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=Album Review=

star rating 4 out of 5
 * musician Drake **
 * Album title-Take Care **

Hip-hop has never produced anything quite like Drake – a gay with a Jay-Z ego and a Charlie Brown soul. The Canadian singer-rapper introduced his melancholy-player persona on 2010's platinum Thanl Me Later, spooling out alarmingly mellow confessional brags over synth-streaked tracks that suggested someone had spiked his Cristal with NyQuil and truth serum. "Famous like a drug that I've taken too much of," he rapped, and somehow made you sympathetic to all his stardom-is-hard meditations.
 * author's purpose **

So, how's he feeling these days? The cover of //Take Care// says it all: Drake sits forlornly in the depths of a mansion he could've bought from 1970s Jimmy Page, slung over a golden goblet of $50-a-glass painkiller. Dude probably had sex two minutes ago, but he looks like his dog just got run over by a garbage truck.

Mostly, Drake stretches out over languid, austerely plush tracks that blur hip-hop, R&B and downtempo dance music. "Over My Dead Body" opens the album with a dreamweave of cascading pianos and plaintive backing vocals from Canadian singer Chantal Kreviazuk: "I was drinking at the Palms last night/And ended up losing everything that I came with," he raps in his finest just-woke-up voice.

=** Biography **= His most successful album, Th a, was released in 2008 and sold over 1 million copies in the U.S. its first week of release. It included the number-one single " and won the for Best Rap Album. Lil Wayne released his debut rock album,, in 2010 to primarily negative reception from critics. The album eventually went gold. In March 2010, Lil Wayne began serving an 8-month prison sentence in New York after being convicted of criminal possession of a weapon stemming from an incident in July 2007. While in prison he released another album entitled in September 2010, featuring Young Money artists such as , andHis ninth studio album and first since being released from prison, was released on August 29, 2011 It sold 964,000 copies in the U.S. its first week out. = =