"Look at me/ You tell me just what you see/ Am I someone whom you may love/ Or enemy," goes a particularly Brandon Flowers-like line of the otherwise effectively spare "Mr. He's referred to as "our hero" throughout Man on the Moon, and his superpower is managing to convey unlimited amounts of :-( while staying firmly in his vocab-stunted "sorrow"-"tomorrow"/ "room"-"moon" wheelhouse of rhymes. It would be numbing enough on its own, but nearly every 30 seconds there's some terrifyingly underwritten lyric to jolt you into sharp pangs of embarrassment. Throughout, Cudi's issues could not be rendered in a more clumsy or obvious way, blowing up every slight perceived or real ("had mad jobs and I lost damn near all of them") into trials of such mythical proportions that it needs a bogus four-part "plot" (Cudi is sad, does mushrooms, starts to get famous, is still sad) and narration from Common.Ĭudi also slathers his verses with a flat warble that Auto-Tune was made to salvage. "I got some issues that nobody can see," goes the hook to "Soundtrack 2 My Life", and it's a boast as grandiose as you're likely to hear in 2009. The problem is how these two impulses feed off each other in all the wrong ways, with Cudi inverting the songwriting process so that a supposed pursuit of honesty is rendered predatory and manipulative. And we won't play the hipster card, since this record lives and dies by its lyrics as much as any document of spit-these-bars formalism.
Now, I still check for Atmosphere projects and I've got a functioning knowledge of the Get Up Kids' discography, so I can't knock Man on the Moon for skewing emo. But whereas 808s was a record about a very public figure attempting a retreat he'd be incapable of sustaining, Man on the Moon uses quotidian, lonely stoner turmoil as a means of introduction. “Lovin’ Me” featuring Phoebe Bridgersġ6.Cudi co-wrote several tracks on 808s (most notably guesting on "Welcome to Heartbreak"), and combined with hits in Drake's "Best I Ever Had" and Cudi's own "Day 'N' Nite", the commercial resiliency of that album proved that fad or not, this sadsack backpack stuff is here to stay. “Show Out” featuring Pop Smoke and Skeptaġ4. You can check out the segmented tracklist below.Ĩ. The two recently provide a killer project titled The Scotts.Īs for production, listeners will be treated to work from Dot Da Genius, Take a Day Trip, Plain Pat, Emile Haynie, and Mike Dean. Some fans were disappointed that his namesake, Travis Scott, was not included. The 18-track project comes through with features from Trippie Redd, Phoebe Bridgers, Pop Smoke, and Skepta. In one night, he must face himself again and fight to win back his soul from the evil Mr. He finds himself lost dealing with the same pain he had not felt in years. What he thought was peace turns into a nightmare. After feeling like his world was over, he found hope and overcame the darkness that was plaguing his life.
“In the last 10 years, Scott Mescudi has been through hell and back. He also left a message on the back of his album for new Cudi fans to keep abreast of what’s happening.
#KID CUDI MAN ON THE MOON ALBUM YOUTUBE SERIES#
The rapper has been teasing the return of the series on Youtube for approximately a month now, and fans should be able to experience what it’s all about this Friday, December 11. Kudi is closing out the decade long series with the third and final installment titled Man on the Moon III: The Chosen. He returned to his holy place a year later with Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. His first taste of the moon came with his debut album Man on the Moon: The End of Day. This makes it his third time analyzing the world in which he lives from above, figuratively of course.
We said that to explain just why the rapper is taking it back to the moon for his seventh studio album. Rapper Kid Cudi is not an astronaut by a longshot, which makes his love for a certain celestial body quite intriguing. Kid Cudi shares the tracklist and cover art for his new album, Man on the Moon III: The Chosen.