"With the super-duper flow, I created that one word rhyme style."

• Born Sean Michael Leonard Anderson on March 25, 1988, in Santa Monica, California
   
• After a series of mixtapes and an unauthorized leak of a collaboration with Drake, Big Sean's debut studio album Finally Famous was released in 2011. It debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, and spawned the hit singles "My Last," "Marvin & Chardonnay" and "Dance (A$$)."
   
• Big Sean received his first GRAMMY nominations for 2013 for Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance.
   
• Did you know? Big Sean was an opening act on Rihanna's 2016 Anti World Tour.
   
• Big Sean appeared with Ariana Grande to perform "Best Mistake" on the 2014 A Very GRAMMY Christmas nominees' prime-time holiday special.
   
• The performer's Sean Anderson Foundation has formed a partnership with Project Knapsack to provide a global backpack exchange program with students in South Africa and Detroit.