A.D. Amorosi With each album since 2011’s “Finally Famous,” rapper Big Sean has run from the chipper insolence of youth (and away from being a Kanye protégé) into the arms of ruminative adulthood and all of its blessings and curses.
The braggadocio and money behind success in hip-hop is always tempered with practicality for Big Sean. So is he humbled by all that is holy, beholden to the pangs of romantic love, and uplifted by the connection of home and roots.This week’s “Detroit 2,” like Big Sean’s 2012 journal/mixtape, “Detroit,” represents a great uniting of all of Sean’s wordy, loose strands of thought, prayer, love calls, humble-brags and diary doodles, tied together by the big bow of being Black in the Motor City.
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