Where would Partynextdoor career be if he never signed with OVO?

[xCivicx]

he did a lot to keep going but getting your first 10 to 50K fans given to you by a cosign is putting on by any definition

The Trilogy of mixtapes came out before Take Care. That's how I first learned about the weeknd

 

[blankstairz]

It helped. Gave him the exposure.

Not everybody is The Weekend, someone who is a star out in front and behind the scenes.

Sometimes one's talent is just creating behind the scenes and not much more.

 

[Code]

Are there people that think he would be on another tier of star level if he signed with Def Jam, Interscope, universal or somewhere else?

Or did he reach a level he couldn't obtain without OVO?

lol

 

[CrimsonTider]

you have to take that 2013 Drake deal every time

he had just put The Weeknd on and had no one next to him that's a high percentage shot at stardom

the way it worked out he's as famous as a Tiller or Jeremih but doesn't do their numbers but who knows why that is, maybe he doesn't get the promo budgets they do

His music doesn't have the appeal of their music.

lol

what does this have to do with anything and he wrote "Work"

 

[Broke Wave]

I think he’s been held back a little but he’s still young. He’s being held back by giving his RnB Carribean swaggy joints to drake and other artists for the greater good but his time at the front of the line is coming IMO

 

[CrimsonTider]

I think he’s been held back a little but he’s still young. He’s being held back by giving his RnB Carribean swaggy joints to drake and other artists for the greater good but his time at the front of the line is coming IMO

I think he missed his chance with PnD3. Come and See me was a bop and then he dropped a dud.

I don't think PnD has wide appeal. I don't know if his voice, song structure or what but he's a niche artist

 

[MVike28]

I think he’s been held back a little but he’s still young. He’s being held back by giving his RnB Carribean swaggy joints to drake and other artists for the greater good but his time at the front of the line is coming IMO

Agreed with everything except the bolded

This nikka north of 30

 

[Code]

what does this have to do with anything and he wrote "Work"

he wants to be a singer and kanye just did more for him in 1 month than 5 years at OVO ever did

 

[5n0man]

he did a lot to keep going but getting your first 10 to 50K fans given to you by a cosign is putting on by any definition

Didnt he take most of the weeknds first album for take care?

I remember the weeknd being vocal about how drake took his best songs for that album and didn't do much to help in return.

Weeknd helped drake more than drake helped weeknd imo.

 

[BigMan]

Hed be another underpaid writer living in Atlanta or Miami

 

[CrimsonTider]

Didnt he take most of the weeknds first album for take care?

I remember the weeknd being vocal about how drake took his best songs for that album and didn't do much to help in return.

Weeknd helped drake more than drake helped weeknd imo.

people on this site just create their own narratives huh

 

[5n0man]

people on this site just create their own narratives huh

He literally said in an interview with rolling stones that he gave up half his album for take care and that drake didnt even fukk with him like that, his manager was the one who pushed his music.

 

[CrimsonTider]

He literally said in an interview with rolling stones that he gave up half his album for take care and that drake didnt even fukk with him like that, his manager was the one who pushed his music.

They were cool and Working together and Weeknd gave Drake a couple of songs because his album was in the process of being made. They fell out cause Weeknd took the bag instead of Waiting on the OVO imprint to launch

 

[Kilgore Trout]

He would be Jacques status

 

[TheRtist]

Do you think he was held back by OVO?

You're right, He never made a project better than PND1

most artists never top their debut

Has Jay topped Reasonable Doubt has J. Cole topped Friday Night Lights?

Has Nas topped Illmatic? Have the Fugees topped Blunted On Reality?

sucks that PND1 has to be classified like a mixtape.