Eminem shouts out Kendrick Lamar & Logic on “Friday Night Cypher”.
When Big Sean revealed the tracklist for his Detroit 2 album earlier this week, fans were immediately drawn to “Friday Night Cypher,” a track that features verses from himself, Royce 5’9, Kash Doll, Tee Grizzley, Cash Kidd, Payroll Giovanni, 42 Dugg, Boldy James, Drego, Sada Baby, and, of course, Eminem, bringing together Detroit rappers.
A “cypher” is a gathering of rappers who generally take turns freestyling. Over the course of roughly ten minutes, “Friday Night Cypher” goes through seven rhythm changes and brings together rappers with quite distinct approaches. It is significant for bringing together people who had previously disagreed, most notably Eminem, Royce, and Tee Grizzley, as Big Sean highlighted in an interview with Vulture: It’s definitely a moment on the album where the city comes together, even people who are rumored to have misunderstandings and beef.
Big Sean is back with his new star-studded album “Detroit 2” which also has an Eminem feature on “Friday Night Cypher” along with Royce da 5’9″, Tee Grizzly. Kash Doll and more. Eminem spits the longest verse on the 9 and a half minute track. In his verse, Eminem shouts out Kendrick Lamar for one of his special achievements.
Eminem raps:
“I’m quick on the draw
Yeah, so when I pull it, surprise like Kendrick Lamar“.
While Em’s verse was the longest, Big Sean’s verse might have been the best. “I can’t even chill, I get active/Overdoin’ everythin’ my best and worst habit/Sh*t be impossible ’til it happens/I never thought I’d see Kobe go before Magic/That taught me first, no seconds to waste,” Sean spits on the song.
The line is a wordplay on “Pulitzer Prize“, which is an award won by Kendrick Lamar in 2018 for his project “DAMN” to become the first-ever non-classical and non-jazz album to get this award.
Em also references Logic’s recent retirement.
“I don’t think it would be logic to say that I’m retirin.”
“Friday Night Cypher” is the last track on Sean Don’s follow-up to his 2012 mixtape, Detroit. D2 includes “Deep Reverence,” a collaboration with the late Nipsey Hussle, “Wolves,” a collaboration with Post Malone, and “Body Language,” a collaboration with Ty Dolla $ign and Jhene Aiko. This is Big Sean’s sixth studio album, and his first since I Decided and Double or Nothing, which he released alongside Metro Boomin in 2017.
In its first week, Detroit 2 debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 in the United States, with 103,000 album-equivalent units (including 30,000 pure album sales). Sean’s third number-one debut in the United States and his eighth top-ten album. In the week ending September 19, 2020, the album received a total of 93.55 million on-demand US streaming across all of its tracks. The album slid to number seven on the list in its second week, selling an additional 37,000 copies.
Check it out below.
