After some years out of the spotlight, Big Sean is getting ready for the release of his fifth studio album. He recently opened up about being diagnosed with life-threatening heart disease when he was a teenager.
In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Sean played his upcoming single, “Lucky Me” for the publication. The song explains how he was diagnosed with the disease when he was 19-years-old, and about how his mom took him to a holistic doctor that reportedly cured him of his symptoms. He wrote:
“Lucky me, I was diagnosed with a heart disease at 19/ Doctors said they had to cut it open put a pacemaker on it to put it back on beat/ ’Til my mother took me to holistic doctors and they prescribed me magnesium for two weeks/ Went back to the regular doctors and they said, ‘Huh? damn, looks like we don’t need to proceed.’”
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This will be the first time the Detroit native has opened up about this aspect of his personal life. He explained:
“I’ve never talked about certain things in my life. It just kind of made me realize I need to really express some of these things.”
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Sean took some time away from social media over the past few months and ended up creating an album that he hopes will inspire his listeners to open up more with those around them. He said:
“I just want people to remember to be individuals. Social media is such a great tool. I never want to bash it because it’s definitely helped me be who I am. But I feel like it also can manipulate us. There are memes and GIFs and shit that describe some of our moods better than we can, and I think that’s pretty funny sometimes — I love the SpongeBob memes. But at the same time I feel like we also have to make sure we don’t lose the ability to express ourselves.”
