Detroit Piston.
Oh God! "All I care about is mom, and how to get it all, all the time." Don't bother Big Sean, he's working, like the brilliant bold bars over the years that energize us like a convenience store Snicker in the afternoon. Just like that one 'Workin'' off Puff Daddy and The Family's 'MMM' (Money Making Mitch) mixtape that should have been an actual album. Or the one were Kanye West's protégé f####d with the G.O.O.D. Music 'Clique'. Rapping, "I tell a bad b#### do whatever I say/My block behind me, like I'm coming out the driveway/It's grind day, from Friday to next Friday/I been up straight for nine days, I need a spa day (spa day)/Yup, she tryin' to get me that poon-tangI/ might let my crew bang, my crew deeper than Wu-Tang." Now "pullin' up in that Bruce Wayne" the "f##### villain" is back driving like a Blake Griffin dunking Piston with his 'Detroit, Vol. 2' sequel that has everyone up in the air like the Slam Dunk Contest champion over a Kia or the bucket boy players on the awesome artwork album cover. The 'Roc Nation' rapper who is 'Finally Famous' after entering the 'Hall Of Fame' has more hit albums under his belt as a more serious Fabulous. Whilst those in the gossip columns are more concerned with pulling punchlines over who is ex was. Life is never what it used to be and the only thing that can rewrite those lines are the bars of a man who will always have the last word when he's putting on for his city like the protest music videos where he throws up a fist for black power (because all he wants is his freedom) and shows there's so much more that matters here.
"Cutting umbilicals" on the opening track, 'Why Should I Stop', why should he? Even coronavirus won't keep him at bay as he raps, "This shit the antidote, this the cure cancer flow/Stop a pandemic and the globe/The product of old 'Ye chopping up the sample flow/Dilla and Pimp C, the thriller." Whilst on 'The Godfather' Don sounding 'Lucky Me' Sean says like Simon with guns and roses,"Yeah, I done slashed h##s like I'm Slash on some rock star s###/Even bought Slash old crib, that's rock star as it gets/And have my hands on the R&B legends you couldn't handle/Whether you do music or not, you wish you could sample/And I had to live through the scandals/Public humiliations and breakups on camera/It's a living nightmare when your dream girl has to get canceled/And you gotta delete all the photos and shit like you never Instagrammed it." Telling his followers no matter what the media says he feels the pain we all go through every day in this love in life where we lose more friends online than we do in the real world were we can't even shake each others hands anymore. But it's the 'Deep Reverence' with the dearly departed Nipsey Hussle that really hits home like Crenshaw or this COVID-19 2020 where we have lost so many friends and family along with the Black Mamba Kobe, the Mambacita GiGi and now the Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman. The late legend who said, "the best thing you can do for someone is inspire them" raps on the big opening, "Y'all still learnin' street lessons?/From the mastermind, first you master grind, then your team catch it/This time it’s for the money, I don't need credit/And I'm the don 'cause the streets said it," with flowers for him and all we've lost on the chain link fence of this album cover. Rest in power.
Growling like 'Wolves' or rock stars with Post Malone, Sean riffs and raps more whilst Post delivers like The Mailman, Karl Malone, parting the competition like Moses. All before smoothing it out with Ty Dolla $ign and Jhene Aiko on the soulful 'Body Language' that you can feel without words like the look of somone whose saying more than their mouth could possibly ask to cash. Going 'Harder Than My Demons' this Big doesn't need a guest list to lock horns with the best. Referencing everything from Luther Vandross (can never get too much of the purest soul) to wearing a different type of mask in this brave new world, rapping, "I don't take disrespect, I take charge (Woah)/I'm in the mirror lookin' at a work of art (Like, God)/Hard work don’t mean shit if it ain't smart." Word...like on the street, leaving everyone else staying home like March. "It's not about the trophy/it's what it took to grab it" the winner says on 'Everything That's Missing' with neo-soul legend Dwele. Before zoning the f out on 'ZTFO'. GTFOH, this Don has more in his consigliere. Guarding his heart with Anderson .Paak, Earlly Mac and Washington's Wale, before respecting it with Young Thug and Hit-Boy. But it's 'Lithuania' with Travis Scott that really scores like copping one of the guest spot artists iconic Jordan's. They sound as G.O.O.D. together as the time they both appeared working with Diddy. It all comes 'Full Circle', Don to John with Puff himself and Key Wane as Sean Combs like one of his famous tradmark ad-libs says next to Big with 'Hypnotize' memories, "Took all the pain that I knew and made songs/When God said, "Let there be light," he made Sean." Then the 'Feed' of 'The Baddest' over a Pharoahe Monch like 'Simon Says' Godzilla beat links with another Don for 'Don Life' with Tha Carter, Lil' Wayne. Before a 'Friday Night Cypher' and the best of raps hallmark game plan in years grinds over a Clipse sample and features Tee Grizzley, Kash Doll, Cash Kidd, Payroll, 42 Dugg, Boldy James, Drego, Sada Baby and the Bad Meets Evil of Royce Da 5'9" and some local kid from around the way called Marshall. Making for the best ten minutes since the last time you had sex. But even after that like 'Pac, Sean raps 'Still I Rise' like an Outlaw to finish strong with Dom Kennedy like Mister Cee. G.O.A.T. Nas recently released his latest greatest 'King's Disease' and in this infectious time Big Sean is catching that fever even more common than cold. Add some compelling stories from comedian legend Dave Chappelle, neo-soul one Erykah Badu and the one and only Stevie Wonder than you have the innervisions of some inspired interludes that have the making of a classic piece of work and words in music's storytelling genre of rap. Losing himself in big collaborations, but staying in his own lane like J. Cole with no features, going down 8 Mile Road with his fellow man from the D. Big Sean Don with the inspiration of Sean John takes us home. Not the same man, but never forgetting where he comes from like a Bad Boy for life from the Palace of Auburn Hills. So much so we can't wait for Volume 3 from Big Sean's life and times. "And I run this like it's no lights, going hard the whole night/Cause I ain't going back to my old life, I promise." TIM DAVID HARVEY.
Playlist Picks: 'Lucky Me', 'Deep Reverence (Feat. Nipsey Hussle)', 'Harder Than My Demoms'.
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