Artist

Big Sean

Wins

Nominations

About Big Sean

"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.

Year	Award	Artists	Work	All Nominees
2021	Best Rap Performance	Big Sean, Nipsey Hussle	Deep Reverence	All Nominees
2018	Best Rap Performance	Big Sean	Bounce Back	All Nominees
2017	Album Of The Year	Justin Bieber	Purpose	All Nominees
2016	Best Melodic Rap Performance	Big Sean, Kanye West, John Legend	One Man Can Change The World	All Nominees
2013	Best Rap Song	Big Sean, Mike Dean, Tauheed Epps, Willie Hansbro, Malik Yusef Jones, Anthony Khan, Stephan Taft, James Thomas, Terrence Thornton, Herbert Turner, Kanye West	Mercy	All Nominees
2013	Best Rap Performance	Kanye West, Big Sean, Terrence Thornton, Tauheed Epps	Mercy	All Nominees