Big Sean has returned with a new album, titled Better Me Than You. The Detroit rapper’s sixth solo studio album features NASAAN, DJ Premier, The Alchemist, Gunna, Bryson Tiller, Kodak Black, Charlie Wilson, Eryn Allen Kane, Larry June, Cash Cobain, Ellie Goulding, Syd, Teyana Taylor and Thundercat. It marks his first solo studio project in 4 years, since 2020’s Detroit 2 album, which has since been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
To celebrate the release, Big Sean has also unleashed a music video for the song titled “Who You Are (Superstar).” The video clip stars Amine, Dylan Patel, Jazz Cartier, Mark Phillips, and Taye Diggs. On Friday, August 30th, a conversation with Big Sean at the Grammy Museum brings the rapper to the Clive Davis Theater to discuss the new release, his creative process, and much more.
Eminem, who has recently collaborated with Big Sean on “Tobey” alongside Detroit youngster BabyTron from The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grace) album, showed support to Sean Don’s latest project by posting the link of “Better Me Than You” on his Instagram story with the caption: “Big Sean album out now! Check it out!”
Check the screenshot of the Eminem’s Instagram story and Big Sean’s new album below:
Big Sean continues to show support to Eminem as he always does. Slim Shady has recently released the music video of “Somebody Save Me,” featuring Jelly Roll, the third single from his 12th solo studio album, The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grace).
Eminem posted a short clip of the video on Instagram with the caption: “This is my song from me to you…” #SomebodySaveMe video OUT NOW! Link in bio.” Under the comment section, his brother Nathan Kane Mathers commented: “Nailed it Beautifully done Big Bro! We love you.”
Big Sean also commented: “Let’s go” with fire emojis. In the previous post, Jelly Roll commented: “Absolutely unbelievable.” Em’s daughter also recently talked about “Somebody Save Me,” “Temporary” and “Mockingbird” in the latest episode of her Just A Little Shady podcast, which you can check out here.
Detroit’s own Big Sean released an introspective new song. “On Up” reflects on the lessons of fatherhood and Sean’s desire to instill a sense of resilience in him: “I look into my son’s eyes and still see his innocence/I see my inner child in him and still the remnants.” The song is dedicated to his son, Noah Hasani, and samples Jodeci’s “Get On Up.” The music video, directed by the child’s godfather Lawrence Lamont, is filmed from the point of view of the baby. The video follows a day in the child’s life and features parents Big Sean and Jhené Aiko.
“On Up” is the 3rd single from Sean’s sixth solo studio album titled Better Me Than You. The song follows the comeback single “Precision” and “Yes,” which debuted on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. The album is is set to be released on August 9, 2024 under Def Jam Recordings. In the music video of “On UP,” Big Sean is rocking an Eminem t-shirt, which was sold exclusively on Slim Shady’ws website.
Big Sean also shared another glimpse into the introspective delivery that appears to be Better Me Than You earlier this week. In another trailer, he goes into depth on the album’s title. “It’s usually ‘better you than me,’ but when you’re that one that has to step up and endure it all, endure the extras … When you gotta be that one, you realize you were only put there because you can handle it because that’s the way God made it for you. So you realize, ‘alright, better me than you’ because I’m the one who can do it.”
Eminem recently released a new song with Big Sean and Babytron, titled “Tobey,” from his upcoming 12th solo studio album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grace).
A visual supplement for “Tobey” directed by Cole Bennett was supposed to drop on Friday (July 5, 2024). When it failed to manifest as promised, the Detroit legend took to social media that same day to share an update on the video and instead shared a snippet that alludes to the imagery of The Marshall Mathers LP from 2000.
“The Tobey video is not completed,” Em wrote. “new date Monday 7/8. Here’s a peek in the meantime!!! Sorry 4 the delay.” Now the full music video is finally out. You can watch the video below:
Eminem connects THREE different generations of rappers out of the Detroit by featuring Big Sean, BabyTron and himself on “Tobey,” produced by marvy ayy, John Nocito, Daniyel, Carlton McDowell, Cole Bennett and Eminem from The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grace) album, dropping on July 12, 2024.
Eminem gave fans a glimpse into the track’s horror theme with a trailer few days ago. The clip finds Em in a Jason Voorhees goalie mask revving a chainsaw and gushing blood while slicing up a body. Babytron and Big Sean watch Eminem’s gruesome butchering in tow without batting an eye.
The ticking ominous production begins and Big Sean gets off the only Spider-Man referencing bar heard in the clip. “Tobey Maguire got bit by a Spider, but me, see it was a goat,” raps Sean.
In his verse, Eminem addresses Melle Mel beef that occurred last year when the pioneer of hip-hop said that Eminem does not deserver to be be in top 5 rappers because he’s white. “When I get dissed by a pioneer / Who was one of the reasons why I’m here / They tell me I should just let that s–t go and slide / “Melle Mel shouldn’t get no reply, that man is a legend” / Bitch, so am I.”
“Tobey” marks Em’s first collab with Babytron and fourth with Big Sean following their team-up in 2017 on I Decided’s “No Favors,” Detroit 2‘s “Friday Night Cypher” and ShadyXV‘s “Detroit Vs. Everybody.” Em kicked off the album rollout with his nostalgic “Houdini” single, which gave him his highest-charting track of the decade when it debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200. Bump the new track below!
Eminem is teaming with Detroit’s own Big Sean and BabyTron, on his new single “Tobey,” Slim Shady announced on social media on about an hour ago.
The announcement came with a black-and-white teaser that sees Eminem, clad in a hockey mask and sporting a chainsaw, getting into some bloody business as Sean and BabyTron look on. As the camera pulls back, an outline of a body is revealed, and Sean starts rapping, “Tobey Maguire got bit by a spider but see, me? It was a GOAT.” The single is set to arrive Tuesday, and the Cole Bennett-directed music video will be released July 5.
The single will act as the second single from Eminem’s new album, “The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)” which is due out this summer. First single “Houdini,” which was released May 31, debuted at No. 2 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart and is No. 1 on Billboard 200 Global.
Eminem and Big Sean have collaborated before; Big Sean was on Eminem’s “Detroit vs. Everybody” posse cut in 2014, and Eminem appeared on Sean’s track “No Favors” from his 2017 album “I Decided.” Eminem also appeared on Big Sean’s track “Friday Night Cypher” from 2020’s “Detroit 2.” Both rappers performed at the Michigan Central Station reopening concert earlier this month.
BabyTron, the 24-year-old Ypsilanti born rapper, released his latest mixtape “Case Dismissed” in February. In 2022, XXL magazine called him “Michigan’s hottest new rap prospect” when naming him to the magazine’s annual Freshman 10 class, and he told The Detroit News in 2023, “I want to be Michael Jackson-big.” You can watch the announcement of new single below:
Eminem has just gave us the first taste of his upcoming 12th solo studio album “The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce),” dropping somewhere this summer, with the release of its first single, titled “Houdini.” The new single got fans excited, including Big Sean.
The song begins with a classic Eminem trope, enlisting his longtime manager Paul Rosenberg to share his distaste of the album that’s to come. “Hey Em, it’s Paul. I was listening to the album… Good f–king luck, you’re on your own,” says Rosenberg.
“Houdini” is somewhat of a callback to his 2002 single “Without Me,” beginning with the singsong rhymes, “Guess who’s back, back again / Shady’s back, tell a friend.” The song, produced by Eminem and his longtime collaborator Luis Resto, cites Steve Miller Band’s “Abracadabra” on the chorus, and references Megan Thee Stallion and Tory Lanez shooting incident on one of the lines. “If I was to ask for Megan Thee Stallion if she would collab with me / Would I really have a shot at a feat? I don’t know, but I’m glad to be, back,” he raps.
In classic Eminem form, he stokes controversial flames, referencing transgender individuals, RuPaul and referring to his own children as “brats.” “Cancel me, what? Okay, that’s it, go ahead Paul, quit / Snake a-s prick, you male cross dresser, fake a-s b–ch / And I’ll probably get s–t for that (watch) / But you can all suck my d–k, in fact, f–k them/ F–k Dre, f–k Jimmy, f–k me, f–k you / F–k my own kids, they’re brats (f–k ’em) / They can screw off, them and you all (yeah) / You too, Paul, got two balls, big as RuPaul’s.”
The music video for the song is a direct homage to “Without Me,” as Eminem steps into a portal back to the year when the song came out. The clip, shot in a comic strip style like the video for “Without Me,” features guest appearances from 50 Cent, Pete Davidson, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, GRIP, Westside Boogie, Ez Mil, Royce 5’9″, Denaun Porter and Alchemist, among many others, and sees two Eminems — one from 2002 and another from the current day — rapping along to “Houdini.”
Under Eminem’s Instagram post, Big Sean left three comments: “Not gon lie, u went crazy!” “Fire emojis” and “I’m dropping right after Marshall then. Takeover time.” You can check the screenshot of Big Sean ‘s comments below:
In a new cover story by Essence, Big Sean revealed that he attempted to get Eminem to rap over a J Dilla beat, but the Detroit legend passed on the opportunity.
Eminem and Big Sean collaborated on 2020’s Detroit 2 album posse cut “Friday Night Cypher” alongside Tee Grizzley, Kash Doll, Cash Kidd, Payroll, 42 Dugg, Boldy James, Drego, Sada Baby and Royce Da 5’9″, but it wasn’t the first idea he had in mind.
Sean got his hands on an unreleased J Dilla beat for the project and sent it to Eminem, but the song never materialized — despite Em liking the instrumental: “It reminded me of an old Eminem. And when I sent it to Em, he was like, ‘Man, I like the Dilla beat, for sure. I get it.’ But Em preferred the beat for the Friday Night Cypher.”
This wasn’t the only Dilla production that Eminem passed on. Denaun Porter previously revealed that A Tribe Called Quest‘s “Get a Hold” — from their 1996 album Beats, Rhymes & Life — originally belonged to Eminem. “He had the illest song to that beat. Em had that beat before Tribe and them had it. Proof gave it to him. It was like, ‘Yo, I gotta get some Dilla beats,’ I don’t know if he recorded it, but he wrote it because I remember him writing it and I remember the song being ill as hell. The concept he had to it was crazy. Proof told Jay Dee, ‘Yo, Em wants this beat.’ And it might have been another beat too. But that song… when we heard it on the Tribe album, we were like, ‘Aww man!’ But it’s A Tribe Called Quest — what you gonna say? Dilla told him a price and I think Em was trying to get the money up for it or something because we were broke. Mind you, they would’ve got Slim Marshall. This was before ‘Just Don’t Give a F–k.’”
The first playoff game at Ford Field stadium and the first home playoff game in more than 30 years brought out some of the biggest names in Detroit to Ford Field, including Eminem and Big Sean.
Jared Goff threw for a touchdown and completed a game-sealing first down against the team that cast him away, and the Detroit Lions won a playoff game for the first time in 32 years, beating Matthew Stafford and the Los Angeles Rams with the score 24-23 last night. The Lions (13-5) ended a nine-game postseason losing streak – the longest in NFL history – that dated to a victory over Dallas in January 1992. They lost a home playoff game two years later and hadn’t hosted one since. (via The Guardian)
Eminem, Big Sean and more were at the Ford Field ahead of Detroit Lions and Los Angeles Rams game, taking pictures with Lions legendary players like Barry Sanders and Calvin Johnson.
Slim Shady, who attended the game with his daughter Hailie, his long-time friend and manager Paul Rosenberg and D12 group-mates Bizarre and Mr. Porter, also took some time to take some pictures with the fans.
In the video below, the woman that Eminem first shakes hands with is Sheila Ford. She is the principal owner and chairwoman of the Detroit Lions and part of the Ford family, which has a long history of ownership of the Lions. Sheila Ford took over as the principal owner after the passing of her mother, Martha Firestone Ford, in 2020. The Ford family has been associated with the Lions since 1963 when Martha’s late husband, William Clay Ford, purchased the team.
You can check out the new pictures and videos below:
One of Detroit’s finest Big Sean joins NORE and DJ EFN on the latest episode of Drink Champs for more than 3 hours interview. At some points of the interview, Sean Don talked about Eminem and Royce Da 5’9.” You can check the conversations below:
NORE: Because you love your city so much, I just want you to say one thing about this one person that we bring up.
Big Sean: Alright.
NORE: Eminem?
Big Sean: God emcee.
NORE: Big Proof?
Big Sean: Legendary. Legendary. I feel like he inspired Em a lot. He was really the one who brought D12 together. He was a backbone of that. He was cold lyrically.
NORE: Royce Da 5’9″
Big Sean: Rap god, just like Eminem.
Later in the interview, NORE tells Big Sean to do a Quick Time of Slime and asks some comparison questions. If he picks both or none, he drinks, if he picks one of them, then other people in the room drink. Of course, one of the questions was, Eminem or Royce 5’9.” On which Big Sean responded with:
“Royce Da 5’9″ is literal big brother so I gotta go with Royce. Eminem is, like I said, god emcee and it was dream come true to work with him but I’ve been in real trenches with Royce.”
You can watch the both part of the interview below:
Royce Da 5’9″ has recently set down with Lando Bando on The Hip Hop Lab where the Detroit legend had a long conversation about why young Detroit rappers misunderstand Eminem.
“I think the youngins are just regurgitating anecdotical s**t. I don’t think they understand how much they don’t make sense. It’s like, you go and do an interview, you say your top five is Juan, Blade, Herc, Malik and Jesse. ‘What about Eminem? Oh, no, no, no, no. I didn’t really grow up listening to that but I think he is a great lyricist tho.’ I can respect that answer. So…8 Mile, that was not an accurate depiction of Detroit ni**a? Ain’t nobody be on 8 Mile…’I like Royce, Slum Village but they ain’t real Detroit sound.’ I could even take that. Now you are in a position where you can go out and paint the picture of Detroit however you think the world should see Detroit. The fact that you benefited from years and years of groundwork that myself, Marshall, Sean… There are ni**as who are benefiting from things that you don’t even realize. Maybe they will realize in retrospect.”
“Now that you have arrived in this place and Detroit is more visible in terms of the world viewership, just connected to the rest of the world. We used to be like a sea market. Me, Marshall, Slum Village, we were representing sea market. That’s were the no-fly-zone came from. People used to just come here, shoot through real quick, grab a bag and keep it pushing. Trick Trick said ‘no no no no, no more!’ He ruined his relationships, he put his livelihood on the line to stand on the frontline of the city. Nobody gotta say thank you for it or nothing like that. These are just facts. All of these are documented. So, now, you guys got how you all wanted. You are cool. The world loves you all. The world is biting your style. You rap like Detroit, you sound like Detroit, you look like Detroit. What exactly do you want Eminem to do? Do you want to sign to Shady Records? Everybody wanna sign Icewear Vezzo right now. Everybody wanna sign Peasy. Do you see them sign to Shady Records? I think the reason Shady Records is so successful is because they know who they are.”
“They have been publicly condemning Marshall in an attempt to separate themselves from being associated with his name because they think that’s the cool thing to do. It’s not cool thing because ‘Eminem doesn’t f**k with ni**as,’ it’s considered cool thing because ni**as have found a comfort zone in complaining about things. I wonder if they know how crazy they sound. They are making demands based off of an assumption that you have that this person does not f**k with you. They have nothing, no actions, no previous that they can correlate any of this feelings to. They are like ‘WHY HE DON’T EMBRACE ME.’ It speaks to your ignorance and immaturity and how reasonable that you even are willing to be to demand that he pull up. Pull up WHERE, NI**A? FOR WHAT? WHAT ARE WE PULLING UP FOR? Bro, you are talking about grown a** man. Put a daughter to a college. He has been famous for 20 years. The man has not hang out in a nightclub for more than 10 years. The man has not took a drink, thought about drug in over 10 years. He is not same young, wild, out here having fun Eminem that he was when G-unit was running around.”
“Have you seen Eminem on tour? He is just who he is. When he was out and was moving around a certain way, he conducted his business in a way that was indicative of what he was doing at that time. It’s no different from now. He is conducting his business but it’s indicative who he is now and where they are as a brand. Who they sign is none of you ni**as f**king business. Why the f**k do you care if Shady Records sign Griselda? And you don’t want to give him credit just because it’s not the kind of music that you are not into? So we are looking at bunch of crybaby ni**as complaining and yelling about perceived problem not coming with any solutions.”
“Nobody blew the whistle about Marshall getting on that f**king 95 minutes song with all these f**king rappers he didn’t know. He did that because I called him and talked him into it. And it took me a long time to talk him into it. Thank God he adores Sean, he loves Sean. He did not like the beat. You don’t understand how it feels to have a beat that you don’t like that you gotta write the song to. And you gotta represent yourself in somebody else’s world that you don’t even understand. And they don’t understand yours but you are forcing it because you wanna try to make people feel better. Em been damn near on every album Sean got and they shot videos.”
“My first impression at Sada Baby was he creatively fearless. I gotta respect that before anything. That ni**a entertained me before I even understand what he was saying. And I’m not sure that I’m an executive that’s gonna take to the next level. I was sitting there when Dr. Dre played My Name Is sample to Eminem and Marshall said ‘Hi, my name is…’ and Dre was like ‘WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY? YOU GOTTA DO THAT’ and he picked a piece of the record that had been sampled over and over again on classic records in hip-hop history but this was way at the end of the song where not other producer would thought to even pull from and that’s where the My Name Is came from. And My Name Is is the reason why Marshall is the Marshall he is today. Without Dr. Dre to have that divine instinct to be able to figure out which record takes you to the next level…without that.. you know what I mean?!… Dre did it over and over again. He did it for Game, he did it for Fifty, for Marshall, he did it for Snoop. Four times he changed the world. He did it with NWA, he did it with himself, he did it with D.L.C. So, Sada Baby, Tee Grizzley, they don’t need Eminem. Who knows what Sada Baby needs? Who knows if he needs anything? That’s up to hi to find that you and figure it out during his journeys. It’s up to us as OGs help facilitate that and do anything we can to water the seed.” – said Nickel
Then Royce continues talking about Kanye West saying signing Big Sean was the worst decision he has ever made, Donda album, Drake and more. You can watch the full thing below:
