Take Care
Originally by Drake feat. Rihanna (2011)
acoustic
Maeta's stripped-back cover of "Take Care" reimagines the 2011 Drake and Rihanna duet — itself built on a Jamie xx sample reworking Gil Scott-Heron — one of those songs everyone recognises from the very first bars. She takes it on with the voice front and centre: she carries both Drake's and Rihanna's parts herself, turning the two-way exchange into a single, intimate confession.
Where the original thrives on the tension between its two artists, her version leans on nuance and restraint — the warm grain of her lower register, controlled swells, and the R&B phrasing that runs through all her covers. A reading that shows a classic can still be reinvented when you strip it back to the essentials: one voice, one emotion.

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