Big Sean
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488 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jun 2025
Big Sean’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Or you may have someone in your family or you may have someone in your neighborhood or you may have someone. But even say it's someone from across the world that you really respect, you can study a lot of their background. what they have put out in the world. And sometimes that's all you need. There have been times where when you get to know someone fully, you might get let down a little bit.
It's like, because you have all these expectations and you meet them and it's like, wait, what? You know, but I think... There comes again the power of separation. You got to separate that. I know I'm talking a lot, but I do think that strategizing is a real key to happiness. It doesn't have to be a deep thing. Strategizing could just be as simple as writing your intentions down.
strategizing your day. How are you going to approach this? I always like, before I get into a studio session or anything, I always like meditate and I write down what I would like to experience in the session. You know, what am I, what would I like to get done? How would that feel? And I kind of lock onto that feeling before I go and do, do what I got to do.
That's a strategy.
Exactly.
Right?
And sometimes that's exactly what your life needs, is structure. Right.
You know, when you feel like you're all over the place and things aren't happening, sometimes you just need a little bit of structure and strategy to jumpstart it and build the foundation to build on, you know? So that's a perfect analogy.
There have been times where I was very strategic in times where I wasn't. And one of the times in my life where strategy really helped out was just like, I would say securing my first record deal. I always knew I would get a record deal. I would talk about it frequently with my friends in eighth grade.
I would talk about when I sell out the Palace, Auburn Hill, all these things that I ended up doing later. I just knew it was going to happen. I just didn't know how.
and we all know that like you can make plans and God laughs at it, but I really feel like when your heart's in the right place and you have the intentions and you put a little bit of strategy to it, okay, like one of the things that I always wanted to do is like, okay, how can I get on the radio? You know, how can I be, how can I, how can I be on the radio? Then I,
you know, did some homework and my friend, oh, there's a radio show where you can battle rap and end up rapping on the radio, you know, and people, okay, that's a way to get on the radio. So how do I get down there? Okay. Oh, so I need a ride down there. I would like plan out every aspect. I need to make sure I have a ride to get to the radio station to be able to battle rap.
Okay, I need to write a rap for when I get on the radio so I have something to rap over. And so it's like you strategize every aspect of it and it can be fun. It doesn't have to feel like homework. It don't got to feel like schoolwork. None of us want to do more work. In fact, when you strategize, you probably are eliminating a lot of work, a lot more work.
Don't get fooled thinking that you're getting ahead by not doing the work. I'm telling you, when you strategize and plan things out, you're eliminating hours of work. So that is the reason, you know, a lot of us may not have time to read this book. You think like, I don't have time to read a book. I'm telling you, like reading a book, not just my book, but a book that impacts you saves time.
It doesn't take time.
And we get mad that we're not on level 21. And I'm a victim of that. And I think that, you know, I've gone through experience. I'm not a victim. I have done that before. I've experienced that. So I know how frustrating it could be. But Don't let it stress you unless it's you stress. There's distress and then there's you stress. And that you stress can motivate you. It really can.
It could light a fire under you, go through it. Distress can kind of weigh you down. So you have the power to take any aspect, even depression, and let it either weigh you down or let it fuel you. You know what I mean? So yeah, I think that I know it's a lot of people frustrated. I get frustrated still. I'm nowhere near perfect. I'm not talking to you as an expert in any way, shape or form.
I'm literally talking to you as a reflection of you and someone who has gone through these experiences and have just like, and given the game that I've learned, you know, in straight black and white and examples of how I've done it, you know? So, yeah.
All right. So there are times where, yeah, I've let things go. I didn't strategize. There's always things you haven't thought about that you got to come back to later. Like when I had a fell out with some family members, like even my mom, our relationship got tainted for a long time. And it was like, I was not calling her. I was not checking in.
I wasn't doing anything that a son... And now having a son, I really feel the depth of that. You know what I'm saying? And I could have strategized that better. You know what I mean? I could have strategized a lot of things better. And you always have 20-20 in hindsight.
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