You mean cause Drake suddenly got interested in something totally on his own accord and not because Drake's manager told him to? 😆

Drake the sitcom actor turned rapper? Pretty sure there is no comparison there.

..man... Drake is responsible for The Weeknd's success. He's the one who "found him." How do you call me ignorant of the Weeknd success story when literally everyone but you knows at least that much.

I knew who the weeknd was before I knew who drake was. House Of Balloons is a masterpiece.

I love the Weeknd, I'm not discounting his talent in any way, I'm just saying what people listen to is at least 90% systematically pushed onto them.

I could be wrong, but from what I read, Drake was a key part of his rise in Toronto

Maybe, I don't doubt it too much. I know that billboards are largely supply-created and -pushed. There are studies showing that even if you hate a song the first time you hear it, you like it much more after you've heard it 5 times.

Just looking at the timeline quickly, Drake took off maybe just slightly before The Weeknd? Around the same time, within a year? While I can imagine that The Weeknd got a rise from a Drake endorsement, perhaps also be aware that portraying Drake as a kingmaker is itself a form of advertisement, and there is potential there for self-aggrandizement.

This post was edited by kusotarre1 on Dec 11 2022 11:55pm

The Weeknd was an underground god before the trilogy was even thought of. He was up in Canada putting his albums on streaming services with no label and he was already famous in the US Deep South.

He wouldn’t have had 400,000,000 hits without being pushed but he was already extremely successful for what he was doing on his own.

Drake took off when they gave him lead on that Eminem/Drake/Lil Wayne/whoever else was in it song.. called.. forever. I think it was forever. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. It wasn't for 5yrs or so after that when Weeknd went mainstream.

I didn't say Drake was a kingmaker man, I said Drake's manager told Drake to do it.. they're all just pawns.

who gave the man the idea for the making of it? i do think artists expose conartistry well. devils in the details.