He went from being a street kid in Toronto to creating record-breaking music … The Weeknd has just released his latest album, "Dawn FM."
This is his story.
This is his story.
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00:00You're singing to people, you know, it's an emotional thing. Yeah
00:05You're not normal if you sing to people, you know, I mean, you're not a normal person. Yeah, so it's it's it's it's nerve-wracking
00:12It's you know, you're putting you're literally putting yourself out to hundreds and thousands of people
00:30I
00:34Felt like I've experienced enough
00:37in my
00:38before my career started in my at that point 21 years of living to
00:43When I say there's a lot I have enough experience to to write the rest of my catalog
00:49I feel mmm and continue whatever story that is and I'm telling
01:00I
01:30I
01:31there was a point where
01:33we're
01:34you know dropping out of school and
01:37You know getting into fights and you know
01:40Not being home forever because I left home, you know, she's just happy. I'm not dead in jail at this point, you know
02:00I
02:14Mean that's the that's the future
02:16To me that's like the that could be the future of
02:21R&B like I really like that
02:30You
02:36Know I came in as you know, my big bro and
02:39You know showed the world, you know what I could do and then you know from then on it's been like
02:45He's always been supporting me and you know, I've always been you know supporting him and behind the scenes
02:52We're still like very close
03:00I
03:15The trilogy was more like wealth was a motive and then you know after kiss land it was like
03:20We finally have the wealth and you know, we're enjoying it
03:30I
03:49Was the fastest song I had written on on
03:52On beauty behind the madness. It was one of the last records. It almost didn't make the record, you know
03:57Wrote that in about maybe 40 minutes recorded it ended up being, you know, one of my biggest record
04:27I
04:29I
04:54Mean email, you know, we've been to clubs together we party together
04:57So there's been a little bit of a relationship there it wasn't just a random email like hey you want to work with us
05:04Yeah, so it was we're already comfortable to work with each other
05:09Yeah, it just came I mean
05:12These guys are like, you know our idols and idols, you know most artists
05:26I
05:56I
06:26I
06:56Oh