Watch Big Sean's new video for 'Single Again,' filmed around his hometown of Detroit

Brian McCollum
Big Sean is filmed for a new song on top of a Channel 4 news truck during a shoot for an upcoming video outside of the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center in downtown Detroit on Tuesday, May 14, 2019.
Big Sean is filmed for a new song on top of a Channel 4 news truck during a shoot for an upcoming video outside of the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center in downtown Detroit on Tuesday, May 14, 2019.

A Livernois Avenue beauty shop, a west side neighborhood and Spirit Plaza are among the Detroit scenes in Big Sean's new music video for "Single Again," released this afternoon.

Shot in May at sites across the rapper's hometown, the six-minute short film — directed by Detroit native Lawrence Lamont — finds Big Sean addressing the perils of social media.

"I know what it’s like to be in social scandals where even with no information/ evidence, just people assuming will blame you and turn on you," he wrote on Twitter.

Big Sean will perform "Single Again" Aug. 7 on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon."

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The video stars Detroit actress Ryan Destiny ("Star") and her boyfriend, actor Keith Powers ("The New Edition Story").

Big Sean is portrayed as a celebrity under fire for romantic infidelity, as the public quickly chooses sides for and against the rapper based on social-media outrage.

Detroit locales included the Masonic Temple's powder room (a baby-shower scene), the Marygrove College parking lot, Mt. Lebanon-Strathmoor Church, and Cherrylawn Street, where a garbage truck is filled with roses.

WDIV-TV anchor Rhonda Walker appears in the video as a reporter, documenting a boisterous crowd as a "verdict" on Big Sean's guilt is awaited. Sean later raps atop one of the station's news vans.

"The video has a lot of important messages, but the main one is for people to 'wake up and smell the roses' in a world where we wake up and check our phones instead," Sean said in a statement.

Big Sean is writing from experience: Since breaking into fame earlier this decade, he's been through multiple high-profile splits and the associated rumor-mongering that goes with the territory.

Contact Detroit Free Press music writer Brian McCollum: 313-223-4450 or bmccollum@freepress.com.

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