“We’re About To Get Murdered” – The Crazy Story Of How Morgan Wallen Ended Up In A Drake Music Video
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“We’re About To Get Murdered” – The Crazy Story Of How Morgan Wallen Ended Up In A Drake Music Video

The story behind the video. Morgan Wallen appeared in the music video for Drake's song “You Broke My Heart,” which was featured on his 2023 For All The Dogs album, and was the last track on the For All the Dogs Scary Hours edition. But the story behind it isn't exactly what you'd think... there wasn't months of planning that went into it, or long conversations about details, and it all happened within the span of 24 hours from Morgan being asked to do it to the video being filmed. Morgans manager at the time, Troy "Tracker" Johnson, appeared on photographer Spidey Smith's (who has shot all of Morgan's album covers) In The Trenches podcast this week, where he detailed the story, starting with how he got a text from Tracy Martin, President of The Core Entertainment, saying Drake's team was trying to get ahold of him. Finally, after lots of phone tag, they told Tracker they wanted Morgan to fly up to Toronto the next day, and Morgan, who is a fan himself, was obviously excited to get Tracker's text: "Morgan calls me and I'm like, ‘Man, I don't know. This is what I got for you. Drake would like to fly us out,' and he's like, ‘What do you think we should do?’ and I was like, ‘I think the answer is, ‘Yeah. What time? What time do we need to be awake and at the airport?’ I think this is an opportunity you cannot pass up. Then his manager texts me a few more details. I connected someone with Cody, who was Morgan's right hand, and that conversation started. Even the next morning we wake up and we're not 100% sure what we're doing." They pretty much only knew that Morgan was going to be in a video, and when they arrived at the airport in Toronto, they still didn't even know where the location for the video was. Someone sent them a pin on the map that appeared to be in the middle of a field: "We pull up and it's just this gated, really dark road, and we start driving, and at this point we're also going, ‘Okay, now we're back to being murdered. I don't know what's going on!’ Then we pull around this corner, and it's a full-blown movie set. You know that little town square in Universal Studios where everyone shoots? It looked like that. There was a town square, and there were restaurants and there were all these things - all fake." That's the music business for you... They finally get in and get to Morgan's trailer, and Drake stopped by to meet Morgan and chat for a little bit: "We pull up and they're just like, 'Mr Wallen, there's your trailer,' and we go sit in this trailer. The door opens up, and I'm walking out, and Drake is walking in. There are a lot of people I've met in my life, but there are people like Drake that might throw you back a little bit. The door opens, he looks up at me and goes, ‘Hey, what's up, man?’ I was like, ‘Oh, hello, Mr. Drake.' He walks in and hangs out with Morgan for 15, 20 minutes, and then walks off. It was such a cool moment. We'd finally gotten to the point - we're there, they have talked, he is real, it is real, everything is real." Morgan finally got some sort of script for his part too, and Tracker says Morgan and Drake hit it off very quickly, and had a great time doing the video together. I would've never known this came together in 24 hours... if you haven't seen the video before, you can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1-jss2mZlY&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.whiskeyriff.com%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE The full podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKRk7c2mswE&t=1s