The promo run continues for Drake as the release date for Take Care is just around the corner. In a recent interview with The Village Voice, Drake talks about working with Stevie Wonder, his thoughts on A$AP Rocky and Kendrick Lamar (who are joining him on the Club Paradise Tour), the battle scene (noting some of his favorites) and even admits to dropping the ball when it came to giving a verse to Phonte for Charity Starts At Home (which is one of my favorite albums of the year, hands down).
With me and Tay, I kinda dropped the ball on a feature he needed me to do, just being 100% honest. I really wanted to do a record with him, and we actually did do a record for my album, and then something happened with the producer and the beat, and it started getting funny so I had to scrap the record. And then he was like, “Well, can you do this feature for me,” and at the time I was trying to find my sound and trying to figure out what this album was going to be about, and I kind of let it slip through the cracks. That was my fault, and I do apologize to Phonte for that. But I still want to make it happen; I talked to 9th Wonder about trying to make it happen, we’ll get it eventually. He knows he’s one of the biggest influences on my career.
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I forgot who said Drake dropped the ball because he knew he would be outrapped by Te. I think it was ?uest. This reminded me of that, it was an odd position to make.
Man, that’s fucked up.
” came in with my style, so I fathered u” nas to jay-z ……same applies here.
Didnt feel the influence on Take Care. I’m mad disappointed by the album.
^Man I know. 3 days later, the only songs that are still spinning at all are We’ll Be Fine, Look What You’ve Done and the Kendrick interlude. Take Care is a soft, boring tape overall.
It would have been great to hear 9th Wonder and Phonte on this album but maybe next one.
I’ve been listening to the album for the last couple days and honestly I thought there was just too much R&B on the album. It’s a good album and I’m sure it will do it’s numbers but I really wanted to hear him rap more on this album and hoped for more depth and subject matter that was more than rap and bitches , bitches and rapping, etc but I guess that would move him a way from his female fan base. I thought the production the album was good and so were the choruses but it felt even more R&B then So Far Gone and Thank Me Later. I would have also been happy if Club Paradise, Trust Issues, Dreams Money Can Buy and Free Spirit were on the album. I think that would have given it more balance. Anyways, I’m just gonna go back to Comeback Season and hope one day that version of Drake will appear on an album.
Never drop the ball.. fuck r ya’ll thinkin?
Am I the only one that digs the R&B vibe of Take Care? I’ve only sat through it twice so far but I dig it. And a Phonte/Drake/9th collabo would be greatly appreciated on my end.
@RockyRoads I think a lot of us are still waiting for the Comeback Season drizzy to reappear
I like a few songs from the album but i’m already playing just your 2-3 records from it. – doesn’t bode well really.
What I don’t understand is why he would go so heavy on the singing. What does he do live? He just lets DJ play the chorus in the background for songs like “i’m on one” and etc etc..what’s he gonna do for these the take care songs. Stand there for 90mins while his DJ plays his tracks.
Great studio artist but he must be atrocious live.
“Think Good Thoughts” & “Don’t You Have A Man” are still some of my favorite tracks.
Looking forward to another Drake/Phonte collab.
Take Care is straight ass, just like Thank Me Later was. Straight up corny, soft, boring, self-indulgent “i’m Drake, i’m a deep nigga” type shit.
And oh yeah..
Phonte >>>>>>>>> Drizzy
‘te is another fucking level. Just check out Charity Starts At Home, shit’s dope.
@Epinz
“fathered the style, then I gave up custody.” – Phonte
I was a huge fan of Comeback Season Drake. I thought he could be a major star and still give us substance and lyrical ability. He could have walked that fine line between making songs for both males and females. He effectively abandoned his male fanbase when he signed to Young Money. Comeback Season Drake ain’t ever coming back. Now his music and lyrics are completely geared towards a female audience.
if drake sings on the phonte collab an angel will lose its wings
Dropping the ball means Birdman took it out of Drakes hands and kicked that motherfucker up into the rafters.
YMCMB is the reason the Drake we all want to hear isn’t reappearing anytime soon
@Jazz YMCMB is why you know about Drake. Wayne called Drizzy to join YM in 2008. Drizzy blew up in 2009. Don’t act like you were bumping Drake in 2007.
Charity Starts At Home is one of the best albums of the year…I’m glad Drake wasn’t on it..
When is he going to apologize for Take Care?
I feel if they allowed him to drop that R&b tape we would of gotten a better Lp…dah well on to the next one
@ RonPaul
I was jammin drake before young money took him…
@RonPaul that timeline is irrelevant. Whether or not you heard Drakes original music the day it came out or yesterday does not matter. It is very apparent that he was better pre-YMCMB and although they have helped him blow up from a mainstream point of view they are holding him back as a hip-hop artist.
He should have shouted out Illmaculate when talking about the battle scene.
Not gonna lie couldnt wait to hear phonte on this album. When I sawe tracklist I was disappointed bad. The album is chill really on some Rn B tip not reaLLY a hiphop album to me, but Underground Kings and Lord Knows are my favs and The Crew. Drake cannot think he’s one of the best MCs there just so many better one’s out there. He still di his thing just expected more of a HipHop type vibe as he mentioned a fews months back when the album was annouced!
Oh Yeah almost forgot “The Life of Kings” by Phonte is better then take alone
I agree with everybody about wanting 2007-2008 Drake to return. This album is even feels like he took all the songs he was gonna put on his R&B mix tape and put them on this album instead. I was hoping for a return to the rapper I heard on 9 AM In Dallas and on Dreams Money Can Buy. Maybe if he works with Phonte x 9th Wonder, Boi1da, T Minus and 40 he will rap more next album but I’m not holding my breath for the Drake of old to return since he is mainstream now and has a huge female audience he could care less about rapping since women buy records more so then men. Girls will love Take Care but men will wish there were more songs like Underground Kings x Lord Knows and The Ride.
Kanye did it, now Drakes doing it with his emao ass records. Smh. Until he puts out a worthy album, not a cent is going to his pocket from me, I’d rather buy Charity starts at home three times before I give Drake a penny for an RnB album.
Bottom line… DRAKE’S A BITCH FOR THAT!… He’s too hollywood for Phonte now. If you wanna do a record…. go record it. Whats the problem?
you guys all sound like clowns. since when do people hate on progression and evolution? kill yourselves.
I think Drake did a fine job. He wasn’t afraid to let his features shine, which is hard for an artist to do on their own album. *shrug*
drake is so rubbish, thats even a insult to rubbish – he shouldnt even mention Phontes name – how do people like Tay ever want guys like this on their tracks – i understand publicitiy and commerciality, but come on, surely Busta Rhymes to name one person can bring u the same ‘publicity’ than drake but he will actually lay down REAL bars – Drake is BS, these fools are killing music FAST!
@RonPaul yo dont think your the only one that was bumpin Drake back n 07 iknew about him through Degrassi so ive been on em since Room For Improvement, but i gave up on em when Thank Me Later dropped
Honestly, I’m disappointed that Phonte even considered Drake for the album. Drake doesn’t do anything special, and Median and the other artists Tigallo featured would eat him. Anyone could spew b.s. like Drake does–not everyone can fill his image though, and that’s why he’s considered good. These people that like Drake will eat anything their fed by the industry. They’re the same people that tell me Mac Miller, Wiz Khalifa and J. Cole are better than Talib, Common, and yes, Phonte, and they all told me 3-years-ago that Dip Set was the future. Yeah, MAAYBE.
@Meechy: Come on son, stop getting all sweaty over who listened to an artist first. Who gives a shit? The art is what matters, and I don’t care if you knew Drake was going to be a rapper in 1993, the faggot still sucks. Too many people claim artists are good just because they listened to them before they became “popular”, and stop listening to them because they became “popular”. They’ll give every other reason besides that, but that’s the real reason.