What Key Advice Did Beyonce, Jay Z And Kanye All Give Big Sean?
When 'Ye and the Carters talk, we all should listen.
Back when Sean was still putting together his Dark Sky Paradise album last year, Hov and Yeezy gave him a key tip and told him to make “I Don’t F–k With You” the first single.
“Him and Beyoncé and ‘Ye too and No I.D,” Big Sean told hip-hop journalist Elliott Wilson when the two sat down at SXSW for an interview during his viral CRWN series. “I kept getting the signs.”
Originally, Sean dropped his breakup anthem and three other songs on his Soundcloud on the same day last year. At first, he didn’t think the single would catch on, so he bundled it with “Paradise,” “4th Quarter” and “Jit/Juke” and gave it all out for free.
“I was like, ‘Man, I’m not about to put this out as my first song, you crazy,'” Sean said. “I don’t know why I thought that. I think that I was just so deep in making the music that I didn’t sit back and put on the hat of strategizing. I was just more focused on the body of work. I wanted to show people the wave I was on, the new music I was making.”
Turns out, the Carters, Kanye and producer No I.D. were right. The profanity-laced “I Don’t F–k With You” went on to hit #1 on the Billboard rap charts and sell more than one million copies — and Big Sean still doesn’t believe it.
“People chose ‘I Don’t F–k With You,'” he said. “How could that be a radio song?”
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