How Kid Cudi Created the Melodic World of ‘Entergalactic,’ Both for Television Screens and Listening Ears

variety.com:

EJ Panaligan editor When Scott Mescudi, better known as musician Kid Cudi to most of the world, released his debut studio record “Man on the Moon: The End of Day” in 2009, the latter half of the album included a groovy love anthem called “Enter Galactic (Love Connection Part I).” And though a sequel to the song never came out, Mescudi figured out an innovative way to dive back into the track’s affection-drenched world 13 years later. “Entergalactic” is both a new animated Netflix program — the streamer is calling it an “event” — as well as the title of his 10th studio album.

They’re both being released on Sept. 30. “It’s exciting, like, never in my wildest dreams did I feel like I would revisit that song in any type of way,” Mescudi tells Variety over Zoom alongside co-star Jessica Williams. “It was something that I recorded years ago — sort of as a simple love song — but it was nice to expand upon its ideas and take it to other places, adding in characters and other storylines to see where it could go.” On the television side, “Entergalactic” is a 92-minute special on Netflix that follows the stories of young creatives Jabari (voiced by Mescudi), an ambitious comic book artist, and Meadow (voiced by Williams), a thoughtful photographer, two next-door neighbors in New York City whose immediate chemistry sends them on a path toward fervent love — its euphoric highs and prickly tribulations chronicled along the way.

Following Mescudi and Williams in their leading roles are supporting characters voiced by the likes of Timothée Chalamet, Laura Harrier, Vanessa Hudgens and more.

And on the music end, “Entergalactic” will be the tenured hip-hop musician’s first studio album since late 2020’s “Man on the Moon III: The