Could be for many reasons but there is one reason that no one have yet to talk about:

There was always a hate and tension towards East- African that came from the Old-Head in the African-American community, Some African-American don't consider East- African as Black and whenever they have the chance to mock them by trying to "invalidate" their blackness, i dont know why they became a trend.

In The Weeknd's case the Old-Head in the Black community were hating on him and after his interview they just confirmed it, they took his quote and blow it out of proportion and use it in a way that benefits their agenda, a fake narrative when he "diss" their untouchable OG Idol, they know what he meant BUT they kept the narrative that benefits their agenda which is to take Abel down at all cost

Thanks op very cool

Idk about the rest if your post but yeah Abel always made "emo" music

y’all gotta stop creating new narratives to tear an artist down every time they reach mass stardom

well that aint his audience op

Seriously though. They hop on an artists wave just as they're blowing up, then when they release the hit album or single, theres a million overrated or exposed threads

Black people found a way to find racism within the black community is there anything yall cant do??

What the f*** are you insinuating

maybe cause he not as great as you want him to be and that’s ok

Black people man we don't know what we like half the time it's just a part of life

old heads have as much taste in music as helen keller

He ran up on Bino talking very unhealthy and now he’s getting his karma. We overcharging niggas for what they did to the cold crush.

This ain't it bro. Delete it

Some comments itt are a mess man

Gain c***privilege

Anything else, Connor?

Tf are you talking about? Where do you live were African American "old heads" are hating on East Africans? Sounds like projection

Also this lol. Theres also between some tension between Africans and african americans but it's never been specifically east Africans

Legit sounds like something personal OP is projecting on to this situation. Let's pretend that this is some sort of ethnic dispute and not the fact that The Weeknd has become the mainstream face of a genre which his music has greatly deviated from and fans of that genre don't like that.

Nah, im not projecting s***, just trying to see the whole situation from a different angle

he has one good album lol

and y’all stan him

We don't care

lmao he just made up some s***

bruh it’s that complicated
black people in amercia see the weeknd as c***music it’s just that simple