Take Care
by Drake

Take Care by Drake
Year: 2011
Release date: 2011-11-15
Overall rank: 838th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 449 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 2011 (13th)
Award Top albums of of the 2010s (119th)
Award Top 1,000 albums of all time (838th)

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Take Care is ranked as the best album by Drake.

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Overall rank: 838th | 2010s rank: 119th | 2011 rank: 13th  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 449 votes)
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From BestEverAlbums 44 hours ago in Monthly overall chart movements
The overall chart is ever changing, and it's difficult to keep up with the detail of what's happening. So, for those people who are interested, this post attempts to show the latest movements - biggest climbers, movers, new entries and leavers for the top 100, 250, 500 & 1000 over the past month,…
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From BestEverAlbums 08/09/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5399): By chisholm.matt
Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by ) 1. by (2011) 2. (2014) 3. by (2017) 4. by (2011) 5. (2004) 6. by by (2016) 8. by (2021) 9. by (2015) 10. by (2003) 11. by (2006) 12. by (2005) 13. by (2009) 14. by (2002) 15. by by (2018) 17. by (2014) 18. (2002) 19. by (2004) 20. by…
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From BestEverAlbums 08/01/2026 16:00 in Monthly overall chart movements
The overall chart is ever changing, and it's difficult to keep up with the detail of what's happening. So, for those people who are interested, this post attempts to show the latest movements - biggest climbers, movers, new entries and leavers for the top 100, 250, 500 & 1000 over the past month,…
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From 11/14/2020 05:35 | #260783
Mostly entertaining, but, as is common in highly regarded hip-hop albums, entirely too long.
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From 07/18/2020 05:26 | #255756
Cups of the rose
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From 07/17/2020 12:27 | #255727
not terrible, not great... but his best imo
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From 01/08/2020 10:22 | #246541
I still feel it every time I listen this. Apart from all the cringy copycats his influence is a little bit everywhere, its normalcy has made it invisible. Your success as a rapper/R&B singer in the '10s was dictated by how good you could hide the fact you were ultimately inspired by Drake. Melodic rapping, it's a simple formula but it just works. He functioned as the bridge between '00s hip hop of Kanye and Lil Wayne and '10s hip hop of Chance, The Weeknd and Frank Ocean (the last two of which get more recognition solely because they use more pretentious and safe-for-rock-critics samples). And while I don't think Drake's style is too obvious in those artists, I believe he made it possible for them to exist. Some things are just not a coincidence.

I'm glad he made this album because otherwise I don't think anyone would've recognized his influence. Like he says on another album: "it's not about who did first but about who did it right". On the other hand with less hits in his pocket a lot of critics would've been much easier to praise him. (Edited)
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