He became The Weeknd at 17, after dropping out of school and leaving home. Recently, he revealed he wanted to "kill the Weeknd" and use his birth name, Abel Tesfaye.
Creator and star of the new show "The Idol," presented at the Cannes Film Festival, this is his story.
Creator and star of the new show "The Idol," presented at the Cannes Film Festival, this is his story.
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00:00I
00:04Felt like I've experienced enough
00:06In my didn't before my career started in my at that point 21 years of living
00:12To when I say this a lot
00:14I have enough experience to to write the rest of my catalog I feel mmm and continue whatever story that is and I'm telling
00:30I
00:42Was a point where
00:44were
00:45you know dropping out of school and
00:48You know getting into fights, and you know
00:51Not being home forever because I left home. You know she's just happy. I'm not dead in jail at this point. You know
01:00I
01:13Could be the future of R&B like I really like that record
01:24You know I came in as you know my big bro, and you know showed the world
01:30You know what I could do, and then you know from then on it's been like he's always been supporting me
01:35And you know I've always been you know supporting him
01:49The trilogy was more like wealth was a motive, and then you know after kiss land it was like
01:55We finally have the wealth and you know we're enjoying it
02:00I
02:19Was the fastest song I had written on on
02:22On beauty behind the madness was one of the last records it almost didn't make the record you know
02:26Wrote that in about maybe 40 minutes recorded it ended up being you know one of my biggest record ever yeah
02:56I
03:03Mean email you know we've been to clubs together we party together
03:06So 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
03:13Yeah, so it was we're already comfortable to work with each other these guys are like you know our idols and idols
03:19So you know most artists?
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