HOLLYWOOD -- While [artist id="1225081"]T.I.[/artist] loves [artist id="1829009"]DJ Drama[/artist], that doesn't mean Dram gets any preferential treatment.

"Drama is Grand Hustle," Tip said on the set of [article id="1601836"]Drama's "Day Dreaming" video[/article]. "Grand Hustle is me all day. I don't do Drama's records for him more than I do any of my other artists' records for them. If it's a record they have an idea for me being on, I wait for them to do all their [other] records. The record they approach me and say, 'Hey, this the one I think I need you on,' I listen. At the end of the day, I defer to their comment. 'Is this the one? OK.' And we do it."

Tip joins [artist id="1240040"]Akon[/artist] and [artist id="1133"]Snoop Dogg[/artist] on the record with vocal performances.

"Drama called me up and was like, 'Yo, 'Kon, what's the deal?' " Akon recalled of how he got on the song. "I said, 'What's up, bro?' He said, 'I ain't talking to you no more. Can I get my record?' I stopped everything I was doing to make sure he got it."

Akon was on tour in Canada at the time, so he took awhile laying his part for "Day Dreaming," but Drama got it right on time.

"It's a big song," Drama boasted during lunchtime on the set. "Three international superstars, so we definitely had to make it major. It's about when you might see a young lady and you get some thoughts in your head or some visions or some dreams."

"It's pretty much about being enticed by a go-go dancer," Akon elaborated. "There's always that one [you see in the club] that makes you be like, 'Why is she in here? I wanna take care of that one.' So it's that vision of what that is right there.

"This is nothing like what [Drama] is normally pushing [on Gangsta Grillz mixtapes]," Akon continued. "I think he's at the stage now where he realizes that as a DJ, he has to grow and take himself to the next level."

Drama is feeling very presidential these days. In the video, he sports his new "Barack O'Drama" iced-out piece.

"I've been calling myself that since about February '07," Drama said. "It's a beautiful thing that I can rock the name proudly, and Barack Obama is president of the United States right now.

"I'm the mixtape president," he added. "I've been the king. There have been other kings, but after what I went through with the [article id="1550066"]raid situation[/article] and what I accomplished in the mixtape game and what I've done since then, I feel I need to be the president. I may not be the last. Right now, I'm in office and I'm standing in front of you moving the mixtape game forward."

Drama's official LP, Gangsta Grillz 2: The Album (The Mixtape President), is in stores May 19. In addition to Snoop, T.I. and Akon, it features guest spots from Lil Jon and Dram's Aphilliates Music Group family, such as La the Darkman and Willie the Kid.