Big Sean – Music Artist Know For His Rap Songs

Big Sean is a Hip hop star & recording artist famous for his dazzling rhymes, classic rap songs and stunning music videos. Born Sean Michael Anderson on March 25, 1988 in Santa Monica, California he had his first taste of fame in 2007 with the release of his excellent mixtape “Finally Famous: The Mixtape” which spawned the excellent Big Sean songs & music video "Get'cha Some". This classic Big Sean music video was directed by Hype Williams and his critically acclaimed mixtape led to the young rap star appearing in Hip hop bible The Source Magazine. On April 16, 2009, he released his second mixtape called “UKNOWBIGSEAN”. This mixtape spawned the hit songs “Million Dollars” and “Super Dupa” and became an instant smash. The mixtape contained an incredible 30 songs & some sensational Big Sean music videos and received wide spread praise from critics and fans alike.

Big Sean released his highly anticipated third mixtape “Finally Famous Vol. 3: BIG” on August 31, 2010. This mixtape featured high profile collaborations with a host of big stars including Drake, Bun B, Tyga, Asher Roth & Mike Posner amongst others. The mixtape spawned the cool songs "Too Fake", which features the group Chiddy Bang and a stunning video, "What U Doin' (Bullshittin')", "Ambiguous", featuring Mike Posner, "Crazy", "Supa Dupa Lemonade", "Hometown", "Final Hour", "Made", and "High Rise" which features another classic video. Big Sean is also expected to release his fourth mixtape in 2012.

After signing a lucrative recording contract with Kanye West`s G.O.O.D label, he released his highly anticipated debut album “Finally Famous” on June 28, 2011. This disc featured high profile collaborations with Hip hop superstar Kanye West, Chris Brown, Wiz Khalifa, John Legend, Lupe Fiasco & The-Dream. With some of the best Big Sean songs, the album debuted at number 3 on the Billboard Album charts selling 87,000 copies in its first week of release. The album has since sold over 250,000 copies in the US spawning the hit songs “My Last” featuring Chris Brown which peaked at number one on the US Billboard Rap Songs chart, “Marvin & Chardonnay” featuring Kanye West which features an 
excellent music video and his third official single release “Dance A$$” featuring Nicki Minaj. 

Big Sean is expected to release his highly anticipated sophomore album in 2012. This highly anticipated disc is expected to feature not only new rap songs, but more huge collaborations and is already one of the most eagerly awaited rap albums of 2012. The talented Californian born rapper is also expected to release the first single with a high profile video in the second part of 2012. Look out for his sophomore album to drop in summer 2012 with more singles & music videos expected later in the year.


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Music as it is Defined

One says Nevin is music and Bach is noise. One declares Mozart to be noise and Stravinsky, music. Another reverses the definition. Even the dictionary tells us that "music is the art of combining tones to please the ear."

Whose ear -- yours or mine?

A French writer, Jules Combarieu, is more general, and declares it to be "the art of thought in tone." In other words, it is an art, not a natural phenomenon; it deals with tones, and it presupposes thought; that is, educated mental action and discrimination. "Thought, using tone as its medium, creating an artwork."

And still, this leaves open to discussion, "What is an art work?" We journey back to the starting point, you saying Mozart created art works, and Schonberg didn't; while I may pin my faith to Cadman and Herbert.

One might reduce the definition a little, and make it more generally satisfactory, by saying music is "thought expressed in tone." This would exclude noises -- casual, unbrained combinations of tones -- and require definite mental application, presupposing a knowledge of the essentials of musical construction.

While this definition may be satisfactory to you and to me, there are those whose idea of music is so different from ours, that only a definition to fit their own particular style would suit them.

One says music should be impersonal, abstract. Another school declares that it should always tell a story. Still another division of the musical public says that music should go much farther than the dictionary definition above quoted; that it not only is the art of "combining tones to please the ear," but that music should represent the whole of life, whether it pleases the ear or not.

In other words, if the subject portrayed is one of pain, horror or calamity, then the music must be of clash, cacophony, discord, entirely abjuring the idea of beauty or "pleasing the ear." Out of all this, long ago, arose the question whether it was the function of music merely to be beautiful, or whether, like painting, its mission is to portray all of life -- good and bad, pleasure and sorrow, happiness and horror.

That is a question no part of the world can settle for the rest. Ever since music reached an advanced stage of development, it has been a bone of contention among musicologists and composers, and, no doubt, it will so continue for decades, and possibly for centuries.

So, not to enter discussion of it, the simpler way is to accept such a generalized definition as that suggested above, and classify music as "thought expressed through tone," to which hardly any school of music, or composition, can take exception.

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