The Weekend ziert aktuell das Cover vom Rolling Stone Magazine. In der Titelstory spricht der Sänger aus Kanada u.a. über seinen Drogenkonsum, seinen musikalischen Werdegang und seine Beziehung zu Drake, dem er zahlreiche Songs für „Take Care“ überlassen hat.
Drake gave Tesfaye a big boost when he featured the Weeknd on his double-platinum 2011 album, Take Care. But for Tesfaye, being under the wing of his fellow Torontonian was a mixed blessing: A handful of songs he’d written for House of Balloons ended up on Take Care. As Tesfaye said in a 2013 interview, „I was hungry….I was like, ‚Dude, take anything.'“ Today, he says he has nothing but gratitude for Drake, whom he calls „my closest friend in the industry at that time.“ Still, he says, „I gave up almost half of my album. It’s hard. I will always be thankful — if it wasn’t for the light he shined on me, who knows where I’d be. And everything happens for a reason.“ That said: „You never know what I would say if this success wasn’t in front of me now.“
Laut Wikipedia war The Weeknd an „Shot For Me„, „Cameras„, „Practice“ und „Crew Love„, auf dem er gefeatured ist, beteiligt.
Die ganze Story gibt es hier.
