Days away from the September 4 release of his fifth studio album, ‘Detroit 2,’ rapper Big Sean is hot on the promo trail in its support.
Most recently taking to ‘New York’ magazine, the GRAMMY-nominated rapper discussed a number of hot topics around his career including his support of Kanye West‘s political aspirations, rumored beef with Kendrick Lamar (as we reported here), and reflected on his relationship with late actress Naya Rivera.
Though he released an emotional statement shortly after the 33-year-old’s death (as we reported here), some of her fans labeled his comments attention-seeking as she was famously attached to his diss track ‘IDFWU’ (a song released after their highly publicized breakup).
Now, over five years after the controversial tune’s premiere, Sean is clearing the air.
Despite casting a Rivera lookalike in the Lawrence Lamont-directed music video (as seen above), Sean maintains the tune was never about the actress or his failed romantic relationship with her.
When quizzed by ‘New York’ magazine on any regrets he may have about the song in light of her tragic death, he responded:
“That’s a tough question to answer because I’m still processing a lot of that … I don’t feel comfortable talking about it because I want to respect her. She’s made such an impact on people, and she’s done so many great things in her life and her career that it was hurtful to even have that [song] be associated with her. It wasn’t a diss to her,” Sean said. “I truly made the song and played it for her. She knew about it, and she liked it. We had a breakup that was very public, and we were young and we forgave each other and moved on from that. If I would have known something this tragic would have happened, I would have never made the song.”
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Chiiile bye. The lies. The lies. THE LIES. We all know you wrote that about her. Stand in your truth and just say that’s how you felt years ago, but over time, you both reconciled and found a friendship. But don’t lie and say it wasn’t about her when you went on a promo tour saying it was.
RIP beautiful Naya.
That’s all he had to do and this would be different.
That is a lie, this is why no one trust or believe these people. Bro live it alone and let the girl rest in peace.
He feels tremendous guilt and I empathize with that BUT he dropped that song real freaking quick after they broke up and we all jammed to it! It’s still a great eff you don’t BUT I think if he really has genuine guilt, he needs to remove it from all streaming platforms and donate any royalties since then to a charity of her choice or give it to her estate!
“he needs to remove it from all streaming platforms ”
This song is one of his most streamed songs. Almost half a billion streams. I dont think he would do that
That guilt will hunt u for the rest of your life
Anytime u hear that song, u will feel bad about yourself .
That’s ur punishment and u deserve it.
Oh shut up. People talk bad about people every single day. And every single person is gonna die eventually.
But he straight up lied and said it was not about her and that she liked the song. It was about her and she was devastated when it came out. Don’t lie. You were pissed and wrote the song.
And he waits now to say it? Yeah ok.
He wrote it for Trashy BISH
Nah, he wrote it for your mama 😂
She used that song on the lipsynch battle show or whatever it’s called. She was either cool with it or wanted to show him she was not bothered.
The song is obviously about her but I’m willing to believe him when he said he played it for her.
She wrote about it in her book which makes it even more ridiculous for him to lie. She heard like the hook and liked that, but they had spoke and she asked him not to write any songs about them. To keep her and their relationship out his mouth. He agreed he would not do that and a few months later she heard song playing. And it was like a couple months after he broke up with her through publicist.