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Track List
01) Dreams Money Can Buy
02) The Motion
03) How Bout Now
04) Trust Issues
05) Days in the East
06) Draft Day
07) 4PM in Calabasas
08) 5AM in Toronto
09) I Get Lonely
10) My Side
11) Jodeci Freestyle
12) Club Paradise
13) Free Spirit
14) Heat of the Moment
15) Girls Love Beyoncé
16) Paris Morton Music
17) Can I
01) Dreams Money Can Buy
02) The Motion
03) How Bout Now
04) Trust Issues
05) Days in the East
06) Draft Day
07) 4PM in Calabasas
08) 5AM in Toronto
09) I Get Lonely
10) My Side
11) Jodeci Freestyle
12) Club Paradise
13) Free Spirit
14) Heat of the Moment
15) Girls Love Beyoncé
16) Paris Morton Music
17) Can I
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First Released
2019
Hip-Hop
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Care Package is the first compilation album by Canadian rapper Drake. It was released on August 2, 2019 by OVO Sound. The compilation consists of songs released between 2010 and 2016 that were initially unavailable for purchase or commercial streaming. The compilation features guest appearances from J. Cole, Rick Ross, and James Fauntleroy and additional vocals by Sampha and Beyoncé.
Background and release
Care Package follows the re-release of Drake's mixtape So Far Gone onto streaming services in February 2019. On August 1, 2019, Drake announced the release of Care Package via Instagram. The release of Care Package will coincide with the start of Drake's ninth annual OVO Fest in Toronto.
The songs on Care Package were released as promotional material for several albums throughout the years. The earliest tracks, "I Get Lonely" and "Paris Morton Music", were released in 2010 after the release of Drake's debut album Thank Me Later. "Dreams Money Can Buy", "Trust Issues", "Club Paradise" and "Free Spirit" were released in 2011 before the release of Drake's second studio album, Take Care. The songs "5AM in Toronto", "Girls Love Beyoncé" and "Jodeci Freestyle" were released in 2013 before the release of Drake's third studio album, Nothing Was the Same. "The Motion" was included as a bonus track on the physical deluxe edition and international edition for Nothing Was the Same.
"Draft Day" was released via October Very Own's SoundCloud in April 2014. "Heat of the Moment" was leaked online alongside "How About Now" and "6 God" in 2014. "How About Now" and "My Side" were included as bonus tracks on the physical edition to the mixtape If You're Reading This It's Too Late. "Can I" featuring vocals by Beyoncé was leaked online in 2015. "4PM in Calabasas" was premiered on OVO Sound Radio in June 2016, and is the latest track recorded on the album.
User Album Review
“Some of our important moments together available in one place,” is how Drake’s surprise release Care Package was announced.
Possibly influenced by Nas’s recent release The Lost Tapes II (another album made up of unreleased tracks), the Toronto rapper has curated a number of songs previously scattered across Soundcloud and YouTube. While some are what fans refer to as “old” Drake, others feel surprisingly relevant in 2019 – they resurface an old grudge or remind fans of his greatest strengths.
Contrasting this older material against his most recent releases is an opportunity to look at how Drake’s outlook towards relationships, friendships and success has changed. Where he used to be fixated on presenting himself as the boy next door – the one who wanted to save “good girls” from going bad; now it sounds as though he’s had enough. 2013’s “The Motion”, which features Mercury Prize-winning artist Sampha, has him rap: “The girl I wanna save is like a danger to my health.” But “Money in the Grave” with Rick Ross, which was released earlier this year, includes the line: “Used to save hoes with a mask and a cape, now I'm like, 'Nah, love, I'm good, go away'.”
Drake is often best when he’s at his most brooding. “Days in the East” is about as self-critical as he gets (although he's still bitter towards a former lover for being with the wrong man). But then he raps about going to Erykah Badu’s house: “She made tea for me/ We talked about love and what life could really be for me.” There’s something beautiful in how he closes the track on this mention of his friendship with one legendary woman of hip hop, then segues into a neat sample loop of Lauryn Hill’s “Doo Wop (That Thing)”.
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There’s a darker, moodier vibe running across the record in contrast to the scattered eclecticism of 2018’s Scorpion, which was criticised for being too long and filler-friendly. Drake clearly wasn’t fussed (why would he have been, when the album shattered global streaming records), and so Care Package is just as drawn out at 17 tracks, most of which hover between the four and five-minute mark. This isn’t an artistic project as much as it is a business ploy – repackaging leftovers apparently without taking the effort to remix or remaster some of them.
Drake obsessives likely won’t care, and it would be foolish to expect anything else from a star who has mastered the art of cashing in on the streaming age. As he states on “Trust Issues”: “All I care about is money and the city where I’m from.”
SOURCE: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/drake-review-care-package-tracklist-features-stream-scorpion-album-a9036671.html
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Care Package is the first compilation album by Canadian rapper Drake. It was released on August 2, 2019 by OVO Sound. The compilation consists of songs released between 2010 and 2016 that were initially unavailable for purchase or commercial streaming. The compilation features guest appearances from J. Cole, Rick Ross, and James Fauntleroy and additional vocals by Sampha and Beyoncé.
Background and release
Care Package follows the re-release of Drake's mixtape So Far Gone onto streaming services in February 2019. On August 1, 2019, Drake announced the release of Care Package via Instagram. The release of Care Package will coincide with the start of Drake's ninth annual OVO Fest in Toronto.
The songs on Care Package were released as promotional material for several albums throughout the years. The earliest tracks, "I Get Lonely" and "Paris Morton Music", were released in 2010 after the release of Drake's debut album Thank Me Later. "Dreams Money Can Buy", "Trust Issues", "Club Paradise" and "Free Spirit" were released in 2011 before the release of Drake's second studio album, Take Care. The songs "5AM in Toronto", "Girls Love Beyoncé" and "Jodeci Freestyle" were released in 2013 before the release of Drake's third studio album, Nothing Was the Same. "The Motion" was included as a bonus track on the physical deluxe edition and international edition for Nothing Was the Same.
"Draft Day" was released via October Very Own's SoundCloud in April 2014. "Heat of the Moment" was leaked online alongside "How About Now" and "6 God" in 2014. "How About Now" and "My Side" were included as bonus tracks on the physical edition to the mixtape If You're Reading This It's Too Late. "Can I" featuring vocals by Beyoncé was leaked online in 2015. "4PM in Calabasas" was premiered on OVO Sound Radio in June 2016, and is the latest track recorded on the album.
User Album Review
“Some of our important moments together available in one place,” is how Drake’s surprise release Care Package was announced.
Possibly influenced by Nas’s recent release The Lost Tapes II (another album made up of unreleased tracks), the Toronto rapper has curated a number of songs previously scattered across Soundcloud and YouTube. While some are what fans refer to as “old” Drake, others feel surprisingly relevant in 2019 – they resurface an old grudge or remind fans of his greatest strengths.
Contrasting this older material against his most recent releases is an opportunity to look at how Drake’s outlook towards relationships, friendships and success has changed. Where he used to be fixated on presenting himself as the boy next door – the one who wanted to save “good girls” from going bad; now it sounds as though he’s had enough. 2013’s “The Motion”, which features Mercury Prize-winning artist Sampha, has him rap: “The girl I wanna save is like a danger to my health.” But “Money in the Grave” with Rick Ross, which was released earlier this year, includes the line: “Used to save hoes with a mask and a cape, now I'm like, 'Nah, love, I'm good, go away'.”
Drake is often best when he’s at his most brooding. “Days in the East” is about as self-critical as he gets (although he's still bitter towards a former lover for being with the wrong man). But then he raps about going to Erykah Badu’s house: “She made tea for me/ We talked about love and what life could really be for me.” There’s something beautiful in how he closes the track on this mention of his friendship with one legendary woman of hip hop, then segues into a neat sample loop of Lauryn Hill’s “Doo Wop (That Thing)”.
Album reviews: Chance the Rapper – The Big Day, and Berlin
There’s a darker, moodier vibe running across the record in contrast to the scattered eclecticism of 2018’s Scorpion, which was criticised for being too long and filler-friendly. Drake clearly wasn’t fussed (why would he have been, when the album shattered global streaming records), and so Care Package is just as drawn out at 17 tracks, most of which hover between the four and five-minute mark. This isn’t an artistic project as much as it is a business ploy – repackaging leftovers apparently without taking the effort to remix or remaster some of them.
Drake obsessives likely won’t care, and it would be foolish to expect anything else from a star who has mastered the art of cashing in on the streaming age. As he states on “Trust Issues”: “All I care about is money and the city where I’m from.”
SOURCE: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/drake-review-care-package-tracklist-features-stream-scorpion-album-a9036671.html
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