It’s been long rumored that there has been bad blood between Drake and The Weeknd after the XO boss decided not to sign to Drizzy’s OVO label. Those same rumors were further fueled when The Weeknd admitted that he’d given Drake nearly half his album to make his album Take Care what it was.
In an interview with Zane Lowe on Beats 1 Radio, The Weeknd says that he’s appreciative of the opportunity Drake afforded him and he’s open to the idea of the two creating a joint album together a la Kanye and Jay Z’s Watch the Throne.
“He came in as my big bro and showed the world what I could do,” the Starboy said. “From then on, he’s always been supporting me and I’ve always been supporting him. Behind the scenes, we’re still very close but it’s cool that the world can see us doing our own thing. OVOXO will always be there.”
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“It’s cool to have both monsters work together as opposed to one monster and one little guy coming in,” he continued. “It’s dope, like Kanye and Jay Z, when [Watch the Throne] happened.”
Drake showed his support for The Weeknd’s third studio album Starboytoday (November 25), congratulating his fellow Toronto brother and his XO crew.
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“He’s the homie,” the 26-year-old vocalist further says in the interview with Beats 1. “At the end of the day, that’s my guy. Oliver, 40, all of Toronto. There wouldn’t be any new artists from there if it wasn’t for Drake making Toronto cool because it wasn’t cool. Let’s be honest. Canada wasn’t ever cool.”
