Drizzy Drake and crew jumped on a Gulfstream G4 yesterday and jetted back from Kingston, Jamaica after wrapping up an epic three-day video shoot for “Find My Love,” a forthcoming single from his highly anticipated album Thank Me Later.

But while in the island of the sun, the Toronto-born actor/singer/MC didn’t waste the opportunity to link up with some hometown talent. Dancehall hitmaker Mavado was on set of the new Anthony Mandler-directed flick to play a major role.

“Drake loved the vibe, mi nah lie,” Mavado told VIBE. “We did our best to make sure everything was as comfortable and smooth as possible.”

he video production team staged scenes throughout Kingston, shooting a bikini-and-bonfire beach party at Port Royal, capturing club action inside The Building (a popular New Kingston hotspot better known by its former name, Asylum), and finally heading to Mavado’s birthplace, the garrison community of Cassava Piece, better known these days as The Gully Side.

“We goin’ all the way in with this one,” Mandler tweeted of the neighborhood where many fear to tread. But Drake had so much fun kicking it in Mavado’s “Gully” community that he hung out long after Mavado had turned in for the night.

“Even after mi lef’ Cassava Piece, Drake was still there!” Movado told VIBE. “It coming like ah dessoh him born and grow!”

The camaraderie between Aubrey Drake Graham, one of the most in-demand rappers on the planet, and David Constantine Brooks, one of the hottest dancehall artists in the game, has been developing for a while now. Back in late February, the two spent some time together at Gee Jam Studios in Port Antonio—the secluded soundlab where No Doubt worked on their hit album Rock Steady.

“We really planning on doing songs together,” Mavado stated in a YouTube interview, though he also made it clear he wasn’t about to rush the process. “Big up Drake,” Mavado added. “Drake ah me dog.”

Michel—Drizzy’s love interest in the video—was just as approving, describing the Young Money rapper as “a super sweetheart” via Twitter.

Her favorite take? “The bedroom scene (by far lmao) wink wink,” she tweeted.

The dream year for T.Dot native Drake continues to get better. After being named MTV’s 3rd hottest MC in the game, MTV has named his latest mixtape So Far Gone the mixtape of the year.

Some will dispute it being named mixtape of the year but the things accomplished with this mixtape is incredible. So Far Gone featured multiple songs featured on the radio at one time or another including the hits “Brand New” & “Successful”. So Far Gone was later released as an EP and has garnered the latest Young Money signee two Grammy nominations.

His debut album, Thank Me Later, is tentatively set to be released in March 2010.

As we predicted back in January, Wale, Kid Cudi and Drake have had a huge impact on hip-hop this year. They’ve not only built a buzz for themselves, but they’ve found themselves standing alongside the likes of Jay-Z, Eminem, Kanye West and 50 Cent. And, as GQ magazine points out, they’ve helped to quell hip-hop’s gangster persona and usher in a real-life focus. The three MCs are featured in the GQ’s Men of the Year issue in an article titled “Gangsta Killers.”

“Anybody from Cleveland will tell you, I wasn’t in the street,” Kid Cudi said. “Ask them, they’ll say, ‘Scotty was the goofy class clown.’ ”

The article points out the contrast between songs about “duct-taped kilos, exotic firearms, and freaky girls” and the lyrics of this up-and-coming generation of rappers. Cudi’s introspective raps have helped secure him a dedicated following that propelled his single, “Day N’ Nite,” into a top-five hit and stoner anthem, and his debut album, Man on the Moon: The End of Day, sold over 100,000 thousand copies in its first week. Wale’s attention to lyrical detail has established him as D.C.’s first major hip-hop artist, and his live show earned him a spot as the leader of this year’s VMA house band and touring with Jay-Z. And Drake, whose So Far Gone mixtape and “Best I Ever Had” single made him the object of a label bidding war this summer, stood verse-for-verse with Eminem, Lil Wayne and Kanye West on “Forever.”

While they have each helped to establish a new aesthetic for rap, they aren’t too keen on being called “Gangsta Killers.”

“The dope boy is going to be a fixture of black culture as long as ‘thug’ is a legitimate option alongside ‘job,’ ” Drake told GQ. “But I’m not going to rap about how much crack I sold.”