Kid Cudi Talks Wale Diss and Cocaine Use
Kid Cudi Talks Wale Diss and Cocaine Use
In the new issue of Complex magazine Kid Cudi speaks out about everything from the Wale diss to using cocaine. In the interview he Cudi doesn’t hold anything back and clearly isn’t afraid to speak his mind.
Below are a few excerpts:
On his drug use
I started doing cocaine to get through interviews, ’cause people wanted to know a lot about my personal life and I wasn’t prepared for a 60 Minutes interview every time. Doing bumps I was able to get through the day, but then I would smoke weed to calm me down—it was the only way I could get through the day without people noticing I was doing it.I never thought it was a problem, but I was definitely high-fiving death a couple of times. It took a lot for me to talk about sh*t like this on the album. I don’t feel like I need to explain myself to anyone besides the fans. My fans don’t believe sh*t until they hear me say it. And those are true Kid Cudi fans. I want them to know the story.
On Wale taking a shot at him in a freestyle “Throwin’ ’round wallets like the dude that Kid Cudi hit”
It wasn’t a shot, it’s just a simple-ass rhyme by a simple-ass rapper. You can’t let that sh*t faze you. That’s one of those raps that just shows the world that you wack. Why would you even use that as a metaphor? Everybody think they Hov. N*ggas ain’t got the magic like they think they do; there’s only a couple of wizards in this game. I’m a wizard and I know it.
On his new baby girl
There’s another thing people don’t know. I have a daughter, born March 26th of this year. Her name is Vada, and she’s f*cking awesome. That was eating me up, and it was stressing me out that nobody knew about her. I was trying to escape from that, too. Just trying to figure it out and make everyone happy, it’s a lot for somebody my age to handle. I was manning up and dealing with it in what I thought was the right way, but it was the wrong way. I want to be around for her. I can honestly say she was the wake-up call. The reality that it’s bigger than just you now—you have a responsibility and there’s no more time for mistakes. It’s time to stop f*cking around.
More on Wale and his rap peers
The last album, I let people diss me, throw out those jabs in their verses and have their little slick remarks. This time around, I’m not f*cking around. I have no time to think about other n*ggas. These other motherfuckers like feeding off another n*gga’s energy, so they mention their name. You hear me talk about n*ggas? I don’t even talk about Kanye, and that’s my homeboy! They talk about Kanye like they’re bosom buddies with this n*gga. Talking about “I be in Hawaii”—man, sh*t the f*ck up, why you got to tell everybody everything? Then people like Wale get mad that ‘Ye ain’t give him no beats—’Ye ain’t give you no beats because we ain’t f*cking with your raps. It’s not a conspiracy theory. We don’t f*ck with you musically, so we’re not going to provide music for you. The shit is a service, it’s a quality of a certain standard. N*ggas are just so thirsty it’s ridiculous. I’ve been eating humble pie forever, and people still call me an asshole. These people don’t know my fucking life—now I’m going to give them something to talk about.
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Exclusive: Rihanna- ‘Who’s That Chick’ -Official Video
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Willow Smith Makes Me Wanna ‘Whip My Hair’
Willow Smith Makes Me Wanna ‘Whip My Hair’
By now I’m sure that you all have heard Willow Smith’s debut hit song ‘Whip My Hair’ and if you haven’t… clearly you have been living under a rock. Willow, the daughter of actors Will and Jada Smith has definitely made her mark with this song. Less than a month ago she dropped ‘Whip My Hair’ and already her single can be heard on just about every hip hop and pop radio station. Oh and did I mention she is signed to Jay-Z’ s label, Roc Nation. Yeah that’s right…that means she’s official!
Before I actually had the chance to hear this song, I heard the hype surrounding it and I must admit that I didn’t think twice about it. I remember saying that this was going to be another case of celebrities trying to push their not so talented child to follow in their footsteps. I was so wrong! This girl has got it going on…her swag is so ridiculous! The song is very positive and upbeat and I absolutely love it! She may have taken us by surprise with this one but I got a feeling that we can expect great things from this 9-year-old in the future.
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Kanye West Opens Up About His Mother’s Death and Taylor Swift
Kanye West Opens Up About His Mother’s Death and Taylor Swift
The October issue of XXl Magazine is covered be none other than Kanye West titled “Love” and “Hate”. Of course, in true Kanye fashion his cover story is far from the norm, his 40 page section in the magazine consist of a first person narrative in which he opens up about his mother’s death and the how the Taylor Swift incident changed him.
On his Mother’s Death
When I moved to LA, she moved to LA/ And she wound up in a place that would eat her alive. Even if I stayed in New York, it wouldn’t have been like that. If I had lived in New York, she’d still be here.”On the Taylor Swift Incident“In a way, I had thrown a Molotov cocktail at my own career, and it gave me an opportunity, for the first time, to go away and find out who I was,” he wrote. “Because I felt very alone.
“I stress that the incident wasn’t about Taylor personally, And it definitely wasn’t about race. Where I messed up is , at the end of the day, it’s your show, Taylor. It’s your show, MTV.”
On apologizing
“The relationship with the public and with your fans is like the relationship with your girlfriend. How could I not, at a certain point, be like, ‘I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have been at the awards show. I’m sorry’? Not that I don’t deserve to get beat up or change who I am inside, to make sure that that doesn’t happen again.
On bouncing back
“I knew I wasn’t in a great spot publicly after the incident, but I would just block it out and work as hard as possible and let my work be my saving grace.”
