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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