Here we go. I have been tasked with the hefty task of talking about the newest Big Sean release. I don't like Big Sean at all, but for some reason, I want to root for the guy. If he was any good at all I'd be all over him, being a Detroit rapper, Eminem and Royce have both been quoted as saying they are Sean fans, so I tried really hard to give him a shot. I listened to his debut, downloaded his Detroit mixtape, and have payed attention to his career, yet I still find myself hating him. The reason being, he has spit about two good verses over the span of his career ( that's a generous two, only one really comes to mind). He really isn't one of those guys who screams, "untapped potential," but rather he has very little talent at all. That isn't to say he can't up and learn how to rap, but as of now, I'd stick him in with the Chief Keef crowd. I am not hating on Big Sean, but I just think as a rapper he lacks the essential abilities necessary to be, well, good. If ant of you readers are Sean fans, feel free to comment and let me know what the buzz is all about, I'm honestly curious to know.
Despite that last paragraph, I haven't heard anything from Sean for a while, so I'm hoping the hype surrounding him finally comes to fruition. I mean, Kanye literally passed him a baton for Christ's sake. If that isn't over hype I simply don't know what is, but for this album specifically, I know very little about the contents. Yeah, I heard Fire on the radio and of course the Control shit that generated so much buzz for the album (the song was not included on the project because Funkmaster Flex was having none of that shit). Other than that, this album was a mystery before it was leaked a week before the official release. This shit was so leaked that Best Buy just started fucking selling it, which I'm not sure is legal, but that doesn't matter now. What does matter is that Big Sean redeems himself from the horse cock that was Finally Famous. This album has to be better than his last, I mean it really can't be that hard. Will Big Sean win back the heart of Detroit? Will he build his fan base beyond miseducated highschool kids? Can his flow get any worse? All these questions and more will be answered by me, right the fuck now. 1. Nothing Is Stopping You That intro reminds me of the episode of South Park where they used old audio snippets to make Chef talk. If you don't get that reference then imagine someone copying and pasting different sound bites to make a sentence. It doesn't even sound like it was done professionally or anything. We get to our main artist (the beat is so generic I don't even feel like I have to mention it) who tells the basic story that we've all hear, about him running to the studio and freestyling for Kanye. The next verse is cool because it is basically the same kind of story only Big Sean listens to a random kid rap. While the stories were cool, the rhyming was sub par. He didn't do anything astounding, but he managed to go a whole song while staying on beat, so that's a good sign. 2. Fire (ft. Miley Cyrus) You've heard this song, and so have I. Miley Cyrus is extremely unnecessary, and might as well have been an uncredited female vocalist. I think she was in this song for the sole purpose of looking hot in the music video. the song as a whole is incredibly cheesy, and a generic radio song. I definitely suggest to Big Sean that he may want to consider learning how to rap better before he starts singing. This is such a pop song that I feel like it hardly meets the criteria for being on this blog. The lyrics are all corny, inspirational, and generic. I may be using the word generic to describe Sean a lot, but that is because I can't think of a term that better fits him. 3. 10 2 10 Is that not racist? If say Eminem had started a song of with, "I woke up working like a black person," people may take that as a racist comment. As far as the beat goes, this shit will bump in the whip if that's what you are in to. The downfall of this track is everything else. Big Sean is rapping like the microphone is across the room, and it comes off as loud and annoying. The lyrics are mostly basic, with the exception of maybe one or two clever lines. The shit that really gets me is the flow. It is like he is a seventh grader impressing his friends on the playground, and using such an elementary flow. It's like he watched a baby Mozart video on how to rap. Simply put his flow is just too damn simple. 4. Toyota Music Do you ever hear a beat and feel like the producer was robbed about four hours before he finished the shit? It's not that this beat sounds incomplete, I just feel like it's so fucking boring that there had to be more planned. This track as a whole is so boring that it hurts. At this point we have already gathered that Sean can't spit, the least he could do is bring some energy to the table. His voice is so annoying, and the flow is so slow, I don't get what the point behind it was. I feel like this song serves no purpose and I just can't imagine that studio session. Did they think Sean killed it, or did they just stop fucking caring? Either way this song is garbage, and I can't imagine someone thinking otherwise. 5. You Don't Know Man this is trash too. Big Sean can't ride a beat to save his life, and it's almost like his producers know that, so they give him awkward ass beats that don't suit his already awkward flow at all. His flow is so horrible that it is astonishing. The lyrics are so corny that I can't take him seriously. The entire second verse is laughable, and the singing Sean does is just as bad. I hate to sound like I'm beating a dead horse, or just criticizing just for the sake of doing so, but I can't think of any positives. 6. Beware (ft. Lil Wayne, & Jhene Aiko) I don't think Sean has a firm grip on reality, because generally when a girm says she hates you, you shouldn't automatically assume she loves you. Maybe she hates you because your voice is the audio equivalent of the plague. And Sean manages to take his corny, stupid flow to a new high at the beginning of the second verse. As far as the rest of his verses, they aren't good lyrically, but I can listen to them without getting mad at my stereo. Lil Wayne comes in and does his thing, which at this point is just fucking ridiculous. His metaphors are at a fourth grade comprehension level, and they dominate his rhyme scheme. As much as I seem to not like it, so far this has to be my favorite track. 7. First Chain (ft. Nas, & Kid Cudi) One thing you can't do as a rapper at Big Seans level is rap with anyone who is even remotely taken seriously. Lil Wayne is one thing, but Nas is an actual rapper. His verse wasn't even good, but the way he flowed over the beat made ut akund like fucking Illmatic in comparison to Big Sean. The real shocker is that Kid Cudi performed pretty well. I usually hate Kid Cudi, but he really did his thing on this track, and really made it his own. Big Sean made the mistake of having the worst verse on his own track. I don't want to hear any argument there either Big Sean was far and away the worst verse on his own fucking track. I guess this served as a decent promo for the other two artists involved. 8. Mona Lisa This is the first beat on the album that I don't hate. I actually think it is pretty dope, and if a rapper who didn't suck were to get on it, this could be a good track, but instead we get this bull cock. I mean what the hell is this? The hook is the corniest shit I have ever heard in a serious song. I mean Lisa moanin? Are yoh fucking joking me? That's like a dirty Laffy Taffy joke. Big Sean is so lame, and feels as though he has to talk about his girls constantly. Dude, you are a rapper, you can get girls whenever you want, how about stringing together two decent bars. If this was a joke I could at least take it for what it's worth, but this is trash. 9. Freaky I usually don't pay skits much attention, but I mean what the hell is this. That doesn't sound like a milf, she sounds like a 1950s African American geandmother. This is disgusting. Who the hell wants to hear an old woman worshipping a dick like that? I am just uncomfortable. 10. Milf (ft. Nicki Minaj, & Juicy J) Now if you can listen to this song and just let it hit you, without thinking critically, it really isn't that bad. Big Sean has some funny bars, and manages not to sound stupid over the beat, which is fun. The best part of this song is really the theme. Everyone wants a MILF, that is just a relateable topic. Juicy J manages to be more funny than horrible, and Nicki Minaj does a great job of playing the MILF character. Before you think I'm praising this song too much, you should know that it is only good compared to what has come before it. If you hear this, and based on my opinion think it'll be good, just know it really isn't. 11. Sierra Lione/ Greedy Hoes This is another song that similar to Mona Lisa, doesn't have a bad beat. I actually think this one is pretty dope, and it is just a damn shame that Sean got on it. This song is hard to even remember while listening to it. Unlike nearly every other song on this album this isn't horrendous, but God knows this shit isn't good. I really couldn't care less about about the song, but the thing you notice hear is the skit. That shit offended me it was so lame. Why the hell would we want to hear you having sex with a woman, and then have a scene of you singing in the shower. Big Sean is the lame ass kid in school that no one likes, but is still the center of attention. Before this I knew Sean was a bad rapper, but know I see that he is also just a terrible ass dude who needs to get over himself. 12. It's Time (ft. Jeezy, & Payroll) This is a very run of the mill trap beat that bangs the speakers out of your car. If that's your shit then you'll at least tolerate this track right off the bat. One thing I hate about this track is how loud Sean is. He is projecting his voice for almost no reason at all. His rapping is a little below average, but a little better than the rest of it I guess. I really have nothing else to add about Sean, so I will proceed to talk about the more pressing matter at hand. It seems as though Young Jeezy has evolved into a Jeezy. This exciting development may have resulted from his increase in age, but either way Jeezy now thinks he is too mature for the young prefix in his name. Unfortunately, this has not led to better mic skills whatsoever. This Payroll guy sounds a lot like Big Sean, so if I never heard from him again, I'd sleep just fine at night. 13. World Ablaze The beat sets the tone immediately, and you know that you are in for a deep track. While normally this isn't my cup of tea, I'm looking for any variety to get me more excited about this album. He tries to get deep, and the subject is very good, as he talks about his girl and his mom getting cancer. If executed well, this could have been a good track. I have been having a bit too much fun at Sean's expense for most of this post, but here I was rooting for Sean. He was trying to do more, and let us in to his world, and the problem was, that he just can't rap. He has a compete lack of talent on the mic. The rhymes are bad, the delivery is bad, he just can't spit. I can tolerate this for what it is, but at this point I don't expect Big Sean to get any better at this. 14. Ashley (ft. Miguel) This is another song with an actual topic, and bless Big Sean's little heart he's still giving it his effort. He speaks on his ex girl, but I just am too tired to even pretend to give a shit about Sean's feelings. You should get it by now, he is bad at rapping, it's not like one track is going to change my opinion on him. Like I said on the last track, at least he tried, but I really don't like this song. The album has gotten so long that I couldn't see anyone actually enjoying it for this long of a time. 15. All Figured Out We have a beat the same as every other one on the album. Sean doesn't sound nearly as annoying on this track. The first bar about being, "figured out" is really clever and I actually like it. This song isn't super lyrical or great, but stacking it up against the rest of the album, it sounds incredible. I think I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is the best track. That isn't saying much coming from me, but I do like this song as far as Big Sean goes. If more of the songs had this amount of effort put into them, then maybe we wouldnt have just been put through that struggle of an album. Rating: 1\5 I'm really trying not to exaggerate how bad this album is, but I think this might even be worse than his debut. There was so little good in this album that I couldn't enjoy any of it. I don't think that there was even a single track that I really liked or am going to revisit in the future. I know this is what Big Sean does for a living, but I think he should either try harder or just quit. The more he puts this garbage out, the fewer fans he will have. He has seen a dramatic decline in sales from his debut to this album, and unless he improves, that trend will continue. There are people who swear on their lives that this album is good, but I don't see it at all. Big Sean has a voice that is nearly unbearable. You don't want to hear it over such a long period of time, which brings me to another point: this shit is too long. It could have been ten to twelve songs, and I don't think I would've hated it quite as much. This is long, annoying, and bad, I do not recommend you listen to this project, unless you just love Big Sean. |