Notes: 3 / 8 months ago

KiD CuDi — Mr. Rager (Music Video)

These visuals for “Mr. Rager” debuted last night at Cudi’s premier of his Surface to Air collaboration jackets last night.

Directed by Jeremy Rozan of Surface to Air.

If you got a spare $1,200 in pocket, you can head over to the Surface to Air store at 27 Mercer, in Soho and pick one up.

12 months ago

KiD CuDi — Marijuana (Music Video)

Cudder somewhat makes up for yesterdays fuckery with these new visuals for his 4/20 anthem “Marijuana” off MOTM 2. Directed by friend of a friend (CAGE’s good friend) Shia LaBeouf.

The weed game needs CuDi back!

Notes: 8 / 1 year ago

KiD CuDi - Mojo So Dope (Montage/Music Video)

Some pretty funny footage from Cudder’s touring, strung together for a “Mojo So Dope” music video.

*It was taken from the video featured on the MOTM II Deluxe Edition (below)

Notes: 1 / 1 year ago

KiD CuDi - Mr. Rager (CDQ/Album Version)

This is the CDQ version of “Mr. Rager”. Definitely a cleaner sound, but essentially the same song as the one that’s been around for a couple months.

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Below is a preview of his whole album (in Snippets). The album, for the most part, sounds pretty fuckin legit. Definitely looking foward to MOTM II:

Notes: 2 / 1 year ago

Spin Mag Review of MOTM 2

Spin Magazine got a chance to preview Cudder’s upcoming album Man on the Moon 2: Legend of Mr. Rager (which drops November 9th), and their take on it was pretty interesting:

Kid Cudi is one fucked-up dude. This is not Web-lurking speculation. It’s been the rapper’s ongoing, on-the-record confession since he proclaimed, almost jauntily, “I’m looking for a substance to drown in,” on the first song, “Down & Out,” on his first mixtape, 2008’s stoner picaresque A Kid Named Cudi. Last year’s ambitious, if unfocused, official debut, Man on the Moon: The End of Day, reeled with references to “night terrors,” compulsive drug use, and his deceased father. “A happy ending would be slitting my throat,” he mused.

Yet Cudi expresses this heavy-hearted disarray with a brashly naive yearning. It’s as if admitting his flaws is his creative passkey, like horny solipsism is for, say, John Updike or Snoop Dogg. And trying to frame that lyrical fucked-upness so it’s not trite or pathetic pushes his music into intriguingly skewed places (the laconic dance-club drift of “Day ‘N’ Nite”). Like Drake and benefactor/collaborator Kanye West, Cudi works a rapping/singing hybrid that prizes raw emotion. But he shies from their will to power; Beck’s waggish melancholy and shrugging disregard for genre is a closer fit.

That said, Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager, the sequel to The End of Day, is a revelation, boldly reshaping Cudi’s sound—with vivid production by Emile, Plain Pat, the Cool Kids’ Chuck Inglish, Jim Jonsin, Diplo, and others. The album’s narrative (yes, there is one this time, and it mercifully does not involve a Biography Channel voice- over by Common!) follows an idealistic artist who gets trapped in hip-hop’s make-it-rain imaginarium and emerges a predictably stupefied casualty. His cautionary journey takes the music in a makeshift ’90s-alt-rock direction, jacked up on jittery beats that eerily mirror the rush and crash of someone who’s been given way too much access to way too much ass. The dizzy friction between rap’s grasping for control and rock’s desire to lose it entirely give Cudi’s confessions a dicey, volatile edge.

On album opener “Horizon,” he adopts the role of semi-reliable narrator (as if): “Hello, how is everyone doing?” he offers over a keyboard twinkle; but when he claims “I’m your big brother” on “Revofev,” it’s got an ominous tinge, as strings crescendo, percussion rattles, and psych guitar lurches. “Where will you be for the revolution?” he asks, apropos of, well, the type of shit you say when you’re high on coke trying to be meaningful. By the filmic swirl of “Don’t Play This Song,” he’s gone, double-time spitting about drugs, predatory girls, his mom. “Be careful,” a female chorus implores.

“Marijuana” grows eerier, as he forcefully articulates why he needs to be stoned to balance the craziness in his head, against a keytar-ish blare and chattering drums. Darkness creeps on “Groovin’,” “Mojo So Dope,” “Wildin’ Cuz I’m Young,” and “Maniac” (featuring Cage, playing the psychotic fool), as Cudi gets punchier the more he parties.

“Mr. Rager,” a would-be arena anthem with a teasing guitar riff that never ascends, is the ingenious anticlimax. Cudi singsongs to himself—the wayward title character—entreating, “Tell me where you’re going … when will the fantasy end?” He gently envies the birds just “singin’, flyin’ around.” And with good reason, considering the fiendishness haunting him elsewhere. Mary J. Blige wails, “Don’t you worry,” on the outro,

*but Cudi’s off again, still struggling to heed his own album’s advice.

1 year ago

KiD CuDi - Mr. Rager (FULL/CDQ)

The “snippet” of this dropped a couple weeks back, and he’s been performing this at a bunch of his shows (I had the privilege of seeing him perform this in July at a Chip concert), but the final CDQ version just leaked tonight. The beat reminds me of a slightly up pace “Mr. Solo Dolo”…it’s the “RAGER” edition. DOPE ass song.

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1 year ago

KiD CuDi - Mojo

I didn’t get a chance to post this song yesterday, but right when I got home from work I downloaded it and couldn’t stop bumpin’ it. This song goes soo hard, from the hook and random persons smooth ass vocals, to CuDi just killin’ shit throughout the verses. This song embodies the diversity that he brings to Hip-Hop. No one could have really killed a song like this except for him…

TOO DOPE.

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1 year ago

NEW CuDi !!!

These are two audio snippets of two NEW CuDi tracks. They aren’t worth downloading, but I’m glad we are finally getting a little leakege from CuDi. Hopefully the CDQ/Full versions will be out soon…

Mr Rager [Snippet] (Prod. Kanye West)

Mojo [Snippet]

This is a video of him perfoming “Mr. Rager” live at the Bape Store in Soho this summer (Starts at 6:07):

Notes: 6 / 1 year ago

KiD CuDi - Erase Me (Feat. Kanye West)

This is a radio rip that I heard about this morning. Apparently it premiered live this morning on a radio station in Cleveland, and the “Radio Rip” leaked later in the day. It is a different approach for CuDi, which is expected because of his diverse musical talent, but for him to jump into the Hip-Hop/Pop/Rock genre (like some other people) is not something I’m not necessarily excited for (Ye’s verse wasn’t actually that bad). The beat is my main concern, as it is a really up-tempo guitar/drums tune, and sounds like it could be a ~~Avril Lavigne~~ pop song. I don’t wanna really rip it that bad because it may grow on me, but as of now I’m not so sure about it…

* I’m not sure, but it is rumored that this is off of his upcoming album, Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager.

** Sorry about the intro b.s., it is a “Radio Rip”, hopefully the CDQ will be out soon.

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Notes: 3 / 1 year ago

DAMNNNNN! Biggest day in Hip-Hop (2010) = September 14

Notes: 7 / 1 year ago

KiD CuDi - REVOFEV (Revolution?) (Produced by Plain Pat)

NEW FUCCIN CUDI!!! This is my “New CuDi song” face haha. I don’t give a FUCCC what people are saying about this, I think this song is tough as hell! I’ve already heard it from his live performances of it, and its so dope. This is officially the first leak off Man on the Moon (2) : The Legend of Mr. Rager, and I’m so fuccin hyped for more shit to LEAK (probably “Mr. Rager” next)!!!!

*Its called “REVOFEV”, instead of “Revolution” like people originally guessed. It is pronounced “Rev-of-Ev”, which means “Revolution of Evolution”, which was originally going to be the title of his second album. hmm…

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Man On The Moon II: The Legend Of Mr. Rager is due out September 14th!

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1 year ago

In other G.O.O.D. Music news…

KiD CuDi - Mr. Rager ( LIVE in Oregon )

This is kinda a preview of another MOTM: The Legend Of Mr. Rager song. The song is actually called “Mr. Rager”, and during this live performance you basically only get a grasp of what the chorus will sound like. I’m not sure what to think yet, but CuDi does go in on that hook…

1 year ago

KiD CuDi - Revolution (?) [ LIVE in Oregon ]

This is a new track by CuDi that he just performed in Oregon this past Saturday (May 30th). It is mad chill and definitely feels like that normal Cudder flow. This is one of the first previews of his upcoming album, Man on the Moon: The Legend of Mr. Rager. I am looking forward to hearing some actual songs over the next couple months. The new MOTM will drop in September.