Big Sean talks about Eminem’s Verse on his new album “I Decided”.
Last month, Big Sean released his new album ‘I Decided‘ which featured Eminem on the track titled ‘No Favors‘ which created quite a controversy after some of the name drops by Shady in his verse. Ann Coulter, Fergie, and Jamie Lee Curtis responded to the track after the release as Eminem attacked them in a brutal manner in his lyrics. Some Canadian Based Women’s Rights Group also demanded Eminem and Big Sean be arrested due to some rape mention in the track.
Eminem, the hip-hop legend, has returned with a new attack on US President Donald Trump, contributing a furious verse to Big Sean’s new album. Eminem resurfaced weeks before the November 8 election with a furious, eight-minute freestyle rap against the billionaire Republican, and the lyrics are his latest political involvement.
Sean’s previous solo effort was in 2015 when he released “Dark Sky Paradise“, a critically lauded album that debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in March 2015. “Blessings” and “Play No Games” were among the project’s many hits. For their collaboration work Twenty88, Sean formed a new partnership with his fiancée, singer Jhene Aiko, in 2016. He went unnoticed for several months before releasing a spate of songs in October, including “Bounce Back” and “No More Interviews.”
Big Sean continues to make the rounds in the media as fans digest his I Decided. album. During a recent appearance on Big Boy’s Neighborhood on Real 92.3, he described how he persuaded Eminem to appear on “No Favors.” “I hit him up at a point where the album was almost done,” he says. “I called Paul Rosenberg, I called Royce Da 5’9. I called Em, I called all them hitting them up at the same time ’cause I wanted it. I sent them the song. Everybody hit me back like, ‘This song is fire.’ I talked to Eminem on the phone. I’m talking to Em on the phone. He’s like ‘This song’s crazy.’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, let’s get it.’ He’s like, ‘I don’t know if I got time to get it done.’ He’s working on his stuff. I was like aw man. He was like, ‘I really wanna do it. So I’ma try to get it done, I’ma try to get it done, but I don’t know.’ I did a song for him, so he can’t just say no. He had to be like oh yeah. Then, like two and a half weeks later or something like that, it just popped up in an email it was crazy.”
Now after a month, Big Sean talked about the Eminem verse in his new Interview with GIGWISE.
Interviewer: The response to Eminem’s verse on ‘No Favors’ has been very hot and cold. It’s like Marmite, you either love it or hate it. Why do you think that is?
Big Sean: I don’t know, I thought the verse was super fire. Everybody has an opinion. I didn’t do it to try and please peoples I did it because I thought it was hard and because I liked it. Plus I think he said some stuff that was really necessary to say and things that I didn’t necessarily get across on the song that I felt added to it. See that’s my point of doing features, I only recruit for features when I feel like they’re going to add to the song, or they’re going to do something that I’m not. That’s exactly what Eminem did. I mean Eminem is Eminem, man. I feel like he brought a crazy verse to that song. I feel honoured.
Interviewer: Did you have second thoughts about featuring the verse as it doesn’t relate to what you’re talking about on the rest of the record?
Big Sean: Hell no I didn’t have no second thoughts, I thought it was super tight. I thought it was hard man and I think it fir the song pretty good. I thought it was a moment withing the song where you listen in, grab yourself some popcorn and you’re just like, “What? He said what? He said this?”.
Big Sean also discusses Kanye West’s impact on I Decided. For example, in the track “I Owe,” Kanye suggested using one of Sean’s verse phrases as the hook.
Check out the full interview on GIGWISE here.
