Has Drake’s 2011 album “Taken Care” of his career?
In Drake’s Album Take Care, he portrays a lot of messages about his personal life and love life through his lyrics. The album opens up with the song “Over My Dead Body” where he talks about his love life a little bit, with this song he introduces his audience to his life. This song is very mellow and has a slow pace to it and seems like a very personal vibe. The second song (Take a Shot for Me) coincides with the first song with how mellow the song is. This song has a very smooth tone giving Drake a romantic voice talking about being the best man to have. Drake is very confident in this album and reminicises on the different relationships he has had.
Drake incorporates a lot of star power in this album with having different songs with artists like Nicki Minaj, Rihanna, and the Weeknd. This album by Drake is known as his “sophomore” album which means that this is his second year album. With a flow of songs varying from mellow to some heart wrenching songs, this album really tells us that Drake is trying to rap about his relationship and experiences being a rapper. “Take Care” communicates all the different attitudes of Drake concerning his fame.
The song “Headlines” in this album is about Drake talking up himself. This track has a very cocky tone, he is has a bragging tone with his lyrics. In this song, he is constantly talking about how popular he is. This song adds more depth to the Take Care album in understand who Drake is and how he lives his life. “Headlines” is Drake’s third song in this album and it is very different from the first two songs. This song has a very fast pace rhythm to it. In this song, he talks about how money is the number one priority in his life.
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Another hazy vibed song from this album is “HYFR.” a song featuring Lil Wayne that talks about some of their experiences with girls. This song has a very laid back and hazy vibe throughout the song. Alike many other songs of this one also goes with the theme of Drake’s past experiences. This song, sounds like it is putting you in a trance especially when it repeats it’s chorus, ”Hell yeah hell yeah hell yeah, f*cking right.” In this song Lil Wayne and Drake rap about never wanting to be in a relationship and not trusting girls.
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“Good One’s Go” is a song on this album that is very emotional to Drake as he talks about wanting a girl back. In this song, he refers to a girl named Summer who he has mentioned in other songs. This particular girl was a good loved one who eventually left him because he could not commit time to her. This song has romantic theme with Drake singing about wanting his good girl back in his life
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In the concluding song of this album “The Ride,” Drake talks more about himself. This song is all about how he deals with all his money and fame. He has several lyrics describing fine dining, drinking, and buying cars in this song in result of being famous. However, there are some negative aspects in this song where Drake talks about having pressure being the biggest star, so he decides to drink more. Also, he faces a lot of adversity from fans and ex girlfriends so he often tries to keep to himself. In some of the opening lines of this song he says that no one understands him unless they have been in his shoes. The songs of this album can be found playing a sporting events pumping up teams or at a party livening the atmosphere. Despite being about either lost love and Drake’s fame, Drake finds a way to get his audience feeling his music in a personal way.
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This being just his second album, this had a lot of impact on his career. Drake had a lot of hype with his first album and had to back it up with someone good. With the lyrics in these songs, Drake tells about his journey to the top of the music world. A lot of songs on this track have to do with Drake being the man. The songs in this album are all aspects of Drake’s career concerning all the haters and motivators in his life. Drake shares some personal experiences with what it is like being a famous rapper. As far as attitude in his songs about the doubters of Drake, he has the same tone. He does not like people that oppose him and in Drake’s eyes he is the best. Drake talks about himself in most of his songs such as, “Crew Love” where Drake talks about loving who he is. Overall, this album builds Drake’s image as a rapper with it being his second album. With him overly rapping about his experiences and success, he is making his name known in the music industry. This album is against all the people who said he will fall off. Drake is now in and out with relationships with Rihanna in the recent times, so looking back at one of their first songs together can help us revisit his past. This album teaches us about Drake’s career back then and helps us compare to him now with just releasing a couple of new albums.
