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Jul 31st

smashingpoop-deactivated2012080 asked: Is this a legit question?

Jul 31st

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Jul 31st

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“Remember Funky House music? What happened?”

Jul 31st

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“How can you be angry when trap music exists?”

Jul 30th

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Jul 26th

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toulatintougard: Gotham’s Reckoning - Hans...

Jul 25th

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Real talk from Big Sean of all people

Big Sean: These guys are legends. And I definitely feel like Cudi feels: I see myself in 10 years—I know exactly where I want to be. But that’s something that I recently came into. When I met Kanye, I was 17 years old. I would be nervous around him. He was my idol. So, for a couple years, I didn’t know what I was doing. If you listen to a lot of my early mixtapes, you’ll see I was rapping like Kanye because I didn’t have my own identity. Now, I’ve got my own ad-libs, my own wittiness. I realized that I was sitting next to Common, sitting next to Jay-Z, sitting next to Kanye for a reason. I stepped up, got my mind together, and visualized how I wanted to be as an artist. That’s something that I don’t even think comes with age. It comes when you’re ready for your life to change. I got tired of living in that two-family flat with my mom. I got tired of being in the same room I grew up in my whole life. So it was like, “This has to work.” I knew I could be the greatest. I was listening to Jay. I was listening to Wayne. I was like, “Man, I can do that. I could do it better than them.” Seriously. I feel like I’m going to be a legend. But it wasn’t always like that. There was a point where I was insecure. I would be out in Hawaii, and I was intimidated being around Cudi. We got signed around the same time...
Kid Cudi: —I was poor when you got signed, dude.
Big Sean: He was so sure of himself as an artist. He was carefree, and I learned a lot from just looking at him. My live show got better watching Cudi. Even meeting up with Common, how he wrote his raps, I stopped writing my raps on paper. I just write them in my head. That’s all stuff that comes from being around people like him, being around ’Ye, and it’s something that you ain’t got to be scared of. I come from Detroit—it raised some of the realest players ever. That’s what I embody. I represent my city, my generation, young people dreaming. I used to ride to school listening to Kanye, was in the crowd looking at Jay-Z, and now these fools are saying, “Hey, I believe in you.” It’s real. I just bought my mom a new car. She was happy as hell. She was leaning on it, taking pictures. Now, she’s house shopping. This is what it was all for.

Jul 24th

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