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Rager, The Chosen is broken up into themed suites that track our protagonist’s descent into madness and the harrowing road to recovery. Like Man on the Moon: The End of Day and Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr.

Getting the group back together to close the Man on the Moon trilogy with the new Man on the Moon III: The Chosen presented the opportunity to build on the promise of 2016’s underrated Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin’ and the respect of famous admirers like Travis Scott and Juice WRLD. It’s a perfect quandary: to silence naysayers who’ve questioned his chops since his 2008 debut mixtape A Kid Named Cudi, the Cleveland star has pushed himself to prove his range as a producer, singer, and rapper, but the further he strays from the Man on the Moon script of gauzy beats by Plain Pat, Emile Haynie, and Dot Da Genius, and excoriating, honest singing, the dicier things get. As good as the first two Man on the Moon albums a decade ago might’ve been, his 2012 project, WZRD, was a borderline abysmal amalgam of bad rock tropes and artless oversharing (though, in a certain light, you can see it as a kind of ur-text mapping out the straight-faced pivot from hip-hop to pop-punk that artists like Cudi’s fellow Ohio rapper-ternt-sanga Machine Gun Kelly get credit for nowadays), and 2015’s raw, noisy Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven could be the single most egregious act of grunge fan service since the plague of shameless alt-rock radio groaners loosed on the Earth after Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley passed. He hasn’t always made good on this sphere of influence, though. To hear younger rappers and their fans tell it, Kid Cudi is undisputedly an influential figure in the pivot toward melody-conscious, emotionally earnest trap music that came together at the top of this decade. As is often the case with internet rap debates, both sides of the argument are mostly overreacting to each other the truth is somewhere in the middle.

You can peep them below.Depending on who you ask, Kid Cudi is either a boundary-breaking figure in hip-hop and fashion or an overrated sidekick who made the most of unusually good connections. Now, in 2020, Kid Cudi is still stacking up his musical currency with the announcements of four upcoming projects: Man on the Man III, a joint effort with Travis Scott, his Entergalactic album and Kids See Ghost 2. In just over a decade, he’s certainly built a noteworthy catalog of music between those LPs and two additional collaborative efforts with Dot da Genius and Kanye West. Rager, in 2010, the Ohio-bred rapper went on to pen his junior album, Indicud, in 2013, the surprise release of his fourth LP, Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon, in 2014, and two back-to-back underrated gems, Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven in 2015, and Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin' in 2016.

In 2009, the year he became an XXL Freshman, Kid Cudi dropped his own debut LP, Man on the Moon: The End of Day, which is highly regarded as a classic and cemented his face into the blog-era rap Mount Rushmore.Īfter dropping the sequel, Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. And just a few months later, sparked up even more buzz when the public got hip to the fact that he helped write songs like “Heartless” on Yeezy’s transcendent album, 808s & Heartbreak, in 2008. The self-described "Man on the Moon" dropped his first mixtape, A Kid Named Cudi, in July of 2008.