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[Ken Masters]

umso umso umso umso proud of you

the beat bangs on this track

 

[Hawkmosis]

Im feeling the album myself, I think it works fantastically well as a cohesive album.

As well i think it does a good job of getting across the drake persona. Its almost as though there is this undertone of sadness or shame to all the excessive things the lifestyle brings him, money girls whatever.

For me this album is more of a book and most rap albums these days are magazines. Ima listen to this one for a while.

Also, stereogum has a good interview.

 

[Bishman]

After reading the Sterogum interview with Drake, it reminded me why I became a fan.

J. Cole / Drake / Kendrick Lamar are my three favorite right now.

 

[vDaedalus]

But only on camera, only on camera...

I love how chill this song is. As a whole, I definitely feel like Drake could've went harder. Also, Under Ground Kings is best song on the album I'd say.

 

[BrLvgThrChmstry]

This is one of the best, if not the best, R&B album I've had the pleasure of listening to this year. Year isn't over etc. but its definitely a contender for the best.

 

[q_q]

Pretty much have "Over My Dead Body" on repeat right now. So good.

 

[Ashhong]

After reading the Sterogum interview with Drake, it reminded me why I became a fan.

J. Cole / Drake / Kendrick Lamar are my three favorite right now.

have never heard of Kendrick before his feature on this album. What should I listen to?

 

[overcast]

This is one of the best, if not the best, R&B album I've had the pleasure of listening to this year. Year isn't over etc. but its definitely a contender for the best.

Did you listen to The Weeknd, House of Balloons? That's way better.

have never heard of Kendrick before his feature on this album. What should I listen to?

GET SECTION 80 NOW.

 

[DominoKid]

so........Juve likes Practice. i'm rather impressed that Birdman let him get away with his masters/publishing (whatever the fuck you call it)

Since leaking last weekend, the rap world can’t stop talking about Drake’s new album, Take Care. One of the biggest topics of discussion is the track titled “Practice,” which surprisingly finds the Toronto-native reinterpreting Juvenile’s 1998 smash hit, “Back That Azz Up,” and turning it into a slow jam.

XXL spoke to the New Orleans rap vet to find out his thoughts on the song.

“I’m kind of flattered that it was Drake and that it’s an R&B song,” he said. “I never pictured it to be used that way but he did a great job with it, man.”

Juvie, Cash Money’s marquee artist back in the 1990s, said he first heard the song about a month ago when Cash Money parent label Universal contacted him about clearing the sample.

“We started going through the clearance process and stuff like that,” he said, “and when I heard it I was impressed because I really thought that ‘Back That Azz Up’ was a hard song to remake. The fact that he took it somewhere else, I think it was big. I like that. “

Look for a full-length feature with Juvenile tomorrow (November 10) morning on XXLMag.com

 

[SpeedingUptoStop]

I was a cold dude
I'm getting back to my WAys

 

[Ben Pierce]

lord knows is just so hot. Just blaze made an instant classic.

 

[Kaizer]

lord knows is just so hot. Just blaze made an instant classic.

I can't get the beat out of my head, can't wait to see the inevitable freestyles it produces.

 

[LightOfTruth]

this is kind of shit that will stand the test of time for me. AOTY contender, right now.

 

[SpeedingUptoStop]

this is kind of shit that will stand the test of time for me. AOTY contender, right now.

I'm pretty much right here with you. There a little bloat to it, but what isn't bloat is just undeniable.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

Damn. This album is good.

The beat on LORD KNOWS.

HNNNNNNNNNG

 

[Discotheque]

except Lord Knows. As a rapper Drake has little to no mic presence. That beat sounds completely out of place as he attempts to tackle; sounds like something far more in Rick Ross' lane.

truth, Drake spits one of the most forgettable verses ever on that track, he's lost in such a hype beat. Rick Ross comes just in time to save it.

The beat is more Jay Electronica anyways, needs a remix.

 

[m3k]

so yeah what else should i listen to? i like lord knows and over my dead body

what else?

 

[Battersea Power Station]

so........Juve likes Practice. i'm rather impressed that Birdman let him get away with his masters/publishing (whatever the fuck you call it)

Isn't Cash Money strongly involved with Young Money? Honestly asking since I don't know.

 

[enzo_gt]

have never heard of Kendrick before his feature on this album. What should I listen to?

SECTION80

HIIIPOWER

 

[Malleymal]

Jeez Big ghost face went in on this album.... Lmao

 

[Ken Masters]

Modern classic

Edit: in terms of today's standards obviously

 

[Takuan]

Jeez Big ghost face went in on this album.... Lmao

Now I promise yall...I aint got no expectations or plans to hate on this n*gga unless the shit jus so happens to be wack nahmean...Word is bond. Truth is...I aint really got nothin against son like that yo. Aight lets go...

... Ayo fuck this n*gga b.

lolgif

Whoever is behind this site is a genius. Reading the words and hearing Ghost say them in my head is just too entertaining.

 

[JJBro One]

Did you listen to The Weeknd, House of Balloons? That's way better.


GET SECTION 80 NOW.

Overly dedicated is better IMO.

 

[JJBro One]

have never heard of Kendrick before his feature on this album. What should I listen to?

Listen to overly dedicated. Better than section 80 IMO.

 

[FairyD]

Just listened to the album yesterday. Lord knows is probably my favourite track so far.

 

[thekad]

Lil Wayne ruins HYFR.

 

[PhoenixDark]

Lil Wayne ruins HYFR.

Seemed like such a lazy, forced verse too. I'm so tired of them being on each other's music at this point...

 

[overcast]

Overly dedicated is better IMO.

I liked Overly Dedicated, but I disagree. Not an opinion you normally see.

Modern classic

Really? You can already say that?

 

[enzo_gt]

Lil Wayne ruins HYFR.

I'm honestly thinking the album would be better if all the features outside of The Weeknd were stripped out. All of them are either lazy-to-bad (Waynes, Andre) or just somehow ended up bad (Kendrick).

After listening to it a lot more, that IS indeed a Kendrick-y kind of beat, it's just he fumbled.

 

[Bowser]

Really, really feeling Under Ground Kings. Favorite track on the album.

 

[Ashhong]

I'm honestly thinking the album would be better if all the features outside of The Weeknd were stripped out. All of them are either lazy-to-bad (Waynes, Andre) or just somehow ended up bad (Kendrick).

After listening to it a lot more, that IS indeed a Kendrick-y kind of beat, it's just he fumbled.

you so cray

 

[Red_Man]

Can't stop listening to this, it's so damn good, this is exactly the type or record we've been waiting for Drake to make. I'm really surprised too, I've always been really hit and miss with Drake's previous stuff.

 

[DevelopmentArrested]

Really, really feeling Under Ground Kings. Favorite track on the album.

It's pretty great. Second best track after OMDB.

 

[mileS]

dat chantal kreviazuk

 

[SpeedingUptoStop]

The intro is too weird for sure, but you gotta be nuts to thin Kendrick didn't tear up that verse.

 

[ThanksVision]

Love this album to bits. Honestly, I've been waiting for an album like this for a long time... It is quite long but it isn't exhausting at all (for me at least).

Drake wins.

 

[Cudder]

The intro is too weird for sure, but you gotta be nuts to thin Kendrick didn't tear up that verse.

The intro to the Kendrick song gives me chills, so awesomeeee.

 

[victreeb3l]

the only thing i really dont like about this album is baby on the end of "well be fine". i cant help but imagine his bald ass head and hands rubbing together uncontrollably. i hope someone edits his voice out and just leaves the beat going for a while

 

[Max Armstrong]

I fucking love Buried Alive, god damn.

 

[Bowser]

the only thing i really dont like about this album is baby on the end of "well be fine". i cant help but imagine his bald ass head and hands rubbing together uncontrollably. i hope someone edits his voice out and just leaves the beat going for a while

This, god, so this.

 

[Takuan]

Seemed like such a lazy, forced verse too. I'm so tired of them being on each other's music at this point...

What?!

met a female dragon
had a fire conversation

BEST VERSE OF ALL TIME

 

[Max Armstrong]

The intro to the Kendrick song gives me chills, so awesomeeee.

Sounds like some ATLiens shit, good stuff.

 

[DominoKid]

Really, really feeling Under Ground Kings. Favorite track on the album.

this part cracks me up

I can tell a lie if you ask me my where-abouts
But I might talk that real if you ask me what I care about
Rap and bitches, rap and bitches bitches
And rappin', rappin' and bitches until all of it switches

 

[Smeghead]

Kendrick Lamars intro to Buried Alive makes me laugh, the guy sounds like waterboy.

Albums is alot better than Thank Me Later, more of a follow up from So Far Gone which i liked alot.

 

[enzo_gt]

My gripes with the album, don't get it twisted, I love the album, but if y'all are nitpicking:

- Aforementioned dual-song track bullshit
- The sound of someone having a seizure 3/4 through Take Care keeps the song from being the best on the album, or else it would be. Kinda like Lift Off is ruined by having Jay-Z on it.
- Lord Knows doesn't fit with the rest of the album at all, as dope as it is. It gets a pass for being dope though.
- Stevie Wonder feature is a disappointment
- Andre verse.. is not that bad compared to everything else he's done recently, but its still eh.
- I thought Kendrick had his flow shit together after Section80, but he's still having trouble. C'mon Kendrick, you'd be S tier if you got that shit together.
- I'm completely sick of Lil Wayne verses on Drake songs. The Real Her sounds like it'd fit in perfectly on So Far Gone. I don't know what it is, I even liked Carter IV and I can't sit through Wayne's verses. I guess they're not as shit as I make them sound in actuality, I'm just tired of the combination.
- Camera gets a skip every time, but I'm not sure why. Probably the voice.
- I wish Crew Love was longer, I guess it's perfect in size, but the part at 3 minutes in is orgasmic and it ends so soon afterwards.

I think I'd REALLY enjoy a Weeknd X Drake album, in Crew Love proportions of the two. One Drake verse over an overall Weeknd-y feel of a song with some Take Care style production and I'm sold.

Take Care also literally deals with all the same EXACT topics and themes as MBDTF, probably another reason I like it so much. inb4mbdtfhate.

 

[overcast]

I liked The Zone Ft. Drake more than any track on this album tbh. Underground Kings is probably close.

 

[TheOddOne]

- Lord Knows doesn't fit with the rest of the album at all, as dope as it is. It gets a pass for being dope though.

Yeah, sounded like something for the Mayback album that was released a while ago. Drake just doesn't master that beat, he raps but nothing sticks or is memorable.

 

[SpeedingUptoStop]

- The sound of someone having a seizure 3/4 through Take Care keeps the song from being the best on the album, or else it would be. Kinda like Lift Off is ruined by having Jay-Z on it.
- Camera gets a skip every time, but I'm not sure why. Probably the voice.

I don't even what

I think I'd REALLY enjoy a Weeknd X Drake album, in Crew Love proportions of you. One Drake verse over an overall Weeknd-y feel of a song with some Take Care style production and I'm sold.

Take Care also literally deals with all the same EXACT topics and themes as MBDTF, probably another reason I like it so much. inb4mbdtfhate.

Okay, you're back on track now.

 

[enzo_gt]

I don't even what

You like the bit of Take Care ~3:15 in? It feels.. out of place. And doesn't even sound that great.

I like the vibe Take Care has, and that just kind of breaks it up a bit too much.

 

[SpeedingUptoStop]

I'll admit, I'm pretty much down for anybody who can chop up vocals on a track. That part of the record is gonna sound like some monster shit when played in concert. It probably comes off weird to you because Drake kind of changes the tone of the song from the xx version lyrically, but the actually part you're talking about is virtually unchanged from where it comes in at.


And I understand not liking the second half of Camera, should've been split up for sure, but Camruh is so fucking catchy.

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what you mean,thought you knew about the team EH