"This kid’s dope. We’ve heard of him before, but now we can appreciate him.’"
As if this is how his fans would talk about him.
It'd be more like "Yes dad love your new album, you should've been shirtless on the cover though!", or they're not even talk about the album and just CAPS LOCK obscenities at him via Twitter.
ANYWAY, I hope that his collab with Pia Mia is good (and please don't let it be Fill Me In because as cute as that is, we've already heard it

)