Thu 2 Jul 2009
New video: Drake “Best I Ever Had” and his record deal details
Posted by Mikey Fresh under Things I Like , Videos[91] Comments
(Props to Legend)
So…the video is directed by Kanye…hence the softcorepronery
And Drake has cleared up all his record label signing…he’s not signed to Young Money/Cash Money…he’s got his own deal on Universal Republic and a partnership with Weezy…or something like that. Guess that makes sense since Motown’s boss Sylvia Rhone slighted him…Drake insisted on working with Republic’s Monty Lippman instead….again, I say…something like that.
And I’ll add…..boobies.
MTVNews’ Shaheem’s chat with Drake after the jump….
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:23 am
LMAO @ the Emilio Estevez line.
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:30 am
eh……that’s it?
=/
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:41 am
pure basura
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:44 am
Any1 else disappointed with this vid?? Looks like a Degrassi episode.
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:46 am
Umm… Da video doesnt go with the song..But on the other hand i Sure do love titties. hmm…LoL Man i hope this dudes album doesn’t disappoint because he is gonna piss alot of people off HaHaaa
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:53 am
It’s Degrassi all over again lol. Just a little sexier.
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:56 am
This is an odd video. In some ways it’s expected but in other ways it’s just odd & unexpected.
First of all, the whole girl basketball team concept is somewhat fresh. I don’t remember the last time I saw a girl bball team as the focal point of a rap video.
Then it takes the expected “College Dropout” style by having the furry mascot and the high school references. The Kanye-esque clothes (from College Dropout days) and such. It also has the eye candy bouncing titties that are ‘essential’ in today’s rap videos.
But then, the ending is like ‘wtf’ and I guess some of the stuff is meant to be comedic but it’s just wtf. The interludes kinda interrupt the flow of the video.
all in all, the video is kinda off. It starts out as though it’s gonna tell a somewhat serious story of a competing girls team then goes into the absurd at 4:05.
July 2nd, 2009 at 1:02 am
I’ve just found out that the video is made by Kanye West. Now it all makes sense.
July 2nd, 2009 at 1:09 am
i thought it was gunna b better
July 2nd, 2009 at 1:18 am
im sorry but this vid is whack to me.
July 2nd, 2009 at 1:31 am
Wow, this is how you introduce yourself to the mass media?
some people say Kanye is gay, I never believed it, until he bent you over and fucked you. Drake, You are the best he ever had. kanye, get rid of the competition in its infancy.
July 2nd, 2009 at 1:35 am
While the song is great, I don’t think the visuals matched up to his potential. The pacing in a such up tempo beat doesn’t work well with the constant slow motion. I can see Kanye’s vision to show off the ladie’s bounce, but the pace really dragged. Drake would have worked better as a student rather than a coach. And why are they playing basketball in the dark? Just my concerns. It would have been a great nod to have Ye’s dropout bear to make an appearance since it was a school team related deal. Overall, pretty solid video debut, I’m sure he’ll improve over time.
July 2nd, 2009 at 1:37 am
cant believe how bad this video is… holy shit.. best part is all the extra extra slow motion (even in the shots without breasts) masking the fact that this vid has maybe 2:00 minutes of actual footage.
cant believe how much hype this had for nothing… the song is so much better than this
July 2nd, 2009 at 1:49 am
video wasnt that hot
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:14 am
video iz trash dude wat da hell dat shit had 2 do wit da song…
by da way im kool hehehehe
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:16 am
that was totally not what i expected from such a well written and delivered song from Drizzy. i mean i know he said they were having fun with the video but damn. yeezy definitely casted some nice “Ds” throughout the video đ and i’m not mad at him for it esp. being a dude, but damn that video was so left field.
what you think info? was it “da best” video?
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:24 am
LOL WHEN THEY PUT THAT D ON YOU TAKE THAT D LOL…SHOUT OUT TO DRAKE FOR HAVING NOTHING BUT BIG TITTY GIRLS IN THE VIDEO LOL
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:36 am
wow why the hell drake made the video all bout tits lmao shit is funny. this guy was bored all i seen was tits bouncing.
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:36 am
I like Drake’s music alot… but this video is pretty wack.
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:42 am
5 minutes of bullshit…cheap ass and low quality…where the HD quality?…stupid concept.
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:45 am
Kardinal couldn’t do it but Drake’s the best Canada ever had real talk. You guys should check Jdggz he’s nice with it too. Now take the D the best way you can.
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:45 am
you the breast?
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:48 am
exactly! boobies lol
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:59 am
lol shabazz please stop reppin for t dot and atleast have some kind of fucken respect. i mean maestro is probably the only famous person to come straight from the city and he’s authentic canadian, whereas aubrey is american canadian. not that it makes a difference because this video is 100% shiteous…or should i say breastfed shitilicious. kardi could have always done it, and he doing it now, but he got messed up prior cause of record companies and jdiggz has a lot of potential but he messing his own self up and allowing people to lead him astray. if anything rochester should be the one to get it, or even tona, but nooooooo because we know the rule of thumb when you live in a city you gotta be a SCREWFACE and eat your own, and there is no other who does it better than torontonians and canadians in general. you would think montreal would be the screwface capital, but naw…even the french and the anglais francais people support their own. but not toronto. but they all going to try very hard and jump on aubrey. lol. where were you when he was just trying to make it and he could barley get anyone to take him seriously or listen to his records. the kid has been working hard, maybe not as hard as some of these other artists who have had to pay their time to try and break, so i can’t really hate on the kid. i have to support da ting so we can run da ting, as spexx always says…but this video is incredibly shit infested.
there’s a drake best i ever had remix with serani and serani basically takes over the entire record…but don’t bother hearing it because the actual song is not even that great. gosh. this kid isn’t even that great. why is everyone buying into this. he’s good. he’s not that good. nope. that’s my opinion. his lyrics may be on point and getting better each time, but he’s still not even looking into the camera. i mean you would think whoever produced this video would tell him to make eye contact with the camera.
i thought he was going to go with uni motown though because that’s where his original contact is, even though it didn’t make sense and he probably fits in more at uni republic and he can do what he wants on his time over there. i didn’t think republic would win this. oh well. good for him. here’s to him going away in a couple of years. if he’s the so called future of hip hop then hip hop is dead to me. lol.
July 2nd, 2009 at 3:04 am
oh and if i didn’t make it clear, i am disappointed that aubrey is allowing people to run him and that this video is an absolute sterotypical fits the label type video. what ever happened to those intellectual metaphorical lyrics you have aubrey. w/e. wasting my brain energy on this whack ass video and whack ass kid. thanks info.
July 2nd, 2009 at 3:07 am
puh lease. degrassi sucks…and this video while on the absolute crap side is a little more low budget/high class than stupid de-freaking-grassi. i mean kanye and weezy and so many other people are affiliated…so it has to be good right. i mean i can close my eyes and pretend it’s good. whatever. maybe i’m hating cause i’m female. maybe i should be like the other dude and just say i love me some titties. ugh. and the concept is not fresh at all. played and staid. granted atleast he’s recognizing that girls play sports…but i mean girls must play sports dressed like that always. lol. in another galaxy yeah.
July 2nd, 2009 at 3:08 am
The whole time I was like Chapelle “Come On Tittay!”
July 2nd, 2009 at 3:49 am
ummm. It was funny.
but umm.
I’m surprised
he didnt have a boob pop out a shirt.
July 2nd, 2009 at 3:51 am
This video was homage to Kanyes’ ego; cause the college theme is his thing and Drake is I guess suppose to be a Lil’ Kanye….I think.
July 2nd, 2009 at 3:53 am
Take that D like the champions you are. I didnt think the vid was as whack as some are putting on it. What did you expect? Shame on you for thinking that it wouldnt be dumbed down with crossover appeal, that all races can enjoy. He has a smart team behind him. Hence the bidding war for the record deal…Smarten Up Nas
July 2nd, 2009 at 4:04 am
Kanye is Hip Hop’s Official Breast Man.
LOL @ “Take that D”
July 2nd, 2009 at 5:17 am
wasn’t too impressed with the video no one should let kanye direct their video its a weak concept and video almost has nothing to do with the song its ridiculous all kanye did was get some hot as fuck birds to bend and stretch u barely even see drake spitting his bars or singing at all its just eye candy doesnt do the song justice
July 2nd, 2009 at 6:43 am
Do ya think Kanye’s a breast man?????
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:06 am
Yawns…
in other news, check out soulja boy’s twitter rant lmao..
http://img.skitch.com/20090702-q3smkn9ejdmfx3nnygh4yd4wms.jpg
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:57 am
wack video….it should have been more classy
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:25 am
Even though I’m not a big Drake let me defend this video. First off they did it on no budget because the dude didn’t even have a record label at the time. Second, lets stop pretending the âReplacement Girlâ video was any better and I don’t remember hearing people complaining when that came out. 3rd sure the video doesn’t match the song but have you turned on BET or MTV in the past 30 years 90% of the videos that make it on TV don’t match the song so why does everybody give a shit now? If he just slapped together a bunch of performance shots with the same chicks no one would be complaining. And last but not least it had gigantic breast moving in slow motion……..that is a good thing.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:30 am
What a cornball he is for saying Kanye was “oozing with with creativity” for this vid.
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:03 am
I’m sorry, there was music playing in that video?
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:14 am
wow tough crowd…all the slow motion titties are pretty hilarious and so is the rest of the video, lighten up yall
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:19 am
what is this degrassi people speak about? i’m 28..i feel old as shit…..is drake a rapper for children?….hip hop is so bad now that i actually listened to u god’s album dopium more than once
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:29 am
“But slip up and shoot the wrong fu@%ing video,
and they think they can market you how ever they decide to”
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:34 am
lol…
yeah.
but I did like the second pep talk. that was kind of funny. the first pep talk…awkward
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:51 am
really drake, really.? i pictured this sonq you with your qirl at her house qettin it in.
lol(: but it wasnt u coulve done way better. there was to much of them and not enouqh you.
we like u ALOT thouqh, but we need more you. actually we love you alot.(:
shout out to the 773.(:
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:52 am
I don’t think it matters. This dude is the dude of the moment. Shitty video or not, the single is hot, and Bitches love him.
Was that too simple ?
Oh well just stating the facts.
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Degrassi The Next Generation is a show on CTV, MTV, Teen Nick. It deals with real life situations that teenagers/ young adults face in a dramatized/ soap opera fashion.
Some of the characters are “children” of the past characters from the original series?
Drizzle plays a kid named Jimmy that was shot by a crazed ex boyfriend of some girl at school who beat said girl into a coma, after he overheard that Jimmy was involved in a prank where he was drenched in yellow feathers and paint for being an asshole.
….screw you, I watch previews. :/
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Drake is talented as hell, but I’ll take J.Cole over him any day… If yall don’t know who that is, go get the warm up and then respond.
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:45 pm
nothing wrong with a nice set of boobies. they bring joy into the world lmao
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:04 pm
You all can hype this up or spin it however you like, but the truth of the matter is.. this video is pure garbage. Bad decision by Drake. After this video we still dont know who the hell he is as a artist. Definitely not good look for a first video. Great come up for the video vixens in the video though. They all will be getting calls for jobs in the future..lol. thats for sure.
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:22 pm
wtf…its just tetas bouncing every where
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:23 pm
i agree, j. Cole is the shit
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:27 pm
oh yeah. naw man i didn’t have lofty expectations at all, because we’ve been on this kid since before the jump and we don’t follow the hype. we know he’s good. so excuse me for having expectations. no scratch that. this is the perfect first vidoe for someone who got signed actually. i mean it’s kanye’s video then i guess. w/e. i shouldn’t have had any expectations for this at all…however high or low they may have been. this video and the song don’t go together. this video isn’t IT. but i’m just one of a few. i’m sure it’s gonna get wicked airplay on all the music video station. you hear that much music, play this mother f’n song and support your own…but make sure to put a disclaimer right by it, or maybe they will segregate it to their rap city hour. lol. much.
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:31 pm
co-signed.
lol. maybe it was all a great big metaphor and we all missed the point. don’t you love you some girls? i love girls girls girls girls the girls i do adore. classic. love it. hova in the thread. let’s jack this and post better videos about girls. lol.
jay-z:girls girls girls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUg7G3CPos0
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Lmao this video has nothing to do with the song. I love the song by the way.
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:40 pm
link doesn’t work. i was getting tired of this boy and what’s her face, tila ho tequila and their u stream smashing or w/e shit they do. what was he ranting about. lol. his bet performance or about how white people don’t get him, but he must get his money directly from them. lol. i just checked it and here’s one of his comment’s at the top.
http://twitter.com/souljaboytellem
Oh yeah… sorry to all my white peeps out there. I’m not racist đ
9 minutes ago from web
ahahahaha what did he say???? the usual. lol. gosh. andy milonakis shouldn’t make him feel any better. nor should tyrese. i hope someone got this so i can laugh even more than i am right now. it isn’t important but i need to know. gotta have my day made somehow.
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:44 pm
ahahahaaaa
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:45 pm
hahahhaa almost as good as joe budden’s response. i love people. can always put you straight back in perspective.
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:46 pm
true. i have a confession…i think i may have closed my eyes and blanked out half this video. it’s like five minutes and it felt like 2 never ending minutes.
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:49 pm
hahahha. 28 isn’t that old man. you hearing it here first…you still young, even if this is making you feel old cause you may not be with it, but you don’t have to be. be glad. lots of grade level shit coming out from youngsters today. not like back in the day. why you think we always referencing the past. anyways if you want to get into degrassi watch the original classic version and not the new ass shit because we all know that the producer wanted to bring back her series so she can make money. w/e. lots of friends on that show. gotta support them. congrats aubrey.
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:50 pm
lol. naw. we got that loud and clear. any man who pleases the girls has got it made and knows what’s up. got you.
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:50 pm
same.
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:52 pm
yup. true. good response and straight to the point.
you think he still needs to show us who he is as an artist though? i don’t know. maybe i’m just artistically disappointed in this video. lol. that’s giving it too much credit. i hope they didn’t spend $5 on making this video. i hope it was free curtesy of good connections.
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:59 pm
this isn’t his first video. He did replacement girl with trey songz it was nice, google it. kanye directed nad he did a good job for his directoral debut. I have triple d’s so i love the big booby coverage..LOL!! and this video is just saying drake like em too. they the best. it was a fun take on a nice song. yeah he could’ve did it different butthats with everything. do yall even know the budget plus it was yeezys vision anyway. It takes a lot of man to handle tig ol bittys. LOVE DRAKE & YEEZY FOREVER!! they gettin money how bout you?
July 2nd, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Here is a little story about a hing called over exposure before being exposed. it will killed your career. This dude actually burnt himself out before getting his career off the ground trust me when I say that. His act is just a gimmick.
July 2nd, 2009 at 5:00 pm
This is not Kanye’s directoral debut he directed John Legend’s “Ordinary People” video, Common’s “Go” video, he also did the “Spaceship” video and I think a few others.
July 2nd, 2009 at 5:49 pm
I have no idea why you guys are over analyzing this video and his image as an artist. It’s a damn video to a hit song. The masses will gobble it up. You know what the point of the video was, titties and comedy. You know what kind of artist Drake is now? An artist who loves titties. Get over yourselves and enjoy the titties kanye gave you
July 2nd, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Sorry but the video and the song are all shit!
July 2nd, 2009 at 7:44 pm
church!
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:06 pm
i like dude but hes a protege, dude has too many people working behind the scenes, no hard work so hes gonna be a victim of illegal downloading sorry! maino is more deserving of that $10
July 3rd, 2009 at 12:06 am
Youre not missing anything about not knowing what degrassi high was . The show was weird and mad gay .
July 3rd, 2009 at 12:13 am
this video makes the song completely boring. cheesy unoriginal concept and amateurish direction. horrible and self serving kanye should not direct.
July 3rd, 2009 at 2:24 am
That was a terrible video. Everyone loves tits but there’s many other forums for them.
July 3rd, 2009 at 2:42 am
That was horrible,
Kanye needs to fall back on the directing.
He just killed Drake with that video.
CHEESE
July 3rd, 2009 at 6:47 am
i dont know what’s worse; this or young money’s performance at the bet awards… đ
July 3rd, 2009 at 8:39 am
Dude might be losing a little steam. Bad BET performace along with negative publicity for the yougn girls on stage thing, I think the track messed up because I didn’t hear all his verse, he messed up his ACL/ got beat up/ or whatever happened, and now this wack ass video.
The song is hot, but its been out for a lil minute. What was suppose to be the next stage in keeping the song relevant throught the summer? The video. Do yall really think that wack ass video will stay on 106 & Park? People watching it now because it’s new. Once they ALL find out it’s wack it’ll fall.
And what’s the next thing that keeps you relevant? Performances.
Okay, so if you’re a promoter in a region he hasn’t been in… hell me being from the south I say the south. Would you pay him $20,000 to perform or would you just call Gucci and OJ Da Juiceman?
I’m not saying anything one way or another. All I’m saying is dudes who was looking at brining the homie Drake (who musically I like) are starting to question his decision making and performance skills…
July 3rd, 2009 at 2:40 pm
you kindof got to give him credit for being ironic and funny. he did have an interview where he did talk a little bit about the video and how its gonna be directed. never thought it would be like that but who knows maybe he gon pull a kanye and have 3 different videos for the same song.
July 3rd, 2009 at 3:47 pm
This shit will be number 1 on 106 and Park just like the lame Day 26 video, Birdman Always strapped, Durrough walk that walk, Hurricane Chris Halle Berry. Really, all those videos is just like Drake. Stop acting like fans care about videos, THEY DON’T.
July 3rd, 2009 at 4:15 pm
WTF Im sorry but….wait…Im not sorry…WTF was that. My dude just tried to flush his self down the toilet on his first video Dam drake Kill ur self right now.
At least have chicks in the video whos tits aint hittin the gym floor GEEEZZZEEEE ZUSS CRIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!
July 3rd, 2009 at 4:40 pm
If that’s the case, can we please kill this version. I never EVER want to see it again…
July 3rd, 2009 at 5:58 pm
wow…absolutely terrible.not a good vid either.
July 3rd, 2009 at 8:35 pm
The video is sub par…nothing that hasnt been used b4…sex…but I don’t understand the hype..what he is doing is not original..his name may as well be DrakeYe West F Baby. Cause he souns like the two…he has lyrical skill but there are other “MCs” that are much better like Jay Electronica or B.O.B. just to name two. dude is all hype..universal will break the bank to make this work..HELLA features..mark my words.
July 3rd, 2009 at 8:45 pm
This shit is straight wack juice son if you take away the titties & ass the video is utter shit & donât make no sense to go along with the song! If I wasnât a hornball like most of us men I wouldnât have even watched the whole thing! One of my future baby mamas Rosa Acosta one of the only bright spots lol! Speaking of which Latina & Mixed chicks=GOAT!
July 3rd, 2009 at 11:55 pm
I guess I can see why females would hate the video but when males hate a video that features big titties, I start wondering….I know yall guys are too INTELIGENT and BEYOND big bouncing big tits, damn yall are too cool!
July 4th, 2009 at 12:51 am
ahahahaaa that’s like choosing the devil over the devil. it’s a no win stickyation. and it all end up being shit in the end. never watching this video again especially if i don’t want to hate the kid. the song though is almost solid. whack video.
July 4th, 2009 at 12:55 am
lol. even that’s too much yeezy…and he’s no ye. video is mighty fugly. the girls are great in it, but just the whole thing makes me want to spit a loogie at it or something. i know i’m hating but what can i do…laugh through the video or close my eyes or go brain dead. lol. last option is mighty appealing…cause i think that’s what this video and the bet performance did to me.
July 4th, 2009 at 12:58 am
what you trying to say. video’s are dead…lol. then why is one oh six and park on. no scratch that, why is bet still playing video’s. maybe they should just play mp3’s or midis…i think you just mean videos suck and have no creativity…and that explains why mtv is dead to a lot of people but they still hanging around playing music video’s pretending like they are a music video channel. lies. here that people. VIDEO IS DEAD. someone need’s to make something new…wait if video is dead, why is youtube so popular. there’s still mad shit on youtube too.
July 4th, 2009 at 12:59 am
hahahah. i can’t even believe i watched it the one time almost through. i want my money back. i feel robbed son.
July 4th, 2009 at 11:56 am
What are you people talking about?!….the song goes PERFECTLY with the concept of the video. In the song he’s not talking about one particular girl and how she’s the best he ever had. He’s talking about how he tells EVERY girl she’s the best he ever had. He conveys that perfectly with the vid. And props to Drake and Kanye for showing big breasted girls love, it was all about the ass before. Maybe I’m feeling this vid a lil more than i should cause I’m one of the double cup luvs…but hey. They nailed it to me.
July 4th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
^simp logic
July 5th, 2009 at 2:47 am
haha should stick to “that’s why i never follow yal suggestions (kanye)” see what happens when you do
July 5th, 2009 at 9:51 am
WAIT A GODDAMN MINUTE!!!!
Are you guys trying to impress Info with all your “I watch videos for their artistic creativity, not to see a bunch of chicks in Slo-Mo bouncing tits around..this is a travestry!!!” talk????? Hahahahahaha
Besides the fact that it’s not that serious, this dude just got a contract…let’s see what his 1st vid w/ a budget looks like then maybe we can be a lil critical..’Ye probably did this on the strength anyway…just give me 16 on my next smash Drizzy & we good, ya know.
It’s funny b/c this really shows how big this song is. I hope the same thing doesnt happen to Drake that happened to Joe Budden w/ that “Pump it Up” vid. That killed him before he really got started.
Basically what I’m saying is, it’s just a video, who cares!!! We need to stop getting caught up in all the bullshit and remember it’s all about the music people. All the rest of this shit is irrelevant.
July 5th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Dude has a good style… I wasn’t convinced at first, but I think dude has a lot of potential
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