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Lil Wayne’s Master Plan
With tracks off Drake’s soon to be released album, Take Care, already breaching the Billboard Top Ten before the album release we can start to visualize that the YMCMB crew may be passing down the torch. Business strategy, fate, who knows, but Drizzy’s following and musical output can now be put along the same lines as his master, Lil Wayne. As Weezy approaches 30 (now 29), his glamour will no longer contain the same Young Money swagger it once had. We can view this as Drake, now 25, overcoming the natural tale of time, replenishing the YMCMB motto (with counterpart Nicki Minaj, now 28, drawing in the female market). Ultimately, the growing YMCMB business will grant Lil Wayne enough money to live to old age in immense steadily growing wealth. He has accomplished his ultimate goal, and soon Dr. Carter can sit back and hope his Young Money farm team raises another YMCMB star into the majors. - S.R.
Written by Uptown Soldier correspondent:
Steven Reubenstone
After just a short 5 weeks, Drake’s sophomore album Take Care has finally gone platinum. This makes Drizzy 2 for 2 with his solo projects after TML went platinum last year. If you enjoyed the album, check out our review here.
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I needed to take some time with this album review because as you may know I cover a lot of Drake and personally he is one of my favorite artists. I had been highly anticipating Take Care for months and was hoping for something to top Thank Me Later. Luckily enough the world (and myself) was given one of the more innovative albums in a long time. This is the Drake everyone went crazy over after So Far Gone. This is a sound many artists cannot do. This is a project that Drake put so much effort, emotion, and time into perfecting each and every song. I’m obviously biased toward Drizzy, but did the best I could to be objective. Comments and critiques always welcome. Hit the jump for the review.
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On the day his album was released, Drizzy did a very long in-store signing in Toronto for fans who had been waiting over a day to see him. After Drake wraps up with the fans, MuchMusic sat down with the Toronto native to get an in depth perspective on Take Care, how far Drake has come, and what the future holds.
Check out the full interview here.
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Drake’s Take Care Debuts At #1 On The Charts
It’s not official yet, but HDD has reported that Drizzy Drake’s sophomore album Take Care will be debuting at #1 on the charts. Right now the number is 659,190 which is 200k more than his 447,000 in Thank Me Later‘s first week, but the official numbers come in tomorrow. Stay tuned for the official announcement, but for now take care.
UPDATE: Final number via SoundScan: 631,466
Digital: 264,845 | CD: 366,621
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Nice surprise for you today. Babylon Cartel put together the samples from Drizzy Drake’s new album Take Care. Hit the jump for tracklist and download.
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Vevo News Interviews Drake About Take Care (Video)
With the release of his sophomore LP Take Care hitting stores this past Tuesday, Vevo News caught up with Drizzy to discuss some things about his album. Watch as Drake gives some explanations for things and discusses the track “The Ride”. Cop the album here.
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Drake’s Take Care Projected To Sell 675-725K Copies In Its First Week
Today HDD reported that Young Money’s Drizzy Drake is projected to move anywhere from 675-725K copies in its first week out. These numbers are based on first day sales and this should land Drizzy at the number one spot on the charts. Thank Me Later debuted at 447K so this would be a nice progression for Drake’s camp. Stay posted for the official numbers next week.
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Uptown Soldier’s Drake Take Care Album Giveaway
Yes my friends, the day has finally come!! Drake’s sophomore album Take Care hit stores today and boy do we have a good one. Uptown Soldier continues to show its Drizzy support by offering you a chance to win a FREE Copy of Drake’s new album. Check out how to enter the contest below and check back later.
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Email JoeMoney@UptownSoldier.com with “Drake Album Giveaway” in the subject and your name and Twitter handle in the body of the email.
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Thanks to everyone who participated in the contest. Keep posted on Drake and more of your favorite artists daily on UptownSoldier.com. Stay tuned for more promotions coming soon to a city near you!!!
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Drake – Take Care (Booklet & Production Credits)
When you go out and cop Drizzy album this Tuesday, this is the booklet inside you will see. The usual production credits and a special thank you from Drizzy. Hit the jump to view all the pics.
Buy the album: iTunes | Amazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon CA | Best Buy
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Billboard Interviews Drake; Talks Weezy, Take Care, Jay-Z, and More
As many of you may know, Drizzy’s sophomore album Take Care hits online stores and shelves next Tuesday on November 15th. It was originally slated to drop on his birthday, October 24th, but some issues with clearing samples and such caused a push back. Drizzy announced on October 8th that the album release was moved to a new date. Billboard sat down with Drizzy just hours before the announcement for an in-depth interview about the current state of music, relationship with Weezy & Jay-Z, as well as his brand new album Take Care. Hit the jump for some quotes and link to the full article. Read More
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The internet, specifically Twitter, was going crazy last night when Drizzy’s sophomore album Take Care leaked on the web. You can pre-order the album here and hit the jump for the official production credits.
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Pre-Orders for Drizzy’s sophopmore album hit the web recently and with that we get our first official look at the tracklist. No features (besides the ones we know like The Weeknd,Wayne, and Nicki) are confirmed on the track list, but we can expect the full one with credits soon. Check it out after the jump.
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Drake Collaborates With The Weeknd On 4 Take Care Tracks (Video)
Well if you enjoyed “The Real Her” here’s something else that might interest you. Drizzy Drake sat down with MTV and informed us that his OVO soldier, Toronto singer The Weeknd, played a major part collaborating with Drake on his new album. Take Care is in stores November 15th.
“He’s like a writer, collaborator on four songs on my album which I’m very proud of. I usually don’t branch out writing-wise working with other people. I usually like to write all my own stuff, but we get it. We try to tap into the same emotions because we’re from the same city.”
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What a nice little gift on this beautiful Thursday night. DHH gets the exclusive on one of Drizzy’s cuts off Take Care and this one features his boss Weezy F. If you haven’t liked the R&B Drake of late then you might not enjoy this, and Wayne’s verse is pretty good but not his best. Anyways, Take Care drops November 15th, be ready.
DOWNLOAD: Drake feat. Lil Wayne – The Real Her
PREVIOUS: Drake feat. Nicki Minaj – Make Me Proud
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Now that the album is done, we get this 2 minute promo ad for Take Care. I imagine this will be trimmed down to around 30 seconds, but for now I’m enjoying it. Also you can now pre-order Drizzy’s new album thanks to Amazon UK.
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Just “so you know it’s real” Drizzy tweeted that he finished the album and has handed it in to the higher-ups. November 15th the world will see, according to Drake, what he’s all about. Take Care.
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Lil Wayne Speaks On Drake’s Take Care (Video)
MTV caught up with Weezy to discuss Drizzy Drake’s upcoming album Take Care. Weezy says Drake, musically, is from another planet. Thoughts?
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Drizzy takes his new single to Flex tonight but hey I ain’t made. More good music from Drake featuring Barbie definitely one for the ladies as Drizzy claimed it would be. Take Care is now November 15th. Produced by T-Minus.
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DOWNLOAD: Drake Feat. Nicki Minaj – Make Me Proud
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When we saw this date getting closer, and Drizzy had only released one single “Headlines“, we knew this was a possibility. Drake takes his album even further into sweater season and pushes back his release date to November 15th. Word is that some samples needed to be cleared and that a new single featuring the YM head honcho is dropping soon. Stay tuned!
The new date for Take Care is November 15th, 2011. I managed to create this album in my hometown of Toronto and the thoughts and stories I wanted to get across just became so clear. It truly felt like when I was here 3 years ago making So Far Gone. So I have completed 19 songs (17 on physical and 2 on bonus), and have run into a roadblock of clearing 3 samples in time to make the October 24th date. My options were to take the songs off and make the birthday release happen, or to take an extra couple weeks to get the paper work right and give you the album they way I NEED you to hear it. The choice was clear as day for me. November 15th you will get Take Care the exact way I created it with no trimmings. This music means too much to me to get attached to dates and I do apologize for the delay but I promise that it is only for the benefit of our experience together. Club Paradise Tour will also be moved to when students are back from the Christmas/New Year break so that I can get to more schools. New dates will be released in the next week…see you all soon.
Drake
TAKE CARE NOVEMBER 15
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Drake Will Appear On NBC’s Saturday Night Live On October 15th
Just over a week before Drake’s birthday he will be the special musical guest on NBC’s SNL on October 15th. Drake will be celebrating his 25th birthday this October 24th and will be dropping Take Care. Drake will also join Nicki Minaj as the only two Young Money artists to appear on SNL this year, is Weezy next?
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