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The Weeknd: The Billboard Cover Shoot

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The Weeknd on Fame

“The pop-star life is a new challenge,” Abel Tesfaye aka The Weeknd admits to Billboard.

Read the Cover Story: The Weeknd on Why 'Nobody Can Stop Me But Myself'

 

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The Weeknd on Taylor Swift

“When she introduced me and the whole stadium screamed their lungs out, it kind of threw me off," Tesfaye says about being featured him as a guest at Taylor Swift's New Jersey tour stop in July. "I did not expect that reaction.”

Read the Cover Story: The Weeknd on Why 'Nobody Can Stop Me But Myself'

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The Weeknd on His Mom

When Tesfaye dropped out of high school to move to downtown Toronto to make music, he became estranged from his Ethiopian-Canadian single mother. But they've since reconnected. “I couldn’t face her until I made something out of myself,” he says. “I couldn’t go back home as a nobody.”

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The Weeknd on His Relationship With Himself

“I still loosen up, but I have much more control. I can go overboard, but nobody can stop me but myself," he explains. "Me and myself have a better relationship now than we did back then.” 

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