Hip Hop Block reviews "U Know Big Sean" mixtape
Donald Vincent
Issue date: 9/1/09 Section: Arts & Society
Sean Anderson, better known as Big Sean, is finally famous and is bringing the lyrical aspect back into rapping with his witty wordplay and promising punch lines. With a swagger that some might identify with a younger, immature Kanye West, Big Sean is not your average rapper from Detroit.
Not only is he not your average Internet-buzzed rapper, but he is also a GOOD (Getting Out Our Dreams) rapper.
GOOD Music is a music label started by none other than Kanye himself. Kanye is proving himself as the head honcho in the hip-hop scene as a protégé of the self-proclaimed "best rapper alive," Jay-Z.
No wonder why Kanye has created a label and surrounded himself with some of the more talented young artists in the game, including John Legend, Common, Kid Cudi and Mr. Hudson.
Because of the names associated with great (GOOD) music, Big Sean could always make an album just by name-dropping, or Kanye could co-sign here and there on a song or two and he'd be an average rapper.
But Big Sean is so much more than that.
Sean, carrying the weight of Detroit on his shoulders, gained a reputation with his hometown's local radio station, 102.7 FM, by winning rap battles weekly, defeating opponents using an unmitigated flow and a unique delivery.
At the age of 21, how did he do it so early?
As Mr. West left a Detroit radio station after an interview, Big Sean, using his resources, was able to freestyle - that is, deliver a rap that's not pre-written - for Kanye. After sending song after song and attending meetings after meeting, Big Sean was signed two years later in 2007.
In the opening scene of this cinematic, rap mixed tape, Big Sean asks, "Do I really need an intro?" After making it through the first song on the mixed tape, anybody can answer the question Sean poses. The answer is "No, Sir Sean, you definitely don't need an intro."
With the producer for this song signed by Kanye as well, WrighTrax takes us into the perils of anticipation. The sounds of the beat take time to please the aural tendencies of the ears, but when the beat finally drops, we are graced by a unique voice.
Not only is he not your average Internet-buzzed rapper, but he is also a GOOD (Getting Out Our Dreams) rapper.
GOOD Music is a music label started by none other than Kanye himself. Kanye is proving himself as the head honcho in the hip-hop scene as a protégé of the self-proclaimed "best rapper alive," Jay-Z.
No wonder why Kanye has created a label and surrounded himself with some of the more talented young artists in the game, including John Legend, Common, Kid Cudi and Mr. Hudson.
Because of the names associated with great (GOOD) music, Big Sean could always make an album just by name-dropping, or Kanye could co-sign here and there on a song or two and he'd be an average rapper.
But Big Sean is so much more than that.
Sean, carrying the weight of Detroit on his shoulders, gained a reputation with his hometown's local radio station, 102.7 FM, by winning rap battles weekly, defeating opponents using an unmitigated flow and a unique delivery.
At the age of 21, how did he do it so early?
As Mr. West left a Detroit radio station after an interview, Big Sean, using his resources, was able to freestyle - that is, deliver a rap that's not pre-written - for Kanye. After sending song after song and attending meetings after meeting, Big Sean was signed two years later in 2007.
In the opening scene of this cinematic, rap mixed tape, Big Sean asks, "Do I really need an intro?" After making it through the first song on the mixed tape, anybody can answer the question Sean poses. The answer is "No, Sir Sean, you definitely don't need an intro."
With the producer for this song signed by Kanye as well, WrighTrax takes us into the perils of anticipation. The sounds of the beat take time to please the aural tendencies of the ears, but when the beat finally drops, we are graced by a unique voice.
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