Kevin Gates went platinum with no features as well but i don’t see anyone advocating for him in the big 3

Seriously tho Kendrick named everybody who was on the original list back on Control

Only person missing was Q and Soul for obvious reasons

So Sean fasho was in the conversation

Drake, Sean, Cole?

this

that list + Future & Nicki (he hadn’t yet worked with either so they weren’t named) were the new gen, all on equal footing

Its so odd how people just twist s*** around on the internet instead of just being objective

Do you really think J Cole couldnt get any features in 2014

Lmao

He was never even top 3 on good music

Never threw his hat in the ring like his peers

funniest part is that album did have features, just uncredited

speaking from ideal career path from sean, i would've dropped a studio album using the DoN and I Decided material in late 2017 then drop detroit 2 in 2020 still

more features in that gap too

Imagine Kendrick bodying your fav rapper so hard you have to pretend he’s not as good as Big Sean

background singers on ur s*** dont count

Sean's 3 is him, Meek, and Wale

The biggest hindrance to his career to me was Hall Of Fame

After Cruel Summer and Detroit when he dropped a dud it slowed up a lot of his momentum

If anything Sean could’ve took Cole spot but Cole had enough substance for people to hold on too throughout his career

Sean started tapping into that a little too late in his career

Lmao being 1 of 10 mfs named does not make you big 3 lol just top 10-15

Tf

that one song So Good single handedly ruined DoN’s reception lol it was too freaky for the general public

funny enough i actually dont have a problem w that album

you using him as the example as if it’s ridiculous to put him in that type of convo…is why people dont put him in that convo

i rock with gates and he has a couple projects/songs i like a lot but there are like ten reasons he not in that convo and i dont think he cares if you ever listened to him recount his journey lol. If you actually into gates and again not just using him as a throwaway example here because he a street type rapper which ironically answers the dilemma you propose lol

the swae lee song was some poop too

Sean don't have a song better than this

Sean not even top 5

lmao

Honestly he was f***ed once Detroit wasnt his studio album for that cycle and then he dropped HoF

scrap Hall of Fame aside from Control and Beware maybe nothing is stopping you stays add those to Detroit and he has an early 2010’s classic lol. From there its just been mid album after mid album although DSP was almost it