Only Eminem has more albums remain on the tally for at least 300 weeks – Curtain Call: The Hits, The Eminem Show, and Recovery. Last year, Drake’s 2013 studio LP, Nothing Was The Same, spent its 350th week on the Billboard 200 chart. Since Curtain Call: The Hits is labeled as a compilation, Drake’s Take Care became just the second studio Hip Hop album to make it into the 450-week club after Good Kid, M.A.A.D City. The West Coaster’s 2012 album is currently sitting at 468 total weeks on the Billboard 200 rankings.
Kendrick Lamar’s Good Kid, M.A.A.D City hit the 450-week mark in June.
Eminem’s Curtain Call: The Hits spent 550 weeks on the Billboard 200 so far, the fifth most combined weeks in history. Only two other Hip Hop albums charted for at least that amount of time. The project has spent a total of 450 cumulative weeks on the Billboard 200. Take Care is currently charting at #88 on the latest Billboard 200 album chart. Drake’s 2011 studio LP, Take Care, joined an extremely exclusive list this week. Radiohead to tour U.S.Aubrey Drake Graham just added another monumental career accolade to his ever-growing inventory of accomplishments in the music business. How Stevie Wonder sparked Drake's 'Marvin's Room' For someone who simply longs for the girls from his hometown, Drake's voice and lyrics would be better suited to having a duet partner who could draw out the best in him, instead of leaving him behind. In fact, the customary guest raps from the likes of mentor Lil Wayne can distract and sometimes even outpace him, as is the case with Nicki Minaj. “Marvin’s Room” showcases Drake’s talents for both: he recounts how his sexual conquests are destroying his love life, sounding lost in murky, synthesized soul.ĭrake doesn’t come off as a rapper who attempts to sing. The template here, and for essentially the entirety of Drake’s young career, is Kanye West’s “808s & Heartbreak.” Drake shares West’s love for mood and never-ending existential analysis (80 minutes of it, to be precise). His gorgeously pensive solo ends “Doing It Wrong,” a stand-out R&B cut in which Drake is nearly too nervous to end a relationship. It’s not just anyone, after all, who gets a guest harmonica turn from Stevie Wonder. To discuss Drake requires a mention of how he represents the softer side of hip-hop. On “The Ride” he shows off his knowledge of the menu at Napa Valley’s French Laundry, and on “Look What You’ve Done” Drake has the means to take care of his family, even if he’s still torturing himself for acting too bratty to his mom. That’s not to say Drake hasn’t been enjoying his success. Yet the former do little more than cause guilt, and despite all the cash Drake raked in after his million-plus-selling 2010 debut “Thank Me Later,” the man can’t stop worrying about his taxes. There are strippers and there are millions of dollars spent on “nice things” like Persian rugs. Throughout “Take Care,” Toronto actor-singer-rapper Drake references plenty of the accouterments that come with living as one of hip-hop’s rich and famous.
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