A year later he returned with a sequel, Man on the Moon, Vol. singles charts, Cudi released his conceptual debut album, Man on the Moon: The End of Day, in the summer of 2009. Not long after the release of "Day 'n' Nite," Cudi began touring with the Fool's Gold collective, who performed at a South by Southwest showcase and subsequently joined forces with Steve Aoki and his Dim Mak collective for a North American tour.Īfter the remixed version of "Day 'n' Nite" climbed the U.K. It didn't hurt that Kid Cudi began to receive increasing press attention, including a nod from Rolling Stone (which touted him among the magazine's Top Five best indie hip-hop artists of 2008). The label released the Day 'n' Nite EP in February 2008 and circulated a Crookers remix around the blogosphere, drumming up a good deal of buzz in the process.
Kid Cudi's unique vocal style and dreamy, narcotic instrumentals were calling cards of his sound, but he experimented constantly, with the 2018 Kanye collaboration Kids See Ghosts crackling with a chaotic rawness while 2020's Man on the Moon III: The Chosen was made up of neatly polished cosmic trap songs.īorn Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi in suburban Cleveland, his career took off after he moved to Brooklyn and became affiliated with Fool's Gold, the label of DJs A-Trak and Nick Catchdubs. Cudi quickly ascended from online buzz in the late 2000s to a signing with Kanye West's GOOD Music label, eventually selling millions and winning Grammys while changing the landscape of hip-hop. Kid Cudi is a Brooklyn-based rapper from Cleveland whose personal lyrical angles and innovative perspectives on production and genre combination made him one of the more influential talents of his time.
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