[4] In 2002, Esmailian's friend and rapper, Belly, was signed to Wassim "Sal" Slaiby's Capital Prophets label (later the CP Music Group).
[2][5] Through the XO and Republic partnership, the Weeknd released several albums in the following years, including Trilogy (2012),[3] Kiss Land (2013),[6] and Beauty Behind the Madness (2015).
[2] Esmailian would go on to be an executive producer on Nav and Metro Boomin's collaborative mixtape, Perfect Timing, alongside the two in July of that year.
[8] Also in June 2018, Esmailian earned songwriting credits on the Carters' Everything is Love album with "Friends", a song in which Nav co-produced since it was an instrumental version of a track left off from Reckless.
In April 2019, Esmailian premiered 21 previously unreleased songs on the fifth episode of the Weeknd's Beats 1 radio show, Memento Mori.
Tracks by Lil Uzi Vert, Young Thug, Travis Scott, Gunna, Nav, 21 Savage, Offset, Gucci Mane, Future, and others were played.
On April 29, 2024, Esmailian's house in Encino was the target of a shooting, perpetrated by three unknown assailants who fired multiple times onto his home striking a security guard.