The Weeknd

Released: November 5, 2020

Canadian singer The Weeknd's fellow labelmate from XO Records, fellow Canadian rapper and record producer NAV, takes over this episode which is the eleventh episode of Abel's radio show, MEMENTO MORI. NAV introduces the show. This is taking place one hour before he released his commercial mixtape, Emergency Tsunami, which was predominantly produced by Wheezy.

Yak Gotti - "Chrome Heart Wave"

NAV gives a shoutout to everybody listening from Atlanta, Georgia.

Young Thug - "Just How It Is"
NAV - "No Debate" ft. Young Thug
Future & Young Thug - "Drip on Me"

NAV talks about meeting Young Thug, who is an Atlanta native, and describes how good that he felt while receiving great feedback from him.

Future - "Hard to Choose One"
NAV - "My Business" ft. Future
Lil Keed - "Wavy (Remix)" ft. Travis Scott
Lil Keed - "Rockstar" ft. NAV
Lil Duke - "So Different"
NAV - "Free Santana" ft. Lil Duke
Juelz Santana - "Dipset (Santana's Town)" ft. Cam'ron

NAV gives a shoutout to Juelz Santana, who was freed from prison a few months before this episode's release, after being locked up for 27 months on weapons charge. He then pays homage to his longtime and childhood friend Bucksy "Bucks" Luciano, who was locked up at the time of this episode's release, also on weapons charges, with a 4-year sentence.

Travis Scott - "beibs in the trap" ft. NAV
Young Thug - "Hot (Remix)" ft. Gunna & Travis Scott
NAV & Gunna - "Turks" ft. Travis Scott

NAV explains how "Turks" was created, also talking about his frequent collaborative history with Gunna, and then plays their first collaboration right after that.

Gunna - "Car Sick" ft. NAV & Metro Boomin
Lil Baby & Gunna - "Off White VLONE" ft. Lil Durk & NAV
Lil Baby & 42 Dugg - "We Paid"

NAV tells people to be safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, which struck the world as of the release of this episode, killing lots.

Lil Uzi Vert - "Lo Mein"
NAV - "Wanted You" ft. Lil Uzi Vert

NAV plays some songs from 21 Savage and Metro Boomin's collaborative studio album, Savage Mode II. He also hints at another collaborative mixtape with Metro titled Perfect Timing II, a sequel of their previous mixtape Perfect Timing. At the moment that he is talking, Emergency Tsunami is released at that very second.

21 Savage & Metro Boomin - "Runnin"
21 Savage & Metro Boomin - "My Dawg"
NAV & Metro Boomin - "Hit"

NAV gives a shoutout to three members of XO: Abel, Cash (co-manager), and La Mar C. Taylor (creative director), and the rest of the members.

The Weeknd - "Heartless"
Future - "Low Life" ft. The Weeknd

NAV gives a shoutout to DaHeala, his friend and a frequent producer of him.

The Weeknd - "Snowchild"
NAV - "Some Way" ft. The Weeknd
NAV - "Price on My Head" ft. The Weeknd

NAV pays homage to late rapper Pop Smoke, who died from a home invasion earlier in the year, reminiscing on their previous few collaborations.

Pop Smoke - "Mood Swings" ft. Lil Tjay
NAV - "Run It Up" ft. Pop Smoke

NAV is too focused on this episode, being ignorant of the fact that Emergency Tsunami already was released thirty minutes before he was talking and accidentally calls it "Tsunami Warning".

Pop Smoke - "Wolves" ft. NAV
Meek Mill - "We Ball" ft. Young Thug
NAV - "Tap" ft. Meek Mill

NAV gives a shoutout to Larry Jackson, who works in Apple Music, in which this series is based, as well as the rest of the members of Apple Music.

NAV - "Recap" ft. Don Toliver
Internet Money, Gunna & Don Toliver - "Lemonade" ft. NAV

NAV talks about Emergency Tsunami and talks about the making of the mixtape and announces that his upcoming fourth studio album is on the way, and that this is a "predecessor" until the album is released. He plays the full mixtape on this episode.

NAV - "Breaking News Intro"
NAV - "Friends & Family"
NAV & Gunna - "Young Wheezy"
NAV - "Nasty"
NAV & Young Thug - "Repercussions"
NAV - "Vetement Socks"
NAV - "Don't Need Friends" ft. Lil Baby
NAV - "Make It Right Back"
NAV & Lil Keed - "Trains"
NAV - "Do Ya Deed" ft. SahBabii
NAV - "Droppin Tears"
NAV - "Modest"
NAV - "Turn & Twist"
NAV - "Breaking News Outro"

Abel Makkonen Tesfaye (born February 16, 1990 in Scarborough, Ontario), popularly known as The Weeknd, is an R&B/pop/hip-hop singer-songwriter and record producer from Toronto, Canada. He has been referred to as the songbird of his generation and the best musical talent since Michael Jackson throughout his career.

The Weeknd gained widespread critical acclaim for his three mixtapes, House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence, which he later compiled to make a remastered, three-disc album titled Trilogy after signing his record deal with Republic. In 2013, he released Kiss Land, which was considered to be his debut studio album.

In 2014, he dropped “Often,” a remix of Beyonce’s “Drunk In Love,” and “King of the Fall.” The Weeknd released two songs in collaboration with the film Fifty Shades of Grey, with “Earned It” becoming his solo breakout hit.

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