Related Posts:Growing up in Detroit, basketball was Sean’s first love. He played seriously in middle school but gave it up to pursue his new passion: hip-hop. His decision turned out to be a smart one. Kanye West’s 23-year-old protege is now one of the hottest young artists in the game.
SLAM: How was it to grow up in the D? Talk about your Detroit background a little bit…
Big Sean: Man coming up in the D made me who I am. I feel like Detroit is a city of originality. A city of soul. If you just look at the soul—that it just glows and that it gives out even from the Motown days—and fast forward into people like (producer) J Dilla and just like Eminem. It’s tight now that I can be one of the best that’s from there and help carry the city.
SLAM: Were you into basketball at all growing up in the D? I know y’all got y’all hoopers in the city and y’all are big on basketball…
BS: Yeah, hell yeah. I was a hooper! Before the rap thing I was hooping. In middle school I took my team to the state championship and we won and I was really serious into it. I played point guard and 2 guard but I was also into rapping and I just kind of fell off hooping and really got more into rapping. But yeah, I definitely was a hooper though. I could probably dunk [laughs].
I don’t know if I still can. I had hops.
SLAM: What school were you at?
BS: I went to that private school in Detroit. It’s called the Detroit Waldorf School. DWS.
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