‘His stuff is only going to get better,’ Young Money princess says.
By James Dinh

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Nicki Minaj has a lot to be excited about these days. Not only is the Young Money MC gearing up for the release of her debut album in November, she’s also featured on a new track with Jay-Z and Kanye West and celebrated a Twitter marriage (and divorce) with Drake.

But while the animated rapper remains busy, she is also anticipating Lil Wayne’s release from prison. In a recent radio interview, Minaj spoke about her mentor and why she feels the need to make Pink Friday a success.

“Can you only imagine what he’s been holding and what’s building up in that brain?” Minaj asked Greg Street of Atlanta radio station V-103. “I’m afraid for anybody … any of his competition when he gets out, because I just feel like it’s going to be monumental. He’s in a great state. When I speak to him, he sounds like he has some sort of clear understanding of everything now, almost like he’s had some weird sort of epiphany since he’s been there, so I’m sure his stuff is only going to get better.”

When Lil Wayne left for prison, Minaj realized just how much he meant to his rap crew. “He didn’t deserve to go in the first place, and it’s kind of crazy how much of a void it’s been without him,” she said. “We didn’t realize Wayne is really the glue that holds Young Money and Cash Money together, I feel. I’m just very, very thankful that he’s finally coming home.”

The 25-year-old MC is ready for the whole Young Money crew to take over the rap game. “We’re just really, really hard workers, and you know what? At some point, I would hope the hard work pays off, at least on my end,” she said. “It’s definitely already paid off for Wayne and for Drake, so I want to thank everybody for supporting Young Money, period.”

So what happens if the New York native falters with her debut album? “They won’t look to sign other female rappers if the project doesn’t do well, because they’re going to say, ‘Well, her buzz was so crazy, and if she couldn’t do it, then no one can do it,’ and I don’t want that to happen. So I’m doing this as well for all the girls.”

The Young Money darling is staying positive as she hopes to pave the way for the females to come in the rap game. “I hope it will open doors for all girls everywhere who ever wanted to pick up a mic and rap and who have been kind of afraid to do it,” she said. “For a long time in my life, I was afraid to be a solo female rapper, because everyone told me, ‘It doesn’t work. It’s not going to happen. Record companies are never going to invest in you just to get it. Just be part of a group.’ ”

Nonetheless, Minaj values her pre-album success, saying, “Even as far as I’ve come now is already a testament in my mind, so I hope the female rappers understand how big it is for our culture that the album does well.”

Do you think Nicki can match the success of her Young Money peers? Share your thoughts in the comments below!

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Wayne will also headline a homecoming concert the same day, says Young Money’s Mack Maine.
By Shaheem Reid

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Lil Wayne’s Young Money army is loading up and getting ready to unleash a wave of new music toward the end of this year and the beginning of next year. The youngest of the Young Money crew, Lil Twist and Lil Chuckee, are working the Net and the mixtape circuit, as are Jae Millz and Gudda Gudda. Tyga, who’s performing shows in South Africa this week, just dropped a video for his Lil Wayne-featured “I’m On It,” and of course, his Chris Brown collaboration “Deuces” is an undeniable people-propelled hit. The record was a mixtape song, but through requests and video play on MTV Jams and “106 & Park,” it’s become a number-one hit.

Young Money president Mack Maine says that Tyga has an official second single coming soon and is hoping the company releases his album before 2010 is over. If not, look for Tyga at the top of 2011.

The biggest Young Money releases this year, of course, are coming courtesy of the leader of the family, Lil Wayne. Weezy has a 10-song project called I Am Not a Human Being that will be released digitally on his birthday, September 27. YM has tentative plans to come right back with more Weezy on November 5. That album, of course, will be his über-anticipated Tha Carter IV, or C4 as it’s been nicknamed.

“Tha Carter IV plans we had and still have are to put Tha Carter IV out the day he comes out [of prison],” Mack said Thursday in New York. “He had so many songs for Tha Carter IV, we said let’s just put these 10 songs out [on I Am Not a Human Being] and double-back for Tha Carter IV. He has more songs for Tha Carter IV that are still strong.”

Mack says that Wayne is deeply involved in Tha Carter IV’s song selection process despite currently serving his yearlong sentence on Rikers Island.

“It’s basically me, him, Baby and Cortez Bryant mapping it out,” Mack explained. “We had a listening session out here. It was me, Baby and Cortez. I let [Wayne] know these are the ones we picked. He already picked six of them from back there. I let him hear it over the phone. I book him a studio session — kinda like I did for the ‘Light Up’ up remix with Drake. I book him a studio session and let him listen [to tracks] over the phone. ‘Do you like this one?’ ‘Yeah?’ ”

While Wayne shot a slew of videos for guest spots on other artists’ songs and for his Rebirth LP before he went to prison, Weezy did not get to film videos for I Am Not a Human Being or Carter IV, which by no means is stifling plans for the releases. “Right Above It” (originally a track for Carter IV) is the first single for … Human Being and has been released to radio. Meanwhile, Mack says the camp is thinking about not putting any music from Carter IV out prior to the release. They’re toying with the idea of letting the fans be surprised when they purchase the project.

“We might just drop the album that day,” Mack said of C4. “Just hope it don’t leak out and drop it that day. I think it would be crazy, the anticipation.”

Right now, Wayne has a tentative release date from prison of November 5. Not only does Young Money want to drop Carter IV that day, they want to hold a welcome-home concert that night, which Wayne would headline.

“That’s where we are aiming for now,” Mack explained. “I think the [Madison Square] Garden would be perfect. I wanna keep it Young Money. I think we can hold our own. As far as his set, it would be nice to have features and cameos on his set. As far as who opens for him, it’ll be a no-brainer, Young Money could hold it down. Just have the big features on Wayne’s set. He’s gonna have a show, then go to the studio. I just had a birthday recently. I had four parties for my birthday. For him, it’s no telling how that week would go, how that month would go. Five months [would go]. We’re gonna party like when Frank came home in ‘King of New York.’ We’re gonna go crazy.”

Also in November, the 23rd to be exact, comes Nicki Minaj’s debut Pink Friday. Drake is already working on another album as well as a mixtape, and according to Mack, it’s “real possible” that Drizzy’s sophomore LP will come before next summer.

While Mack has been aggressively carrying out his duties as an executive, let’s not forget he’s still an artist. He has a new single out called “All in One Swipe” featuring the Birdman, Rick Ross and Chu. Mack’s new mixtape and album are currently in production.

This Sunday, MTV Jams will debut Mack’s new video “I’m From New Orleans,” a collaboration with Lucci Lou and T@, which will be featured during a daylong celebration called “Louisiana Love.” On the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, MTV Jams is celebrating the life and the strength of the survivors of the hurricane.

What do you think about Carter IV possibly dropping right when Wayne gets out? Let us know in the comments!

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Rapper sent the handwritten letter to Sports Illustrated.
By Jayson Rodriguez

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Lil Wayne knows his sports well enough to understand free agency: When you’re not signed, you go with the best offer.

The Cash Money rapper was formerly a blogger for ESPN, opining about the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, among other topics. Now, however, the incarcerated rap star has sent his latest athletic musings to ESPN the Magazine’s rival, Sports Illustrated. (He’s also been posting about sports on his personal blog.)

Weezy sent a handwritten note to the publication with his predictions for the U.S. Open’s men’s and women’s tournaments. The rapper picked top-seeded Rafael Nadal in the men’s bracket and Belgian star Kim Clijsters to take the woman’s crown.

“I’m definitely rooting for [Nadal] to get the Grand Slam and win the U.S. Open,” Lil Wayne wrote on SI stationary after the magazine sent him a letter. “He’s already became the 2nd youngest player to win 8 major titles before the age of 25. He’s halfway there to Roger [Federer]’s 16. And even while battling knee tendinitis, he’s still ranked #1. His Wimbledon performance was one of a kind. He simply plays with pure passion and leaves it all out there on the court.”

Lil Wayne is slated to be released from prison in November. He was sentenced to a year in prison in New York after a 2007 gun bust.

Next month, the Cash Money Records superstar will release an EP directly online. Since he began his jail time, the rapper has released a flurry of music videos, recently appearing in Drake’s “Miss Me” clip.

Wayne’s protégé Drake said his boss has already set a November 5 date for his welcome-home concert. “November 5, the Welcome Home Weezy concert,” Drake told fans during a Ustream chat. “That’s gonna be crazy. I told you I got you. I would never just Ustream and talk about nothing.”

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‘It wasn’t shot the way I would have shot it,’ Anthony Mandler says of Lil Wayne footage shot before he came onboard as director.
By Jayson Rodriguez, with reporting by Audrey Kim

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Drake’s “Miss Me” video is the third project between the rapper and director Anthony Mandler (Jay-Z, Rihanna, Mary J. Blige), following their work together on the Toronto star’s “Over” and “Find Your Love.”

According to Mandler, he and Drake are establishing an aesthetic via their collaborations. Mandler said that “Over” was about re-establishing Drake visually and “Find Your Love” was intended to make Drake the lead in an anti-love story.

With “Miss Me,” however, the director said the video was a particular challenge because co-star Lil Wayne’s footage was shot prior to Mandler coming onboard.

“It wasn’t shot the way I would have shot it,” Mandler explained to MTV News. “So I had to come up with a world where I had ultimate control. I think with Drake, we’re always looking for overarching themes. We’re always looking for bigger themes to hang our hat on. With ‘Miss Me,’ what was interesting to me was not the idea of ‘miss me because Wayne was gong to jail.’ Because it was deeper than that. It was the attainability verses the unattainability. And how stars and people who are public figures are expected to sit on a platform and be grabbed and watched and photographed and controlled.

“The idea for me was, what happens if it’s not that clear,” he added.

The director said he incorporated a set where everything was slightly off. The set was built with a converging ceiling, in order to appear smaller. The lead actress in the video was never fully shown. The Young Money star appears but then quickly disappears.

“Everything is a click off,” Mandler explained.

“All these unrelated scenarios are related by a textual theme and trying to play that into that, rather than some straight narrative, because we didn’t have control … ’cause we didn’t have Wayne,” he said.

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From Young Money posse cuts to the latest ‘Miss Me,’ the MCs are a dynamic duo when they share a track.
By Jayson Rodriguez

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Drake premiered his latest video, “Miss Me,” on Thursday. After dropping his first two singles, “Over” and “Find Your Love,” the Toronto lyricist decided to deliver a collaborative effort on this round, teaming up with his mentor, Lil Wayne. And as this clip shows, from mixtape offerings to Young Money posse cuts and beyond, the pair have proven adept at trading rhymes on the same track. Earlier this year, Drake even confirmed he and Weezy would work on a joint LP together.

Before that project arrives, MTV News went back through their work to present Drake and Lil Wayne’s top 5 collabos thus far.

“Miss Me”:
Drizzy and Weezy have undeniable chemistry on the Toronto lyricist’s latest single, “Miss Me.” The two get down to the science of the matter (get it, chemistry?) and depict a triumphant nod to the presence of one MC (Drake) and the graceful bowing out of another (a soon-to-be-incarcerated Lil Wayne).

“Damn, I’ll be gone ’til November,” Wayne spits over the horn-laden track. “But f— it, I ain’t tripping, I know Drizzy gonna kill ‘em/ I’m sticking to the script like lint on denim/ Mama said if the rules ain’t bent, don’t bend them.”

“Ignant Sh–”:
Young Angel (Drake) and Young Lion (Lil Wayne) go toe to toe on this So Far Gone mixtape number, and after trading verses with each other on previous mixtape offerings like “Ransom” and “Man of the Year,” Drake finally matches his mentor’s otherworldly talent on this Jay-Z/ Just Blaze-jacked track from Hov’s American Gangster project.

“The same n—as I ball with, I fall with, on some Southern drawl sh–,” Drake raps before throwing to Wayne. “Rookie of the Year, ‘06, Chris Paul sh–.”

“Ransom”:
This record put Drake on the map, and although the pairing was uneven at the time, Wayne’s eye-opening rhymes about former flame and controversial music video model Karrine Steffans put the spotlight on this number and subsequently on Drizzy, who later justified the extra attention with his breakout mixtape, So Far Gone.

“Yeah, I am headed for the buck like buck, buck again,” Wayne raps over the buoyant track. “Might fly to L.A. and just f— Karrine/Nah, f— Karrine/ Let’s get bucks again/ and f—ing spend/ Them bucks and then/ Just f— Karrine.”

“My Darling Baby”:
This unreleased gem is heavy on the drums and a wailing soul sample as the Young Money duo push up on the ladies like an exercise workout, from Lil Wayne’s proposal offerings to Drake’s lustful boasts.

“Yeah, so sweet, she bad for me/ But she so good I’ll take the cavity/ Falling for her like how safe is gravity/ I make your girl about-face and marry me, I do,” Wayne raps before making way for Drake.

“But uh, the things I’m willing to do to her/ I wish I could have a threesome with two of her/ I would sing a love song if I knew the words/ But I be damned if another n—a do it first, ’cause you the one,” Drake says, picking up from Weezy.

“Successful”:
The pair’s most (pun alert!) successful collaboration to date, with an assist from Trey Songz, this brooding So Far Gone offering showcased Drake as a peer to Wayne for the first time, as the then-upstart set the make-it-or-break-it tone of the track by anchoring the first and second verses before Wayne hung his hat on the production and closed things out.

“This Lost Boy got fly without Peter Pan/ And my delivery just got me buzzing like the pizza man,” Drake raps. “In person I’m everything and more/ I’m everywhere these other niggas never been before. But inside I’m treading water, steady trying to swim to shore/ I’m on a shopping spree to get whatever is in store.”

What do you think is Lil Wayne and Drake’s best collaboration? Let us know in the comments!

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‘This ain’t built for cats like us … You and Drizzy stay clean,’ Bow says Weezy advised during a visit to Rikers.
By Mawuse Ziegbe

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Lil Wayne’s daily prison routine reportedly consists of mundane activities like watching ESPN and chatting on the phone. Despite his seemingly laid-back schedule, the Young Money/ Cash Money leader has cautioned his protégés to steer clear of trouble. Jail is no place for successful rappers, according to Wayne. During a visit to the incarcerated MC, Bow Wow, who joined Weezy’s camp last year, said Wayne urged him and Young Money star Drake to stay on their best behavior.

“One thing he told me when I went to visit him, he was like … ‘Bow, this ain’t for us, this ain’t it. This ain’t built for cats like us. They don’t understand us, we don’t understand them. Don’t do it man, just stay out of trouble. You and Drizzy, y’all stay clean, y’all stay doing what y’all do. Y’all can do this forever,’ ” Bow Wow told Houston’s 97.9 The Box. “I knew he meant it, [because] Tune never lectures me like that … but he was serious.”

The 23-year-old rapper said that seeing Wayne locked up was a “humbling experience” and recalled hanging with Weezy before his prison stint.

“In our studio, it’s my room … then Stunna’s room then Wayne’s room. I’m so used to seeing the Bugatti pull up, I’m so used to … going over Wayne’s house and the chef is always cooking,” Bow Wow said. “You don’t like seeing your boy like that,” Bow lamented.

Similar to how Wayne doled out advice to Bow, the young rapper said he looks out for another member of the extended Young Money/ Cash Money collective: Nicki Minaj.
Bow Wow, who stars in the comedy “Lottery Ticket,” almost scored the hip-hop diva a role in the summer flick.

“To be honest, Nicki was close to being [the character] ‘Nikki’ in the movie. I called Nicki and said, ‘Yo, I think you should audition for this role.’ ” Unfortunately, Bow’s bid to get Minaj some screen time was unsuccessful: The part eventually went to R&B vixen Teairra Mari. “I thought [Minaj] did good, but unfortunately you know how things don’t work out.”

Fans won’t catch Minaj on the big screen in “Lottery Ticket” but Bow Wow said a big tour featuring Weezy’s hitmaking squad will go down once Wayne comes home.

“When he gets out, we definitely plan on this Young Money/ Cash Money tour,” Bow said. “[The tour will feature] myself, Nicki, Drizzy, Wayne and the whole entire family.”

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Clip, which premieres Thursday night on MTV, was shot the day Weezy first heard Drake’s ‘Over.’
By Shaheem Reid

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While on the set of Drake’s “Miss Me” video, which premieres Thursday (August 19) at 8 p.m. on MTV, Lil Wayne performed — but he also kept his executive hat on, giving Drizzy the OK to put out “Over” as the first single from Thank Me Later.

During a break from shooting the Anthony Mandler-directed video, Wayne and Drake started spitting rhymes to one another in a cipher.

” ‘Bout to go Thriller Mike Jackson on these n—as/ All I need’s a f—ing red jacket with some zippers,” Drake rapped, lines that were foreign to Weezy’s ears. “Super good smiddoke, a package of the Swishers/ I did it overnight, it couldn’t happen any quicker/ Y’all know them? Well, f— it, me either/ But point the biggest skeptic out, I’ll make him a believer/ It wouldn’t be the first time I done it, throwin’ hundreds/ When I should be throwin’ ones, bitch, I run it.”

Wayne had a huge smile on his face after the verse.

“[When they were filming], it was like you could tell they knew they had one,” Weezy’s videographer DJ Scoob Doo, who was shooting scenes for the next installment of his and Wayne’s “Nino Brown” DVD series, said to RapFix.

“Wayne was shooting a lot of videos at the time — a lot of videos,” he added. “This one was more of the theme of him speaking from the heart even though all of them were speaking from the heart, this was more of the thing that he kind of like jumped into his mode for real because it made so much sense. [Wayne] wanted people to know how he felt. Like when people see the video, they’re going to really understand how he feels when he’s in [jail]. People are going to feel like he shot it yesterday because he really captured that moment.

“Drake made the song and brought it to Wayne,” he continued. “It’s not like Wayne came up with the concept — Drake came up with the concept. So it was also Drake knowing that Wayne would not be here when they shooting this video. It’s like, it’s perfect timing. So this is not by mistake, this is masterminds at work.”

Right after the two stopped filming, Drake played “Over” for Wayne for the first time.

“Wayne liked it,” Scoob said. “And I think that’s the reason why they went with that single because it’s, like, not a traditional Drake song. At the time where everybody could kind of see him singing and rapping, ‘Over’ was kind of like a more aggressive rapping type of thing for Drake.” The song debuted on Toronto radio about a week later.

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The now-incarcerated Weezy appears projected on a wall throughout the clip.
By Shaheem Reid

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Drake’s “Miss Me” video featuring Lil Wayne debuted Thursday night (August 19) on MTV. The clip starts with a man in a hood standing in an alley. He’s lighting up a Molotov cocktail and throwing it at the wall. The music starts, and we see Drake performing against a white backdrop, but the shot is wide and reveals a black setting as well.

The action cuts to a sexy woman dancing in a room alone, and later we see Drake in that same room, sitting on the floor as the woman shakes it for him.

“Miss Me” has heavy performance scenes throughout Drizzy’s verse, and then we see a TV set in the alley. Lil Wayne appears on the wall in the alley rapping, and he again is shown on the wall in the room where Drake and the girl are, like a projection.

The Birdman and most of Wayne and Drake’s Young Money family appear in the video as well. As the video comes to a close, it’s revealed that Drake was the man in the hood at the beginning of the clip.

“Miss Me” was directed by Anthony Mandler, who has helmed all of Drake’s Thank Me Later videos.

” ‘Miss Me,’ it was something I was so excited to do,” Drake said recently on the set of another Mandler clip, for “Fancy.” “It was something not a lot of people expected me to do, especially with Wayne being in the situation he’s in. We did it as a team, held Wayne down. All the Young Money big dawgs came down — the men of Young Money — to show the muscle, to show we still in full effect. It’s a great piece. It’s darker than the feel of the song. It’s got very much like a youth-in-revolt, rebellious feel to it. I wanted to be aggressive, man. That was my chance to flex my little ‘We did it. We’re still here. Young Money is still in demand.’ And to deliver a message that I feel very strong about. I’m not trying to be the best in the world. I don’t think that’s possible. There’s always somebody better than you. I just hope they miss me, man. So this is it. ‘Miss Me.’ ”

The next video Drake and Mandler will shoot is for “Show Me a Good Time.”

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Drizzy also pleads with Wiz Khalifa to join him on Light Dreams and Nightmares Tour during Ustream broadcast.
By Mawuse Ziegbe

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Drake is doing it big right now. The Toronto MC’s debut album, Thank Me Later, is platinum, he’s about to headline his upcoming Light Dreams and Nightmares Tour and he’s just notched 1 million Twitter followers. With that type of success, there’s probably very little that is out of the lyricist’s reach. But Drake revealed that there is one thing he wants that he hasn’t been able to secure yet: snagging Wiz Khalifa as his tourmate.

“I had a little bit of a fan moment, I tried to get this third cat on my tour,” Drizzy told more than 30,000 fans who logged on to check him out live on Ustream on Thursday (August 19). The broadcast came on the heels of the premiere of his “Miss Me” video with Lil Wayne.

Apparently, Drake was keeping his plan to add another act to his tour on the low. “You know we was trying to get Wiz on the tour,” he said, simultaneously informing listeners and his team who were hanging out in the room and clearly didn’t know what he was referring to. The MC then addressed his fans once again: “Hopefully, the Light Dreams [and] Nightmares Tour, depending on what city we go to, it’ll be Clipse, Bun B and Wiz Khalifa. That’s what I’m hoping. I don’t know, maybe I spoke too soon.”

Clipse were already confirmed to join the Young Money MC on the road, along with Houston O.G. Bun B, when the tour kicks off on September 20 in Miami. The chart-topping singer and rapper asked the “Hottest Breakthrough MC” directly about possibly joining the fall tour.

“If Wiz by any chance watches this, you gotta make some calls for me and make this happen,” Drake said. “We got that young energy right now, we need to go out here and kill these people.”

In addition to making his plea for a more Taylor Gang-friendly Light Dreams tour lineup, the MC said he really wants to work with producer 9th Wonder on the follow-up to Thank Me Later.

“9th, can we start this next album please?” Drake asked. “Because I know you in the studio,” he added, urging the North Carolina artist to work on his sophomore effort, which Drizzy hopes to release by next year. The rapper also revealed that he initially wanted the ex-Little Brother beatsmith to contribute to Later, but wasn’t able to make it happen. “I’d greatly appreciate it if we could get some work done because I know last time we weren’t able to do that.”

While his touring and production rosters are still up in the air, Drake said he could confirm to fans that one particular event is a definite: a homecoming concert for Lil Wayne.

“November 5, the Welcome Home Weezy concert,” Drake said. Although he didn’t reveal the location, Drizzy assured fans they wouldn’t want to miss it. “That’s gonna be crazy,” Drizzy smiled. “I told you I got you. I would never just Ustream and talk about nothing.”

Do you think Drake and Wiz Khalifa should tour together? Let us know in the comments!

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Portions of the clip, which debuts at 8 p.m. ET on MTV, were filmed before Weezy began his prison sentence.
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Drake’s “Miss Me” video, featuring Lil Wayne, is set to premiere Thursday on MTV at 8 p.m. ET.

The clip was recorded in two sessions: one featuring Lil Wayne before the rapper turned himself in to start his yearlong prison sentence and another more recently in July as Drake put the finishing touches on the visual. The video is Drake’s third overall from his debut album, Thank Me Later, following “Over” and “Find Your Love,” both of which were directed by Anthony Mandler (Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, Rihanna).

Earlier this year, Drake spoke with Sway prior to the kickoff of his Away From Home Tour and talked about his collaboration with Weezy.

“It’s a pretty straightforward [song],” he told MTV News. “It’s a song about being away from what you love and hoping that when you’re gone, doing you, somebody out there misses you. It goes for Wayne in his situation and it goes for me in my situation, ’cause I’m on the road for I don’t how long right now.”

Originally, the song was slated as a collaboration between Bun B and Drake. But Wayne, perhaps with his then-impending jail term in mind, heard the record and wanted to join his protégé on the number.

After “Miss Me” debuts on MTV, the video will be featured on all of the MTV 360 channels, including MTV2, MTV Jams and MTV Hits.

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