Big Sean Announces Release Date for New Album ‘Better Me Than You’ & Drops Off ‘Yes’ Single

19 July, 2024

Big Sean season has returned. After more than four years since his last effort, 2020’s Detroit 2, the rapper has announced his next album, Better Me Than You.

Better Me Than You will serve as Sean Don’s sixth studio LP and is slated to arrive on Aug. 9. “BETTER ME THAN YOU Album Aug 9th. Pre save + Vinyl (link in bio) Its Been a journey i cant wait to share with you all,” he wrote to social media on Thursday (July 18).

Sean heard the fans and delivered another single to carry momentum heading into the project, dropping “Yes” on Friday (July 19).

The smooth FNZ-produced track finds the G.O.O.D. Music alum scoffing at critics leaving him off their top five rapper lists. “Would rather give y’all my soul, I don’t have to sell it/ Might take a piss off your rap Mount Rushmore after I scale it/ Blue strips when I do hit the strip, know we f–kin’ it up like Elvis,” he raps.

The 36-year-old’s album clock may have been sped up due to a leak, which found an alleged 14-track project from Sean surface on the internet.

“I’m a just start droppin this new music before they leak it all BIG SEAN x THE ALCHEMIST soon,” he captioned an Instagram post July 17 in response to the alleged leak.

Sean ruffled some feathers earlier this week with his “On the Radar Freestyle” over Aaliyah’s 1996 classic “If Your Girl Only Knew.” Fans speculated who Sean Don was taking shots at when he rapped, “I got better things to do than find someone to beef with/ Or else I’m off the deep end.”

DJ Hed insinuated he was targeting his former boss Ye (formerly known as Kanye West). “I talked to Sean. The bar was ‘I got better things to do then find someone to beef with’ And it was not for Dot,” Hed tweeted. “Bar was directed at a different Gemini.” (Ye was born June 8, which makes him a Gemini.)

Sean attempted to end the speculation himself in a since-deleted Tweet: “Yall goin wit so many narratives, im talking to da haters who just keep finding something to point out they dont like bout me. Its not even worth explaining tho im a just focus on the music.”

A disgruntled person under the username Bigseandon811 didn’t take kindly to what they perceived was disrespect to Ye and allegedly went on to leak Sean’s music. “Since he wanna disrespect Ye so much, here’s the album, f–k him and his whole team,” the leaker wrote, according to Variety.

Big Sean returned to the music scene in March with his “Precision” single and has stayed busy dishing out assists for Jessie Reyez and Eminem. His last three albums have all topped the Billboard 200, so Sean will look to make it four in a row.

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