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[HiResDes]

Take Care is growing on me. It really feels like the true successor to So Far Gone than Thank Me Later. Is it me or is Take Care really mellow? It it perfect to play when studying, at night, or just as background music.

It's just you

 

[Tom Penny]

Aww, the Tom and Ken are so cute. Again, talking shit about me, but dont say shit to Black, pussies.

Are you comparing listening to Run DMC to Illmatic? Zero chance you could comprehend Illmatic at 8 years old unless your brother was the kid on the bench in One Love...

 

[victreeb3l]

Take Care is growing on me. It really feels like the true successor to So Far Gone than Thank Me Later. Is it me or is Take Care really mellow? It it perfect to play when studying, at night, or just as background music.

thats what i really like about drakes music. i find his stuff, especially so far gone, very good "thinking" music. shit you can put on while going on a long drive or walk or something. got a nice nocturnal quality too. take care just takes that further IMO

"over my dead body" is almost as good as "lust for life" as an opener

Take Care is good. Drake surprised me. Thank Me Later was so bad, but this feels more like him, where Thank Me Later felt more like a Young Money influenced album.

word. someone said it earlier in this thread but TML was a "safe" album. songs for chicks, bangers for dudes. "the resistance" and "fireworks" felt like the only "drake-y" songs in there.

tho i really liked the "thank us later remix album" with cookin soul. they really expanded the parts of the songs that 40 worked on, which i enjoyed

 

[enzo_gt]

Aww, the Tom and Ken are so cute. Again, talking shit about me, but dont say shit to Black, pussies.

Talking shit to Blackace is dangerous bro, Blackace doesn't hesitate.

I try to irk him as much as I can, but surprisingly he's one of the few on GAF that share the many tastes with me. Him, Toku and my finally famous brother peterb0y.

 

[Recon]

Are you comparing listening to Run DMC to Illmatic? Zero chance you could comprehend Illmatic at 8 years old unless your brother was the kid on the bench in One Love...

No, we are not even talking about what i originally said. I said i listened to Illmatic. I never once said i understood its content. Fuckers putting words in my mouth. But it introduced me to good hip hop and helped me appreciate good music later on. You guys are just either idiotic or trolling, i dont care which really.

 

[Byakuya769]

and that's were I stopped reading your bullshit

so you assume I'm monitoring this page every second of the day, not that I left my laptop to go eat something or you know, do something outside the world of internet land


wow


wow



I'm just going to assume you're trolling me, good job

Dude, "get the fuck over yourself."

 

[SpeedingUptoStop]

tuck my napkin in my shirt cuz i'm just mobbin like that

 

[enzo_gt]

It's just you

Shut up and tell us what you think of the album already!

I need that patented HRD one sentence-fragment judgment.

 

[Byakuya769]

Over My Dead Body is sublime. Probably the best track on the album for me.

"Lord Knows" still kills it cause I'm a Just Blaze stan and I want ppl to rip it over his beats.. but yea, I kind of get goosebumps when "Over My Dead Body" starts.

Talking shit to Blackace is dangerous bro, Blackace doesn't hesitate.

I try to irk him as much as I can, but surprisingly he's one of the few on GAF that share the many tastes with me. Him, Toku and my finally famous brother peterb0y.

Talking shit to Blackace got me this tag. And I'd do it again, if I knew it would up the ante on my tag and not get me banned.

 

[Karish]

How many tracks? 16?

 

[Recon]

Dude, "get the fuck over yourself."

Ah, that one made me laugh.

 

[Ken Masters]

Dude, "get the fuck over yourself."

Aww, the Byakuya769 and Recon are so cute. Again, talking shit about me



am I doing this right Recon?

 

[Recon]

How many tracks? 16?

17, 16 is the leak. It is missing one song and the two bonus cuts.

 

[Byakuya769]

Aww, the Byakuya769 and Recon are so cute. Again, talking shit about me



am I doing this right Recon?

I was just a disinterested observer; then you told me to get over myself, and it hurt my feelings.

 

[Ken Masters]

I was just a disinterested observer; then you told me to get over myself, and it hurt my feelings.

it was a funny post on your part, I got a chuckle out of it

 

[PBY]

One point about this album- I think Wayne's features are TERRIBLE. Like almost ruin a good song terrible. I'm ehh on 3 stacks' verse, but Kendrick kills his.

 

[Recon]

One point about this album- I think Wayne's features are TERRIBLE. Like almost ruin a good song terrible. I'm ehh on 3 stacks' verse, but Kendrick kills his.

Kendrick/Weeknd/Rihanna all did great. Wayne and Andre were forgettable at best.

 

[HiResDes]

Shut up and tell us what you think of the album already!

I need that patented HRD one sentence-fragment judgment.

Hint: I warmed up to the Weeknd on his last mixtape/free album

 

[Byakuya769]

Hmm, really liked 3000 feature...

(edit) you college and single cats are really blessed with this album. Such a "one thing leads to another" type of album.

 

[Ken Masters]

One point about this album- I think Wayne's features are TERRIBLE. Like almost ruin a good song terrible. I'm ehh on 3 stacks' verse, but Kendrick kills his.

Wayne was good enough for me on the HYFR track, but other then his verse on The Real Her all the features killed it. Niki actually was quite good which shocked me seeing that the only other verse I actually like from her was on Monster

 

[PBY]

Hmm, really liked 3000 feature...

(edit) you college and single cats are really blessed with this album. Such a "one thing leads to another" type of album.

Practice is my favorite song on the album. Goddam thats a jam and half- that song is sex.

 

[SpeedingUptoStop]

do you love this shit
are you high right now

 

[Angelus Errare]

I like it better than TML. Your first album is always going to be a label creative album. Second one is where you get to do your own thing.

This doesn't mean Nicki's second album will be good all of a sudden.

 

[Cudder]

Honestly, Kendrick's verse (actually, the whole Marvin's Room/Buried Alive sequence) is the highlight of the album for me. Kendrick just glides over the beat, effortless.

 

[PBY]

I like it better than TML. Your first album is always going to be a label creative album. Second one is where you get to do your own thing.

I think Im the only one who likes TML more- and its weird b/c I loved half of that album and hated the other half. For me, there were more highs and creative beats on TML than Take Care. Outside of Lord Knows, all the beats kind of merge together; which weirdly gives it a great sense of cohesion and concept.

 

[Ken Masters]

Honestly, Kendrick's verse (actually, the whole Marvin's Room/Buried Alive sequence) is the highlight of the album for me. Kendrick just glides over the beat, effortless.

the beat that Kendrick raps on is amazing to me

 

[Angelus Errare]

I think Im the only one who likes TML more- and its weird b/c I loved half of that album and hated the other half. For me, there were more highs and creative beats on TML than Take Care. Outside of Lord Knows, all the beats kind of merge together; which weirdly gives it a great sense of cohesion and concept.

I personally like albums more when the beats merge together and give that sense of cohesion. With that said, Aubrey did a better job of that than Jay-Z did on BP3, especially after all his talk about how he was anal about that....

That's right, I went there.

 

[PBY]

I personally like albums more when the beats merge together and give that sense of cohesion. With that said, Aubrey did a better job of that than Jay-Z did on BP3, especially after all his talk about how he was anal about that....

That's right, I went there.

I guess I didn't phrase it right- My dream album is one that has a great sense of cohesion/concept without doing it through samey beats (see MOTM). I really give Drake props for going for the concept and not deviating from it to throw in more club tracks or bangers. The production is just a littttle too repetitive for me.

Aubrey done good tho.

 

[Byakuya769]

I personally like albums more when the beats merge together and give that sense of cohesion. With that said, Aubrey did a better job of that than Jay-Z did on BP3, especially after all his talk about how he was anal about that....

That's right, I went there.

I'm a Jay-Z stan, and there's no way I could argue against that. I think Saigon/Just Blaze pulled this off better than anyone this year with "Greatest Story Never Told" though.

 

[Blackace]

They both came out in 88? Too young. I guess no Kool G for you I'm assuming your bro didn't want you to hear cursing.

Mixed up my Run DMC albums.. I was born 77 so yeah you can shut it..

 

[HiResDes]

I'm a Jay-Z stan, and there's no way I could argue against that. I think Saigon/Just Blaze pulled this off better than anyone this year with "Greatest Story Never Told" though.

Naw...Just because Just Blaze likes to make the same beats over and over doesn't make that album the most cohesive. Both Kno and The Illz's albums are exponentially more fluid.

 

[Recon]

I'm a Jay-Z stan, and there's no way I could argue against that. I think Saigon/Just Blaze pulled this off better than anyone this year with "Greatest Story Never Told" though.

I felt Greatest Story Never Told felt a little Too polished for his content. I liked it, but it just felt off.

 

[Byakuya769]

Naw...

You don't think that album was the most sonically cohesive album of the year? Each track literally bleeds into the next. You don't have to like Saigon, but the production should be unquestioned.

 

[PBY]

You don't think that album was the most sonically cohesive album of the year? Each track literally bleeds into the next. You don't have to like Saigon, but the production should be unquestioned.

Oneirology. Its not in my top 5 (close), but that album had a SOUND. Second to that, maybe Goblin (which got old SO fast, but undeniable does some interesting stuff conceptually). You could argue for Covert Coup- not in concept but sonically.

Really though, we can all agree that Lasers was the absolute most cohesive album this year.

Spoiler

Cohesively shitty

 

[Recon]

Oneirology. Its not in my top 5 (close), but that album had a SOUND. Second to that, maybe Goblin (which got old SO fast, but undeniable does some interesting stuff conceptually). You could argue for Covert Coup- not in concept but sonically.

Really though, we can all agree that Lasers was the absolute most cohesive album this year.

Spoiler

Cohesively shitty

Lasers was odd for me. I kinda liked it my first listen. Then hated most everything about it later. Shit grows on you, but in a bad way.

 

[PBY]

Lasers was odd for me. I kinda liked it my first listen. Then hated most everything about it later. Shit grows on you, but in a bad way.

haha that was blatant trolling- I didn't mind lasers actually, you can look up my posts in the old thread- it just wasn't lupe.

 

[Recon]

haha that was blatant trolling- I didn't mind lasers actually, you can look up my posts in the old thread- it just wasn't lupe.

It just becomes so obvious he has nothing to say on it. I did like Show Goes On for that sample/interpretation.

 

[PBY]

It just becomes so obvious he has nothing to say on it. I did like Show Goes On for that sample/interpretation.

Thats exactly how I felt- I actually thought Lupe should have just embraced it; instead of forcing out Words I Never Said and All Black Everything, he should have said fuck it and just made a fun club album. Instead he kinda hedged and the result defined mediocre.

 

[HiResDes]

Lasers was odd for me. I kinda liked it my first listen. Then hated most everything about it later. Shit grows on you, but in a bad way.

It weird hearing Go to Sleep and being kind of hyped on it and then hearing SLR, which briefly transformed me into a believer again, only to realize that neither of the tracks resembled anything on the album.

 

[Angelus Errare]

I'm a Jay-Z stan, and there's no way I could argue against that. I think Saigon/Just Blaze pulled this off better than anyone this year with "Greatest Story Never Told" though.

That has the advantage of all songs being produced by one producer. With that said, the original version of Come On Baby > Album version, Just Blaze fucked up the beat, that new guitar lick he used annoys me to no end.

 

[Ken Masters]

so about that Drake album...

 

[Recon]

Thats exactly how I felt- I actually thought Lupe should have just embraced it; instead of forcing out Words I Never Said and All Black Everything, he should have said fuck it and just made a fun club album. Instead he kinda hedged and the result defined mediocre.

Yeah, i firmly believed his label fucked him, but he kinda half-assed it too.

 

[Ken Masters]

Anyone else surprised the last track hasn't been leaked yet?

 

[Throavium]

No

 

[Byakuya769]

That has the advantage of all songs being produced by one producer. With that said, the original version of Come On Baby > Album version, Just Blaze fucked up the beat, that new guitar lick he used annoys me to no end.

The price you pay for allowing Saigon to correct his verse to not say science in lieu of chemistry in "I got this rap shit down to a chemistry."

Hahah.. prison talk.

 

[Ashhong]

Really enjoying this album....what the hell.

love the production on "Take Care" the track.

 

[victreeb3l]

pretty good interview with drake about "take care"
http://stereogum.com/871972/stereogum-qa-drake/top-stories/lead-story/

anyone got that video of abel performing in that high school gym or whatever? youtube isnt getting me ish

i also feel like im the only one that doesnt like the song "take care". its just like, whatever, man

 

[PBY]

pretty good interview with drake about "take care"
http://stereogum.com/871972/stereogum-qa-drake/top-stories/lead-story/

anyone got that video of abel performing in that high school gym or whatever? youtube isnt getting me ish

i also feel like im the only one that doesnt like the song "take care". its just like, whatever, man

Same. Its not bad, I just don't know what makes it different from a random pop single. It could be Rihanna's song for what its worth.

Practice... now thats a song.

 

[Blackace]

Same. Its not bad, I just don't know what makes it different from a random pop single. It could be Rihanna's song for what its worth.

Practice... now thats a song.

The album should have been name headlines.. because Take Care isn't a random pop song it is a meh pop song.. RiRi makes better stuff than that so we know it couldn't be her song

 

[victreeb3l]

Same. Its not bad, I just don't know what makes it different from a random pop single. It could be Rihanna's song for what its worth.

Practice... now thats a song.

word, practice is crazy good.

the latter half of the "take care" song gives me some "lost in the world" vibes