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Noah "40" Shebib Breaks Down 'Take Care'

12:38 p.m. · January 10, 2012 · by Andrew Martin

If you have listened to any of Drake's music, you have also heard the mark of his go-to producer, Noah "40" Shebib. Dude's been all over Drizzy's music since, well, at least his breakthrough project, So Far Gone. As such, who better to speak on the rapper-singer's new album, Take Care, than 40, who worked on every track.

MTV just posted the producer's thoughts on 10 of the album's songs and you can peep a selection of the piece below. You can also watch a video of him speaking on "Headlines," which he admits is an "ignorant" track. Interesting. Read the whole thing at MTV.

"Crew Love" (produced by 40, the Weeknd and Illangelo) "'Crew Love' is just a moment for Drake as far at the content of the record and what was going on around him in life and his people and his team. That was just an important record for him to make, and Weeknd was someone he wanted to include on that."

"The Ride" (produced by Doc McKinney and the Weeknd) "Was really just a vibe. It was a vibe that the Weeknd caught, and it was just so crazy that Drake wanted to rap on it — as simply put as that."

"Underground Kings" (produced by T-Minus and 40) "Sometimes, Drake will have a song title in his head or an idea of what the record is and what he wants it to be and then he'll search for the beat, and I think he found that beat from T-Minus. It was just a matter of finding a place for the chorus. We got the mix right and the bass sort of eating up any speaker that gets in the way of it."

"Marvin's Room" (produced by 40) "The honesty is mind blowing. He says things in that record that are like, 'Whoa, really?' But that's shock value, and that's a great thing to bring to the table. The further it goes, the bigger the smile on my face. I want him to say the craziest sh-- you can imagine."