Chop- sounds like the psych-rock-leaning record that Cudi hasn’t been able to make in two very forgettable genre experiments’ worth of trying. The Ty Dolla $ign–assisted “Freee”- which New York Magazine writer Craig Jenkins noticed samples “Stark” by Mr. The title track-which recalls Mos Def from the ether!-evokes images of flying cars and the Japanese retro futurism that both Kanye and Cudi love so dearly. The next song, “Fire,” produced in part by André 3000, recalls the same one horse town on Mars vibes of earlier Cudi work think saloon-door-swinging “revofev” from Man o n t he Moon II or the oft-forgotten internet loosie “ She Came Along” with Sharam. The good news about the rest of the album is that, after three listens, this seems like the most rash decision. On the opening salvo “Feel the Love,” which was misleadingly labeled “4th Dimension” on every streaming platform (originally, all of the metadata for Kids See Ghosts was jumbled this can happen when you finish laying vocals for an album right before you upload it), Kanye barged in on the tail end of a slippery Pusha-T verse to make gun sounds for about 10 more seconds than he needed to.
#KID CUDI SAID KEEP MOVING FORWARD FULL#
And when the WAV live stream finally flickered to life a full two-and-a-half hours late on Thursday evening, what became immediately clear-at least to me-was that Kanye knows just what a Cudi album is supposed to sound like. Cudi would go on to gain a cult fan base and directly influence your favorite moody, fashionable cloud rapper-think Travis Scott or A$AP Rocky-but five albums have come and gone since then, and for one reason or another, Kanye West and Kid Cudi had never collaborated on a full-length project. It could be heard out of virtually every passing car and mens’ apparel storefront up until it was included on Cudi’s debut album Man o n t he Moon, and eventually, “Day ‘N’ Nite” went triple platinum. Buzz had been building behind Cudi’s breakout single “Day ‘N’ Nite,” which was recorded in 2007 and released a year later. Ten years ago now, after the dissolution of his first engagement and the death of his mother, Kanye enlisted a mush-mouthed guy that had left Cleveland in 2005 with nothing but $500 and a demo tape to help mold the somber, glitchy frequency of 808s & Heartbreak. The bar has been significantly lowered, but by contrast at least, Kids See Ghosts was worth all the sweaty anticipation. Kids See Ghost - “4th Dimension” clip from live event listening party. It’s as close to an ideal bed of sounds for Cudi to lay his phantasmic monotone over as it’s possible to get: But I can’t say that I was expecting to hear Prima’s “ What Will Santa Say” stretched and contorted into something so large, snarling, and downright diabolical. However, on “4th Dimension,” Kanye, well, still raps awkwardly about sex: “She said i’m in the wrong hole, I said ‘I’m lost’ ( uh, uh),” he said, aloud. It’s truly remarkable, considering the New Orleans jazz and swing musician has been quite dead for 40 years.Īrguably, one of the most depressing aspects of Y e was how much it felt like a reversion to the mean- of course he spat back out headlines he glanced over on Twitter Moments of course he bellyached about his daughter’s future uh, agency of course he rapped awkwardly about sex. Let’s just skip straight to the part on Kids See Ghosts, the Kanye West–Kid Cudi collaboration album that came out on Friday, where Kanye and his trusty sidekick Mike Dean manage to squeeze a feature out of Louis Prima.
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