Following Drake’s performance at the 2013 VMA’s last night, the YMCMB team gathered in a private room at Philippe Chow in midtown Manhattan to celebrate the forthcoming release of his third studio album, Nothing Was The Same. Almost a full repeat of the night before (when the guys bought out the entire restaurant for a private dinner,) tons of people came through to show Drake love…or just happened to be in the restaurant so they slid through anyway. Birdman, Slim, DJ Khaled, Ace Hood, Machine Gun Kelly, French Montana, Juelz Santana, Kimbella, Selena Gomez (she didn’t come say hi to Drake, LOL), The Weeknd, Mack Maine, Meek Mill, Caskey and Busta Rhymes were all in the building, and I’m sure I’m even missing some names.

Drake gave a speech about how he is so glad he never went anywhere else but YMCMB, but it does stick out to me that Nicki Minaj wasn’t in attendance. Lil Wayne wasn’t either, but that’s simply because he wasn’t in town. Hmm!

Check out some pics from the night in the gallery and a funny video of producer Detail showing Drake his “dance” to his new single below.

Marisa Mendez