{"id":2448007,"date":"2019-08-26T20:52:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T02:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=876618"},"modified":"2019-08-26T20:52:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T02:52:42","slug":"big-sean-premieres-bezerk-featuring-aap-ferg-at-the-2019-vmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/big-sean-premieres-bezerk-featuring-aap-ferg-at-the-2019-vmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Sean Premieres \u2018Bezerk\u2019 Featuring A$AP Ferg at the 2019 VMAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/big-sean-asap-ferg-berserk.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>After a lengthy hiatus, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/big-sean\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Big Sean<\/a> continued his return to the spotlight at the 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/mtv-video-music-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Video Music Awards<\/a>. Flanked by artists spray painting the phrase \u201cDetroit 2 Harlem\u201d on white jumpsuits, the Detroit rapper launched into his recently released single \u201cBezerk,\u201d alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/aap-ferg\/\" id=\"auto-tag_aap-ferg\" data-tag=\"aap-ferg\">A$AP Ferg<\/a>, off his upcoming fifth studio album. Over a booming Hit-Boy beat, Sean and Ferg flowed in and out of each other\u2019s verses, acting as each other\u2019s hypemen onstage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did it on the spot, studio with Hit-Boy,\u201d Sean told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S-l4ELQ8TMg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">MTV News<\/a>. \u201cThat\u2019s what collabs is all about. When you got that energy, going back and forth.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"3.7647058823529\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ASAPferg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@ASAPferg<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BigSean?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@BigSean<\/a> KILLED their performance at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VMAs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">#VMAs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cYCKbLrIZu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/cYCKbLrIZu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MTV (@MTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MTV\/status\/1166180547338670082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">August 27, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In late July, Sean released the bar-heavy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/big-sean-new-single-overtime-863321\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cOvertime\u201d<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/big-sean-single-again-863884\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jhene Aiko- and Ty Dolla Sign-featuring \u201cSingle Again.\u201d<\/a> During an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/hip-hop\/8525729\/big-sean-interview-bet-twenties-lena-waithe-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><em>Billboard<\/em><\/a>, Sean discussed the goal for his next project and the importance of shining a light on mental health issues in his music. \u201cI just want to convey where I\u2019m at. I don\u2019t want to talk over people\u2019s heads,\u201d Sean said. \u201cI want to communicate the things I learned along the way. For instance, \u2018Single Again.\u2019 I haven\u2019t really heard a rap song about being single that wasn\u2019t like, \u2018I don\u2019t fuck with you\u2019 or, \u2018Baby, I want you back.\u2019 I never heard a rap song that was kind of embracing like, \u2018I\u2019m fucked up. Maybe I realized that it\u2019s on me and I need to work on myself a little bit.\u2019<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/big-sean-bezerk-asap-ferg-vma-876618\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a lengthy hiatus, Big Sean continued his return to the spotlight at the 2019 Video Music Awards. Flanked by artists spray painting the phrase \u201cDetroit 2 Harlem\u201d on white jumpsuits, the Detroit rapper launched into his recently released single \u201cBezerk,\u201d alongside A$AP Ferg, off his upcoming fifth studio album. Over a booming Hit-Boy beat, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 20:59:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}