The album features guest appearances from Jeremih, Eminem, Jhené Aiko, The-Dream, Migos, and Starrah.

The production on the album was handled by Sean's frequent collaborator Key Wane, alongside a variety of record producers such as Amaire Johnson, Metro Boomin, WondaGurl, Fuse, Tre Pounds, DJ Mustard, DJ Dahi, Detail, and The Track Burnaz, among others.

"[3] He also cited Kanye West as an inspiration to his creative process behind the album in an interview with Fact: "He helped me learn how to make albums", and although West is absent from the record, the Detroit-based rapper exclusively told Capital XTRA that he was very influential in the project – helping to shape many songs.

[7] The track was produced by Hitmaka, co-produced by Smash David, with additional production by Metro Boomin and Amaire Johnson.

[11] The track was produced by Fuse, co-produced by Tre Pounds, with additional production by Maximilian Johnson.

[6] In January 2017, Big Sean performed "Bounce Back" along with "Sunday Morning Jetpack" on Saturday Night Live.

[19] Eric Renner Brown of Entertainment Weekly said, "It's a supremely listenable album, loaded with comfort-food hip-hop fit for booming club sound systems and earbuds on the subway alike.

[21] Colin Groundwater for Pretty Much Amazing stated that "on his fourth studio album, he positions himself as hip-hop's poster-boy for all of these qualities [hard work, sacrifice, persistence, gratitude], but in rapping about such unassailable ideas, he comes away with uninteresting results".

[22] Preezy of XXL said, "Big Sean rises to the occasion on I Decided., arguably the best album of his career, and one that secures his spot as one of the top five artists in hip-hop today".

[23] S. David of Tiny Mix Tapes said, "He is not a bad rapper, simply an average evangelist, and I Decided.

He embraces his underdog status, especially since he is most often pitted against and working with rap's biggest personalities, like Kanye West, Drake, and Kendrick Lamar.

More often than not, however, he gets swallowed by the larger-than-life brands and presences of those he surrounds himself with, like Eminem who steals Sean's thunder with the quality, agility and fire of his guest verse on "No Favors".

"[25] I Decided debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, earning 151,000 album-equivalent units, (of which 65,000 were pure album sales) in its first week.