At 3:46 a.m. on December 12, 2010, a post titled “Introducing The Weeknd” appeared on the blog of Toronto’s most famous rapper, Drake. Two songs—“What You Need” and “The Morning”—revealed a new R&B singer to the world and kick-started a rabid following. The Weeknd’s free nine-song release House of Balloons garnered 200,000 downloads in its first three weeks, and his videos have been watched on YouTube hundreds of thousands of times. It’s been a rapid rise, like that of his mentor, Drake, whose 2010 full-length debut Thank Me Later went platinum in the U.S. just over a month after its release. This is Toronto’s hip-hop moment, and the city’s steadfast identity as safe, stable and middle-class—once the basis of its lack of rap credibility—is the reason.
Our Anupa jots down a couple of really good words for Toronto Life.
Title: I'm Single feat. DrakeArtist: Lil Wayne70 plays
Literally searched high and low through the web last night for a link to Weezy’s new offering, I Am Not a Human Being. Whatever I managed to scrape together wasn’t great quality, let alone all the songs, but further searching directed me to a better quality file.
I don’t know how I feel about this EP, and I think I need to give it a few more listens, but this song here is great.
I’ve heard this track before, but I never managed to get a hold of it for my pod of music.
