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Big Sean Opens Up About His Battle With Depression · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, Big Shawn's six studio album,
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Speaker 1: Detroit Too, is finally here, following a three year gap
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Speaker 1: since his last record, the longest between projects in his career,
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Speaker 1: and Sean has revealed why in a serious, a very
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Speaker 1: emotional tweets, explaining he battled serious mental illness as well
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Speaker 1: as depression and learned a lot about himself during the
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Speaker 1: recording process. He writes in part, I had given up
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Speaker 1: on life. I didn't realize how important it was to
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Speaker 1: embrace the ups and downs and take active steps to
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Speaker 1: better your life. I thought doing what I loved would
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Speaker 1: always make me happy and satisfied. So when I got
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Speaker 1: tired of it, I was so confused and it drove
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Speaker 1: me insane. Later I realized I was just growing and
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Speaker 1: had to gain a new mentality and foundation on many
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Speaker 1: levels and rediscover my passion. He adds he doesn't know
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Speaker 1: if Detroit two is gonna debut at number one or not,
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Speaker 1: but it already feels like a number one record to him.
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Speaker 1: It's out now. That's Direct from Hollywood.