Kid Cudi Is Everywhere

Let me start out this post by saying I love Kid Cudi. Man on the Moon: The End of Day was probably the best album I bought in 2009. I love his voice, his lyrics, and his use of imagery. Also his mixtape A Kid Named Cudi is amazing. I was not surprised to find out that he held writing credits on Kanye West’s “Heartless”, the best track off of 80s and Heartbreak that has been covered everyone in all genres of music. The kid is talented I love being this excited about an artist. That said, Scott Mescudi bordering on overexposure.

I say bordering because I can’t decide if we are seeing too much of Kid Cudi or just enough. I just recently watched the music video of Techno superstar’s David Guetta’s song “Memories” which features Cudi. They must be good buddies because they were both in Black Eyed Peas “I’ve Got a Feeling” video. Dan Black and Kid Cudi also have a new video out together for the track “Symphonies.” Kid Cudi was also on Mike Posner’s mixtape with 3OH!3 for the song “Don’t Trust Her”. Along with that he does the opening to “Elevetas” off of Robin Thicke’s new album Sex Therapy. He’s on Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3 in “Already Home”. He teamed up with Shakira for “Did Again” on her album She Wolf. (That video is siiiiiiiiiiiiiick.) These are just the one’s I can remember without doing a search on the internet, but trust me, there are more out there.

I think what really struck me was when I heard that Kid Cudi would be in the HBO show “How to Make it in America”. I saw and ad for it on the back of the new Rolling Stone, and thought, “That guy looks like Kid Cudi, but it can’t be.” The picture is a bit blurry, and if made no sense for Kid Cudi to be in ad with who I thought might be Lake Bell (it is). Then I thought the show might be some sort of documentary on finding success in the music and the arts. It’s not. This is another brainchild of Mark Whalberg, and I watched the first ten minutes of the show last night, and it looks good, but I was still shocked to see “Scott ‘Kid’ Mescudi” appear in the opening credits. Being all over the place with music I can accept. Kanye and Lil Wayne have been on everyone’s tracks, yet I have yet to seem them try to act. Maybe Cudi is going the Common route.

Either way, it’s probably actually not overexposure and just me being sad that I will probably never get to see him perform in a small venue, because it’s clear he’s going to be huge. OH! And he’s playing Bonaroo! I may have to find a way to get to Manchester, Tennessee in Mid June.