It started off so innocently. While chatting with Variety, The Weeknd said that his 2011 mixtape House of Balloons was a gamechanger, so much that even Usher channeled this new brand of dark, sophisticated R&B on his song “Climax.” Many fans went a bit overboard and said that The Weeknd (Abel Tesfaye, 30) was pulling a “Soulja Boy accuses Drake of ‘stealing my whole f-cking flow’ ” move.
In response to the allegations of shade, Abel defended himself by posting a tweet from Diplo — the man who produced “Climax” — to his Instagram Story on Thursday (Apr.
9). “The production on ‘Climax’ lends itself to House of Balloon era The Weeknd.” “When I heard those early records, they blew my mind – soulful in their silences, and a spacey iconic voice
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