After tearing his ACL and limping around for weeks, Drake appeared to be back to normal while performing “Best I Ever Had” for a sold out audience at one of this weekend’s America’s Most Wanted Music Festival stops. That is until he made a spin move that caused him to tear another ligament and collapse on stage (click here to check out our exclusive Drake tour diary from the night in question).
Knowing the severity of his injury, we just hope the kid gets better soon, because while sometimes it’s funny to laugh at people falling down, this injury could be costly for the young MC. Although he’s the latest, Drizzy’s not the first artist to take a spill at a concert, so while we wait for him to recover, check out (and feel free to laugh at) 15 other Memorable Stage Tumbles…
Finally. After months of everyone bumping Drake’s “Best I Ever Had”—sweat pants, hair-tied, chillin’ with no makeup on—the biggest song in the country finally gets a video. A video directed by Complex homie Kanye West, no less. And it couldn’t have come at a more perfect time. This past week, the Toronto native’s smash single rocketed up 24 spots to #3 on the Billboard charts, right as he solidified his much gossiped-about record deal.
Just before premiering the highly anticipated video (whatup, OnSMASH!), Drake stopped by the Complex office to discuss working with Kanye, the truth about his new deal, his handicapped experience at the 2009 BET Awards and his thoughts on World Star Hip Hop’s newfound love of Degrassi…
Interview By Damien Scott
Complex: Everyone’s been waiting on this video. Can you take us through the making of it?
Drake: Yeah. The video is directed by Kanye West. Basically we decided, as opposed to taking ourselves super serious, we just wanted to have some fun with it. Myself, being a young man, a young single man at that, I kind of wanted to be real about the way I function with women at this current point in my life. Which is, I don’t have one woman that I call my girl. There’s different girls in my life that play different roles and I see at different times, but collectively they kind of make up the roster of happiness for me [Laughs].
Just a year ago, no one knew who Mr. Hudson was. Then Kanye West took an interest in the London artist and gave him his big break with a feature and production credit on 808s & Heartbreak.
After lending a helping hand to other projects like Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3, Hudson is gearing up for the release of his solo debut, Straight No Chaser, out later this year on G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam. When he stopped by the Complex office, we talked about everything from Auto-Tune backlash to how ‘Ye named his LV shoes. Read on for the full interview and to watch the brand new video for “Supernova” featuring Kanye West…
