Sometimes the pressures of life can be unbearable, those who don’t have money believe the only way to be happy is to have it. In the words of Rap Legend Biggie Smalls “Mo’Money, Mo’ problems,” recently it has occurred to me that rappers are more focused on creating a space to improve their mental health the longer there in the game and Big Sean is no different.

Sean, who recently released more details about his upcoming fifth studio album, which includes appearances from Post Malone, A$AP Rocky, Meek Mills, and Diddy to name a few. Spoke with Entertainment Weekly about his life during the two-year hiatus, his new project, and a story of how his mother believes in holistic medicine may have saved his life. 

“I took some time to work on myself and I was able to have a good therapist, good mentors,”said Big Sean “I truly feel like it’ll really shine through on the full album.”

Big Sean in a scene from “Single Again”

Came back full force dropping new song “Single Again” as well as a visual. Big Sean has decided to peel back the curtain and allow fans a more personal experience through his music. Feeling it is necessary to express these certain things in his life he had revealed through his music before. On track entitled ‘Wolves,’ featuring an appearance from Post Malone and A$AP Rocky is a tribute to Sean’s family.

“[That song is about] my family growing up,” Sean tells Entertainment Weekly. “Everybody’s in there, my grandma, my mom, my brother — it’s like they were a pack of wolves and they were the sweetest and strongest. It’s one of my favorites on the album.”

Big Sean and A$AP FERG in a scene from “Bezerk”

In track “Lucky Me,” He addresses the scary moment in his life being diagnosed with heart disease at the age of 19. 

“I couldn’t even walk from one side of the room to the other without getting super-tired,” he tells EW. “I passed out once in the shower and got rushed to the emergency room.”

At this time he was just beginning to release music after signing to Kanye West’s GOOD Music, but Sean’s health issues left him facing a potentially costly and risky surgical procedure. He credited his mother’s holistic view of medicine as a cure. He raps, “Lucky me, I was diagnosed with a heart disease at 19/ Doctors said they had to cut it open put a pacemaker on it to put it back on beat/ ’Til my mother took me to holistic doctors and they prescribed me magnesium for two weeks/ Went back to the regular doctors and they said, ‘Huh? damn, looks like we don’t need to proceed.”

When it comes to artists with longevity in their careers it is amazing to see them evolve, as they experience different events in life their music should reflect that and personal reflection plays a major role in this project and Big Sean hopes it brings fans some measure of self-fulfillment.

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