By Courtney E. Smith
Big Sean hopes Dark Sky Paradise, his latest, will be his first No. 1 album. The numbers come out on Wednesday (March 4), but all indications say he’ll get there–on his own terms.
“Before I was always caught up in the label being in my ear, saying, ‘You need a radio song, you need this, you need that.’ I don’ care about that s–t anymore,” Sean says.
Sean opens up in his lyrics about what he calls “a dark time” that spanned over most of 2014, from the loss of his grandmother to his love life—the latter of which ended up playing out publicly in his hit single, “IDFWU.”
Sean says the song that has become his calling card was not intended to be a radio song, “obviously.” He can’t resist demonstrating why, rapping the chorus with a devilish grin for every word the FCC has banned.
“By the way,” Sean says when he finishes his recitation, “we should check the Guinness Book of World Records because that may be the highest charting song that had that much cussing in it.”
Watch the interview above.
