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NEW YORK — Ladies love him, girls adore him. No, we're not talking about old-school rap legend Rob Base — we're talking about Heartbreak Drake. The Lil Wayne protégé has incredible buzz surrounding his breakout hit, "Best I Ever Had."

The song is from Drake's recent mixtape, So Far Gone, released in February of this year. The track is a favorite during his live shows, and it's also taken off on radio recently.

Drake told MTV News before his show at Manhattan's S.O.B.'s that he's in the process of putting together a video for the song.

"I been working with a couple people on some ideas," he explained. "I don't wanna say who yet, because everything isn't confirmed yet. It should be pretty solid in the next few days. The biggest thing about that song is that a lot of women come up to me and say, 'That's my song, because it really makes me feel special.' So I told the directors that were interested that I just want the visuals to coincide with that feeling. I want women to feel special when they watch the visual and say, 'I wish that was me,' or 'I know that feeling.' That's the goal with the video — to be genuine and not sappy. Be sexy and keep it together, but still make women smile."

The Toronto-based MC said he hopes to finish the clip by next month's BET Awards. In June, the currently unsigned artist will also begin working on his debut album. Drake is rumored to be working with Jay-Z, Kanye West and Lil Wayne, among others.

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In 2005, Darius Weems set out from Georgia on a quest to travel across the country to Los Angeles and fulfill his dream. While that sounds like a typical, almost clichéd story, Darius' journey was just a bit different.

The 15-year-old suffers from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), an ultimately fatal genetic disease that also claimed the life of his older brother, and is confined to a wheelchair. But along with 11 college-age kids, Darius rented a wheelchair-accessible RV and headed West to increase awareness about DMD, raise much-needed funds for the disease and convince MTV to customize his wheelchair on "Pimp My Ride."

They filmed the entire journey for a documentary that went on to garner 28 film-festival awards worldwide and raise $1.6 million for DMD. On Thursday night at the Do Something Awards at New York's Apollo Theater, Darius was honored for his commitment to working for positive change.

Usher, Akon, Russell Simmons and Lil Mama were among those in attendance to honor Darius and the four other young people receiving awards. The night's overall winner, a 22-year-old named Maggie Doyne who set up a school and orphanage in Nepal, received $100,000 in community grants.

After Darius accepted his award and a $10,000 grant, our own Sway Calloway surprised the teenager with news that his doc, called "Darius Goes West," will air on MTV2 and mtvU in the fall.

"I just hope my story lives on and resonates in the community and in schools, and I just hope the story lives on and is able to motivate people for years and years to come," Darius told MTV News.

Usher urged young people to remember that everyone has the ability to give back to the community. "Raw power is truly in service," the singer said. "You can make a difference. Every time that you experience some sort of change, it took labor. It took physical time to make a change."

Akon, who founded his own charitable foundation, couldn't have been happier to come out in support of Darius and his fellow winners. "My main thing is always about the kids at the end of the day," Akon said. "That's why we even started the Konfidence Foundation was to create a better environment for the kids. This right here is the blessing of it. These are the reasons why I am who I am."

Simmons echoed that sentiment. "Whenever you see young people doing good or giving — it's an inspiration because it's mostly from the heart," he said. "When we cultivate that or we push for that, then they become great citizens. You know we are born for service. I don't want to get too deep, but it's a science of service. When you fit into it right, then you are happier."


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Here's the thing about Chris Daughtry: He is an exceedingly regular guy (aside from his Lex Luthor dome and Pharaoh-with-a-Norelco facial hair). This is particularly noteworthy considering that his band's 2006 self-titled album is the fastest-selling rock debut in SoundScan history, moving more than 5 million units, birthing seven singles and staying lodged in the top half of the Billboard 200 for more than two years.

This is the kind of success that usually changes dudes, adds pages to their riders and members to their entourages. It turns them into Rock Stars. Chris Daughtry is different, though. He most certainly isn't a Rock Star.

I mean, of course, he is, but he still goes out of his way to maintain his blue-collar, hard-workin' everydude persona. He makes it a point of mentioning that he is just the lead singer of a band, a democracy in which everyone writes riffs, records tracks, tours hard and shares the bounty. He just happens to be the focal point, though he is no more important than, say, drummer Joey Barnes, whose name I just had to look up.

This is all very admirable, but it's also part of the key to his success. And Daughtry the everyman is back with a new album, Leave This Town, due July 14, which is bound to dominate the charts. And to begin that conquest, he's released the video for the first single, "No Surprise," and it's definitely the most everydude thing he's ever done.

It opens in a nondescript factory in some nondescript — though very dusty — town, with Chris and the boys rocking out and whoa-oh-oh-ing into the wide-open spaces. A battered old pickup rolls into frame, and from it emerges a good-looking (yet clearly down-on-his-luck) blue-collar worker (we know this because he carries a battered rucksack and displays several pensive looks). He's looking for work, but alas, the foreman tells him there's none to be had here. Daughtry himself drives by in a red Mustang convertible and witnesses the whole thing, and we know he is upset and concerned because he shoots that very look to the camera. He feels your pain.

Cut to a nondescript diner in (the same) nondescript-yet-dusty-town, where a good-looking (yet clearly down-on-her-luck) young waitress is being yelled at by her mean old boss. She is having a bad day, one that gets even worse when she dumps a soda on a horrified customer (not her fault, she got bumped!) and you know what happens next: She's canned by the boss, and tosses her apron on the floor in disgust, while two of the other dudes in Daughtry look on sullenly. They feel your pain too.

As it turns out, the good-looking guy and gal are a couple, and they're having money problems (one would think they could always go into modeling ... I've heard it pays pretty well), which leads to bickering. They go to bed angry, and the next morning, she wakes up and he's gone. She heads out looking for him (in cut-offs, since, you know, she's the salt of the earth), and this is where the video and the song merge: "No Surprise" is a classic breaking-up-is-hard-to-do tune, the kind a million guys and gals separated by time or space or the open road or the military have experienced a million times before, and it ends the way these things usually do: messily, but for the best. Sure it might hurt now, Daughty wants you to know, but we both know that the split was for the best. Perhaps this couple are heading down that path. Maybe they're already there.

We get no answers, though. The clip ends with the couple sitting on either side of a rock, overlooking that very dusty (and, it would seem, utterly hopeless) town. They both look pensive and scared. Probably because they should be. And Daughtry and his boys provide no solutions, either to their economic woes or their relationship troubles, because, well, they don't have them. No one does. In matters of love and finance, Chris Daughtry is still the ultimate everydude, and he doesn't know how to make things work either. Well played, sir.

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