Big Sean reveals advice he received from Jay-Z and Beyoncé
Big Sean has shared the conflicting advice he received from Jay-Z and Beyoncé about his hit single, ‘I Don’t Fuck with You’ (also known as ‘IDFWU’). The Detroit rapper released the song in 2014, peaking at number 11 on the Hot 100 and later appearing on his Dark Sky Paradise album.
Sean explained how the track came about during his appearance on the St. Brown Podcast. He said he was messing around in the studio and wanted to make something that sounded like a Too $hort record, recruiting another Bay Area rapper, E-40, as a feature on the song.
“I just was having fun,” he recalled. “I was in the studio with Mustard. I was just fucking around. I was really trying to make a song like this Too $hort song that I fucked with, in my own way, though, like I was loving this Too $hort song at the time. I heard the beat, and I just freestyled that shit. I almost didn’t want to use it.”
After rapping over the Mustard beat, he almost kept the song on his hard drive because he thought it was “dumb” until a conversation with Jay and Bey won him over.
“I went to their house and was playing the song, and Beyoncé was like, ‘That’s a little disrespectful, maybe you should put Nicki Minaj on it so there could be a female voice,'” he said. “And then Jay-Z was like, ‘Nah. People are gonna get it that it’s just you having fun.'”
He continued, “Then I remember I was getting texts from Hov, like, every day. He sent me a text one time that was like, ‘Every day you not putting that song out, you losing.'”
Sean has collaborated with both artists in the past, teaming up with Jay on ‘Clique’ with Kanye West from G.O.O.D. Music’s Cruel Summer album. Then, he collaborated with Bey on ‘See Me Now’, also with Kanye, on the deluxe version of his My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy album.