masterpiece. Nicki Minaj is irredeemably awful at rapping.

i'm not the biggest Nicki fan,but she can rap a little. She is no Trina though. that's easily the baddest b*tch in the rap game.

[Scholar]

Since the MMLP? Are you serious, OP?

I can name 5 mainstream albums off the top of my head that came AFTER the MMLP that are better than Drake's current commercial garbage.

Want me to list them?

Hell, **** a response. I'll post them anyway (in no particular order, but numbered so you can see it's 5 without having to count them yourself):

1. The Eminem Show

2. Stillmatic

3. The Black Album

4. Get Rich or Die Tryin' <<<< say what you will of 50 Cent, but this album was genius

5. Recovery


And just because I feel like it, let's add in:
The Game's R.E.D & The Documentary
Ludacris' Red Light District, Release Therapy & Theater of the Mind
and anything released by Lupe Fiasco

^^^ All those are >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Drake's current album

[IGOTGAME]

Drake's Take Care Album was #1 on Billboard Charts. he must be doing something right.

didn't say he wasn't. But best album in the last 10 years as you say? That is crazy talk.

Album was pretty good. Leave it at that. I have it on my ipod. But, I'm not gonna go crazy.

[IGOTGAME]

he has similar qualities to enimem. What made Eminem arguably the goat, in my eyes ( and many others) was his ability to do everything regarding music. he can write, freestyle, make pop hits, slow songs, fast songs. It didn't matter.

Enimem's Hallie s Song : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCrQL8D_r6c

Enimem Loose Yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4Uv_4jGgAM


that's versatility. Artist like the Game sound the sound in every single song.

omg...this is a joke. everything regarding music. LMAO. Thank you for the laugh. I needed it. But, everyone is entitled to their opinion. I just consider music to be a bit broader and I consider Em greatly overrated as an artist.

[ballsohard247]

Some of Drake's older stuff off of mixtapes is good but most of the new stuff is geared towards women. Too many love songs and in "I'm Proud Of You" he talks about holding hands. Can't get into the soft stuff like that.

[lilojmayo]

Since the MMLP? Are you serious, OP?

I can name 5 mainstream albums off the top of my head that came AFTER the MMLP that are better than Drake's current commercial garbage.

Want me to list them?

Hell, **** a response. I'll post them anyway (in no particular order, but numbered so you can see it's 5 without having to count them yourself):

1. The Eminem Show

2. Stillmatic

3. The Black Album

4. Get Rich or Die Tryin' <<<< say what you will of 50 Cent, but this album was genius

5. Recovery


And just because I feel like it, let's add in:
The Game's R.E.D & The Documentary
Ludacris' Red Light District, Release Therapy & Theater of the Mind
and anything released by Lupe Fiasco

^^^ All those are >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Drake's current album


Enimem is easily the GOAT. Enimem Show was awesome, but if i remember it had a lot of **** songs on it, same with Recovery.

what makes Drake's album good that literally almost every song is a quality song. that to me is rare.

[vinsane01]

Is this a tween wave thing? You know like that southpark episode...I came into this thread expecting to hear music ala eminem in his heyday since the word masterpiece caught me and drove me to enter this thread. But i just dont see how anyone can like this. Im not a rap/hip hop fan but i appreciate the works of dr.dre, eminem, tupac and the like. I think when music is good it wont really matter what kind of music one prefer. But maybe i am getting old...Im 23 years old and most of the mainstream songs sounds like sht to me.

[Scholar]

Drake's Take Care Album was #1 on Billboard Charts. he must be doing something right.

"If you go platinum, it's got nothing to do with luck. It just means a million people are stupid as ****" --- Immortal Technique

[lilojmayo]

the most amazing thing about this thread, there were many, is that lilj thinks that people cared what he thought about music after having listened to 2 albums. it's so sweet.

no no no. This goes for everything. I do me at the end of the day. You do you, and i do me.


I am not trying to influence anyone. I simply preaching to choir, some get educated. some refused to get educated.

but i do me at the end of the day.

[ballsohard247]

"If you go platinum, it's got nothing to do with luck. It just means a million people are stupid as ****" --- Immortal Technique
Pretty much. To go platinum you need to pander to the lowest common denominator of music listeners by making music that is bland enough not to offend but catchy enough to sing along to.

[lilojmayo]

Some of Drake's older stuff off of mixtapes is good but most of the new stuff is geared towards women. Too many love songs and in "I'm Proud Of You" he talks about holding hands. Can't get into the soft stuff like that.


" I don't make music for n*ggas who don't get p*ssy" quoted by Drake


so true.

[ballsohard247]

" I don't make music for n*ggas who don't get p*ssy" quoted by Drake


so true.
Ouch. :lol

[lilojmayo]

didn't say he wasn't. But best album in the last 10 years as you say? That is crazy talk.

Album was pretty good. Leave it at that. I have it on my ipod. But, I'm not gonna go crazy.

its quantity over quality.

[ballsohard247]

its quantity over quality.
So 15 decent tracks are better than 5 transcendent masterpieces? You talk about music being art yet treat quality like an afterthought.

[lilojmayo]

breh, listen to more or just some music. then give an opinion on music.

I have heard all mainstream artists. Most people will say Enimem is the best. I agree i'll give you that, I have granted you all your wishes.

but the artist that has the closest characteristics is Drake, and his body of work regarding his songs speaks for itself.

[iggy>]

Eminem's recent work is extremely overrated.

[lilojmayo]

So 15 decent tracks are better than 5 transcendent masterpieces? You talk about music being art yet treat quality like an afterthought.


Lil Wayne has made a living of putting out amazing singles. Then you buy ( or illegally download his album) and the rest of songs are garbage.

There isn't a single song on Drake's Take Care album that is better than Lil Wayne's Carter IV She Will. but Take Care is far superior to Tha Carter IV. Even Wayne agreed with that.

[IGOTGAME]

I have heard all mainstream artists. Most people will say Enimem is the best. I agree i'll give you that, I have granted you all your wishes.

but the artist that has the closest characteristics is Drake, and his body of work regarding his songs speaks for itself.

so you heard outcast, kanye, nas, jay z etc. and decided that Take Care was the best album of the last 10 years.

Under what criteria is it a better album then, for example, Speakerboxx/Love Below?

[iggy>]

Lil Wayne has made a living of putting out amazing singles. Then you buy ( or illegally download his album) and the rest of songs are garbage.

There isn't a single song on Drake's Take Care album that is better than Lil Wayne's Carter IV She Will. but Take Care is far superior to Tha Carter IV. Even Wayne agreed with that.
U like Lil waynes singles? Lollipop? How to love? His singles are mostly nonsense.

[ballsohard247]

Lil Wayne has made a living of putting out amazing singles. Then you buy ( or illegally download his album) and the rest of songs are garbage.

There isn't a single song on Drake's Take Care album that is better than Lil Wayne's Carter IV She Will. but Take Care is far superior to Tha Carter IV. Even Wayne agreed with that.
I can understand your thinking on that. Some albums are a lot of filler. In the end music is all about taste and opinion and you would probably hate a lot of the stuff I listen to so if you like Drake that's cool. To me he is a good rapper I just don't like his subject matter.

[ace23]

OP is clearly a hip-pop type. He's not so much into pure rap, and there's nothing wrong with that.

[donald_trump]

"If you go platinum, it's got nothing to do with luck. It just means a million people are stupid as ****" --- Immortal Technique

i'd rather listen to drake who can ride a beat.

[ace23]

i'd rather listen to drake who can ride a beat.
Holy shit. :facepalm

[donald_trump]

Holy shit. :facepalm

immortal technique has one of the worst flows out. this isnt a new thing. :oldlol:

[ROCSteady]

Pop Music Vs. Art Spectrum



POP MUSIC <-----{Drake's Take Care}-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> ART
edit: I was a tad harsh on the tone of Drake's newest album


Drake is a master craftsman of using his strengths for catchy and broad appealing songs. Art, it is not


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcIJEbGSN5Y

Skip to 1:15, that is what a genuine artist sounds like

[iggy>]

Pop Music Vs. Art Spectrum



POP MUSIC <-----{Drake's Take Care}--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> ART



Drake is a master craftsman of using his strengths for catchy and broad appealing songs. Art, it is not


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcIJEbGSN5Y

Skip to 1:15, that is what a genuine artist sounds like
This is based off what? Your opinion?

[ROCSteady]

This is based off what? Your opinion?

Yes, you front-running cynical asshat of a Philadelphian. My opinion, tis a message board to vent such things, disagree with and voice your likes and interests.

[donald_trump]

its hilarious at how into themselves some of the posters on here are.

just because you listen to a backpack, soulful beat, monotone boring rapper doesnt mean hes better than someone who's actually made it on the bigger stage.

drake shits all over immortal technique as a rapper and as an artist.

[KnowledgeWithin]

Well Drake is a decent artist....Please undergound fans don't flame me.

He can sing nice hooks, he has execellent production, from what I have heard, but it all doesn't matter he is a b*tch made, corn ball that makes music for females that want to hear corny lines about, how I can do a girl better than her man now. It is soft as fck I mean look at his music video headlines, his crew rocks snuggy tight Cosby shirts lol.

Ok, on the real I'm not mad at any dewd that likes Drake because they will defend him like a father and it is no point arguing. Drake is a subpar rapper though, not to say he couldn't get better and this album is not for me sans the Rick Ross song cause Just Blaze went ham, egg, cheese, and croissant on that beat -Chris Smoove voice- "Ha haaaa".

Anyways if you like Jodeci but on estrogen you will love Drake simple as that, if you want to serenade h*es with that new soft r and b ish you'll like Drake, I ain't mad just not my style.

[iggy>]

Yes, you front-running cynical asshat of a Philadelphian.
u mad bro? I don't even know what u are referring to, or who u are for that matter. I apologize.

[ROCSteady]

I respect Drake in that he has found his niche and done very well in marketing himself to a very broad and spacious audience. I would never take that away from him. I've enjoyed quite a few things he has put out, he's pretty clever himself when he wants to be lyrically.

Just, IN MY OPINION (word to iggy's ******) the formatting of his tracks have become pretty mediocre BECAUSE he's now obligated to deliver to his audience that have more, let's say shallow musical preferences.

[ROCSteady]

u mad bro? I don't even know what u are referring to, or who u are for that matter. I apologize.

Not mad, I just don't like you as a sports fan. That IS just one portion of a man's interests and hobbies so perhaps other qualities about you are more redeeming. You are the epitome of a shit Philly fan

[iggy>]

Not mad, I just don't like you as a sports fan. That IS just one portion of a man's interests and hobbies so perhaps other qualities about you are more redeeming. You are the epitome of a shit Philly fan
Ok? Should I be trying to care about what u think of me?

[ace23]

drake shits all over immortal technique as a rapper.

:oldlol: Drake is definitely the better artist, but better rapper? OK.

[ROCSteady]

Ok? Should I be trying to care about what u think of me?


No numbnuts but you asked me if I was mad so I replied to your quote and the B.B. brain it came out of

[iggy>]

No numbnuts but you asked me if I was mad so I replied to your quote and the B.B. brain it came out of
Namecalling? And u call me a bad sport. :cheers:

[ace23]

you realize all these classifications don't mean anything right?
Yeah, just bored.

[PowerGlove]

girls love this album, i f*ck with some songs from it but the emo joints are a little too much. doing it wrong had me in tears, i thought this was some bullshit. overall i like thank me later better.

[lilojmayo]

I can understand your thinking on that. Some albums are a lot of filler. In the end music is all about taste and opinion and you would probably hate a lot of the stuff I listen to so if you like Drake that's cool. To me he is a good rapper I just don't like his subject matter.

Let's repeat

" I don't make music for n*ggas who don't get p*ssy" quoted by Drake


Seriously, how you going to have a girl riding shotty and your throwing down "monster beats" in your car. Girls ( at least the classy ones) do not eat that shyt up. It gotta be something she can jam to.

G's to gentlemen folks.

[lilojmayo]

girls love this album, i f*ck with some songs from it but the emo joints are a little too much. doing it wrong had me in tears, i thought this was some bullshit. overall i like thank me later better.

:lol

[lilojmayo]

its hilarious at how into themselves some of the posters on here are.

just because you listen to a backpack, soulful beat, monotone boring rapper doesnt mean hes better than someone who's actually made it on the bigger stage.

drake shits all over immortal technique as a rapper and as an artist.



I wouldn't take it that far, it is good to respect all genre's of music ( something many on this board refuse to do). Drake has never marketed himself as a guy who throws down 'monster beats and rhymes'. Even says that's not his shyt.

so why do you rap purist ( Al Thornton I'm talking to you) keep using that against him, when evaluating his ability.

he mixture of pop,hip-hip,rap, r&b just like Slim Shady

[donald_trump]

you realize all these classifications don't mean anything right?

haha.

[ballup]

I think the album is overrated. I've done a good 4-8 full album listenings and it still hasn't caught onto me.

[PowerGlove]

I understand liloj is saying but I dont think the album is that great. Drake does find the medium between male and female audiences.

[ballsohard247]

Let's repeat

" I don't make music for n*ggas who don't get p*ssy" quoted by Drake


Seriously, how you going to have a girl riding shotty and your throwing down "monster beats" in your car. Girls ( at least the classy ones) do not eat that shyt up. It gotta be something she can jam to.

G's to gentlemen folks.
:facepalm Something she can JAM to? And you need Drake's help to get it in? I was just saying that if you enjoy listening to shitty music, then good for you.

[AllenIverson3]

kill yaself dumb ass. That shit is the softest album i fukking heard. I can't phuck wit dat shit

[Stuckey]

kill yaself dumb ass. That shit is the softest album i fukking heard. I can't phuck wit dat shit

+1

[East_Stone_Ya]

kids these days find a mediocre album among the shit and they proclaim it a classic or masterpiece.. i swear :facepalm

[Fatal9]

It's a good album, not a masterpiece or anything. If you're seeing a chick, his music becomes even better imo...songs just have a good feel for how relationships go these days, easy to relate to and gets you in the mood to see her.

[daballa13]

Masterpiece? Please, Cam'ron & Vado's album was even better than Take Care.

[PowerGlove]

Masterpiece? Please, Cam'ron & Vado's album was even better than Take Care.
:oldlol:

[ROCSteady]

http://cdn.mixtapewall.com/uploads/2009/02/3254095255_126e010b9b_o.jpg



This album top to bottom is much better than Take Care. Touches on a whole bunch of topics- goes ultra hard, soulful tracks, enjoyable vibes for when lilOJ has females in the car, earnest expression etc...

It came out like three years ago so it qualifies in these discussions

[PowerGlove]

Jadakiss:bowdown:

*scurries away to download the last kiss*


That album did go hard, another one from the spring of 09 that gets overlooked is Ross's deeper than Rap. I was playing that with a girl in the car and she was digging Magnificent, Lay Back and some other joints.

[JerrySteakhouse]

Take Care was solid, but definitely not a masterpiece..

[Ass Dan]

" I don't make music for n*ggas who don't get p*ssy" quoted by Drake


so true.

Only an assdouche would say something like that, and only a teenybopper virgin would think it is cool.

Yeah, Imma prance around like a nancy boy and sing f@ggy tunes cuz it'll help me get laid, because famous n*ggas who are hard don't get none.:facepalm

He's gettin ass cuz he's famous, not cuz he's singing f@g tunes. And he sings f@g tunes cuz he's a softcunt snow n*gga, not cuz he wants puzzy, ANY musician can get puzzy, but only a puzzy sings f@ggy tunes.

[PowerGlove]

They arent f@g tunes, stop being a dumbass. Rap needs the balance between the Drake's and Young Jeezy's. I think that everyone fills a void and you shouldn't shit on someone for doing something different and still having respect for the art form. He still raps, has nice lines, a lot of quotables, he's doing his thing. Stop typecasting his songs as emo rap. Only a couple of the songs on Take Care were emo.

[ROCSteady]

Magnificent is a really laid back track. Great for hittin the freeway.


Yea give The Last Kiss a thorough listen to again. As I said, it's really well rounded. To me, the tone is what a studio rap album should strive for. Not compromising the artist's true persona but still choosing an eclectic assortment of beats and songs.

" I perfected my craft from a different aspect
So the bars is lethal and the voice is a asset
And as far as the people, they ain't finish the class yet
I'm beyond these feeble-mind rappers that half step
I dun carve the way, for these ****** like Aztecs
I touch souls, somethin's felt; yeah, I'm somethin else"


The way he delivers that is so hard! Love the delivery, the beat is intimidating and the lyrics are serious

[Ass Dan]

They arent f@g tunes, stop being a dumbass. Rap needs the balance between the Drake's and Young Jeezy's. I think that everyone fills a void and you shouldn't shit on someone for doing something different and still having respect for the art form. He still raps, has nice lines, a lot of quotables, he's doing his thing. Stop typecasting his songs as emo rap. Only a couple of the songs on Take Care were emo.

No I 'shouldn't shit on someone for doing something different' you are right, but when they say the things that I quoted, I will POOP all over them.

My post was directed at Drake's quote, the world needs softcunts just like it needs thugs, but don't make excuses for being a softcunt and insult people who call spades spades.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0VhMxs836Y

[ROCSteady]

There's nothing wrong with actually expressing real genuine emotions and not succumbing to the "I'm the best/ Nobody can **** with me" facade that rap is famous for.


Lord knows I love my gritty bars but good for Drake for not keeping the genre boxed in a stereotype.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFIDaUSXBHI

This is one of my favorite things Drake has recorded BECAUSE he's bein real and honest about himself. I do agree that lately Drake panders too much to the dumb broad mentality that college girls are known to have but I'm not gunna throw him under the bus completely.

[Bigsmoke]

Top 10 album of this year but a masterpiece?

undun > take Care

[lilojmayo]

There's nothing wrong with actually expressing real genuine emotions and not succumbing to the "I'm the best/ Nobody can **** with me" facade that rap is famous for.


Lord knows I love my gritty bars but good for Drake for not keeping the genre boxed in a stereotype.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFIDaUSXBHI

This is one of my favorite things Drake has recorded BECAUSE he's bein real and honest about himself. I do agree that lately Drake panders too much to the dumb broad mentality that college girls are known to have but I'm not gunna throw him under the bus completely.

one thing i don't understand for the people that state Drake is " soft"....... he has never protrayed himself at a pure rap lyricist. That's like saying Usher, Ne-Yo, Chris Brown etc is soft. Drake is no different then them, just he has more rapping talent.

[ace23]

one thing i don't understand for the people that state Drake is " soft"....... he has never protrayed himself at a pure rap lyricist. That's like saying Usher, Ne-Yo, Chris Brown etc is soft. Drake is no different then them, just he has more rapping talent.
They're not talking about catching bodies and mobbing, though.

[widowmaker]

It's a good album, not a masterpiece or anything. If you're seeing a chick, his music becomes even better imo...songs just have a good feel for how relationships go these days, easy to relate to and gets you in the mood to see her.

Bingo.

I find it comical to read post claiming his music's "soft". Who gives a shit, rate it for what it is. As if these posters are prepping for a bank robbery or somthing. :rolleyes:

[Alamo]

As gay as Drake is, this is still the best hip-hop/R&B/pop album of the past 2 years. The songs from Take Care will never get old.

[blablabla]

kill yaself dumb ass. That shit is the softest album i fukking heard. I can't phuck wit dat shit
:applause:

[Scholar]

My friend lent me his Take Care album and I burned a copy. This shit is a masterpiece? :oldlol: Hell no. Some songs were worth listening to, but most were garbage. The song titled "Take Care" is ****ing retarded. Dude just sings through it. :facepalm

[Pra]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQRuaU7d7Vs

[QUIZZLE]

Would rather castrate my grandfather than listen to the album in it's entirety.