Directors Cut - Big Sean "How I Got Signed"

Big Sean. Finally Famous Vol 3. Get Familiar

This post is to put those under a rock on notice about the young up n coming GOOD Music affiliated rapper Big Sean. Big Sean just dropped Finally Famous Vol. 3 not too long ago and even though it was suppose to drop mmmm...i dont know sometime in March, I'm glad it's Finally Here. To be honest he may not be your favorite rappers favorite rapper but this brother wont be denied. I first heard of Big Sean like 3 or 4 years ago when I was in his hometown, (my second hometown) Detroit. My lil cousin was tryna put me on this young dude that be on the radio and needless to say I paid him no mind. a year after that my lil sister who has incredible musical taste for her age put me on the Finally Famous The Mixtape. I was hooked after the intro when Ye explained how he signed the Westside rapper. Kanye explains how Sean hunted him while at the station and just started spittin "like 100 bars" and he was like "that sh*t was crazy Imma sign you" Now listening to FFV3 years after the encounter its clear that he will be a force on the GOOD Music squad. His flow leaves something to be desired at times but everytime I listen you pick up a different bar that leaves with a lol ok I see you. Nonetheless his story just goes to show you that luck is simply opportunity shaking hands with preparation. Check the Video for Big Seans version of the story...

WE ARE CALLED OUR MASKS ARE NOT…

Masks, faces, acts, at some point in time all of us wear or behave in these apparatuses as a cover. In this letter I read called "a student letter" there is an undeniable commonality that everyone shares in that though we all wear them and we all wish to be free of them. But sadly some of us simply can't or just don't know how to shake ourselves of this seemingly inseparable appendage. The individual in this letter "loathes" concealment and is wishing to find the LIBERATORY agent which can free him from this constant feeling falsehood. What is it that stops us from what we want and more pressing, from what is necessary for us to function as we were created to navigate through life free in our spirituality. I continue to focus on spirituality in my own life, I keep referring to this in my head as Calling. I believe that spirituality, though clearly more complex ,may partially be a calling to what the Creator has only whispered so divinely in your ear. Staying with the creation story it can be said that this may be how God intended it. In Eden prior to sin, Adam walked and communicated with God in such a way that would make a couple on their diamond (60^th) anniversary slightly jealous. There Adam had the ear of the Creator and the Creator communicated to him directly and uninhibitedly. There was neither need nor desire to conceal anything. Both the called and the Caller were on the same connection. But alas, the infamous fall and with it an immediate desire to run, to hide, to withhold, to fear that which wanted only to commune, only to fellowship, only to love, to simply be with His creation. The wall had been created not because of the action of partaking of the fruit which he was not called to eat of but created due to the inactivity of his once spiritual connection to his calling. The snake may have distracted the woman Eve, she may have done so to her husband Adam and just as this may have happened so too may fear, insecurity, spiritual laziness and suppression have done the same to us and our calling. In the end of the letter the writer longs for love and hopes that it is stronger than the thick wall that has been created and hindered him from hearing his calling. Just as we desire a community of acceptance, love and deep spiritual conviction to allow us to hear our calling once again. The student in this writing is in all of us, the mask he wears, we all wear. Very few of us are blessed to regain that connection to the Calling on the other end of our spiritual line, but those that are, are responsible to tear down those walls help take off those masks that others cannot and create a community of called individuals whose ears are pointed steadfast to the Caller.