Blige, puts it even more bluntly with “Wanna know what it sounds like when I’m not on drugs?/Please, please don’t play this song” while the great “Wild’n Cuz I’m Young” tells snooping blogs they shouldn’t bother, he’ll tell his own story.
Vincent whirl in a paranoid black hole dubbed “Maniac,” while Cudi issues more warnings with “I love the darkness, yea, I’d like to marry it”. At its best, it’s fascinating, like when rapper Cage and indie singer St. Cudi’s opening line “You are now in the world that I’m ruining” is a spot-on warning as the album slowly spirals down into sourness and regret, but just like on his debut, the soundscape is spacy and far-reaching, making this interstellar therapy session a much more interesting transmission. Solo Dolo character for Man on the Moon II to fully work its magic. As a result, you have to care quite a bit about this Mr. It’s actually the outcome of the alt-rap star’s breakthrough debut as it deals with fame, and Cudi’s admittedly unwise way of handling it, liquid cocaine. And the only way to do that is to connect with other like-minded people on the same mission.Kid Cudi’s Man on the Moon II was released in a year where rap album sequels were common, but unlike most of the competition, this sequel has a very strong link to its predecessor. As he told Apple Music about his choice of collaborators, “We need to feel the music all around us, we need to swim in it. For Cudi, creation is ultimately about unlocking access to a higher power. Grappling candidly with the wages of fame, the duo’s track “Reborn,” with a chorus movingly sung by Cudi, is a timeless anthem to self-love and self-improvement. In 2018, Cudi and West teamed up as KIDS SEE GHOSTS. Over the years, Cudi’s vision has become more expansive, yielding multi-part album series, deep dives into the life of the mind (2016’s Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin’, released after a public admission of anxiety and depression), and boundary-breaking side projects like WZRD, his alt-rock partnership with longtime producer Dot Da Genius.
Music label, Cudi co-wrote several tracks on his label head’s 808s & Heartbreak, further molding the future of hip-hop in his own introspective image. His 2008 breakout hit, “Day ‘n’ Nite,” neatly encompassed his contradictions: What sounds like a bouncy party cut captured the kind of melancholy candor that would come to define the next decade in hip-hop. After he was expelled from high school, he moved to New York with dreams of becoming a successful rapper. The Cleveland native-born Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi in 1984-came up fueled by the trials he'd faced early on. An old soul with a livewire mind, Kid Cudi is hip-hop’s patron saint of misfits and outsiders.