In the new music video for “First Person Shooter,” which came out Wednesday, Drake and J. Cole played chess, table tennis, and basketball against each other.

The mixed-race hip-hop stars recreated a famous picture of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo playing chess. The picture was taken by Annie Leibovitz a year ago as part of her paid relationship with Louis Vuitton.

The 37-year-old Canadian and the 38-year-old German dropped their No. 1 US Billboard Һot 100 song together on October 6 as part of Drake’s eighth studio album For All the Dogs.

It was Dr. Drake’s (born Aubrey Graham) 13th No. 1 Һιt and J.’s (born Jermaine) first. Together, they tied with the late Michael Jackson for the most solo number-one songs by a solo male act.

In honor of the King of Pop, the five-time Grammy winner wore black shoes, a silver-sequin glove, and socks.

The record cover that the co-founder of OVO Sound’s five-year-old son Adonis Mahbed Graham drew was on the wall behind the chess game.

Drake’s five-minute music video with lots of CGI has already been seen almost 500,000 times on YouTube.

Gibson Hazard directed First Person Shooter. He has directed videos for Lil Uzι Vert, Metro Boomin, and Lil Nas X in the past.

At the beginning of the music video, Brian Baumgartner, who played Kevin Malone on the NBC mockumentary comedy The Office (2005–2013), was seen playing a game on his computer while “managing” a room full of dumb people.

After that, the 50-year-old Daytime Emmy winner got a call from the CEO. It was Drake and J. Cole playing ping-pong in an office that suddҽnly turned into a stadium.

The Grammy winner showed off his hoop skills while dressed as Spider-Man. Last year, he played shooting guard for Scarborough Shooting Stars.

Drake, who was also dressed as Spider-Man, then put the ball in the hoop at Scotiabank Arena and magically threw it around the world before it landed on fire.

The former Degrassi star was then taken to the Toronto train, where mҽn were wearing dog masks and called womҽn by their names (Nadine, Christine, Justine, Kathleen, Charlene, Pauline, and Claudine), calling them “dogs.”

At the end of the video, there was a boastful scene of the Titles Ruin Everything poet introducing a huge statue of himself in his city of Toronto. 

Drake and J. Cole released their video two days after announcing their joint 22-date It’s All a Blur Tour – Big As the What? The tour starts on January 18 at Ball Arena in Denver, CO.

On Wednesday at 11 a.m., the Cash App pre-sale began. Tickets will be on sale to the public this Friday at 10 a.m.

The Euphoria producer is also nominated for four Grammys, including Best Rap Performance. The 66th Grammy Awards will be shown on CBS/Paramount+ on February 4 from LA’s Crypto.com Arena.

I also think J. Cole should win an award for best lyrical rap performance for his song “All My Life” with Lil Durk.