Take Care

Track 14 from Big Sean's 2010 mixtape Finally Famous Vol. 3: BIG.

Not much known, was listed on OG tracklists.

Song listed on an early Watch The Throne tracklist given out by music insider blog "The DOTR". Nothing was known about the track until Insurge played Auger96 a significant portion of it during a livestream on August 26th 2024. Features an unknown female vocalist.

Drake wrote a reference track for Dr. Dre's long-lost album "Detox". A one minute long acapella version of the song leaked online back on February 14th, 2011. Since then on February 24th, 2020 and July 8th, 2020, CDQ snippets with tags emerged of the completed song. Leaked in full on May 28th, 2023 as a bonus to a GB.

Version of "Marvin's Room" with vocals from The Weeknd and is allegedly a remix that got scrapped for unknown reasons. Snippet leaked on July 3rd, 2024, and the song may have been private bought.

A throwaway from the 'Take Care' sessions. The song leaked on June 17, 2020, and was first mentioned by Busta Rhymes in 2013. It features Drake over a J Dilla beat and was likely recorded around 2011, during Busta’s YMCMB years. The instrumental is believed to be from Dilla’s 64 Beats tape, known to fans as “Mandarin Tea,” which samples Miroslav Vitouš.

"Whole Lifetime" was on an early tracklist for Take Care. It's unconfirmed if this is related to the WTT-era throwaway. The song could have been scrapped from WTT and given to Drake.

Remix of the song "Deuces" by Chris Brown. Released as a single on October 11th, 2010. Samples the song "Miss Me" by Drake. Interpolates the songs "Miss Me" by Drake and "Nice & Slow" by Usher.

A throwaway from the 'Take Care' sessions. Leaked soon after release. Drake named the Take Care tour after the song. The track would release on DSPs in 2019, with the release of 'Care Package'.

A video on 100 Gigs shows an early version of "Over My Dead Body" with more Chantal vocals.

Recorded in December 2010, and was the version intended for HOB. A snippet leaked shortly before Take Care leaked (Nov. 7, 2011), but nothing else was known about it until it leaked on LEAKTH.IS on by Ditto on Mar. 4, 2020 after a successful groupbuy. Contains two verses and the hook that were later used on "XO / The Host", and first verse from "Crew Love", as well as some production elements from it.

Version of "Marvin's Room" with vocals from The Weeknd and is allegedly a remix that got scrapped for unknown reasons. Snippet leaked on July 3rd, 2024, and the song may have been private bought.

Recorded in 2011 for House of Balloons, was originally going to be on the project but was taken off because Drake wanted to put it on his album. Everything here is the same as the version on Drake's album except for the original second verse by Abel, as well as an instrumental outro. Leaked in December 2016.

Drake wrote a reference track for Dr. Dre's long-lost album "Detox". A one minute long acapella version of the song leaked online back on February 14th, 2011. Since then on February 24th, 2020 and July 8th, 2020, CDQ snippets with tags emerged of the completed song. Leaked in full on May 28th, 2023 as a bonus to a GB.

Not much known, had 3 finished Drake verses.

Track 5 from Kanye West's 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Also released as a single on January 11th, 2011. Features keyboards from Jeff Bhasker and Mike Dean. Features brass and woodwinds from Ken Lewis, Danny Flam, and Tony Gorruso. Features piano from Elton John. Features cello from Chris "Hitchcock" Chorney and Rosie Danvers. Features trumpet from Mike Lovatt, Simon Finch, and Andy Gathercole. Features french horn from Tim Anderson, Tom Rumsby, and Richard Ashton. Features trombone from Mark Frost and Philip Judge. Features flue from Chloe Vincent. Features violin from Kotono Sato and Jenny Sacha. Features viola from Rachel Robson. Mixed by Anthony Kilhoffer. Mastered by Vlado Meller. Engineered by Mike Dean, Andrew Dawson, Anthony Kilhoffer, Noah Goldstein, Christian Mochizuki, Phil Joly, Pete Bischoff, Brent Kolatalo, and Marcos Tovar.

Intended for HOB and made in 2010, this song was given away to Drake for his sophomore album "Take Care". We first learnt about this in Abel's Complex interview. A fake AI generated Snippet surfaced on January 19th, 2023, segments of the actual track have yet to be heard. Likely produced by Rainer Millar Blanchaer.

Not much known, was listed on OG tracklists.

1st of 4 songs released in anticipation for Take Care, Drake posted it on OVO Blog with this message: "A song that I felt the need to share. Not my single. Just a piece of my story. Hear me out though…" On August 2, 2019, the song was re-released after Drake dropped Care Package on all major streaming platforms.

A throwaway from the 'Take Care' sessions. The song leaked on June 17, 2020, and was first mentioned by Busta Rhymes in 2013. It features Drake over a J Dilla beat and was likely recorded around 2011, during Busta’s YMCMB years. The instrumental is believed to be from Dilla’s 64 Beats tape, known to fans as “Mandarin Tea,” which samples Miroslav Vitouš.