10/16/2023 0 Comments Doja cat blade runner![]() “Remember, I’m older than him, so I’ve always looked at him as a younger brother. Yet “he’s the same fucking guy that he was when I met him, can you believe it?” Slaiby says of his client and friend. The Weeknd has since become one of the world’s biggest acts - next set to headline the biggest stage for a musician, the Super Bowl halftime show. industry’s radar when The Weeknd’s debut mixtape, “House of Balloons,” blew up in 2011 - and led to a lucrative joint-venture with Republic - the experience he’d gained in Canada enabled him to grow with the artist, whose career has bounded forward every year. “But when we started working with Abel, we cracked that code - and crashed through the door!” “My experience was very focused on the Canadian market, and at the time it was difficult to be taken seriously in the U.S.,” Slaiby says. He sold the company and shifted his focus to management shortly before he met an ambitious 19-year-old musician named Abel Tesfaye, who called himself The Weeknd. Within six years the company they formed, CP Music Group, had become the dominant independent hip-hop and R&B label in Canada, and scored Belly his first gold record and Juno Award (the country’s Grammy equivalent). “At first I was like, ‘Uhh, what do I do?’ But I guess he saw that I was very determined and serious, even though we were very young.” “I got into the business because of him saying, ‘Why don’t you manage us?’” Slaiby recalls. Slaiby worked in restaurants and other odd jobs while attending college, and began his music industry career after seeing a young fellow immigrant freestyle rapping on an Ottawa street - Ahmad Balshe, aka Belly, who remains a key member of the Salxco “family” to this day. Slaiby with Brandy (center) and Doja Cat (right)
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