A friend recently passed this phenomenal music video my way, and I can't get enough. Kid Cudi is an artist that his been on my radar for a little while (since his Plain Pat & Emile mixtape "A KiD Named CuDi") but has recently been gaining some traction in the blogosphere. Cudi takes after the Wale model, producing some mixtapes of his own and getting his name linked up with some big timers - Kanye and Crookers to name a couple.
I'm not usually a fan of music videos, but recently there have been a few that have caught my eye. This is one of them in a major way. Love the combination of animation and live action video.
More than just a fan of the video, I'm being converted to a bigtime Cudi fan. His flow matches up well with Kanye and Cool Kids, combining some vulnerability with great flow. I dig it.
Here are a couple tracks to complement Day N' Nite, which has been getting a lot of play. The first comes off of the aforementioned A KiD Named CuDi and takes Paul Simon's "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover" and updates it in a major way. "50 Ways to Make a Record" shows off Cudi's flexibility, with him singing over the ironic drumbeat more than rapping. Part of the shift that's drawing the line between Hip-Hop and Rap? Could be - the takeaway is that it's a dope tune.
The second is a slick track from Crookers' Mad Kidz EP that features Cudi rapping and singing over the top of a nice (and unusually relaxed) Crookers beat. Definitely check this one out if you enjoy lightly pounding beats, Kudi's flow, Crookers, or aliens. I feel like Lil Wayne or Dr. Octagon should be involved with this cut.
The last track for today comes from Plain Pat's camp again, showcasing Cudi and Kanye together on the Sky High remixtape. Kanye himself digs this track, as do I. With a little sampling of "Flashing Lights" here and some of Cudi's best rhymes, this tune definitely makes me look forward to a potential collaboration of these two in the future.
4 comments:
Embrace the Martian is an outkast remix
Embrace the Martian is an outkast remix - No its not i was wrong haha
if im not mistaken its not a crookers remix. Taken straight from his A KiD Named CuDi Mixtape, i don't know where you got that.
It's definitely a Crookers remix. But you're partially correct.
The track was actually featured on both Crookers and Kid Cudi releases - it was the opening track on Crooker's 4 track Mad Kidz EP (see http://www.chemical-records.co.uk/sc/servlet/Info?Track=ECB152T or http://www.last.fm/music/Crookers/Mad+Kidz+EP), and was also track 8 on Cudi's A KiD Named CuDi mixtape. Both tapes dropped in July of 2008, to the best of my knowledge.
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