But this was my first time meeting Jennifer and she was mad cool. I’ve known for years from just being in New York. “I was like, ‘Are you sure they want me?’” Cudi jokes about his reaction when he got word McKay’s team wanted to include him in the star-studded project that also features Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill, Tyler Perry, Cate Blanchett and Chris Evans. Cudi plays DJ Chello, a famous turntablist who is in a relationship with a pop star played by Ariana Grande.
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It’s that same can-you-freaking-believe-this energy that jumps out when he discusses his latest movie role in "Don’t Look Up," an upcoming Netflix comedy helmed by Adam McKay about a giant comet headed on a disastrous collision course with Earth. People are not going to f- with this.’ And then hit and, you know, it happened how it happened.” I remember, I couldn't sleep before my debut album came out. “I was part of this new era of hip-hop along with artists like Kid Sister and the Cool Kids,” Cudi says. Cudi remains genuinely taken aback that the same kid who left Cleveland in 2005 with just $500 and a demo tape to pursue a rap career in New York, paid for studio time by working at Applebee’s and was evicted from his apartment within a few years was logging songwriting credits with two of the most powerful figures in music. Yet this is no subtle attempt at name-dropping. Kanye, of course, is music and fashion icon Kanye West and Hov is Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter, a recent inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and hip-hop’s first billionaire. “He just couldn’t understand how I could be working with Kanye and Hov without having to go through radio.” “You can see the look on Flex’s face,” Cudi recalls during a Zoom interview from his Calabasas home. “Yeah, we made it to Billboard without a deal.” “I actually just got my deal two months ago,” Cudi responded with a laugh. “So you didn’t have a deal then … while this record has been playing on the radio?” “The whole internet rapper thing is very hard for me to understand,” Flex admitted, years before social media apps like TikTok became the go-to platform for music acts looking to go viral. Now, without a high profile co-sign or crew to burnish his street cred, he was seated across from one of the most influential DJs in the country. “I try to run, but see, I'm not that fast / I think I’m first, but surely finish last, last.”Ĭudi, born Scott Mescudi, had initially gained a small but passionate underground following after posting “Day ‘n’ Nite” on MySpace.
“Now look at this / Madness the magnet keeps attracting me, me,” he confessed on the autobiographical track. Cudi had been turning heads with his debut single “ Day ‘n’ Nite,” a melancholy synth-heavy song about a lonely, self-loathing stoner struggling to climb out of depression.
There is an illuminating moment in the new Kid Cudi documentary, “A Man Named Scott,” that captures the Ohio native’s improbable run to becoming a hip-hop superstar.ĭuring a 2009 interview at New York's Hot 97 radio station, Cudi was attempting to explain to stalwart host Funkmaster Flex how he managed to break through without the blessing of the rap industry’s gatekeepers.
"Because now I look in the mirror and I love what I see." (Myung J. "I can finally get on stage and feel the love," says Kid Cudi.
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