WORLD PREMIERE: Nicki Minaj ft. Lil Wayne - 'High School' Music Video

As if the steamy promo pics did not tip you off to this fact, Nicki Minaj's new "High School" video does not actually take place in high school — unless said high school also has a hot tub on premises.

Instead, it's set on the sprawling compound of a drug lord, with Nicki cast in role of his girlfriend. She spends her days lounging poolside, until one day, when Lil Wayne and Birdman arrive to conduct a transaction with "El Jefe," and she decides it's time to exact some small manner of revenge: by breaking into his safe, and fleeing with Weezy on board a helicopter under the cover of darkness (El Jefe must be a heavy sleeper).

That's the plot, as it were, though what happens in "High School" is largely inconsequential: this is a video that looks lush, and with its "Scarface-ian" scope, it seems custom made for the big screen. Nicki doesn't disappoint in the wardrobe department, either, no doubt thrilling her Barbz and setting pulses pounding in a series of barely-there bathing suits and outfits. And then, there's her sex scene with Wayne, which is certainly steamy, and is guaranteed to be the thing most of her fans will be talking about for the foreseeable future ... a bit of slash fiction played out in music video form.

During a MTV Interview Nicki Minaj the Young Money rapper opened up about those sexy takes, especially one in particular where the pair come close to sharing a passionate kiss. "If we actually locked lips, don't you think we would have put it in the video?" Minaj joked. "Wayne said we had to kiss for the video. He was like, one thing that's going to sell it is if we really kiss. I'm like, ehh."

"He refused to touch me, he's so respectful, he refused to touch me, and then I was like, 'Wayne,' I was like, 'You could do this.' But he was acting scared, like, 'Yo, Nick, this is my dream. I'm gonna be a man after this video.' He was just being crazy," Minaj said. "But if I didn't tell him 'Yes, you can do this' or 'touch this,' he refused to do it, like he's a southern gentlemen, which people don't realize."

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