Similar to the likes of Chris Brown (no offense). The music was very generic, “poppy” sounding R&B. The Noise EP is essentially a collection of loose tracks during a time that Abel and a few producers were making music under the name The Noise which were ultimately never released. You might see a lot of youtube comments on his videos claiming something like “I’ve been riding with Abel since The Noise.” Well those people are full of shit because the songs from this era leaked months after The Weeknd’s House of Balloons and Thursday mixtapes had already been released. At that time Abel was writing R&B songs for other artists trying to make a library of material and the duo were working on some mixtape tracks, a first single was slated for release early 2009.

They performed their first song for, Godzilla, the first track they had ever done together, After loving their personality and music he introduced them to his upcoming Toronto producer Kashif Majeed better known as Kid Klassic who was working at the time with a female R&B/POP group called Mynt. The two had great chemistry performing together at parties & decided to make songs together. Below is a video of Bulleez n Nerdz in the studio and a soundcloud link to one of the songs released by the duo.īulleez n Nerdz in the studio with Majes-D Most of which takes a lot of digging on the internet to find bad quality videos of. The two released a handful of songs together. However, he had few projects before the release of his legendary Trilogy he released as The Weeknd.Ībel began his musical endeavors under the stage name “Kin Kane” when he joined forces with another up coming rapper from Scarborough named Jesse Ray.

Him and his best friend Lamar (who is still one of the pivotal members of the XO movement) dropped out of high school when they were both 17 and Abel began pursuing music full time. It happened over 7 years during which Abel worked on a lot of different music with a lot of different people.Ībel Tesfaye was born in 1990 in Scarborough, Ontario.

The Weeknd didn’t become the pop-sensation he is today over night. I see a lot of people saying they only know The Weeknd for his stuff on the radio and haven’t dug any deeper. Behind The Balloons: An In Depth Look Into The Weeknd’s Rise To Stardom & Sudden Fame Preface

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