“I’m Far More Important’ Than Current Music Stars Like Drake and The Weeknd” – Roger Waters Says

English musician, songwriter and song composer Roger Waters, claimed he is ‘far, far, far more important’ than artists like The Weekend and Drake.

In an interview with  The Globe and Mail, The musician, 78 says that he doesn’t listen to much music nowadays, but believes that his musical legacy far outweighs some of today’s music superstars.

“By the way, with all due respect to The Weeknd or Drake or any of them, I am far, far, far more important than any of them will ever be, however many billions of streams they’ve got,” he said. “There is stuff going on here that is fundamentally important to all of our lives.”

It all started after the Globe and Mail reporter told Waters that he’d been assigned to cover a Weeknd concert in Toronto the same night Waters was in town on his This Is Not a Drill arena tour.

The English rocker responded by explaining that he doesn’t actually know who The Weeknd, 32, is.

“I have no idea what or who The Weeknd is, because I don’t listen to much music,” he said. “People have told me he’s a big act. Well, good luck to him. I’ve got nothing against him.”

The Weekend, for what it’s worth, had the most-streamed song of 2020 with “Blinding Lights,” which went on to become Billboard’s longest-charting song in history. He also headlined Super Bowl LV in 2021, and released the No. 1 album Dawn FM in January.

Drake, meanwhile, released his seventh studio album Honestly, Nevermind in June. The “Nice for What” rapper’s record debuted atop the Billboard 200 albums chart, and marked the 35-year-old star’s eleventh No. 1 album.

Waters co-founded Pink Floyd in 1965, and the band is widely considered one of the most influential groups of all time thanks to psychedelic space-rock hits like 1973’s The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall in 1979.

Waters previously held the Guinness World Record for highest-grossing tour as a solo artist for The Wall Live, which toured from 2010 to 2013 and grossed $458,673,798 while The Weekend and Drake have sold more than 250 million records.