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Drake debuts two new songs

Canadian rapper Drake has debuted two new tracks – featuring Lil Wayne and T.I. – from his upcoming album Take Care, due to hit stores on November 15.

During a Halloween appearance on Los Angeles, California radio station, Power 106, Drake unveiled The Motto featuring Lil Wayne, which will be included – along with Hate Sleeping Alone – as a bonus track on the deluxe edition of his new LP. The dance floor-friendly track, which was preciously referred to in track listings simply as Untitled, features a deep bass and staccato beat.

Drake also debuted a freestyle version of his own track Headlines as performed by fellow rapper T.I.

"I liked the record and it was spazzin’, and I felt like, ‘Let’s see what I can add to it,’" T.I. explained as to why he decided to do his own version of the track.

During the interview, Drake revealed a few hints about the Take Care track list, confirming that Stevie Wonder and Kendrick Lamar will make guest appearances and that rapper The Weeknd features on more than one track.

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Drake reveals new album track list

With his sophomore release, Take Care, only two weeks away, rapper Drake has unveiled the track list for both the standard and deluxe editions, reports Billboard.

Due out November 15, Take Care – released under the Young Money/Cash Money/Universal label – will feature 17 tracks on the standard LP and two additional bonus tracks for the deluxe edition.

Several of the songs include notable guest stars, including title track Take Care featuring Rihanna, Make Me Proud featuring Nicki Minaj, Crew Love featuring The Weeknd, Lord Knows featuring Rick Ross, and The Real Her featuring Andre 3000 and Lil Wayne.

Some of the tracks – like Marvin’s Room, Make Me Proud and Headlines – have already debuted online through Drake’s official October’s Very Own blog. Some of the tracks that Drake posted on his blog, however, did not make the final cut, including Club Paradise, Free Spirit and Dreams Money Can Buy.

Take Care track list:

1.     Over My Dead Body
2.     Shot for Me
3.     Headlines
4.     Crew Love (featuring The Weeknd)
5.     Take Care (featuring Rihanna)
6.     Marvin’s Room
7.     Under Ground Kings
8.     We’ll Be Fine
9.     Make Me Proud (featuring Nicki Minaj)
10.   Lord Knows (featuring Rick Ross)
11.   Cameras
12.   Doing It Wrong
13.   The Real Her (featuring Andre 3000 & Lil Wayne)
14.   Look What You’ve Done
15.   HYFR (featuring Lil Wayne)
16.   Practice
17.   The Ride
Deluxe Edition
+ Hate Sleeping Alone
+ Untitled (featuring Lil Wayne)
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Drake and Florence Welch too busy to collaborate

Canadian rapper Drake and British singer Florence Welch, of Florence and the Machine, first met at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, and hit it off immediately, reports MTV News.

Since that meeting, both artists have been vocal about their admiration for each other and about wanting to collaborate. Each has an album due for release in the coming weeks, and fans wondered if the collaboration might be featured on one of their new albums.

Unfortunately, the duo has been too busy to collaborate.

“We haven’t actually done any recording together,” Welch told MTV News. “Whenever I see Drake, we always just end up kind of hanging out, which is equally fun, but no, we haven’t done anything together yet."

"I think we’re both big fans of each other’s work," Welch said. "If we would have the time it is something I would definitely like to do, but we’re both really busy."

For now, their only collaboration remains a duet they sang when Welch joined Drake onstage at a London concert last January for Fireworks, which was originally sung by Alicia Keys on the rapper’s Thank Me Later album.

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Drake launches video teaser for Take Care

Breakout rap star Drake has unveiled a new video teaser for his upcoming sophomore album, Take Care, due out November 15, reports HitFix.

Over the sound of a radio being tuned, the promotional video highlights clips from Drake’s many previous hit singles, while title cards point out the accolades and awards he’s racked up since he dropped his debut album, Thank Me Later, in June 2010.

As the video reminds us, in the past year and a half, Drake has scored: a "US number one platinum selling debut album, six Grammy nominations, five BET awards, over 19 million Facebook likes, 750 million views on YouTube, over three million Twitter followers, three MTV Award nomination, [and a] gold selling debut album in the UK."

The video also reveals the new album’s cover, which features a photograph of a pensive-looking Drake, dressed in black, sitting at a table with a gold goblet, golden bird statue and gold candelabra.

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Drake cancels several tour dates

Rapper Drake has canceled some of his upcoming tour dates in order to better coincide with the school year, so that more students can attend his shows, reports Teen Music.

Originally, the six-stop Club Paradise tour was meant to kick off November 9 in Ohio and wrap up November 20 in North Carolina. The new dates will be "moved to when students are back from the Christmas/New Year break so that I can get to more schools," the rapper wrote on his official blog.

Drake has pulled out of shows in Columbus, Ohio (November 9); Fairfax Virginia (November 15); Columbia, South Carolina (November 19); and Greensboro, North Carolina (November 20).

So far, Ticketmaster is still selling tickets for his November 10 concert in University Park, Pennsylvania and his November 13 show in Champaign, Illinois. The rescheduled dates have not yet been announced: the rapper has said that they will be "released in the next week."

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Drake to debut new single on SNL

Rapper Drake will debut his latest single, Make Me Proud, from his upcoming album, Take Care, during tomorrow night’s broadcast of Saturday Night Live (October 15), reports MTV.

The uplifting single, explains Drake, expresses his pride in the accomplishments of women, whether she’s his Young Money label-mate Nicki Minaj – who features on the track – or any female he’s known.

"Not even necessarily that a woman has to go achieve grandiose things to be proud; it’s just that I’m proud of you for trying. It’s hard to be a woman out here these days, especially to be pretty and especially to be smart and want something for yourself," he explained.

"So I’m just proud of you whether it’s Nicki or any girl that I’ve ever known in my life that’s doing well for herself."

The positive message apparently arose out of a simple conversation: "Whenever I make songs surrounding women, I always try to find refreshing stances to take as opposed to just like, ‘Oh, you’re sexy’ or ‘Oh, I want you.’ The song, it really came up in passing conversation, just being like, ‘I’m proud of you,’" added Drake.

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Drake’s new album delayed

After announcing plans to release his new album, Take Care, on his birthday on October 24, rap superstar Drake has been forced to push back the release date until November 15, due to delays in securing the rights for a few samples he used, reports Billboard.

"So I have completed 19 songs (17 on physical and 2 on bonus), and have run into a roadblock of clearing 3 samples in time to make the October 24th date," the rapper explained on his blog.

"My options were to take the songs off and make the birthday release happen, or to take an extra couple weeks to get the paperwork right and give you the album the way I NEED you to hear it. The choice was clear as day for me. November 15th you will get ‘Take Care’ the exact way I created it with no trimmings."

Drake also announced that he will be pushing back his Club Paradise Tour dates in order to work around the school break. Originally, the six-stop tour was meant to kick off November 9 in Ohio and wrap up November 20 in North Carolina. The new dates will be "moved to when students are back from the Christmas/New Year break so that I can get to more schools."

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Drake debuts new music video

Canadian rapper Drake has launched the music video for his single, Headlines, which first dropped back in July, reports HitFix.

The debut single off his sophomore album, Take Care, Drake’s auto-tuned lyrics deal with the high points and the pitfalls of fame, set over a heavy snare beat and synth loop.

The video conceptualizes the idea set forth in the lyrics, showing Drake – donning sunglasses and smoking a cigar – in an elevator: literally riding it up and down with the positive and negative aspects of becoming a breakout success.

The clip also shows Drake hanging out with a group of friends, who toast the rap star in time with the lyrics. The visuals take Drake everywhere from a sports arena to a vacant, run-down graffiti-sprayed building. 

The follow-up to Drake’s hugely successful debut album, Thank Me Later (2010), Take Care is expected to hit shelves on October 24.

"’Thank Me Later’ was a rushed album," the star told BBC 1 earlier this year. "That’s why my new album is called ‘Take Care’, because I get to take my time this go-round."

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Drake releases 3 new songs online

For all those who have been patiently waiting until October 24, the launch date of Drake’s sophomore album Take Care, the Canadian rapper has unveiled a few tracks which may be from the new album.

Over the weekend, Drake released three songs available for free download from his blog October’s Very Own, hosted on Mediafire.com – a site very popular with some artists. However, currently the links appear to have been removed.

Drake began on Saturday (September 10) at 6:29 pm by posting Club Paradise, saying, “Dropping this for our boy Avery…this was his favorite s— during the recording process. 2 more songs coming tonight as well.”

Free Spirit featuring Rozay (aka Rick Ross) was uploaded at 1:00 am Sunday morning (September 11), with a quote attributed to Princess Diana, “I like to be a free spirit. Some don’t like that, but that’s the way I am.”

Less than an hour later, at 1:54 am, Drake posted remix of American rapper Waka Flocka Flame’s song Round of Applause that features Drake.

While the rapper has been generous in publishing these three songs, he hasn’t confirmed if any of them will eventually end up on Take Care due out in six weeks.

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Justin Bieber remixes Drake single

Pop star Justin Bieber continues to delve into the world of hip-hop with a new cover of Drake’s Trust Issues, reports MTV.

Bieber announced the new track via Twitter during the lead up to the MTV Video Music Awards Sunday night (August 28): "i remixed drakes trust issues," he wrote, including a link to YouTube.

Thanks to auto-tune, the teen’s voice has been pitched to match the deeper timbre of fellow Canadian Drake, making his cover almost an exact copy of the original – save one important exception: to keep things PG-13 for his younger fans, Bieber has swapped out the f-bombs and other colorful language for more benign terms.

Although the singer has been trying his hand at rap under the pseudonym Shawty Mane, this time around, Bieber sticks to singing, leaving Drake’s rap intact.

Earlier this month, Bieber teamed up with frequent collaborator Chris Brown to rap on Brown’s new mixtape, Boy in Detention, spitting some verses for the track Ladies Love Me.