In the recently released First Person Shooter music video, Drake and J. Cole engaged in chess, table tennis, and basketball competitions.
The mixed-race hip-hop artists reproduced a well-known image of soccer players Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo playing chess that was taken by Annie Leibovitz a year prior as a part of their sponsored collaboration with Louis Vuitton.
Off Drake’s ninth studio album For All the Dogs, the 37-year-old Canadian and the 38-year-old German native first launched their US Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 smash collaboration on October 6.
J. (born Jermaine) had his first No. 1 success, and Drake (born Aubrey Graham) equaled the late Michael Jackson for the most solo number-one hits by a solo male artist with his 13th No. 1 hit.
In the video, the five-time Grammy winner paid homage to the King of Pop by dressing in silver-sequin gloves, black loafers, and socks.
He rapped, “N****, beat it, n****, beat it, what?”
The album cover, created by his five-year-old son Adonis Mahbed Graham, was displayed on the wall behind the co-founder of OVO Sound’s chess game.
Drake’s five-minute, computer-generated-image-heavy music video has already received close to half a million views on YouTube.
Gibson Hazard, who has directed music videos for Lil Nas X, Metro Boomin, and Lil Uzi Vert, directed First Person Shooter.
Brian Baumgartner, who is best known for playing Kevin Malone in the NBC mockumentary sitcom The Office (2005–2013), started the music video by using his computer to play a game while’managing’ an office full of dummies.
After that, the 50-year-old Daytime Emmy winner got a call from the CEO, who revealed that Drake and J. Cole were ping-ponging in an office that had suddenly changed into a stadium.
The Grammy winner, who played shooting guard for the Scarborough Shooting Stars the previous season, displayed his hoops prowess while donning a Spider-Man outfit.
Not to be outdone, Drake—who was also decked up as Spider-Man—then used magic to propel the basketball across the planet before it crashed into the Scotiabank Arena hoop in flames.
After that, the former cast member of Degrassi was taken inside the Toronto subway, where he openly made comparisons between ladies and real dogs, whose names were written on their collars (Nadine, Christine, Justine, Kathleen, Charlene, Pauline, Claudine). Men were dressed in dog masks.
The vainglorious performance of the Titles Ruin Everything poet unveiling a gigantic statue of himself in his hometown of Toronto marked the conclusion of the video.
Two days prior to the release of their joint 22-date It’s All a Blur Tour – Big As the What?, Drake and J. Cole released a video. The tour will begin on January 18 at Ball Arena in Denver, Colorado.
Tickets go on sale to the general public this Friday at 10 a.m.; the Cash App pre-sale started on Wednesday at 11 a.m.
The Euphoria producer, who is nominated for an Emmy, is also vying for four awards at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, which will be broadcast from LA’s Crypto.com Arena on February 4 on CBS/Paramount+, including best rap performance.
Additionally, J. Cole received one nomination for best melodic rap performance for his song All My Life with Lil Durk.