The life of the Weeknd

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His hit "Blinding Lights" is one of the most record-breaking songs in history. From a poor Toronto street kid to performing the Super Bowl halftime show.   This is the Weeknd.

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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

01:33what

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

02:19that 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 ever

04:27I

04:29I

04:54Mean 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

06:26You

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