Big Sean cries during new album update: ‘I’ve been having a hard time lately’

Big Sean got emotional while discussing his new album Better me than youwhich will arrive this week.

The Detroit rapper gave an update on his highly anticipated sixth LP via Instagram Live on Monday (August 26), crying and admitting that he struggles with “thinking too much.”

“I’m a chronic overthinker. I’m a chronic, constant worker. And I’ve had it rough lately, downright. It hasn’t been easy… But it’s worth it.

“The whole concept of the album is like Better me than youso when you’re going through your shit, it’s like you’re the one who can handle it (…) It gets hard. Your faith gets tested,” he added, choking up and holding back tears.

After a few minutes of silence, Sean turned away from the camera and eventually left the room to collect himself.

He later returned and continued to discuss the challenges of making his new album and dealing with criticism: “When you make art, you put a lot into it. I’m definitely a chronic overworker, overthinker, and I’ve dedicated a huge part of my life to it.

“I try not to read into what everybody says. It’s hard because you do care about your shit. I try to focus on the path and direct the music towards what I want to do, regardless of what people think.

“Sometimes when you read too much shit, the internet can suck the fun out of it. Just everything you do. So as an artist, it’s important to express yourself to stay on that path.”

Sean Don credited his mother with helping him regain his self-confidence.

“When Jhené and I were giving our son a bath last night, my mom called me and she just gave me those words,” he said. “And I was just like, Look, I can keep working and make it exactly the way I want to and I’m going to put it off forever. Or I can believe in the amazing work that I have right now and that’s what I’m going to do.

“I’m grateful to my mom for being that guardian angel and always giving me that advice. She really helped me through it, she really did.”

The former GOOD Music MC also revealed that Better me than you will be released on Friday (August 30), after being pushed back from its original August 9 release date. The delay is partly due to Sean recently contracting COVID.

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He shed light on the music itself, saying, “This album is definitely all the different layers of me. It’s broken down into four different categories — for me anyway. You have the stressful songs and then you have the focused ones, the clarity ones and then the happiness ones.”

Sean also hinted at adjustments Better me than you after its release, including adding an outro he was still working on.

“I don’t really like doing that kind of shit, but at the same time this album literally has the feeling of a living being, something that can keep growing and growing.”

Following his emotional broadcast, Big Sean revealed the album cover on Instagram, which appears to show the rapper’s soul being beamed out of his body, presumably to heaven.

“BETTER ME THAN YOU Friday,” he wrote in the caption.

Better me than you is supported by a handful of singles, including the Three 6 Mafia-sampling “Pressure,” “Yes,” “On Up” which is dedicated to his one-year-old son Noah, and the The Alchemist-produced “Together Forever.”

Adding to Sean’s woes, an unfinished version of the album was leaked last month, reportedly by a Kanye West fan.

The perpetrator claimed he released the project ahead of schedule at Ye’s instruction after Sean attacked his former record label boss in his office. On the radar free style.

However, the Motor City resident wasn’t convinced his “Mercy” colleague would do such a thing, despite their past troubles.

“I know he wouldn’t do that, because that’s trash. I know he wouldn’t do something like that,” he said on Instagram Live. “Whoever did that, know it totally destroyed me. I know he didn’t do that. N-ggas saying, ‘You did that.’ I know he didn’t do that.”

He added: “Leaking a n-gga’s shit? I had access to a lot of exclusive stuff — not just his, but other people’s shit. And I would never leak anyone’s shit, so I know he didn’t. Whoever started that rumor, y’all got bullshit.”

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