Drake returned to the America’s Most Wanted Music Festival last night, just five days after injuring his knee.

“Look, I wanna say one thing,” Drizzy told the crowd. “Before every show I’ve ever seen this man do, the greatest entertainer I’ll ever witness. Make some noise for Lil Wayne. Now listen up, before every show he does, he tells the crowd to make some noise for what they’ve created. My man, I just wanna shake your hand for what you do…”

Unfortunately, Drizzy won’t be returning back to the tour because of his injury, and he only performed in Toronto last night because he couldn’t let his city down now, could he? Hit the jump for to see Lil Wayne, Drake and Trey Songz perform “Successful“, “Best I Ever Had” and “Every Girl“.

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The 2009 Video Music Awards nominations are out, and though much of the attention is on Best Video, one of the most intriguing categories is the race for Best New Artist. It pits Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” against 3OH!3 (“Don’t Trust Me”) and three top-shelf MCs: Drake (“Best I Ever Had“), Kid Cudi (“Day ‘N’ Nite”) and Asher Roth (“I Love College”).

Drake has certainly built up a great deal of buzz in the hip-hop community. And unlike some artists, he has fully delivered on that hype. A smooth, crooning MC in the Lil Wayne mold, his runaway hit “Best I Ever Had” has not only found a home on regular rotation on MTV but also has camped out near the top of the Billboard chart for most of the summer. Though the Canadian rapper has recently hit on hard times (he re-injured his knee at a concert stop in New Jersey), he’s still had an incredible year: He dropped a much-downloaded mixtape, signed with Lil Wayne’s Young Money label, was drafted to the “American’s Most Wanted” tour and got Kanye West to direct the clip for “Best I Ever Had“.

Shouts to MTV and who thinks Drizzy will win this award

During the America’s Most Wanted concert last night in Camden, New Jersey, Drake took a bad fall and had to be carried off stage by some of the Young Money fam. Drizzy and Weezy where performing “Best I Ever Had” when he seemed to have took a bad fall.

You can watch the video and Lil Wayne‘s reaction here, but the good news is that Drake seems to be doing okay now as he tweeted this:

All is well…on the bus laying down…getting surgery this week but I’m walking. Thank my whole YM family for the help! Lion Hearts!

Some fans liked it, some fans were scratching their heads after the debut of Drake‘s “Best I Ever Had” video last month. Some in the blogosphere said the clip’s buxom female basketball team did nothing but cater to the male audience without matching the theme of the song; others just thought it wasn’t all that creative. And a couple of bloggers even went so far as to suggest that director Kanye West sabotaged Drake‘s production.

In fact, Drake told MTV News that West offered to shoot another video for the song, and he declined. He noted that receiving mixed reviews of his clip was a great lesson.

“That career move was very important to me,” he explained at the America’s Most Wanted Music Festival kickoff in Scranton, Pennsylvania. “We’ve done such a great job of building it all up. It’s kind of like people were getting this impression of me that I’m never gonna make a mistake. I’m not made of Teflon. I’m gonna do things for myself sometimes, as opposed to what people want me to do.”

Drake said the abundance of big-breasted women in the video didn’t put up any red flags that the video would offend anyone. He enjoyed the final cut of the video and thought it was right on point.

“If you listen to the song, I’m not saying the most graceful thing in the world. It’s not the most heartfelt song,” Drizzy continued. “I say some pretty wild things in regards to women in the actual song. When me and Kanye were in the studio working on a song for Big Sean, we were talking about it. We saw a comedic element to it. I felt that the climate in the world right now, everything in the world is so serious all the time, my life is serious, I just wanted to laugh, instead of taking myself too serious as the heartthrob and walking hand-in-hand into the movies and taking my shirt off. I felt it’s not that time for me yet. Or maybe never. I’m a very multifaceted person. One thing I told ‘Ye is, ‘I really want to act. I want to act in this video.’ ”

Kanye convinced him that the only way to be humorous was to go all the way with it and make it a full on funny video.

“I guess one thing I didn’t consider is what the song personally means to a lot of women,” Drake said. “To those women, I apologize. I do apologize. My intention wasn’t to put anyone down. It was to make them laugh. I wanted people to see something visually different.”

Don’t worry, Drake, judging by your reception at Monday’s AMW show, the fans still love you.

Shouts to MTV and was you happy with the video

Karen Civil talks to Drake, T-Streets, Nicki Minaj, Tyga, Jae Millz, Gudda Gudda, Shanell and Mack Maine backstage and then you see Drake‘s and Lil Wayne‘s performance of “Best I Ever Had”.

I wonder why Weezy hasn’t done a verse for this song yet…

Above, is the official music video for Drake‘s “Best I Ever Had” single, but this version is the director’s cut which is a little bit different. After watching it, I noticed that there are some longer and new parts in the video, but there aren’t too many changes. Anyways, check it out above and leave a comment with your thoughts on it.

I think this version is better

This is Drake’s official music video for his hit song “Best I Ever Had” which was directed by Kanye West. Young Money, Fabolous and Trey Songz make cameos, but unfortunately no Weezy

Don’t forget to leave a comment after you have watched the music video telling us your thoughts on it and I just got to say to Kanye – Very well done at the beginning