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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Honestly, the expense of affecting my soul and changing the person that I was and depleting my body, it shut it off. It creates synthetic dopamine in your brain. So it creates all this dopamine, but your natural dopamine that is responsible for your happiness, for your inspiration or your creativity, who makes you who you are, it shuts off. It shuts it off.
And after a while you're kind of relying on this synthetic dopamine only. And I remember as time went on, I would go in the studio and I feel like I couldn't do anything without it. And that's when I knew I had a real problem with it. So I went cold turkey and that is like, that was probably the second bout of depression in my life that I went through.
That was like, that's when I was like wanting to kill myself. Like, I was just like, my mom was playing all these tricks on me. Right. It didn't matter that I had a big ass house in Beverly Hills. It didn't matter that I had millions of dollars in the account. And it didn't matter because as great as a lot of those things are, they're still separate. I'm wearing a Linkin Park shirt.
Chester, I can't speak for him, God rest his soul, but who would think that like, oh, that... someone who's one of the biggest rock stars in the world in a band, regardless of what they talk about in their music, would do that. Or Kurt Cobain, all these things, right? It's because it's all separate. And I'm not saying that money can't make you happy, by the way.
I don't like when rich people get on camera and be like, money isn't everything. It isn't everything, but it's a lot. It's a resource that is very needed in anything you need to do in this world.
You need it. So it is important. It's very important. I'm not going to sit in here and say it isn't. But it was separate from what I had to deal with at the time. So, yeah, I went cold turkey. And that's when I stopped everything I was doing. And I called my mom, who we weren't on great terms. And she came out and was in my house with me. My mom has always... Shout out my dad, too.
My dad is with me today, too. I love my dad. He's like, man, make sure you shout me out, too. I'm going to shout you out, too. My dad is great. But my mom at that point, in those certain points in my life, just a few key points, she knew what she had a solution to offer me always. And I really appreciate that. It's something I hope to do for my kid and kids today.
And she was like, introduced me to, you know, she was who put me on meditation. She just would always introduce me to certain things. Try this, try this method. And then I started realizing how connected physical, mental, emotional, spiritual are. And I started working out. I started prioritizing myself and started putting me first. Started reconnecting with things I wanted to do.
Started trying new things. Jumping out of planes. I was doing, going to the gun range. Just trying things out that... I was like, hey, that's interesting. Let me try it. And it really helped me reconnect with myself. I started watching anime again. And then I had to take a break from the studio because I couldn't think of anything. And then I finally got back in and was inspired again.
And life is the greatest inspiration. But what I can say is to people who are addicted to Adderall and other drugs that... That synthetic high is very temporary and it's at an expense. And it's different when people who have ADHD who necessarily need it, but there are even other ways to deal with that. And I guarantee you, they will take less of your body.
These things, like when these prescriptions, they mess up your kidneys, your liver. And as simple as that sounds, your liver, your gut, Messing up your gut, your gut is your second brain. It dictates so much more than we've been let on to know. I think that's why Roddy is so into the food because it's not just food. It's so much more than that.
So I know I'm running on and on, but my point is, is that it was very tough, but you can get through it. And there on the other side of it, you come out as like a true champion and you're the source of it. And there's no better drug or high than being high off life. There is no better thing because you're the actual drug. You're the actual source of it.
It's not something you have to take to get to there. It's like, you are it and you'll be, you can soar. You can go higher than ever. Yeah, go higher. Yeah, for real.
My grandma was one of the first people to give me a book of... It was a book about King Solomon. And that book changed my life. And it talks about the strategies of King Solomon, how he ran his business, how he strategized, how King Solomon, he wanted... wisdom. That's what he wanted, and that's why he was granted everything else.
That's why he was the richest man who ever lived, is because that's not what he sought. He didn't seek the power. He sought the wisdom to help people, and God gave him the resources by making him the richest man, right? So anyway... So my grandma, she was one of the first female black captains in World War II. She was one of the first female police officers, a teacher, a counselor.
She was incredible, right? Her and my granddad met in World War II. She was the example of hard work, the example of nothing is something. She lived on the street called Outer Drive, which was a, that's where Marvin Gaye used to live when he lived in Detroit. It's like a real prestigious street. And I can imagine that that was like one of her proudest accomplishments. So I really got love for her.
I think she would read this book and be proud. You know, I think so. And I think that, you know, as a scholar, she would probably be, like, correcting some of my grammar and work and, you know, things like that. But she would be very proud. She was very strict in a lot of ways. And she believed that education, going to college, was the way to a better life. And... I went a different way.
I didn't go to college. Instead, I went to the music. And she knew I had respect for her because I always had good grades. But even when I chose the exact opposite of what she wanted me to do, she supported me wholeheartedly. And I spent all the bonds. She saved up all the money she saved up for college. I spent it all on studio sessions. Yeah.
And I can't imagine how mad or how pissed off that might have made her. But through it all, she supported me and I just appreciate it. She just shows me how much she valued family. And I was able to buy a house for her and my mom before they passed. She actually saw the music pay off. And we used to watch all these Westerns and Jeopardy and all these things. And
I remember she was watching Jeopardy and I was actually a question on Jeopardy. And I talked to her on the phone and she was so like, wow. And it used to tear me apart when things weren't working out and I was spending her money on the studio sessions. And we would have Sunday dinner every Sunday. And I would have to go and sit there and she'd be like, well, what's going on with the music?
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