Interview Magazine: Kid Cudi

By Dimitri Ehrlich / Photography Robbie Fimmano
Mixing quirky with clunky and making it all sound sexy is no small feat, but cocky, oddball charm is rapper Kid Cudi’s secret weapon. Born Scott Mescudi, the 25-year-old Cleveland native moved to Bushwick, Brooklyn, four years ago with little more than a bulletproof sense of confidence and a dream. But Cudi (the name is pronounced like cutty, not cutie) had better luck landing a job at Dean & Deluca than he did a record deal. A meeting with Patrick “Plain Pat” Reynolds, an A&R executive at Def Jam, yielded yet another rejection, but when Cudi ran into Reynolds a few months later at a party, the two bonded, and Reynolds, who had recently left the label, signed on as the rapper’s manager. Cudi’s MySpace page nods to Coldplay, the Postal Service, and My Chemical Romance, along with more obvious hip-hop influences, and his musical curiosity is audible on the wide-ranging tracks he assembled for a recent mix tape, which includes the single “Day ‘N’ Nite,” the tale of a glum, imaginative pothead who is neither a player nor a gangsta—just a lonely guy with a broken heart….(continue reading)

Check out Interview Magazine’s website for the rest of the brief interview and to find out what Cudi’s wearing in the above photo. Nothing new learned from this but he does look stylin’ in that outfit.

Posted by DP Mar.26, 2009 4 Comments

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