Hello all, it has been a ridiculously long time since I last wrote on this thing. Quite a few things have happened but I will get to that on another post (well, maybe). This post is about one of my husbands (in my head) latest album. So far April has been an amazing month for music. Tyler, The Creator with Wolf and Depeche Mode with Delta Machine . Both albums I will be purchasing in the very near future. The album that I was most excited about was Kid Cudi's Indicud! This is technically Cudi's fourth album but his "rock" album WZRD, although ballsy, was just not good. And that's coming from not only a super Cudi fan, but a fan of rock music. Sorry boo, it just wasn't good. So people were excited to hear that Cudi was getting back to Cudi. Not only that but he announced that he will be producing all the tracks himself. Personally I was a bit afraid, this is the first album that Cudi's previous production partners Pat and Emile, who shaped the "Cudder" sound would not be involved in. Long drawn out album review short, this album is pretty amazing. Although Cudi's production can be a bit clunky or busy, there is beauty that can be found in this. One great example is the song "Young Lady" where it literally sounds like 2 songs going on at once, somehow, it works.
There is also an element of surprise with the totally random and amazing collaboration with Micheal Bolton MICHEAL BOLTON!
The song "Afterwards (Bring Yo' Friends) is giving me 90s R&B club infused realness.
Simply put I am throughly impressed with this being Cudi's first full foray into producing and this is the result. I'm happy to be a Cudder fan since the beginning as seen in this post from '09. I LOVE YOU CUDI!
After months of waiting Kid Cudi let loose the short film "Maniac" featuring Cage aka Cage Kennelz aka Chris Palko directed by my ex boyfriend Shia Labeouf. The short film is pretty cool and gory just right for halloween which has come and gone. My only gripe with it is it did not feature the actual song "Maniac" at all which I think at some point would have been great soundtrack for all the maniac-ness that takes place. Doh well.
So for a while now a lot of people have been looking forward to Kid Cudi's debut album Man on The Moon: The End of Day and whether this dude will deliver on all the hype that has been surrounding him for a year and change. I have to say that he delivers big time! There will be a lot of haters and nay-sayers because that's just the way the world works. You can be the person who cures cancer and SOMEONE will say condem you for it, that's the way it is. Hardcore hip hop heads, old rappers and back-packers may want to hate but this is a great album. Kid Cudi and I are about the same age (he 25 me 24) and to me as an artist he represents and era of kids who grew up on mid to late 90's MTV where say a Metallica video plays and Dr. Dre and Tupac plays after him the maybe some Sneaker Pimps after that. Its a generation of kids who embraced many different genres of music. He takes this and in my humble opinion takes the art of conception and hip hop as a whole to another level. The album is set up as a play/movie/dream/musical if you will being split up into 5 scences. The transition into some of those scenes are narrated by Common who's like this generation's James Earl Jones. Listening to this album is truely cinematic. There are some songs that on an individual basis that I would not turn to like "Simple As..." and "Pursuit of Happiness" but this is a project that needs to be listened to as a whole. There are some standout tracks "Soundtrack to my Life" "My World" "Cudi Zone" the best song on the album to me is "Heart of Lion" which Cudi describes as "Eye of the Tiger"-esque which it really is. Its dark yet triumphant with a pulsating beat. I mentioned on twitter the other day how I was surprised of the number of interviews and articles I have read about Cudi how no one mentions Bone Thugs N Harmony's influence on his sing song-y style. This is well demonstrated on the song "Hyyer" feat his friend, artist and fellow Cleavland-ite Chip the Ripper. On that song its so blantantly obvious, its so blantantly Cleaveland as us outsiders are familiar with. As a whole this album really does push the musical envelope, it engages ALL musicians and artist in all genres to step their game and imagination up. However; I believe the pressure is really on for the Kid now, how could he possibly follow up to this, is he able too? He has so far proven himself very sensitive when it comes to this whole music game, threatning to quit, deleting his twitter account because of 'negativity'. So I say get this album and listen to it whole preferably in the dark cause this may be as good as it gets from Kid Cudi.
Ok so for a while now I was looking forward to going to see the great hangover tour featuring Asher Roth and Kid Cudi, but due to lack of finances I was not able to buy tickets. My homie from way back from the WVRU days now works at Z104 and got me and my brother the hook up to a meet and greet monday. So we make our way out to Va Beach ( in record time i might add) in the hopes of meeting Kid Cudi. So we get there and wait in the room where all this is happening and long story short Kid Cudi decided not to show for reason unknown. NOT COOL. So because of this the locals favorite Shaggy got record exec to give us free tickets. VERY COOL. So by the time all this ended it 3p and doors to the norva would not open till 6:30 so not wanting to go all the way back to hampton just to drive back to norfolk my brother and I needed to kill some time. We killed about 2 hours with an hour and a half to go. So we wound up just posting outside of the Norva. We saw Kid Cudi pass by a few times but he did not stop for pics or anything. He and I had an exchage of a head nod and a 'What up!?", that makes him slightly less of a douche SLIGHT, and he's really hot :sigh: but short, I cant do nothing with that HA! Anyways the doors open and the show begins. From the start this show is designed as a HIP-HOP show with the warm-up dj playing hip-hop classics. Something that my brother and I enjoyed very much. First up was 88 keys which we saw outside as well. Me and brother exchanged a "Stay Up" with 88 making him our new favorite. His set was solid very basic he went through much of his album The Death of Adam and was very entertaining and funny doing so. Next up was B.O.B. which we were surprised/happy that he was performing that night. We were under the impression only 88 keys was going to be there. His set was great! This dude is super super talented, very impressed. After him Asher Roth came out. I am not an Asher fan by any means but this kid put on an awesome performance. Dude they danced to "Candy Rain"! I have a video floating around hampton somewhere of me singing and dancing to that song *Note to self: find that video and destroy it!* Anyways he had a great set and his set also marked the beginning of trees floating in the air. After that Cudi took his sweet a$$ time getting to the stage. My brother was hating on him the whole time. He lost a lot of respect for the Kid that day, resulting in him not wanting to buy his album when it comes out. I dont blame him, I see where he's coming from but...I cant give up on Kid Cudi like that, cause regardless of douchbagness that took place, I am a fan of the music ya know? So he finally comes out and I have to say the light is bonkers very very cool. He played a lot of the mixtape stuff and some cuts from the upcoming album which I dug. But from the records he did perform I can tell this album is going to be a downer which I dont mind, just dont know how people are going to dig it. So the highlight of the show was when Kid Cudi performed "Make Her Say" and he friggin brought out Kanye West!!!! The Norva went BUCK. To have an artist like Kanye in a club venue like the Norva is mind blowing to say the least, absolute classic moment. After that he performed "Day N Nite" to which me and my brother left to avoid the stampede of getting out. When we went to go leave, who was at the merch booth? 88 keys! He was real cool, daped him up had a small convo and took a pic, great guy. So overall I give the show a B+. It went smoothly until Cudi decided to take some sweet time but made up for it huge by bringing Kanye out. And although showing up for the meet and greet was soooo not cool, im quite sure he has some good reason like he did not want to deal with people that day cause you know sometimes you dont feel like dealing. I wish I can completely write him off but its not this often that I really believe in a person's music, I feel like a battered girlfriend lol 'But guuurl I luh him and he luh me too, he just got a funny way of showin it'. Plus he's hot uggggh.
HA! Best line in the song to me. So this is the new video for my boyfri---*ahem* Kid Cudi's new single "Make Her Say" ft Kanye and Common. Now this is not my favorite Kid Cudi song but it seems like it will get radio airplay as well as video play. I can't wait for the album Man on the Moon:The End of Day, it sounds like its going to be pretty epic. Originally slated for August 25th just last week it got pushed back to Sept 15th boooo, anyways check out the vid, it has a cool, breezy, monochromatic look, and Cudi looks tasty ;)
...I saw this interview. Kid Cudi sat down with some folks over at MTV and shared 5 things you dont know about him. He's so cute, I just wanna squeeze his cheeks, on his face, get your mind out of the gutter (im talking to myself) oh and his number 5 just made me melt, we should totally get together and have co-co babies together.
So every week I seemed to be obsessed with some one, this week is no different, so read on. This week's obsession is Kid Cudi, originally from Cleveland, OH (the home of my favorite rapper and human being of all time Bizzy Bone!!) whom transplanted to Brooklyn some years ago. The best way that I can describe his style is like 'hood hipster'. Its non thretning, its danceable, its trendy, and I thoroughly enjoy it. Ive been digging his stuff for a while, but I was just in obsessed mode this week. Photo Source
This is my new favorite song from the A Kid Named Cudi mixtape from well a Kid named Cudi. I take that he got the whole Maui Wowie thing from Pineapple express which I dig, one of my favorite movies of the year. So like I said before this is my new fav hope you enjoy.
Hello all, it has been a ridiculously long time since I last wrote on this thing. Quite a few things have happened but I will get to that on another post (well, maybe). This post is about one of my husbands (in my head) latest album. So far April has been an amazing month for music. Tyler, The Creator with Wolf and Depeche Mode with Delta Machine . Both albums I will be purchasing in the very near future. The album that I was most excited about was Kid Cudi's Indicud! This is technically Cudi's fourth album but his "rock" album WZRD, although ballsy, was just not good. And that's coming from not only a super Cudi fan, but a fan of rock music. Sorry boo, it just wasn't good. So people were excited to hear that Cudi was getting back to Cudi. Not only that but he announced that he will be producing all the tracks himself. Personally I was a bit afraid, this is the first album that Cudi's previous production partners Pat and Emile, who shaped the "Cudder" sound would not be involved in. Long drawn out album review short, this album is pretty amazing. Although Cudi's production can be a bit clunky or busy, there is beauty that can be found in this. One great example is the song "Young Lady" where it literally sounds like 2 songs going on at once, somehow, it works.
There is also an element of surprise with the totally random and amazing collaboration with Micheal Bolton MICHEAL BOLTON!
The song "Afterwards (Bring Yo' Friends) is giving me 90s R&B club infused realness.
Simply put I am throughly impressed with this being Cudi's first full foray into producing and this is the result. I'm happy to be a Cudder fan since the beginning as seen in this post from '09. I LOVE YOU CUDI!
