Drake – Club Paradise
Drizzy let this go via his blog and by the looks of it there is more to come:
“Dropping this for our boy Avery…this was his favorite sh*t during the recording process. 2 more songs coming tonight as well. ovoxo”
In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Drizzy talks about his sophomore album and what to expect. He also talks about collabing with Rick Ross and how Watch the Throne inspired him.
• On the deluxe edition of Take Care: “So what I’m doing is there will be a Take Care physical edition in stores that’ll hopefully have 15 to 17 songs on it. Then I know a lot of people do deluxe editions. But since October 24 [his birthday] is a special day for me, I got, like, a Take Care birthday edition that I’m going to put on iTunes that will have extra songs. I really want to encourage people to be excited about the album releasing.”
• On why he’s taking his time with this album: “I remember when artists used to take, like, four years to make an album. Usher used to disappear for three years. It took Justin Timberlake a really long time to craft Justified. Even Beyoncé’s albums are spanned three years apart. You’ve got to live, man. And now we’ve sort of birthed and encouraged this generation of instant gratification.”
• On how Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Watch the Throne inspired him: “With Jay and with Watch the Throne, I’m so glad that it came out. As artists, we all need extra motivation. And I feel like in these last 30 days, that album is going to make me go 10 times harder from just, you know, hearing all the bars and all the sounds.”
• On a potential joint project with Rick Ross: “One of the people of the people I enjoy rapping with most in this business is Rozay [Rick Ross]. Me and him have talked about potentially doing something after our albums comes out. I just love making songs with him. Every time we make a song it just seems to be something I love listening to after the fact when I’m in my car.”
• On his Stevie Wonder collaboration: “I had a song that’s very powerful, it’s called ‘Doing It Wrong,’ and Stevie boosted it to another level. 40 produced it, but Stevie has a solo on it that he plays. It’s a great piece of music.”
• On why Take Care will have less features compared to his debut: “It was my first album. It was a bit rushed. And I think I found solitude in having features from people I love. It was a heavy feature album. And this album is the complete opposite.”
• On which leaked tracks will make the final cut: “‘Headlines’ and ‘Marvin’s Room’ are on the album. But ‘Dreams Money Can Buy’ and ‘Trust Issues,’ those joints are on that birthday edition. That birthday edition might be a stupid amount of songs. I’m just forewarning everybody. [Laughs] I want to service people a lot of music to get you through fall, winter, spring, and into the next summer. I want this music to last.”
Drake – Trust Issues (Remix) F/. Justin Bieber
Young based Bieber hops on Drake’s “Trust Issues”
We get a inside look at Drake’s OVOFest 2011. Everyone from J.Cole to Rick Ross and to Nas and even the impeccable Stevie Wonder made an appearance.
Game ft. Drake – Good Girls Go Bad (Prod. By Cool & Dre)
Despite how I feel about Game and his name dropping ways; he seems to have found a way to do it within the context of the song. I can rock with this joint.
Lil Wayne Ft Drake & Rick Ross–She Will (Remix)
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Not even 24 hours after the original track drops YMCMB decides to put out the remix featuring Rozay. It’s starting to look bad for Weezy. Carter IV in stores August 29th.
Lil Wayne – “She Will” F/. Drake
Could number four be the magic single for Wayne? We’ll see very soon.
EDIT: I expected the usual rhymes like “Wayne >>> Every” girl but this is better than that. I still don’t think he deserved that hook or beat but after all, he is Lil Wayne. *kanye shrug*
Trey Songz – “Headlines (Remix)“
Trey puts his spin on Drake new single Headlines
Drake – Headlines
Drake first offering from his upcoming album Take Care. I don’t quite know how I feel about this song yet. Honestly off first listens “Dreams Money Can Buy”, Marvin’s Room, & “Trust Issues” would all have been better first single candidates.
“I hate singles,” Drake says. It’s a funny thing to hear from the rapper behind hits like “Best I Ever Had” and “Find Your Love,” but he says he’s always felt this way – now more than ever, as he puts the finishing touches on his second full-length LP, Take Care (due October 24th). “With this album, I want to tell a whole story,” he adds. “I don’t want people to just hear a piece and judge the album on that.”
Drake is home in Toronto, recording at his longtime producer Noah “40″ Shebib’s studio. The vibe is industrial yet cozy: exposed brick, low lighting, plenty of high-grade weed and virtually no decoration aside from a vinyl copy of U.K. dubstep crooner James Blake’s debut on a windowsill. “This is home,” says Drake, wearing a T-shirt, black jeans and work boots. “If I’m in a big expensive studio, it starts messing with my head about what kind of music I should be making.”
To a degree, that’s what happened with his 2010 debut, Thank Me Later, which sold 1.4 million copies and transformed Drake from mixtape phenom to platinum-certified star. “In no way am I not proud of it,” he says, “but I think I got caught up in making it seem big and first-album-ish. I was a bit numb, a bit disconnected from myself. I wasn’t able to slow down and realize what was going on around me.”
He’s taking a more deliberate approach with Take Care, toiling over the sort of intricately observed lyrics that made his breakthrough mixtape, 2009′s So Far Gone, so thrilling. Tales of next-level conspicuous consumption (he shouts out celeb chef Thomas Keller’s French Laundry restaurant, where he dined on a recent Napa Valley wine-tasting trip) butt up against memories of middle-class striving (he references renting luxury cars he couldn’t afford). Adds Drake, “The whole process has been about slowing life down and really pinpointing emotions.”
He cues up several tracks in various states of completion, all of which sit squarely in the sparse, somber register that’s become his trademark. “Shot for Me,” the likely album opener, is a marvel of melancholy bravado: He sings “Bitch, I’m the man” in a moan that undercuts the brag, over a beat (courtesy of Shebib) that pairs aching synthesizer notes with an exhilarating barrage of high-hats. Other highlights include “Free Spirit,” featuring Rick Ross and the refrain “Tat my name on you so I know it’s real,” and “The Real Her,” a narcotically woozy love song with detuned pianos and a Lil Wayne guest spot. Drake is also looking forward to collaborating with Abel Tesfaye, a.k.a. buzzy R&B gloomster the Weeknd — and, if he gets his wish, veteran beatsmith DJ Premier, Florence and the Machine’s Florence Welch, and the xx’s Jamie Smith. “No matter who’s on it, it goes through the Drake filter,” Shebib says. “He’s so hands-on about how everything sounds.”
Many rappers tout their effortlessness, but Drake is proudly perfectionist. Several of the verses he’s written for the album are still missing their last two bars. “If your writing is strong enough, those lines dictate what the hook is gonna be about, how you’re gonna go into the second verse,” he says. “You need the exit moment, you know? ‘And the crowd goes wild…’”
via Rolling Stone (in stores Aug. 4th)
Drizzy took to twitter earlier to announce the release date of his sophomore album, Take Care. October 24, 2011 will be the date. One month after Cole? I’m sure Drake has something in store for us after hearing his past few songs.
So we all remember when this happened the other day right? Well right after Chris Brown dropped his version of this song, this video comes out…
Related: Music Video: Dj Khaled ft. Drake, Lil Wayne & Rick Ross – I’m On One | Drake Speaks About Take Care & the Music He is Making
Chris Brown – Marvin’s Room Remix
I’m convinced that Rihanna’s bocks is cut from the finest diamond and lined with satin. I can rock with this song but this needs to be it with the remixes. Oh yeah, Drake and Chris Brown will be sending subliminal shots all summer long. Down below is a joint Chris did with Soulja Boy.
Related: Who Has the Best Version of Marvin’s Room? | Chris Brown ft. SWV – She Ain’t You (Remix)
Chris Brown ft. Soulja Boy – Bad
Rick Ross - Rich Forever