A.D. Amorosi Despite his role as one of the most zealously forensic birthers of emo-rap and its tales of troubled mental health, there has always some disconnect between what Kid Cudi was saying and how he was saying it… or trying to say it all at once.
That murky, melancholic jumble finally comes into greater bittersweet focus on “Man On The Moon III: The Chosen.”As far back as his debut mixtape, 2008’s “A Kid Named Cudi,” through fiery, feeling-filled records such as “Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin’” and even his Kids See Ghosts project with Kanye West two years ago, Cudi’s outlook was that of a solitary man, cursed by awareness’ intensity.
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