Kid Cudi Interview with Complex
by L.A. Ruano, March 24, 2009
Rising Hip-Hop sensation, Kid Cudi recently sat down with Complex’s Joe La Puma for an interesting interview, covering various curious subjects you’ve all been wondering about. Amongst their sit down session, Kid Cudi chats about his highly publicized incident during NBA All-Star Weekend, career expectations and a scoop into the upcoming album. The full interview can be read here.
Kid Cudi on his career expectations
My whole thing is to not to be as big as Kanye or Lil Wayne, but to be bigger. It’s all about progression. If I just set the goal to want to be like Kanye and Lil Wayne, that’s setting my shit to a limit and it’s selling myself short. I’m pretty sure when Kanye was aspiring to do his music, he wasn’t like, I want to be as big as Jay. He was like, Nah, I want to be bigger then Jay. It’s not necessarily saying that you are better than them, it’s just setting that bar. If I never am better then Kanye, in my brain, I’m always going to be trying to be, forever and ever until the day that I die.
…on Reebok situation
It was never about Reebok, the brand or anything like that. Nike don’t always make the dopest shoes, no brand makes dope shit all the time. I was opposed to the shoes they tried to give me—I didn’t like them. I didn’t get into because it was Reebok people, I got into it with one individual who approached me the wrong way. I’m a man at the end of the day. I’m not a fighter, I don’t like violence—hell, I don’t even know if I know how to fight. I’m not a strategic fighter, that’s not my steez. I don’t know how to work a gun if you gave me one, I wouldn’t want to fucking touch it. But at the same time, I ain’t no sucker and I was in a situation where a dude was trying to test me as a man. I let it get to me, but that will never happen again. A nigga want to test me? So what. I will never let anyone rub me the wrong way. It’s something I don’t regret at all. It was something I needed to do at that time. That dude was wrong. I reacted off of his reaction. He interfered in a conversation I was having with two other people. I wasn’t even the first one to put hands on him, my security Zule was. I tell people, he’s always close, he’s not even certified, he’s just a nigga from the hood.
…on New Album
Right now, the name of the album is Man On The Moon, The Guardians. It may change, depending on the features. Right now Snoop is down, he told me his oldest son put him on to my record. Snoop is my favorite artist of all time. He’s someone I look up to. I explained to him the idea of the song and he’s with it. I’m also trying to get Shia Labeouf in my project. I want the album to be as cinematic as possible, and feature people that are great at what they do. We’re both young talents in this game, and I just found out Shia was a fan of my song “Day N’ Night,” and I’m a fan of his. He’s killing shit, I feel like I’m doing the Shia Labeouf in music. We’re working on trying to get him to narrate the story of the album.
The complete interview can be read here.
Cudi is wassup! Nuff respect!!!
“I don’t know how to work a gun if you gave me one, I wouldn’t want to fucking touch it.”
hes just sayin he doesnt want anything to do with violence and that shit.
i respect it
In person he seems a bit cocky, I honestly hope he’s not another sell out rapper smh
personality plays a big role when it comes to fan/street support. his music is dope but his head is too hollywood for me…. hopefully he’ll proove us wrong aye?
Respect to his music, but it’s already seeming like we might have another “Operation Humble _______.”
Kanye, Lupe, and Wayne all need to chill out and go build homes with Habitat for Humanity or something. Just bring their heads down to the same atmospheric level as the rest of us.
cant fight or shoot a gun? is he stoopid?
No way can you compare cudi to lupe, lupe is in a different stratosphere let alone this planet…
No one can fuck with him , even jay z called him a legend.
Game over…
big , bigger , wtf? this dood sounds kinda stupid to me.
Cudi is dope that’s 4 sure.. Like the comparison to Lupe, also because both of them pretty much came out in the light with help from Ye. Anyways, NO, Shia does not make music, and that’s not what Cudi is saying, he’s saying they’re working on Shia to narrate his album as it is build as a chronological story..
I fuck’s wit cudi, @ Mohsin, sit the fuck down.
He’s good for the music he does… respect.
I hope Ye doesn’t ruin this guy.
SOMEBODY get this man a tampon
i mess with cudi’s music. sorta reminds me of a modern day tribe called quest or de la soul. his shit is different but its good shit. i wudnt consider him a great mc, nowhere near Ye or anyone of that caliber. but overall his music is “good music”. you wudnt hear him spittin some crazy bars n metaphors but overall his production, melodies, and lyrical content is there. he sticks to talkin bout what he knows and he doesn’t try to be someone or something he’s not. i definitely think he’ll be bigger than bleek (in opposition of the top comment at the Complex site). I think he’ll be somewhere around lupe’s height of success (excect that lupe actually is a great lyricist). maybe not as high, but near it. they both made good music but not everyone understands it cuz most people are ignorant n brainwashed by some of that commercial garbage. some commercial shit is hot but most of it trash. hip hop aint wat it used to be but i think it’s steadily coming back. holla
Mohsin
To clarify hes just showin respect to Snoop hes a new jack, hes gotta kiss ass. He said he wanted Shia to narrate, step your reading comprehension up.
Cudi is vastly becoming an artist I admire. At first he seemed a bit cocky but the more I read his interviews the more I respect the man.
eh’s a fuckin tool…snoop he’s favorite?…AND WTF…SINCE WHEN DID SHIA DO MUSIC?!?!?..lol i thought he only acted
cudi is the truth
I like and respect Cudi, he makes good music.
I can’t wait to hear more from him.
jamie foxx.
Shia Labeouf and cudi? im a fan of both
dudes dope..
i just hope with the fame, the ego doesn’t interfere with his choices. thats when good musicians go bad.
cudi is a joke.