The Weeknd

And the reason why I say that is because Family Matters, to me, is one of the greatest hip-hop diss tracks of all time.

And then you come to realize that everybody and they mama gives Kendrick the win because of what he did on Not Like Us, which if you realize the situation between multiple acts coming at Drake, objectively speaking, whether it's The Weeknd, whether it's, um...

Who's the other one? I'm tripping.

Oh, yeah, whether it's Metro, whether it's Future, them putting out the double album that literally started the beef, whether it's Kendrick, whether it's, uh, Rick Ross, the whole white boy thing came from Rick Ross.

But the biggest, one of the biggest roadblocks with Evan is...

He needs to form a sound that doesn't sound like The Weeknd.

And it's so jarring.

And I think I will edit my reaction because I like some of the things I said in there.

I said, what? And that started with the most potential.

But then he chose the most cliche chord progression that just lacked any sort of inspiration.

But the thing about sounding like The Weeknd is a similar issue that I have with Lara and sounding like Ariana Grande.

If I wanted to listen to those people with Ariana, I'd listen to stuff from five years ago.

The true meaning of this is to move ahead and sound completely natural.

I don't need Drake and The Weeknd with auto-tune or correction features.

Listeners endlessly prove they are more forgiving about unperfected audio versus a boring conversation.

The listener remembers voices and moments that were created by sounds in the background, things that took them completely away from the subject.

So do you guys know who's from Stratford?

Is that The Weeknd?

Nope.

No. Justin Bieber.

I'd imagine that this was one of the easiest scams to pull off, and unfortunately, there's going to be plenty more like it.

An AI version of Drake and an AI version of The Weeknd collaborated in a fake song called Heart on My Sleeve, and it was doing the rounds on social media and Spotify, gaining hundreds of thousands of streams on Spotify alone.

Universal Music caught wind of this and pulled it down from streaming services.

In a statement, they stated that they wanted to ban the technology and called it a fraud.

That is called I Knew on the Introducing Mixtape on Six Music.

A special one from Lemfrek, that one, reminds me a bit in parts of The Weeknd.

Yeah, sounding really, really good.

And it's also, I think, sort of got a bit of a coming of age kind of feel to it as well.

He makes music that's kind of hard to put into one genre.

In a 2020 profile from Pitchfork, Ryan Dunbell writes, on some of his songs, he sounds like The Weeknd covering Elliot Smith.

Wow.

Even though I'm glad I met you, I regret the bitter taste not having you.

But was that really the end of their love story? You see, just when it seemed like they were finally done, Justin and Selena shocked everyone by reconnecting in late 2017.

After Selena's high-profile breakup with The Weeknd, she and Justin were spotted attending church service, riding bikes together, and looking happier than ever.

Of course, a lot of Jelena fans held onto the hope that maybe, this time, it would work out.

But sadly, by March of 2018, the inevitable happened.

And just to make it clearer, he uploaded this photo of an owl on Instagram accompanied with a song I Hate You by none other than SZA.

But funny enough, Drake isn't the only Canadian icon that Justin beefed with.

Back in 2016, he also butt heads with none other than The Weeknd.

As I mentioned earlier, once Selena had one of their many breakups, The Weeknd swooped in and made a move for Selena's heart.

And that's the question when you're talking about having a split season, climbing when you're young and not feeling it.

But you know what, we'll do that and it'll be Bon Jovi, it'll be The Weeknd and it'll be Katie Taylor, Trader Park, Croke and if that's the case, it'll be a soccer match between Leeds and Man United.

I don't know, I don't know how to explain it but you know what, no, no, no, this is something that's really great and it's great and blah, blah, blah, right.

And then I asked the figure, my dear, how long is this going to last, my dear? And I'm like, what? How long is it going to last until the end of the season and so on? And if you look at the story I'm going to tell you, I think it's important to know that the people who did it were the same people as the people who did it.