Instead, heвЂ™s turned his focus to the batch of songs that comprises Passion, Pain & Demon SlayinвЂ™. It says a lot about his mindset that he seemed genuinely stung by the adverse reaction, both from critics and fans, to SpeedinвЂ™ Bullet, shelving plans to head straight onto Man on the Moon III in the aftermath. Ye, Drake, whoever.вЂќ Shortly, afterwards, he headed into rehab to seek treatment for depression and suicidal thoughts, speaking with admirable candour on the subject in an open letter.Д¬udiвЂ™s apparent predisposition for building bridges only to burn them seems to speak to a deep-set discomfort with the standard trappings of the genre that dates back to his вЂlonely stonerвЂ™ days, and the unflinching examinations of his own psyche have been by turns beguiling and tiresome over the course of his career so far. Rager followed, he was appearing on Letterman slinging an electric guitar for a rendition of вЂњErase MeвЂќ - a sign of things to come when you think of it in the context of last yearвЂ™s fifth LP, SpeedinвЂ™ Bullet 2 Heaven, which mined nineties indie rock for inspiration.Дrawing on influences that broad is practically unheard of in the hip hop mainstream, and Cudi has also kept up an awkward, armвЂ™s-length association with many of those around him, throwing no shortage of fuel onto the fire last September by launching a broadside of tweets against rap game fakery that he clarified вЂњapply to who they apply. By the time the five-act Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. The only consistency throughout his catalogue is the ambition Man on the Moon: The End of Day was a spaced-out concept album that tapped the likes of MGMT and Ratatat as collaborators while still managing to flirt with the mainstream, sampling Lady Gaga just as she was becoming pop royalty and pulling out a major radio smash of its own with вЂњDay вЂnвЂ™ NiteвЂќ.

Perhaps mercurial is a kind word for it the truth is CudiвЂ™s output to date has been wildly erratic. For every step forward, every seal of approval - getting Common to narrate his first record, or being signed by Kanye - thereвЂ™s been two backwards, whether because of CudiвЂ™s mercurial stylistic approach or beefs that increasingly seem summoned up for the sake of it. ItвЂ™s hard to gauge the exact degree to which the genre has actually embraced Cudi, but they certainly havenвЂ™t done so whole-heartedly.

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