We’ve been doing that thing for years now. That doesn’t advance us in any way, shape, or form.
“I feel like that’s holding us back as a culture, as black people. Specifically, the rapper/actor talked about the state of hip-hop, his recently released surprise album, struggles with depression, and using music to help others fight suicide. “I think the ‘money, cash, hoes thing’ needs to be deaded,” Cudi explained.
#KID CUDI ALBUMS SPEEDING MOVIE#
The kid is not alright, but the music is.With the Need for Speed movie in theaters, Kid Cudi stopped by The Arsenio Hall Show this week to discuss the film, his music, and offer a performance. “I always end up back in the cycle of shame / Looking in the mirror is hard / Some days I hurt myself to distract me from distractions / That’s madness fixing sadness,” Cudi confesses on “Confused!” And it’s more pointed than the fabricated faux-rebellion of Travi$ Scott. It’s not as gleefully nihilistic as Future, but comes across just as revelatory. Speedin’ is an uncomfortably internal album that’s a pleasurable listen. Kid Cudi Says He Auditioned For Upcoming ‘Star Wars’ Film (To bring home the point that the music here is raw but not unfinished, an acoustic demo version on the song is featured on the album’s second disc.) Cudi leaves it exposed - all measured looping and muddy moods presented as a finished idea. He’s angsty on “Judgmental Cunt” and defiant on “Fade 2 Red.” On “Fuchsia Butterflies,” he raps, “I’ll be happy, happy, getting shitfaced by myself / Just loathing in my sweet misery.” The title track is the kind of song that Kanye would use as a soundbed to bigger ideas, sandwiched in between harsher notes and tones and clicks and clacks from other places it’s the type of foundation Kendrick Lamar would layer with aggressive modulations and angry crashes something Drake would have Noah “40” Shebib elongate and screw and submerge under a fog of vaporous atmospherics. Speedin’ is about message, not methodology: expression, not execution.Ĭudi differentiates things raging up and down emotional scales, mores than musical ones.
The album wouldn’t sound out of place on a re-airing of Alternative Nation, and it’s a smart move - by embracing punk mores, Cudi sidesteps deep scrutiny. But Speedin’ is more well-formed than anything he’s done before in his genre experimentation, even eliciting a throwback to MTV’s ‘90s heyday down to its running commentary from Beavis and Butthead, courtesy of Mike Judge. Kid Cudi Cancels ‘Especial’ Tour, Releases ‘Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven’Ĭudder’s sixth studio effort is a hard left turn more than a departure - the sound has a precedent in 2012’s WZRD, which was presented as a side project with longtime collaborator Dot da Genius. Cudi’s experimentation with mind-altering substances has been part of his DNA since day one alienation and internal turmoil remain integral parts of his motif. Over the folksy twang and melodic fuzz of the drug-trip ode “Adventures,” he speaks of “floating out to nowhere” and philosophizes that “only crazy makes sense.” He half-raps: “Hell is beyond the door / Heaven doesn’t want one more.” And then: “Accept yourself / Exit yourself / Access yourself.”
#KID CUDI ALBUMS SPEEDING FREE#
Here, everything is driven by an alternative rock ethos and the themes more internal - the flight is more about Cudi breaking free from his mortal coil than anything around him. Cudi’s prior albums focused on escape on terrestrial terms. There was a fascination with the moon, as if leaving the planet behind were the answers to his problems, and the music reflected this: spacey and electronic, but still filtered through hip-hop’s conventions with drums, bass and rhyme as the driving forces, even in their scarcity.
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