Take Care (BigXthaPlug album)

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Take Care
BigXthaPlug - Take Care.png
Standard cover; Spotify cover features a front facing view
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 11, 2024 (2024-10-11)
Genre Hip hop
Length31:13
Label UnitedMasters
Producer
  • Aimonmyneck
  • BandPlay
  • Charley Cooks
  • DeShaun Williams
  • DWilly
  • Einer Bankz
  • Haze
  • IIInfinite
  • Sheffmade
  • Tony Coles
  • Zuus
BigXthaPlug chronology
Meet the 6ixers
(2024)
Take Care
(2024)
Singles from Take Care
  1. "The Largest"
    Released: August 9, 2024
  2. "Change Me"
    Released: September 27, 2024

Take Care is the second studio album by American rapper BigXthaPlug, independently released on October 11, 2024, via UnitedMasters. [1] It serves as the follow-up to his collaborative mixtape Meet the 6ixers (2024) and the EP The Biggest (2023). The album features a single guest appearance by Wallo267. Production was handled by Bandplay, DeShaun Williams, Einer Bankz, Tony Coles, and several other producers. [2]

Contents

Background and recording

Upon the release of the album, Landum appeared in an interview with Rolling Stone in which he revealed that during the making of the record, he sat down with his team and ideated three themes for the album, the first being, "when it get better, it get worse", the second, "do what you gotta do", and the final, "growth and success". When asked to go in-depth about the topics, Landum stated: [3]

We got money. Yeah, we got cars. We got this. But it’s [discussed in] a more mature way. We’re not bragging about it. We just speaking on it. It’s there, but I care more about taking care of my people and my kids.

Release and promotion

On August 9, 2024, Landum released the album's lead single, "The Largest". [4] Later that month, on August 28, Landum was revealed to be Amazon Music's breakthrough artist of the year. [5] On September 6, Landum co-headlined Billboard's Hip-Hop Live Concert in Brooklyn. [6] [7] On September 27, Landum released the album's second single, "Change Me". [8]

Commercial performance

Take Care debuted at number eight on the US Billboard 200 with 48,000 album-equivalent units (including 1,500 in pure sales) in its first week. [9] It became Landum's first top ten on the chart and accumulated a total of 62.77 million on-demand streams of its songs. [10]

Track listing

Take Care track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Take Care"
Tony Coles2:29
2."Lost the Love"
  • Landum
  • Ethan Hayes
  • Clarence Reid
  • James Price
  • Haze
  • Sheffmade
  • Zuus
2:15
3."Change Me"
  • Landum
  • Anderson
  • Krishon Gaines
  • Charles Forsberg
  • Jake Troth
  • Tony Coles
  • Bandplay
  • Charley Cooks
2:16
4."Leave Me Alone"
  • Landum
  • Gaines
  • Zabornikov Vladislav
  • Divashen Govender
  • Bandplay
  • Aimonmyneck
2:23
5."Therapy Session"
  • Landum
  • Anderson
  • Gaines
  • David Wilson
  • Tony Coles
  • Bandplay
  • DWilly
1:48
6."Planting Seeds"
  • Landum
  • Anderson
  • Gaines
  • Forsberg
  • Tony Coles
  • Bandplay
  • Charley Cooks
1:40
7."Words from Wallo267"
  • Landum
  • Anderson
  • Peeples
Tony Coles0:46
8."Law & Order"
  • Landum
  • Anderson
  • Forsberg
  • Tony Coles
  • Charley Cooks
2:41
9."Back on My BS"
  • Landum
  • Anderson
  • James Economides, Jr.
Tony Coles1:34
10."2AM"
  • Aimonmyneck
  • DeShaun Williams
3:04
11."Story of X"
  • Landum
  • Anderson
  • Gaines
  • Peeples
  • Tony Coles
  • Bandplay
2:19
12."The Largest"
  • Tony Coles
  • Bandplay
2:12
13."Mmhmm"
  • Bandplay
  • Charley Cooks
1:59
14."Rich off Rap"
2:00
15."They Don't Know"
Tony Coles1:42
Total length:31:13

Notes

Charts

Chart performance for Take Care
Chart (2024)Peak
position
Canadian Albums ( Billboard ) [11] 63
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [12] 24
US Billboard 200 [9] 8
US Independent Albums ( Billboard ) [13] 1
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums ( Billboard ) [14] 3

Release history

Release dates and formats for Take Care
RegionDateLabel(s)Format(s)Edition(s)Ref.
VariousOctober 11, 2024Standard [1]

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