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The Weeknd and Usher “Climax” Debacle, Summarized

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The Weeknd was featured on the latest cover of Variety following the recent release of his new album, After Hours. In the interview with Variety’s Jem Aswad published yesterday (April 8), the singer talks about the new album at length.

Amid all the relatively typical album-cycle conversation about influences and what individual songs are about, a small exchange about fellow pop star Usher has sparked some social media chatter.

It appears as the Weeknd discusses Usher’s Diplo-produced hit “Climax” from 2012, which came out a few months after the Weeknd first found real acclaim with his Trilogy mixtapes.

Here’s the quote from the Variety interview: The day the interview was published, an internet debate brewed about whether the Usher song was

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