Maybe we just like it when Drake cries. 

After the runaway success of his So Far Gone mixtape and 2010's hit debut album, Thank Me Later, Aubrey Drake Graham and his right-hand man/executive producer Noah "40" Shebib were in a position to take more control of and take a little more time -- a little more care, if you will -- with 2011's Take Care. The result was a confident next-level extension of its predecessor, with Drake steppin' up on the microphone as both an uncommonly sensitive rapper and singer, and he and 40 bending an entire high-priced cast of characters including Rihanna, the Weeknd, Kendrick Lamar, Jamie XX, Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj to their druggy/dreamy/downtempo musical vision. Say what you will about Drake, but he and his crew changed the direction of contemporary mainstream hip-hop by bridging the gap between the Dirty South and narcoticized post-rave Toronto electronica and, seven hit singles later, it became clear to all observers in real time that Take Care was an instrument of change.

TRACKLISTING:

1. Over My Dead Body
2. Shot For Me
3. Headlines
4. Crew Love
5. Care
6. Marvins Room
7. Under Ground Kings
8. We'll Be Fine
9. Make Me Proud
10. Lord Knows
11. Cameras
12. Doing It Wrong
13. The Real Her
14. Look What You've Done
15. HYFR
16. Practice
17. The Ride