In a recent interview with Vice, Jeremy Rose (a.k.a. Zodiac) details how ex-American Apparel employee Abel Tesfaye failed to give him credit for producing the first three breakout tracks from the House Of Balloons mixtape. “What You Need,” “Loft Music” and “The Morning (Original Version)” are all tracks that Rose produced, but he received no accolades when these songs hit it big via Drake, Pitchfork and The New York Times.

Rose goes as far as suggesting that he came up with the overall aesthetic for the project, as well as the actual name, and that The Weeknd was initially supposed to be a group as opposed to a solo project.

When you look at Abel’s pre-Weeknd output, it’s not hard to imagine that Rose steered him in a different direction with The Weeknd. His first project (called The Noise) is more of a traditional R&B/pop project:

Contrarily, Jeremy “Zodiac” Rose produced an E.P. for San Francisco hip-hop duo The Jealous Guys, which has a pretty similar musical aesthetic to the Weeknd:

Read the full interview at Vice. Regardless of where you stand on Rose’s claim, you can expect that every R&B singer in North America is now hitting him up for beats.