Rager, even when that meant looking at himself in the mirror after the partying was done, as reflected in Man on the Moon II’s latter half. Ten years ago, Kid Cudi was sidestepping being pigeonholed as an “emo rapper,” leaning even harder into his alias Mr. It sounds like you pick right back up where we left off 10 years ago.'” After two or three songs, I was like, 'Whoa, this shit really feels like a Man on the Moon. “I was already in a really good place working on Entergalactic, going crazy on ‘THE SCOTTS’-but then I was making something else that didn't fit those two projects. Rager (with four solo and two collaborative albums in between), finds him in a sort of post-discovery nirvana, coming clean about his mental-health journey (“Mr Solo Dolo III”), his relationship with his mother (“Elsie’s Baby Boy ”), and the power of his celebrity (“4 Da Kidz”). Man on the Moon III: The Chosen, which returns to a naming convention Cudi hadn’t utilized since 2010’s Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. ” The issues Cudi mentions have been emerging for him since his beginnings as the “lonely stoner,” a New York City-via-Cleveland cool kid who assured a generation of rappers to follow him that it was plenty OK to acknowledge your own inexplicable melancholy. I guess being depressed is an issue.' I'm just making music, I'm just doing what feels right, but this shit is coming out and it's things that I probably didn't pinpoint. “I didn't realize that my father's death really had an impact on me in the way that it did until I started writing about it: 'Oh, I guess being alone is an issue for me. “Every time I make a record, I'm learning something new about myself,” Kid Cudi tells Apple Music.
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