“ALL IT SHOULD BE ABOUT IS HOW YOU FEEL”
"Tout ce qui compte, c'est ce que l'on ressent"
Sean Michael Leonard Anderson, alias Big Sean, est le protégé de Kanye West. Il a également assuré la première partie de certains concerts de la tournée mondiale de Rihanna l’année dernière. Découvrez dans cet entretien les coulisses d’I decided, le quatrième album studio de ce rappeur originaire de Détroit.
NEW YORK — Big Sean is certainly living up to his name. Nearly two years after he scored his first No. 1 album in “Dark Sky Paradise,” the Detroit rapper (real name: Sean Anderson) just notched his highest-charting solo song with “Bounce Back,” which sits at No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The swaggering, motivational hit is the first single off Sean’s latest, “I Decided.” which boasts a star-studded guest list including Eminem,
Migos, Jeremih and Twenty88 (his duo with R&B singer Jhené Aiko).
2.Q: Why the title “I Decided.”? A: “I Decided.” is definitive. I put a period at the end to emphasize that my whole life changed when I decided that all the decisions I’ve made — right or wrong — are the reasons I’m in the place I’m at. The story of the album is basically going through your whole life and feeling like you dropped the ball when it came to family, to love, to fulfilling your dreams. Then you somehow get a chance to get it all right and it goes back to current-day me, but I’ve got the wisdom of my older self. How I came up with that concept is that’s how I really feel. And I feel like in 2017, with all the craziness we’ve got now, that’s the way that people should be thinking. Hopefully it gives some inspiration or wisdom.
3.Q: Coming off the critical and commercial success of “Dark Sky Paradise,” how’d that affect the direction you wanted to take on “I Decided.”? A: “Dark Sky Paradise” was definitely a blueprint for my next few albums: how I made them and just the process. Cutting all the extra-ness out, as far as people telling me what I should and shouldn’t do. All it should be about is how you feel and how
I’ve got the wisdom of my older self.