Sean put in like a five year weed-carrying/ghost writing shift.
I honestly think the best thing that happened to Sean was Drake and then the rest of YMCMB shortly followed by every rapper there is taking his style into the woods and raping it until it bled to death. Probably made Def Jam see that he actually was marketable.
I'd say Wale is bigger than Sean, though. Ambition sold almost double what Finally Famous did and will go Gold soon. Wale actually had a pretty big following off of mixtapes. Anyone pretending Big Sean was anything more than a complete non-entity until his album push is absolutely lying. No blog love, no mainstream features, nothing.
Wale is bigger in a way, but if you followed his career from the start, you know he wanted to be kanye's coke mule.
I'm happy for dude and all, cause he's a mo county cat (despite what he tells you
), but his early work is hypebeast/backpacker stuff, insulting rappers like say, Rick Ross. Not him directly but the super gangsta type, especially those whose image is propped up by labels.
I saw him I Philly last weekend at MIA, bouncing around on stage with Ross and meek, it was just so opposite of his work that made me listen when he was unknown and local. Not bad, but definitely manufactured and driven by trends. Oh well
I was a big fan of him when Paint A Picture came out. I'm not sure if anyone outside of md/dc even heard that tape.
As for Sean, I actually like his flow and voice, it's mischievous like q tip's. But lyrics are just garbage, him doing Ass and then Com Sense coming out right after at MIA was just proof of how small time his music is.
