yeah, majority of pop and pop/rap/R&B have writing rooms and use reference tracks
they all do this
Weeknd does a lot of his own, but his biggest hits, were all Max Martin helmed and label gifted. Can't Feel My Face, and In The Night
it's like a writers room on TV shows or movies, they crowd test material, that's why pop songs are so adept at tapping into the social discourse or moment, whether references to very current slang or emoji's, or whatever, because they workshop this stuff, so it fits a universal demographic, but somehow feels
organic.
Want to say that Latto song the new one, has a few bars in there like that.