Drake dropped a new track, “nice for What,” Friday night, and with it a celebrity-studded music video (above), packed with powerful ladies from the worlds of Hollywood, dance, social media, fashion, and more.
Olivia Wilde, ballerina Misty Copeland, Issa Rae, Rashida Jones, model Jourdan Dunn, Tracee Ellis Ross and her Black-ish daughter Yara Shahidi, a cigar-smoking Tiffany Haddish, Zoe Saldana (plus her kids), Instagram beauty stars and twins Elizabeth and Victoria Lejonhjärta (who also appeared inside the cover art for Drake’s 2016 album views), actresses Letitia Wright, Bria Vinaite, Emma Roberts, singer-songwriter Syd, and Michelle Rodriguez grace the video for the song, which samples Lauryn Hill’s “Ex-factor” off her 5-time Grammy-winning 1998 album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
This latest song from the rapper is likely a run up to his next album, which is rumored to drop this year. On Jan. 19, Drake released “God’s Plan,” which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard hot a hundred, where it still sits inside the top spot 10 weeks after its release. That same day he released “Diplomatic Immunity,” which debuted at No. 7 but has since dropped off the chart.
The video, directed by Karena Evans, premiered on the YouTube channel for Drake’
