Days after the release of ‘Detroit 2,’ Big Sean is opening up about his mental state in a new series of Tweets when making the project.
His words below:
“I don’t feel like this currently, but I had never gone through wanting to kill myself, give up on my life until the past few years. [A]nd I didn’t realize how important it was to embrace the ups n downs of life and enjoy (in joy) taking active steps to better it. it’s the Journey!”
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>I don’t feel like this currently, but I had never gone through wanting to kill myself, give up on my life until the past few years and I didn’t realize how important it was to embrace the ups n downs of life and enjoy (in joy) taking active steps to better it. it’s the Journey!</p>— Sean Don (@BigSean) <a href=”https://twitter.com/BigSean/status/1303063956198535168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>September 7, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>
He then went on to say:
“I thought doing what I loved would always make me happy and satisfied, so when I got tired of it, I was confused and it drove me insane. Later i realized I was just growing n had to gain a new mentality and foundation on many levels n re-discover my passion! And try new things..”
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>I thought doing what I loved would always make me happy and satisfied, so when I got tired of it, I was confused and it drove me insane. Later i realized I was just growing n had to gain a new mentality and foundation on many levels n re-discover my passion! And try new things..</p>— Sean Don (@BigSean) <a href=”https://twitter.com/BigSean/status/1303065089688309760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>September 7, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>
This is not the first time that the rapper has opened up about his mental health. Recently, he spoke to Nadeska Alexis on Apple Music 1, saying:
“I feel like I was broken. I would try and be in a studio, I couldn’t think of anything. I would try to feel good and I couldn’t feel good. I just had to rediscover it, you know, and I didn’t, I, at one point I thought I was done. I thought I was like, maybe I shouldn’t even be doing music anymore. Maybe I did it and that’s it. But then I was like, no. Once I started taking care of myself, I started thinking of things differently. I started approaching songs differently. And I had that hunger back, you know. I was hungry. I’m hungry on these songs.”
His perseverance paid off, as ‘Detroit 2’ is currently in the running to claim the top spot on the next iteration of the Billboard 200.