Big Sean

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21 year-old Big Sean was born Sean Anderson in Santa Monica, California. When he was two months old, Sean moved with his parents to Detroit so his family could be close to his ailing grandfather. When Sean reached kindergarten age, his mother enrolled him in a Waldorf school where children’s creativity is heavily nurtured and developed.

“I grew up in the hood in Detroit and went to a private school in a super nice neighborhood, so I got to see the best of both worlds,” says Sean. “It was a real artsy school. We learned three or four different instruments and spoke Spanish and German for eight years. I owe a lot to that school because that’s where I started making music and getting a love for poetry.”
When he was 12, Sean started rapping, a talent that came easily to him thanks to his artistic background. “I was really into the whole Bad Boy era,” he remembers. “That’s what really made me want to rap because girls liked Mase and Puff Daddy. But when I started hearing people like Jay-Z and 2Pac, that’s when I really started to gain a love for music.”
The following year, he enrolled in a Detroit public high school where he met Pat Piff, who Sean would later form the group S.O.S. with. When they were 16, Sean and Pat entered a MC contest at the Detroit hip-hop radio station, 102.7 called the Friday Night Cipher. S.O.S. won the battle and were rewarded the chance to rap live, on-air, for the entire city to hear. “It was a really big thing,” remembers Sean. “We were like high school celebrities.”
S.O.S. became so popular, they were asked back to the station every Friday night for close to a year. “One day between junior and senior year, Kanye was down at the station promoting Late Registration and my boy called me and like, if you go down to the station and rap for him, he’ll sign you,” says Sean. “I was like, you sound crazy. He was like, forget that, you need to go rap for him!”
Sean decided to take his friend’s advice and drove straight to the station with one of his demos in hand. He was able to gain easy access because he and Pat had been there the night before. “I had never met a celebrity so my heart was beating out of my chest,” remembers Sean. “I was like, ‘Yo Kanye, you’re one of my favorite rappers, can I rap for you real quick?’ He was like, ‘Alright, you have 16 bars, but you gotta rap while we’re walking out.’ I was freestyling and thinking the best lines I had. I ended up rapping for like 10 minutes straight.”
Kanye was thoroughly impressed by the courageous young MC and invited him to a private listening session later that night. Sean showed up and when the time was right, asked ‘Ye if he was looking to sign any new artists. Kanye insisted that they would be in touch and Sean left feeling as if he had made the connection of a lifetime.
A year later, Sean received a call form Don C, Kanye’s Road Manager who asked Sean to fly to New York to meet with John Monopoly, the President of G.O.O.D. Music. “Basically he was like, ‘We want to hear a little bit more music before we decide to make an investment in you. So we are going to give you some tracks and see what you can do.’”