1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:23,357 --> 00:00:25,151 PHARRELL WILLIAMS: Well, the Internet was just 4 00:00:25,234 --> 00:00:28,529 opening things up so widely that there were only 5 00:00:28,612 --> 00:00:31,949 maybe a handful of archetypes in the industry 6 00:00:32,032 --> 00:00:35,327 that were representing only a part of what it is 7 00:00:35,411 --> 00:00:37,079 that we were thinking and feeling, 8 00:00:37,163 --> 00:00:39,457 and so we just were like, let’s just go. 9 00:00:39,540 --> 00:00:42,460 Let’s just completely be ourselves, unabashedly, 10 00:00:42,543 --> 00:00:43,669 and be... 11 00:00:43,753 --> 00:00:47,798 very proud of what and who we are. 12 00:00:47,882 --> 00:00:51,051 And what and who we are is, like-- 13 00:00:51,135 --> 00:00:54,555 where we come from made huge impressions on us. 14 00:00:54,638 --> 00:00:56,932 Huge impressions on our spirits and on our bodies 15 00:00:57,016 --> 00:01:00,853 and what we wore and how we talked. 16 00:01:02,146 --> 00:01:04,273 So, when you mention Cudi 17 00:01:04,356 --> 00:01:08,944 and the, like, ever-growing, ever-expanding generation of folks 18 00:01:09,028 --> 00:01:12,156 who do not adhere to boundaries, 19 00:01:12,239 --> 00:01:16,160 we’re doing it because we’re human and it’s our right. 20 00:01:16,243 --> 00:01:19,538 We can’t edit what we were exposed to 21 00:01:19,622 --> 00:01:23,083 and what helped to form the way we see the world, 22 00:01:23,167 --> 00:01:27,087 so we’re not gonna edit the result. 23 00:01:28,506 --> 00:01:30,466 We now have the opportunity. 24 00:01:30,549 --> 00:01:32,426 We are in front of cameras. 25 00:01:32,510 --> 00:01:35,012 We are behind microphones. We are behind keyboards. 26 00:01:35,095 --> 00:01:38,808 We are the pushers of pencils and pens. 27 00:01:38,891 --> 00:01:43,020 And no one can tell us how to express ourselves. 28 00:01:43,103 --> 00:01:45,439 In different modes of creativity, 29 00:01:45,523 --> 00:01:49,193 there are different formulas, and all of that is subject to change. 30 00:01:49,276 --> 00:01:51,487 In fact, that’s one thing I’ve learned about this life, 31 00:01:51,570 --> 00:01:54,156 is nothing is really fixed. 32 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:57,284 All of it can be changed. 33 00:01:58,452 --> 00:01:59,870 CUDI: All right, run it. 34 00:01:59,954 --> 00:02:02,957 ("Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven" by Kid Cudi playing) 35 00:02:28,524 --> 00:02:31,193 ♪ Oh, when I crash ♪ 36 00:02:31,277 --> 00:02:33,737 ♪ When I crash ♪ 37 00:02:33,821 --> 00:02:36,323 ♪ Or if I land ♪ 38 00:02:36,407 --> 00:02:39,535 ♪ No matter the case ♪ 39 00:02:39,618 --> 00:02:44,248 ♪ When I crash, when I crash ♪ 40 00:02:44,331 --> 00:02:47,042 ♪ Or if I land ♪ 41 00:02:47,126 --> 00:02:49,920 ♪ No matter the case ♪ 42 00:02:50,004 --> 00:02:55,467 ♪ I’m all smiles, I’m all smiles ♪ 43 00:02:55,551 --> 00:02:57,553 ♪ I’m all smiles ♪ 44 00:02:57,636 --> 00:03:00,180 ♪ Give a fuck what they say ♪ 45 00:03:00,264 --> 00:03:03,017 ♪ And I’m all smiles ♪ 46 00:03:03,100 --> 00:03:05,477 ♪ I’m all smiles ♪ 47 00:03:05,561 --> 00:03:07,563 ♪ Mm. ♪ 48 00:03:07,646 --> 00:03:09,648 (song fades) 49 00:03:21,285 --> 00:03:23,078 CUDI: My mom always used to say, like, 50 00:03:23,162 --> 00:03:25,831 "You were born to be on someone’s television." 51 00:03:25,915 --> 00:03:27,458 And I’d be like, "Ah, yeah, right. 52 00:03:27,541 --> 00:03:29,668 That’s not for me." 53 00:03:29,752 --> 00:03:32,796 But, like, hanging out, I was always on. 54 00:03:34,298 --> 00:03:37,593 I’m Kid Cudi, an artist out of, uh, Cleveland, Ohio. 55 00:03:37,676 --> 00:03:41,305 I started pursuing music when I was 15. 56 00:03:41,388 --> 00:03:45,017 I started writing, like, poems, 57 00:03:45,100 --> 00:03:48,646 like, after my father passed away when I was 11. 58 00:03:48,729 --> 00:03:52,358 I-I started trying to get in the game, doing talent shows, 59 00:03:52,441 --> 00:03:55,194 um, all types of shit, like open mics, 60 00:03:55,277 --> 00:03:58,364 like, anything I could get my name out there. 61 00:03:58,447 --> 00:04:01,075 Freestyle battles, all that shit. 62 00:04:02,534 --> 00:04:05,329 With my music, I’m definitely trying to inspire. 63 00:04:05,412 --> 00:04:10,084 And my movement is a inspirational one. 64 00:04:10,167 --> 00:04:15,339 I’m trying to lead the new movement to open kids’ minds about that. 65 00:04:15,422 --> 00:04:17,633 And in Cleveland, it’s like there’s no room for that. 66 00:04:17,716 --> 00:04:20,386 And if, you know, you try to do something different, 67 00:04:20,469 --> 00:04:24,014 it’s like... motherfuckers is like, "Who this nigga?" 68 00:04:24,098 --> 00:04:26,976 You know what I’m saying? Like, "Stick to the script." 69 00:04:27,059 --> 00:04:29,853 -I felt like... -(crowd cheering) 70 00:04:29,937 --> 00:04:31,271 fuck that. 71 00:04:31,355 --> 00:04:33,148 Now is when we fucking turn up. 72 00:04:33,232 --> 00:04:37,695 ♪ I’m on the pursuit of happiness... ♪ 73 00:04:39,989 --> 00:04:41,907 That’s why I felt like I need to be in New York. 74 00:04:41,991 --> 00:04:44,410 Yeah! 75 00:04:44,493 --> 00:04:46,161 CUDI: Oh, is the camcorder actually recording? 76 00:04:46,245 --> 00:04:47,997 -DOT DA GENIUS: Yeah. -CUDI: You recording all this? 77 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:51,166 I call myself Old Dot da Evil Genius, baby, you know, 78 00:04:51,250 --> 00:04:53,085 ’cause I got that crack for the street, man. 79 00:04:53,168 --> 00:04:55,212 You know, I’m the George Jefferson of the ghetto, man. 80 00:04:55,295 --> 00:04:56,797 -(laughter) -DOT: As far as rap, 81 00:04:56,880 --> 00:04:58,549 at that moment, I had only worked 82 00:04:58,632 --> 00:05:00,551 with all the drug dealers in my neighborhood. 83 00:05:01,802 --> 00:05:04,304 We become closest friends, and he would come over, 84 00:05:04,388 --> 00:05:09,893 and we’d be working on music from like 7:00 p.m. to like 7:00 a.m. 85 00:05:09,977 --> 00:05:11,437 We got Kid Cudi. You know what I’m saying? 86 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:13,564 That nigga’s about to drop, so look out for the Kid, man. 87 00:05:13,647 --> 00:05:14,815 -Kid Cudi. -From the Midwest side. 88 00:05:14,898 --> 00:05:15,899 -Ah, man. -(laughing) 89 00:05:15,983 --> 00:05:17,609 DOT: It was obsessive. 90 00:05:17,693 --> 00:05:19,862 Like, we didn’t do anything. 91 00:05:19,945 --> 00:05:21,947 -Just make music. -DOT: Cowboy Cudi. 92 00:05:22,031 --> 00:05:23,866 -Let’s go hit up Carl’s Jr. -(Dot laughing) 93 00:05:23,949 --> 00:05:25,325 Let’s go see what they got. 94 00:05:25,409 --> 00:05:27,453 DOT: Cudi was one of the first few people I met 95 00:05:27,536 --> 00:05:30,998 that it seemed like he didn’t care about what anyone thought. 96 00:05:31,081 --> 00:05:33,459 Where the fuck did you get that shirt from? 97 00:05:33,542 --> 00:05:34,918 Uh-oh. 98 00:05:35,002 --> 00:05:36,879 Where’s he going? Come back! 99 00:05:37,921 --> 00:05:39,339 (laughing) 100 00:05:39,423 --> 00:05:40,674 It was different for me. 101 00:05:40,758 --> 00:05:42,134 I’m from Brooklyn, man. 102 00:05:42,217 --> 00:05:43,552 We... It’s about rap 103 00:05:43,635 --> 00:05:45,179 at the end of the day, 104 00:05:45,262 --> 00:05:47,014 but he was just bringing musical references 105 00:05:47,097 --> 00:05:49,433 that I was not paying any attention to. 106 00:05:49,516 --> 00:05:51,268 Pretty much, like, all I’ve been listening to is, 107 00:05:51,351 --> 00:05:53,520 like, shit other than hip-hop. 108 00:05:53,604 --> 00:05:55,189 Like, I’ve been zoning out, listening to 109 00:05:55,272 --> 00:05:57,024 some Coldplay, you know, John Mayer. 110 00:05:57,107 --> 00:05:58,150 You know what I’m saying? 111 00:05:58,233 --> 00:06:00,027 Like, a lot of other shit like, you know, 112 00:06:00,110 --> 00:06:03,238 alternative music, rock, old-school rock, 113 00:06:03,322 --> 00:06:05,783 Electric Light Orchestra, Queen. 114 00:06:05,866 --> 00:06:07,951 Whole bunch of shit like that, man, Crash Test Dummies. 115 00:06:08,035 --> 00:06:10,454 I just been zoning out, listening to a lot of different music 116 00:06:10,537 --> 00:06:12,164 so I could incorporate it in mine-- 117 00:06:12,247 --> 00:06:13,999 you know what I’m saying?-- as far as, like, 118 00:06:14,083 --> 00:06:16,043 you know, good substance. 119 00:06:20,589 --> 00:06:23,175 SCHOOLBOY Q: Most of my homeys never left California 120 00:06:23,258 --> 00:06:25,886 until I, like, put ’em on a plane. 121 00:06:28,263 --> 00:06:32,684 When you really get to travel the world and you get so far away from it, 122 00:06:32,768 --> 00:06:36,605 you look at it like, "Whoa." 123 00:06:36,688 --> 00:06:39,566 The ghetto’s so small. That’s all you see. 124 00:06:39,650 --> 00:06:41,318 That’s all you know. What else you gonna do? 125 00:06:41,401 --> 00:06:43,487 Like, what else you gonna rap about? 126 00:06:43,570 --> 00:06:44,863 What else you gonna... 127 00:06:44,947 --> 00:06:46,824 want to listen to? 128 00:06:46,907 --> 00:06:50,369 That’s why I try to get my homeys out and expand they mind a little bit. 129 00:06:53,539 --> 00:06:55,499 You can get distracted because most of 130 00:06:55,582 --> 00:06:57,584 y-your main homeys, they ain’t into this shit. 131 00:06:57,668 --> 00:06:59,336 So, even when you get in the car, 132 00:06:59,419 --> 00:07:00,838 they’re only playing a certain type of shit. 133 00:07:00,921 --> 00:07:03,715 You go to their house, they’re only doing a certain type of shit. 134 00:07:03,799 --> 00:07:05,467 They dress only a certain type of way. 135 00:07:05,551 --> 00:07:08,095 But there’s just so much space out there, like... 136 00:07:08,178 --> 00:07:11,098 Like, niggas is walking on the moon and shit. 137 00:07:11,181 --> 00:07:14,560 You know, when you get bored of one thing, do the next. 138 00:07:14,643 --> 00:07:16,937 We’re just creators, man. We just want to create. 139 00:07:19,314 --> 00:07:23,569 And it kind of makes you a weirdo, you know, but it’s a dope thing. 140 00:07:23,652 --> 00:07:28,448 Like, we come up with a whole fucking thing from just the sound of air. 141 00:07:28,532 --> 00:07:30,868 Our imagination is crazy. 142 00:07:32,619 --> 00:07:35,455 So, it’s just being open to new things. 143 00:07:35,539 --> 00:07:37,791 You never know. It might change your life. 144 00:07:40,002 --> 00:07:41,962 He held down some jobs. 145 00:07:42,045 --> 00:07:43,630 You know, kept getting fired. 146 00:07:43,714 --> 00:07:45,799 This was actually a talk that he had with my parents, 147 00:07:45,883 --> 00:07:48,135 ’cause he got evicted, and they was letting him live, 148 00:07:48,218 --> 00:07:51,388 but then after a while, it was like, "Yo, you got to do something. 149 00:07:51,471 --> 00:07:53,140 Like, you can’t just stay at home all day." 150 00:07:53,223 --> 00:07:56,560 And he was like, "I don’t want to work no more." 151 00:07:56,643 --> 00:07:58,645 He was like, "I want to just do music." 152 00:07:58,729 --> 00:08:00,063 We was all in the room, 153 00:08:00,147 --> 00:08:02,107 like... 154 00:08:02,191 --> 00:08:04,818 Man, shit, ’cause we, you know, living in the hood, 155 00:08:04,902 --> 00:08:08,488 no glimmer of anything happening at all. 156 00:08:08,572 --> 00:08:10,365 And he’s just like, "It’s gonna work. Trust me. 157 00:08:10,449 --> 00:08:11,909 I don’t need a plan B." 158 00:08:13,493 --> 00:08:17,915 Cudi would just have ideas in his head, and he’ll just shoot ’em to me, like, 159 00:08:17,998 --> 00:08:19,583 "Yo, I think we should sample this. 160 00:08:19,666 --> 00:08:20,751 "Listen to this rap. 161 00:08:20,834 --> 00:08:22,169 What you think about this?" And... 162 00:08:22,252 --> 00:08:24,129 He had an idea 163 00:08:24,213 --> 00:08:27,216 for-for this song. 164 00:08:27,299 --> 00:08:29,051 (melody from Kid Cudi’s "Day N Nite" plays) 165 00:08:29,134 --> 00:08:31,803 He had the song pretty much written in his head. 166 00:08:33,347 --> 00:08:36,016 I remember it being a two-day process. 167 00:08:37,851 --> 00:08:39,186 We... 168 00:08:39,269 --> 00:08:42,314 -pretty much made the beat. -(beat plays) 169 00:08:42,397 --> 00:08:43,815 Recorded it the next day. 170 00:08:43,899 --> 00:08:45,400 ♪ Day and night ♪ 171 00:08:45,484 --> 00:08:48,820 ♪ The lonely stoner seems to free his mind at night... ♪ 172 00:08:48,904 --> 00:08:51,114 Uploaded it to Myspace. 173 00:08:53,867 --> 00:08:55,202 (beat stops) 174 00:08:55,285 --> 00:08:56,620 And that was it. 175 00:08:56,703 --> 00:08:58,080 (beat resumes) 176 00:08:58,163 --> 00:09:00,624 CUDI: I wasn’t thinking about making an album. 177 00:09:00,707 --> 00:09:04,211 I was just like, "Let’s try to make one good song here." 178 00:09:04,294 --> 00:09:08,840 Just one good song and just perfect that, 179 00:09:08,924 --> 00:09:10,968 and then from there we’ll figure everything out. 180 00:09:11,051 --> 00:09:13,011 But, like, let me just make at least, like, 181 00:09:13,095 --> 00:09:15,514 one song that I know is amazing. 182 00:09:15,597 --> 00:09:19,685 I was going through a really rough time, and, uh, 183 00:09:19,768 --> 00:09:23,230 it was really just, like, therapy for me to write it. 184 00:09:23,313 --> 00:09:26,733 When I was working on "Day N Nite," like, I started to sing it. 185 00:09:26,817 --> 00:09:29,152 Like... ♪ Day and night ♪ 186 00:09:29,236 --> 00:09:31,488 ♪ Oh, I toss and turn... ♪ 187 00:09:31,571 --> 00:09:33,490 Like, just really sing it. 188 00:09:34,825 --> 00:09:39,037 Dot was like, "Maybe you shouldn’t try to sing it. 189 00:09:39,121 --> 00:09:44,334 "Maybe you should just, like, say it in a melodic way." 190 00:09:44,418 --> 00:09:46,920 I wasn’t thinking about making a hit record. 191 00:09:47,004 --> 00:09:48,547 I wasn’t thinking about if motherfuckers would like it. 192 00:09:48,630 --> 00:09:49,798 I really didn’t give a fuck. 193 00:09:49,881 --> 00:09:52,301 I wrote it for me. You know what I’m saying? 194 00:09:52,384 --> 00:09:54,636 And if people felt it, that’s cool. 195 00:09:56,346 --> 00:09:59,141 I was like, "Oh, shit. Okay. 196 00:09:59,224 --> 00:10:01,643 Let me go lay this down and see what happens." 197 00:10:03,270 --> 00:10:04,313 BOTH: It came out how it came out. 198 00:10:04,396 --> 00:10:05,397 You know? 199 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:08,191 It was like, "Oh, shit." 200 00:10:08,275 --> 00:10:09,776 You know what I mean? 201 00:10:09,860 --> 00:10:12,029 That’s exactly how it was, is: "Oh, shit." 202 00:10:12,112 --> 00:10:14,865 ♪ ’Cause day and night... ♪ 203 00:10:14,948 --> 00:10:16,366 Man... (sighs) 204 00:10:16,450 --> 00:10:18,744 Dope. 205 00:10:18,827 --> 00:10:20,787 Man. 206 00:10:20,871 --> 00:10:22,831 "Day N Nite" is just gonna keep growing. 207 00:10:22,914 --> 00:10:26,918 It’s gonna be a timeless record that anybody’s gonna fuck with. 208 00:10:27,002 --> 00:10:28,378 ’Cause it’s so... you can relate to it 209 00:10:28,462 --> 00:10:30,297 on so many different levels, you know what I mean? 210 00:10:30,380 --> 00:10:31,631 So many different levels. 211 00:10:31,715 --> 00:10:33,842 Anybody... anybody has some type of... 212 00:10:33,925 --> 00:10:36,970 they can relate to at least one thing I talk about-- everybody. 213 00:10:37,054 --> 00:10:38,263 You know what I’m saying? 214 00:10:38,347 --> 00:10:39,639 It’s gonna be around for a long time. 215 00:10:39,723 --> 00:10:40,724 It’s gonna be a classic. 216 00:10:40,807 --> 00:10:42,351 ♪ ’Cause day and night... ♪ 217 00:10:42,434 --> 00:10:44,227 DOT: "Day N Nite" is on the radio at this time. 218 00:10:44,311 --> 00:10:45,812 Working security at Vice. 219 00:10:45,896 --> 00:10:48,565 You know, I’m like, "Yo, I made this beat." 220 00:10:49,900 --> 00:10:53,111 Like, "If you made this beat, why are you working here? 221 00:10:53,195 --> 00:10:54,946 Why are you... why are you working in security?" 222 00:10:55,030 --> 00:10:57,032 "I-I don’t know how I’m supposed to get money. 223 00:10:57,115 --> 00:10:59,910 I don’t know how it works." Like, we didn’t know anything. 224 00:10:59,993 --> 00:11:01,286 ♪ At, at, at night. ♪ 225 00:11:01,370 --> 00:11:02,913 (song ends) 226 00:11:02,996 --> 00:11:05,207 DENNIS CUMMINGS: Me and Cudi, we grew up together. 227 00:11:05,290 --> 00:11:08,960 Always the different kids in our neighborhood. 228 00:11:09,044 --> 00:11:11,129 I was a promoter in Cincinnati, 229 00:11:11,213 --> 00:11:16,259 and I’m sitting in a... in a meeting, and "Day N Nite" comes on. 230 00:11:16,343 --> 00:11:18,178 The one guy who was... 231 00:11:18,261 --> 00:11:21,640 I was getting a club from, he’s like, "Yo, I love this song." 232 00:11:21,723 --> 00:11:23,517 And I’m like, "Word. This is my guy." 233 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:24,935 He’s like, "That’s not your guy." 234 00:11:25,018 --> 00:11:26,770 I’m like, "No, this is my guy. Like, this is my guy." 235 00:11:26,853 --> 00:11:28,688 Like, "Well, let’s book him for a show." 236 00:11:28,772 --> 00:11:30,440 Get away from him and call Cudi. 237 00:11:30,524 --> 00:11:33,777 I’m like, "Yo, I got these guys who want to do this show. 238 00:11:33,860 --> 00:11:35,195 I think we can pull it off." 239 00:11:35,278 --> 00:11:38,198 He’s like, "Well, if it’s serious, let’s see if you can close it. 240 00:11:38,281 --> 00:11:40,158 "I’ll make you my road manager. 241 00:11:40,242 --> 00:11:42,411 You know, we gonna get out here and really do it." 242 00:11:42,494 --> 00:11:43,995 And then right after that, 243 00:11:44,079 --> 00:11:46,039 like, googling what a road manager was and the duties. 244 00:11:46,123 --> 00:11:48,333 (laughing): You know what I’m saying? Like... 245 00:11:50,877 --> 00:11:54,631 That whole "Internet rapper" thing is very hard for me to understand. 246 00:11:54,714 --> 00:11:58,260 So, you put your song... you... Correct me if I’m wrong. 247 00:11:58,343 --> 00:12:00,387 You didn’t have a computer, but you got your song 248 00:12:00,470 --> 00:12:02,431 -on Myspace. -Yeah. Yeah. 249 00:12:02,514 --> 00:12:04,683 Now, is this the "Day N Nite" record that we hear now today? 250 00:12:04,766 --> 00:12:07,352 Yeah, I put, um, "Day N Nite" on my Myspace for the first time... 251 00:12:07,436 --> 00:12:09,438 And when was that? What month was that? 252 00:12:09,521 --> 00:12:11,648 That was like March 2007. 253 00:12:11,731 --> 00:12:13,358 Around there. Yeah, March... 254 00:12:13,442 --> 00:12:16,236 -2007? -Yeah. Yeah. 255 00:12:16,319 --> 00:12:18,947 It was around then. I used to borrow my homeboy... 256 00:12:19,030 --> 00:12:20,991 -Two thou... Hold on, it’s ’09. -My homeboy... 257 00:12:21,074 --> 00:12:22,909 And so it’s been on there since... 258 00:12:22,993 --> 00:12:24,286 -Yeah. -(sighs) 259 00:12:24,369 --> 00:12:26,079 Been on there that long, man. 260 00:12:26,163 --> 00:12:27,747 So you had a deal then, you didn’t have a deal then? 261 00:12:27,831 --> 00:12:30,542 Uh, I actually just got my deal like two months ago. (laughs) 262 00:12:30,625 --> 00:12:32,836 While this record’s been playing on the radio all the time, 263 00:12:32,919 --> 00:12:34,379 -you just got your deal? -Yeah. 264 00:12:34,463 --> 00:12:36,214 We made it on Billboard without a deal. 265 00:12:39,092 --> 00:12:41,011 EMILE HAYNIE: I’d be in my studio, man, just, like, 266 00:12:41,094 --> 00:12:43,221 making beats, going through people’s Myspace 267 00:12:43,305 --> 00:12:44,890 and listening to new sounds, new artists. 268 00:12:44,973 --> 00:12:48,101 That’s the way you kind of listened to new music at the time. 269 00:12:48,185 --> 00:12:50,562 And I came across Cudi’s page. 270 00:12:50,645 --> 00:12:52,647 He had "Day N Nite," was one of his songs, 271 00:12:52,731 --> 00:12:53,857 and I was blown away the second I heard it. 272 00:12:53,940 --> 00:12:56,693 I just thought I had... it was unlike anything I’d ever heard. 273 00:12:56,776 --> 00:12:57,903 It just sounded new. 274 00:12:57,986 --> 00:12:59,529 Like, what is this gen... 275 00:12:59,613 --> 00:13:00,864 Like, what is he doing? 276 00:13:00,947 --> 00:13:06,828 He’s singing, he’s got melody, but he’s not pushing the vocals too hard. 277 00:13:06,912 --> 00:13:10,499 The production, everything about it just felt really new and exciting. 278 00:13:10,582 --> 00:13:13,793 And then I noticed on his top eight friends list 279 00:13:13,877 --> 00:13:15,545 was my friend Plain Pat. 280 00:13:15,629 --> 00:13:17,297 PLAIN PAT: Well, I met Cudi in 2005. 281 00:13:17,380 --> 00:13:19,132 When I heard the music, I was like, "Oh, okay. 282 00:13:19,216 --> 00:13:20,509 This kid’s onto something." 283 00:13:20,592 --> 00:13:22,844 And I bumped into him at a party downtown, 284 00:13:22,928 --> 00:13:24,804 and we just... and we just started kicking it, 285 00:13:24,888 --> 00:13:27,891 and then it turned into, like, "Need you to do this mixtape." 286 00:13:27,974 --> 00:13:29,601 And I was... I was always apprehensive 287 00:13:29,684 --> 00:13:32,062 ’cause I didn’t want that responsibility of a artist, 288 00:13:32,145 --> 00:13:34,189 but he was persistent, so... (chuckles) 289 00:13:34,272 --> 00:13:35,482 All his early shit, he used to send it to me, 290 00:13:35,565 --> 00:13:36,942 used to be like, "Man, this shit is, like..." 291 00:13:37,025 --> 00:13:41,363 It’s so different and, like, weird that I would be, like, uncomfortable 292 00:13:41,446 --> 00:13:43,198 but I loved it. (laughs) 293 00:13:43,281 --> 00:13:45,408 You know what I mean? His flows, like, he would be... 294 00:13:45,492 --> 00:13:48,453 you know, they would be, like, carry on into the next bar 295 00:13:48,537 --> 00:13:50,539 or they would be, like, a little off beat or a little, like... 296 00:13:50,622 --> 00:13:52,541 You know, but it was just so dope to me. 297 00:13:52,624 --> 00:13:55,835 Like, it was just, like, so refreshing, so, like... kind of like when... 298 00:13:55,919 --> 00:13:58,046 you know, when I first heard Ye, I was like, "Oh, whoa." 299 00:14:01,216 --> 00:14:03,218 ♪ ♪ 300 00:14:10,809 --> 00:14:14,396 KANYE WEST: We always listened to all forms of music. 301 00:14:16,731 --> 00:14:20,110 That’s what was good about just watching MTV. 302 00:14:20,193 --> 00:14:22,028 You got exposed to... 303 00:14:22,112 --> 00:14:26,199 ♪ Mr. Jones and me... ♪ (hums melody) 304 00:14:26,283 --> 00:14:28,577 Like, all this alternative rock, 305 00:14:28,660 --> 00:14:31,413 West Coast rap, East Coast rap, 306 00:14:31,496 --> 00:14:34,541 Southern rap, singer-songwriter. 307 00:14:34,624 --> 00:14:37,961 And the expanding your mind of "I listen to this 308 00:14:38,044 --> 00:14:41,256 style of music and different styles of music" is... 309 00:14:41,339 --> 00:14:43,675 That frontier’s been crossed, so the new frontier 310 00:14:43,758 --> 00:14:45,844 of expanding your mind is 311 00:14:45,927 --> 00:14:51,766 to not be boxed into a idea of your politics. 312 00:14:51,850 --> 00:14:55,270 To be boxed into a idea of what the Internet is feeding you 313 00:14:55,353 --> 00:14:58,315 within the echo chamber of the billion people 314 00:14:58,398 --> 00:15:00,525 that are controlled by 50. 315 00:15:00,609 --> 00:15:04,279 It’s just to go out, get out into nature, 316 00:15:04,362 --> 00:15:06,531 go to places that are less crowded, 317 00:15:06,615 --> 00:15:10,577 get into your own mind, into your own space. 318 00:15:10,660 --> 00:15:14,956 And not just for, you know, the accolades 319 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:19,544 with inside of a system that was, you know, designed. 320 00:15:19,628 --> 00:15:23,798 And what’s beautiful is that musicians and artists tap in 321 00:15:23,882 --> 00:15:27,093 and express things in a way 322 00:15:27,177 --> 00:15:29,179 and sew together things in a way 323 00:15:29,262 --> 00:15:32,182 that help us to free our minds a lot of times. 324 00:15:32,265 --> 00:15:35,810 That’s the connection that people have with Cudi and pure artists. 325 00:15:35,894 --> 00:15:37,145 It’s just a thing 326 00:15:37,228 --> 00:15:39,814 that... it’s what we felt. 327 00:15:39,898 --> 00:15:42,734 It’s what we feel. 328 00:15:42,817 --> 00:15:44,819 Cudi just does what he feels. 329 00:15:44,903 --> 00:15:49,074 That’s the difference between the artist and others. 330 00:15:49,157 --> 00:15:55,330 Cudi’s music, it connects with people, and it’s-it’s healing. 331 00:15:55,413 --> 00:15:58,124 It’s not just for the sake of, "Here’s the rap music 332 00:15:58,208 --> 00:16:00,418 "that you play while alcohol is being poured, 333 00:16:00,502 --> 00:16:02,879 while DMs are being sent." 334 00:16:02,962 --> 00:16:07,300 Like, nah, it’s not part of that game of popularity. 335 00:16:07,384 --> 00:16:11,388 And it was always an alternative thing that became popular. 336 00:16:11,471 --> 00:16:14,474 We all don’t have to do the exact same thing. 337 00:16:15,517 --> 00:16:18,478 We were programmed from zero to seven 338 00:16:18,561 --> 00:16:21,690 to fit into this thing we call reality, 339 00:16:21,773 --> 00:16:25,568 but we’re breaking out of the constructs. 340 00:16:25,652 --> 00:16:31,116 We’re not satisfied with the constructs of current society. 341 00:16:31,199 --> 00:16:33,159 We as artists 342 00:16:33,243 --> 00:16:35,120 are like a faucet, 343 00:16:35,203 --> 00:16:38,164 and the more of our own dirt that we have, 344 00:16:38,248 --> 00:16:40,959 you know, the harder it is, actually, for people to get 345 00:16:41,042 --> 00:16:44,504 a clean message and a clean idea 346 00:16:44,587 --> 00:16:47,882 and for us to be used to the maximum 347 00:16:47,966 --> 00:16:52,262 of what God would want us to use us for. 348 00:16:52,345 --> 00:16:54,347 I feel... 349 00:17:01,354 --> 00:17:03,982 Well, that’s the end of those thoughts right there. 350 00:17:06,401 --> 00:17:09,571 DOT: So, when I say, "Kid," y’all say, "Cudi." 351 00:17:09,654 --> 00:17:10,947 -Kid. -AUDIENCE: Cudi! 352 00:17:11,030 --> 00:17:12,490 -Kid. -Cudi! 353 00:17:12,574 --> 00:17:15,326 When I say, "Fool’s," y’all say, "Gold." 354 00:17:15,410 --> 00:17:18,413 -Fool’s. Fool’s. -Gold! Gold! 355 00:17:18,496 --> 00:17:20,373 Yo, yo. Yo, yo. 356 00:17:20,457 --> 00:17:22,375 That’s what I’m talking about. 357 00:17:22,459 --> 00:17:24,586 What the fuck is up, y’all? 358 00:17:24,669 --> 00:17:27,213 I just had that long-ass flight over here, man. 359 00:17:27,297 --> 00:17:30,008 Y’all better show me some love up in this motherfucker. 360 00:17:30,091 --> 00:17:32,343 I got crazy jet lag. 361 00:17:32,427 --> 00:17:36,306 It’s like 10:35 New York time, and I’m rocking with y’all on no sleep. 362 00:17:36,389 --> 00:17:37,682 Know what I’m talking about? 363 00:17:37,766 --> 00:17:39,434 So I need everybody to come up to the stage. 364 00:17:39,517 --> 00:17:40,602 Show me some love. 365 00:17:40,685 --> 00:17:42,103 I know you got your drink and everything. 366 00:17:42,187 --> 00:17:43,563 It’s all good. 367 00:17:43,646 --> 00:17:45,273 We gonna rock out, man. 368 00:17:45,356 --> 00:17:47,400 I got my homeboy Dot da Genius with me. 369 00:17:47,484 --> 00:17:49,360 -I represent Fool’s Gold. -(feedback squeals) 370 00:17:49,444 --> 00:17:50,987 Oh, man, we got feedback. 371 00:17:51,070 --> 00:17:53,156 That’s how live we are right now. (chuckles) 372 00:17:53,239 --> 00:17:56,075 Yeah, it wasn’t until we met Pat 373 00:17:56,159 --> 00:18:01,122 and he locked in with Emile and there was some type of movement 374 00:18:01,206 --> 00:18:03,500 that we started talking about a mixtape. 375 00:18:03,583 --> 00:18:07,128 The mixtape released, and then we went to Australia. 376 00:18:07,212 --> 00:18:09,798 Which was, like, the first tour ever. 377 00:18:09,881 --> 00:18:12,383 -Just me and him. -(audience shouting) 378 00:18:12,467 --> 00:18:13,718 (phone rings) 379 00:18:13,802 --> 00:18:15,094 ROBERT ALEXANDER: Hello. 380 00:18:15,178 --> 00:18:16,721 CUDI: I just have one note. 381 00:18:16,805 --> 00:18:18,723 I just feel like this is a big moment. 382 00:18:18,807 --> 00:18:20,600 -Mm-hmm. -Like, I toured the whole country, 383 00:18:20,683 --> 00:18:23,520 and, like, maybe there should be some text on black 384 00:18:23,603 --> 00:18:24,854 where it says... 385 00:18:32,111 --> 00:18:34,405 ’Cause BAPE wouldn’t give me three weeks off... 386 00:18:39,911 --> 00:18:41,454 You know? 387 00:18:41,538 --> 00:18:42,622 -Kid. -Cudi! 388 00:18:42,705 --> 00:18:44,374 I know there’s been some, you know, problems 389 00:18:44,457 --> 00:18:46,459 with pronouncing my name, but it’s "Cudi." 390 00:18:46,543 --> 00:18:48,378 You know what I’m saying? It’s Cudi. 391 00:18:48,461 --> 00:18:50,421 -So everybody say, "Cudi." -Cudi! 392 00:18:50,505 --> 00:18:52,799 -Cudi! Cudi! -Cudi! Cudi! 393 00:18:52,882 --> 00:18:54,759 Yeah, so there’ll be nobody coming up to me 394 00:18:54,843 --> 00:18:56,803 saying "Coodie," then, a’ight? 395 00:18:56,886 --> 00:18:58,555 Then we got that established. 396 00:18:58,638 --> 00:19:00,765 It was crazy. The first show was literally, 397 00:19:00,849 --> 00:19:03,685 like, maybe ten, 15 people. 398 00:19:03,768 --> 00:19:06,646 And you could tell they were just drunk and they were just like, 399 00:19:06,729 --> 00:19:08,982 "Oh, you know, it’s entertainment," you know? 400 00:19:09,065 --> 00:19:12,110 You can tell that they didn’t know who he was, 401 00:19:12,193 --> 00:19:15,738 but they might have heard "Day N Nite," which was kind of crazy. 402 00:19:15,822 --> 00:19:19,659 ♪ The lonely stoner seems to free his mind at night ♪ 403 00:19:19,742 --> 00:19:23,371 ♪ He’s all alone, some things will never change ♪ 404 00:19:23,454 --> 00:19:26,666 ♪ The lonely loner seems to free his mind at night ♪ 405 00:19:26,749 --> 00:19:28,710 ♪ At, at, at night. ♪ 406 00:19:28,793 --> 00:19:30,795 (heavy beat plays) 407 00:19:35,884 --> 00:19:37,844 SYLVIA RHONE: I’ve always looked for 408 00:19:37,927 --> 00:19:41,055 the most off-the-wall music and artists that I can find, 409 00:19:41,139 --> 00:19:42,682 because I think that’s 410 00:19:42,765 --> 00:19:45,518 where the excitement comes. 411 00:19:45,602 --> 00:19:50,356 When I signed Cudi, it was a very competitive bidding war. 412 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:52,734 It was night and day I stayed up... 413 00:19:52,817 --> 00:19:55,612 (chuckles) to make this deal for a week. 414 00:19:55,695 --> 00:19:57,488 He was the guy who 415 00:19:57,572 --> 00:20:01,910 smashed and mashed culture and defied genres. 416 00:20:01,993 --> 00:20:03,161 Everybody could see 417 00:20:03,244 --> 00:20:06,623 that he was on the wave of something new. 418 00:20:06,706 --> 00:20:08,708 (electronic music playing) 419 00:20:23,514 --> 00:20:25,516 ♪ ♪ 420 00:20:41,199 --> 00:20:43,785 JEFF BHASKER: He definitely has a keen sense of harmony. 421 00:20:43,868 --> 00:20:45,203 I feel like 422 00:20:45,286 --> 00:20:49,248 he has his own point of view and... 423 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:54,087 ...maybe he feeds off, like, a certain energy 424 00:20:54,170 --> 00:20:57,173 and there was an aesthetic going back and forth 425 00:20:57,256 --> 00:20:59,217 through Pat and Emile 426 00:20:59,300 --> 00:21:04,472 and Pat working with Kanye and crossing, 427 00:21:04,555 --> 00:21:06,099 and then Kid Cudi put his stuff... 428 00:21:06,182 --> 00:21:09,185 It was all in this, like, solar system 429 00:21:09,268 --> 00:21:10,812 of vibration. 430 00:21:10,895 --> 00:21:13,022 (music stops) 431 00:21:13,106 --> 00:21:14,816 Shit. 432 00:21:14,899 --> 00:21:16,609 Didn’t record it. 433 00:21:16,693 --> 00:21:20,446 KANYE: When I first heard Cudi, it felt really new, 434 00:21:20,530 --> 00:21:23,282 the combination of him 435 00:21:23,366 --> 00:21:28,705 putting the melody with the rap in a way that 436 00:21:28,788 --> 00:21:33,418 I hadn’t really heard that since, like, Bone Thugs. 437 00:21:33,501 --> 00:21:35,670 PAT: I would play Kanye 438 00:21:35,753 --> 00:21:38,172 early Cudi demos, like the stuff him and Dot were doing. 439 00:21:38,256 --> 00:21:39,841 And then I guess, after we made the mixtape, 440 00:21:39,924 --> 00:21:41,926 he was like, "Man, I need to be a part of this." 441 00:21:42,010 --> 00:21:43,219 ("Maui Wowie" by Kid Cudi playing) 442 00:21:43,302 --> 00:21:44,846 ♪ Going back to Honolulu. ♪ 443 00:21:44,929 --> 00:21:46,472 We were in Hawaii, and I was like, "Yo, Cudi, 444 00:21:46,556 --> 00:21:48,182 you need to get out here. Figure it out." 445 00:21:48,266 --> 00:21:50,309 He figured it out. He got out there. 446 00:21:50,393 --> 00:21:52,020 And K-Kanye didn’t pay for it or nothing. 447 00:21:52,103 --> 00:21:54,313 -First night in, he was writing... -ALL: "Heartless." 448 00:21:54,397 --> 00:21:55,940 JEFF: I think it was actually the first time 449 00:21:56,024 --> 00:21:58,443 that he had come down to Hawaii. 450 00:21:58,526 --> 00:22:01,487 Had "Day N Nite" was, like, poppin’. 451 00:22:01,571 --> 00:22:03,948 He’s on... he’s on a... on a high. 452 00:22:04,032 --> 00:22:05,742 Then he’s got a... then he’s in the studio, 453 00:22:05,825 --> 00:22:07,744 and we’re gonna, like, write, and we have the beat. 454 00:22:07,827 --> 00:22:09,954 I just go, "Okay, Cudi, like, do the melody. 455 00:22:10,038 --> 00:22:12,790 Do the... do the... do your Kid Cudi thing." 456 00:22:12,874 --> 00:22:16,502 He was sitting in the front area in-in the Hawaii studio, 457 00:22:16,586 --> 00:22:19,797 and I’m on the laptop, and he’s like, "Okay, this is what I got." 458 00:22:19,881 --> 00:22:22,717 (audience cheering) 459 00:22:25,762 --> 00:22:27,013 He said... 460 00:22:37,482 --> 00:22:39,942 It’s like, "Aah! What?" 461 00:22:44,864 --> 00:22:45,990 ♪ Yo... ♪ 462 00:22:46,074 --> 00:22:49,035 Slam dunk for the win. 463 00:22:49,118 --> 00:22:50,578 ♪ I hear ’em talk ♪ 464 00:22:50,661 --> 00:22:53,414 ♪ The coldest story ever told ♪ 465 00:22:53,498 --> 00:22:56,084 ♪ Somewhere far along this road ♪ 466 00:22:56,167 --> 00:22:59,670 ♪ He lost his soul to a woman so heartless... ♪ 467 00:22:59,754 --> 00:23:02,632 That’s just Cudi, man. Cudi just has that, like... 468 00:23:02,715 --> 00:23:05,051 his thing with melody is just amazing. 469 00:23:05,134 --> 00:23:08,387 ♪ Heartless, mm, whoa ♪ 470 00:23:08,471 --> 00:23:10,640 ♪ How could you be so heartless? ♪ 471 00:23:10,723 --> 00:23:12,517 -Wow. (laughs) -KANYE: Make some noise for Kid Cudi. 472 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:14,268 (audience cheering) 473 00:23:15,937 --> 00:23:18,106 CUDI: From there, like, Kanye cosigned me, 474 00:23:18,189 --> 00:23:20,108 and then I started working on 808s & Heartbreak. 475 00:23:20,191 --> 00:23:21,734 I started working on Blueprint 3. 476 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:26,364 And this is all before my debut. 477 00:23:27,615 --> 00:23:30,076 So it was like people were waiting. 478 00:23:30,159 --> 00:23:33,496 If I had got caught up in expectations 479 00:23:33,579 --> 00:23:36,082 and what people wanted from me, 480 00:23:36,165 --> 00:23:40,044 Man on the Moon: The End of Day would not have sounded how it sounded. 481 00:23:40,128 --> 00:23:44,590 Going in, I had this idea, like, "Yeah, Kanye’s gonna be involved," 482 00:23:44,674 --> 00:23:46,384 and all this and all that. 483 00:23:46,467 --> 00:23:49,804 But, like, when it got to it and I got the deal done 484 00:23:49,887 --> 00:23:54,475 and I was working on these songs with Pat and Emile and Dot, 485 00:23:54,559 --> 00:23:57,436 I was really, like, "I’m creating a sound here. 486 00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:59,814 I trust my vision." 487 00:23:59,897 --> 00:24:01,899 And... 488 00:24:01,983 --> 00:24:04,443 I might not need Kanye like that. 489 00:24:04,527 --> 00:24:08,906 You know, and I kind of just put that noise out of my mind 490 00:24:08,990 --> 00:24:11,367 and just kind of focused on the art 491 00:24:11,450 --> 00:24:14,036 and my story and what I was trying to tell. 492 00:24:14,120 --> 00:24:17,039 ♪ You’re in my dream now. ♪ 493 00:24:18,541 --> 00:24:21,002 WILLOW SMITH: ♪ I watch the sun collapse and took up in the clizzoud ♪ 494 00:24:21,085 --> 00:24:23,337 ♪ I am the lone wolf, go where I wanna. ♪ 495 00:24:24,422 --> 00:24:27,842 The acceptance and the knowledge to see 496 00:24:27,925 --> 00:24:31,971 how to get your vision done 497 00:24:32,054 --> 00:24:35,099 is-is an art in itself. (chuckles) 498 00:24:35,183 --> 00:24:39,187 And really, it honestly just comes or it doesn’t. 499 00:24:39,270 --> 00:24:43,065 And that’s something that I struggle with a lot 500 00:24:43,149 --> 00:24:44,984 because it just sucks when you’re like, 501 00:24:45,067 --> 00:24:47,737 "Let’s get it," and your heart and your mind is just like, 502 00:24:47,820 --> 00:24:49,530 "We don’t really have anything to say right now. 503 00:24:49,614 --> 00:24:50,823 So sorry about that." 504 00:24:50,907 --> 00:24:54,994 You have to dig that well and get to that place 505 00:24:55,077 --> 00:24:57,246 in order to really see what’s going on. 506 00:24:57,330 --> 00:25:00,499 Or else I feel like I’m just writing... 507 00:25:00,583 --> 00:25:02,752 some BS, low-key. 508 00:25:02,835 --> 00:25:05,254 I never say no. (chuckles) 509 00:25:05,338 --> 00:25:08,716 Never tell a artist no or, "You can’t," or, you know, 510 00:25:08,799 --> 00:25:10,384 "Don’t do that." 511 00:25:10,468 --> 00:25:12,720 They’re artists. They’re supposed to think outside the box 512 00:25:12,803 --> 00:25:16,724 and do things that you think that you’re not supposed to do. 513 00:25:16,807 --> 00:25:19,560 I mean, just making something is a fucking achievement, 514 00:25:19,644 --> 00:25:21,103 and you shouldn’t, like, 515 00:25:21,187 --> 00:25:24,232 say something is wack just because you don’t like it. 516 00:25:24,315 --> 00:25:25,858 You know, like, somebody still 517 00:25:25,942 --> 00:25:29,320 sat fucking down and made that shit with their hands and their, and their head. 518 00:25:29,403 --> 00:25:33,115 You really got to be like-- I don’t even know. 519 00:25:33,199 --> 00:25:35,368 I was about to say "comfortable," but, uh, 520 00:25:35,451 --> 00:25:36,786 that’s definitely not me or anybody I know. 521 00:25:36,869 --> 00:25:38,079 (laughs) You know what I mean? 522 00:25:38,162 --> 00:25:40,665 You got to just, like-- you just got to love the shit, man. 523 00:25:42,333 --> 00:25:45,962 SHIA LaBEOUF: What makes an artist is fully investing your heart. 524 00:25:46,045 --> 00:25:47,421 That’s all it takes. 525 00:25:47,505 --> 00:25:50,967 And so, if you don’t give a fuck, 526 00:25:51,050 --> 00:25:53,636 then why invest your heart? 527 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:56,639 I think the best artists all have that... 528 00:25:56,722 --> 00:26:02,270 one, that drive that they feel like they need to, to be able to survive, 529 00:26:02,353 --> 00:26:06,524 but also this confidence in that 530 00:26:06,607 --> 00:26:10,111 the people on the other side need this shit. 531 00:26:10,194 --> 00:26:12,488 That, in sharing this with people, 532 00:26:12,571 --> 00:26:15,324 healing can happen not just for the person making this shit 533 00:26:15,408 --> 00:26:17,952 but for the person receiving this shit. 534 00:26:18,035 --> 00:26:20,955 And in that connection, that’s where art is. 535 00:26:21,038 --> 00:26:22,540 It’s in that 536 00:26:22,623 --> 00:26:25,543 full investment of heart on both sides. 537 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,301 My favorite shit has come from 538 00:26:33,384 --> 00:26:35,970 when I know in my heart I couldn’t have given anything else, 539 00:26:36,053 --> 00:26:40,558 when I lose myself wholly and completely to this other thing. 540 00:26:40,641 --> 00:26:42,852 Which really comes through collaboration. 541 00:26:46,605 --> 00:26:50,526 It’s really nice to, like, fail in front of people. 542 00:26:50,609 --> 00:26:53,237 And also feel like, on the other side of that failure, 543 00:26:53,321 --> 00:26:55,323 these people still fuck with you. 544 00:26:56,741 --> 00:27:01,370 It gives you a confidence level where you’re not afraid to fail. 545 00:27:02,538 --> 00:27:05,374 JEFF: People can get so hung up on fucking up, 546 00:27:05,458 --> 00:27:08,210 and, like, that’s kind of the main way you learn. 547 00:27:09,837 --> 00:27:11,839 And sometimes you can just fuck up 548 00:27:11,922 --> 00:27:14,300 into creating something new and amazing and beautiful. 549 00:27:15,801 --> 00:27:18,137 Daring to suck. 550 00:27:18,220 --> 00:27:20,473 (chuckles) Just dare to suck. 551 00:27:20,556 --> 00:27:22,725 DON C: That new frontier, 552 00:27:22,808 --> 00:27:25,436 it takes a lot of courage to go towards, 553 00:27:25,519 --> 00:27:27,772 especially if it hasn’t been done before. 554 00:27:29,231 --> 00:27:34,487 We see in a small bubble how positive energy can inspire others 555 00:27:34,570 --> 00:27:37,615 to then effect even a bigger bubble. 556 00:27:37,698 --> 00:27:41,327 So let’s just apply that principle and keep expounding on it 557 00:27:41,410 --> 00:27:45,956 until all seven billion people on Earth is 558 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:47,792 inspired and happy. 559 00:27:50,169 --> 00:27:52,630 SHIA: You’ll always have some haters, yeah, 560 00:27:52,713 --> 00:27:55,883 who’ll be like, "What’s this weird Wiccan shit?" 561 00:27:55,966 --> 00:28:00,346 If it was just me and somebody said that, I’d fucking sink into myself. 562 00:28:00,429 --> 00:28:02,181 I’d fall apart. 563 00:28:02,264 --> 00:28:05,393 But because I got a group of people holding me up, 564 00:28:05,476 --> 00:28:08,562 I can actually have that no-fucks-to-give mentality. 565 00:28:08,646 --> 00:28:11,232 JEFF: It’s okay to question. 566 00:28:11,315 --> 00:28:17,405 It’s okay to explore all angles of a sound or a thought or an idea. 567 00:28:17,488 --> 00:28:19,573 It radiates positivity. 568 00:28:21,492 --> 00:28:27,540 And the belief that you can accomplish your dreams. 569 00:28:27,623 --> 00:28:32,086 You can express yourself, and your deepest self is great. 570 00:28:36,882 --> 00:28:39,468 The scariest, ugliest thing about you... 571 00:28:41,011 --> 00:28:42,638 ...is great. 572 00:28:47,393 --> 00:28:49,854 COMMON: ♪ But toward the end of our first ten years ♪ 573 00:28:49,937 --> 00:28:51,647 ♪ Into the millennium, we heard a voice ♪ 574 00:28:51,730 --> 00:28:53,399 ♪ A voice who was speaking to us ♪ 575 00:28:53,482 --> 00:28:54,942 ♪ From the underground for some time ♪ 576 00:28:55,025 --> 00:28:56,861 ♪ A voice who spoke of vulnerabilities ♪ 577 00:28:56,944 --> 00:28:58,821 ♪ And other human emotions and issues ♪ 578 00:28:58,904 --> 00:29:00,573 ♪ Never before heard so vividly and honest ♪ 579 00:29:00,656 --> 00:29:02,575 ♪ This is the story of a young man ♪ 580 00:29:02,658 --> 00:29:06,328 ♪ Who not only believed in himself but his dreams, too ♪ 581 00:29:06,412 --> 00:29:10,583 ♪ This is the story of the Man on the Moon. ♪ 582 00:29:17,339 --> 00:29:21,135 The first thing that was important to me 583 00:29:21,218 --> 00:29:25,306 is to make something that... 584 00:29:25,389 --> 00:29:29,560 kind of called out to the broken and the lost. 585 00:29:29,643 --> 00:29:33,230 For me to find kids that felt like how I felt. 586 00:29:33,314 --> 00:29:36,358 So I wanted to kind of design something tailor-made to Scott. 587 00:29:36,442 --> 00:29:37,651 ♪ Scotty... ♪ 588 00:29:54,919 --> 00:29:57,546 -♪ The soundtrack to my life ♪ -♪ Yeah, yeah ♪ 589 00:29:57,630 --> 00:29:59,757 ♪ The soundtrack to my life. ♪ 590 00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:04,845 "Soundtrack 2 My Life" was like my introduction to the world. 591 00:30:04,929 --> 00:30:08,182 Like, kind of like my... my mission statement. 592 00:30:08,265 --> 00:30:12,186 It was really important for me to be as honest as possible. 593 00:30:12,269 --> 00:30:13,771 Moments where I say, like, 594 00:30:13,854 --> 00:30:15,773 "I’m probably this close to go and trying some coke." 595 00:30:15,856 --> 00:30:18,609 Like, that was a real... 596 00:30:18,692 --> 00:30:20,361 feeling. 597 00:30:20,444 --> 00:30:22,780 I was a little worried about what my mom may think 598 00:30:22,863 --> 00:30:26,700 and my family and friends, 599 00:30:26,784 --> 00:30:28,869 but, uh, ultimately, 600 00:30:28,953 --> 00:30:33,082 it was about being honest and just being a true artist. 601 00:30:33,165 --> 00:30:35,543 EMILE: The way I knew how to make music 602 00:30:35,626 --> 00:30:40,506 until I met Cudi was to sit in my studio alone and make beats, 603 00:30:40,589 --> 00:30:44,927 come up with a beat, and then try to go pitch it. 604 00:30:45,010 --> 00:30:49,265 I remember playing him the beats that I already had, and he just didn’t... 605 00:30:49,348 --> 00:30:51,767 it wasn’t really connecting with him, you know? 606 00:30:51,850 --> 00:30:54,228 And it wasn’t until I started playing records 607 00:30:54,311 --> 00:30:57,856 and playing synth sounds and this that he started going. 608 00:30:57,940 --> 00:30:59,567 It was instantaneous. 609 00:30:59,650 --> 00:31:03,654 The second I started playing fresh stuff that was creating stuff on the spot, 610 00:31:03,737 --> 00:31:06,615 that’s when the wheels started turning and he would just start writing. 611 00:31:06,699 --> 00:31:07,866 You know, if I... 612 00:31:07,950 --> 00:31:09,952 (playing chords) 613 00:31:13,872 --> 00:31:16,041 Like, I’d be playing these kind of chords-- 614 00:31:16,125 --> 00:31:19,295 like, really simple things-- ’cause I just didn’t have 615 00:31:19,378 --> 00:31:22,047 the wherewithal to, like, do anything more complex, 616 00:31:22,131 --> 00:31:23,674 and he would just... I would do that, 617 00:31:23,757 --> 00:31:26,510 and he would put the mic on, and he would go in the booth. 618 00:31:26,594 --> 00:31:28,846 And I’m like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, I got to, like, put this... 619 00:31:28,929 --> 00:31:31,056 I got to put this on tempo and put it in the computer." 620 00:31:31,140 --> 00:31:33,601 And he just didn’t want to hear that. He was ready to go. 621 00:31:33,684 --> 00:31:37,938 So, as... as kind of basic as that was that I just played, 622 00:31:38,022 --> 00:31:41,025 he would then take it and do something fresh with it. 623 00:31:41,108 --> 00:31:43,110 Anything I come up with 624 00:31:43,193 --> 00:31:45,195 that I would maybe second-guess if I was just alone-- 625 00:31:45,279 --> 00:31:47,406 I would think, like, you know, "Who am I gonna play..."-- 626 00:31:47,489 --> 00:31:49,325 like, he would get inspired by it 627 00:31:49,408 --> 00:31:51,327 and come up with something cool that would then inspire me, 628 00:31:51,410 --> 00:31:52,661 and we would go back and forth. 629 00:31:52,745 --> 00:31:55,956 So it was like-- completely changed 630 00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,709 the way I thought about music, the way my process happened, 631 00:31:58,792 --> 00:32:00,836 the sounds that I was looking for. 632 00:32:00,919 --> 00:32:06,925 This takes you from being a beat maker to being a songwriter. 633 00:32:08,469 --> 00:32:10,971 So we’d just kind of be listening... 634 00:32:11,055 --> 00:32:13,515 we’d, like, flip through records... 635 00:32:13,599 --> 00:32:15,601 ("Birds" by Menahan Street Band playing) 636 00:32:15,684 --> 00:32:17,895 And, um... I remember on this one he heard, like... 637 00:32:17,978 --> 00:32:20,981 ("The Contender" by Menahan Street Band playing) 638 00:32:22,024 --> 00:32:23,984 Let’s see. 639 00:32:25,027 --> 00:32:26,403 Is this the right record? 640 00:32:26,487 --> 00:32:28,322 ("The Traitor" by Menahan Street Band playing) 641 00:32:28,405 --> 00:32:29,657 That sounds like it. 642 00:32:29,740 --> 00:32:31,325 And we just kind of like... 643 00:32:31,408 --> 00:32:34,411 (synth beat plays along with "The Traitor") 644 00:32:37,790 --> 00:32:40,167 I think we were, like, probably playing video games or something 645 00:32:40,250 --> 00:32:43,504 and that came on in the background, and he was just like, "What is that?" 646 00:32:43,587 --> 00:32:45,214 I’m like, "Ah, it’s, like, my friends’ thing." 647 00:32:45,297 --> 00:32:47,633 And he’s like, you know, "Loop it up and maybe pitch it." 648 00:32:47,716 --> 00:32:49,426 So we, like, pitched it. 649 00:32:51,679 --> 00:32:53,514 Pitched it way down, something like... 650 00:32:53,597 --> 00:32:55,557 (plays melody with low pitch) 651 00:33:01,271 --> 00:33:03,315 So I’d have something like that, 652 00:33:03,399 --> 00:33:07,861 and by the time it took me to just do that and then put it into the computer 653 00:33:07,945 --> 00:33:11,073 and just do a loop, he’s got the verse written. 654 00:33:11,156 --> 00:33:13,033 So that would kind of be the process. 655 00:33:13,117 --> 00:33:16,203 "Solo Dolo" was just so unorthodox and weird. 656 00:33:16,286 --> 00:33:17,705 It’s just got that-that loop. 657 00:33:17,788 --> 00:33:19,123 (loop from "The Traitor" continues playing) 658 00:33:19,206 --> 00:33:20,708 That... (humming melody) 659 00:33:22,501 --> 00:33:25,337 It’s just, like, hypnotizing. 660 00:33:25,421 --> 00:33:27,089 And eerie. 661 00:33:27,172 --> 00:33:29,299 It’s a little scary a little bit. 662 00:33:29,383 --> 00:33:34,263 And I-I love how I sound on that record, you know? 663 00:33:34,346 --> 00:33:37,766 Like, I’m really... I’m really proud of the performance. 664 00:33:37,850 --> 00:33:40,352 (laughs) 665 00:33:40,436 --> 00:33:43,105 ♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪ 666 00:33:48,277 --> 00:33:50,028 SCHOOLBOY Q: "Solo Dolo," like, 667 00:33:50,112 --> 00:33:51,989 bro, when that shit come in, like... 668 00:33:52,072 --> 00:33:54,867 ♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪ 669 00:33:54,950 --> 00:33:58,328 And it’s like, "Oh, my God, this shit is crazy." 670 00:34:07,504 --> 00:34:08,881 PAT: We already had "Pursuit." 671 00:34:08,964 --> 00:34:11,508 I mean, we had basically the album, and the label was like, 672 00:34:11,592 --> 00:34:12,718 "We need another ’Day N Nite.’" 673 00:34:12,801 --> 00:34:14,261 And it’s like, yeah, but "Day N Nite" 674 00:34:14,344 --> 00:34:16,138 wasn’t "Day N Nite" until it became "Day N Nite." 675 00:34:16,221 --> 00:34:18,098 And they were pushing us to, you know, 676 00:34:18,182 --> 00:34:20,476 make a radio song or make something catchy. 677 00:34:20,559 --> 00:34:23,228 But, you know, Cudi wasn’t hearing... he wasn’t trying to hear none of that. 678 00:34:23,312 --> 00:34:26,023 And I was like, "No, you have to listen to me. 679 00:34:26,106 --> 00:34:27,357 You have to listen." 680 00:34:27,441 --> 00:34:29,359 Like, I was in that office having a tantrum. 681 00:34:29,443 --> 00:34:30,569 I was like, "No. 682 00:34:30,652 --> 00:34:32,821 "This is the next single. 683 00:34:32,905 --> 00:34:35,491 You have to believe me. Trust me." 684 00:34:35,574 --> 00:34:37,785 Our next guest is a, uh, popular rapper 685 00:34:37,868 --> 00:34:40,996 whose forthcoming CD, uh, right here is entitled... 686 00:34:41,079 --> 00:34:42,831 ALL: Man on the Moon: The End of the Day. 687 00:34:42,915 --> 00:34:45,083 Please give a huge welcome to Kid Cudi. 688 00:34:45,167 --> 00:34:48,962 ♪ I’m on the pursuit of happiness, and I know ♪ 689 00:34:49,046 --> 00:34:54,218 ♪ Everything that shine ain’t always gonna be gold, hey ♪ 690 00:34:54,301 --> 00:34:58,388 ♪ I’ll be fine once I get it ♪ 691 00:34:58,472 --> 00:35:01,767 ♪ I’ll be good... ♪ 692 00:35:01,850 --> 00:35:02,851 ALL: Man on the Moon... 693 00:35:02,935 --> 00:35:04,561 NOAH CALLAHAN-BEVER: ...is arguably 694 00:35:04,645 --> 00:35:07,189 one of the most influential albums in the last 695 00:35:07,272 --> 00:35:08,482 20 years. 696 00:35:10,984 --> 00:35:12,945 SCHOOLBOY Q: Where I come from, we don’t... 697 00:35:13,028 --> 00:35:14,905 we don’t even try to touch those feelings 698 00:35:14,988 --> 00:35:18,075 and emotions, like being, like, uh, depressed or sad. 699 00:35:18,158 --> 00:35:20,077 And if you are depressed, you don’t mention it. 700 00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:21,620 You keep that in. 701 00:35:21,703 --> 00:35:23,288 You-you fight through it, nigga. Suck it up. 702 00:35:23,372 --> 00:35:24,957 Like, you know what I mean? 703 00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,167 No crying. Chin up, chest out. 704 00:35:27,251 --> 00:35:28,877 NOAH: He pulled back the layers 705 00:35:28,961 --> 00:35:31,129 to show you some universal truths. 706 00:35:31,213 --> 00:35:33,006 That created a depth of connection 707 00:35:33,090 --> 00:35:36,343 that very, very few artists are able to create. 708 00:35:36,426 --> 00:35:38,929 SCHOOLBOY Q: Songs like "Pursuit of Happiness" and shit. 709 00:35:39,012 --> 00:35:42,099 You know, that’s, like, basically saying, "Hey, nigga, you depressed. 710 00:35:42,182 --> 00:35:43,559 "You can’t hide it. 711 00:35:43,642 --> 00:35:45,894 "You trying to act like you don’t want to hear the song. 712 00:35:45,978 --> 00:35:47,688 "You’re constantly listening to it 713 00:35:47,771 --> 00:35:49,898 while trying to act like you’re not listening to it." 714 00:35:49,982 --> 00:35:51,358 That was like a caver for me. 715 00:35:51,441 --> 00:35:53,527 Like, all that "chin up, chest out" shit was a real caver 716 00:35:53,610 --> 00:35:56,905 when that "Pursuit of Happiness" really hits you. 717 00:35:56,989 --> 00:35:58,866 CUDI: It’s a really dark song. 718 00:35:58,949 --> 00:36:00,784 Probably one of the darkest on the album. 719 00:36:00,868 --> 00:36:02,286 That’s why it’s labeled "Nightmare." 720 00:36:02,369 --> 00:36:04,162 I think that got lost on some people. 721 00:36:04,246 --> 00:36:08,083 When we did the remix and stuff like that, it became, like, something else. 722 00:36:08,166 --> 00:36:09,626 So it bothered me at first. 723 00:36:09,710 --> 00:36:11,253 I was like, "Oh, they missed the point. 724 00:36:11,336 --> 00:36:12,963 "This is not supposed to be celebrated. 725 00:36:13,046 --> 00:36:14,506 I’m talking about drinking and driving." 726 00:36:14,590 --> 00:36:16,967 Like, I’m very reckless on the song. 727 00:36:17,050 --> 00:36:20,304 I’m saying, "I’m-a do just what I want." Saying, "Fuck that." 728 00:36:20,387 --> 00:36:23,223 Like, it’s... it’s very rebellious. 729 00:36:23,307 --> 00:36:26,184 But now, like, I-I don’t really... 730 00:36:26,268 --> 00:36:28,061 I don’t really trip about that. 731 00:36:28,145 --> 00:36:31,732 Like, I love the reaction to "Pursuit" every time I do it at the shows. 732 00:36:31,815 --> 00:36:33,692 Like, I got to perform that song. You know? 733 00:36:33,775 --> 00:36:36,361 Like, I’ll be performing that song forever. 734 00:36:36,445 --> 00:36:39,364 ♪ Hey, hey, hey... ♪ 735 00:36:39,448 --> 00:36:40,657 ALL: Man on the Moon. 736 00:36:40,741 --> 00:36:43,619 ♪ Uh, little homey... ♪ 737 00:36:43,702 --> 00:36:45,537 He’s soulful, and he’s funny, 738 00:36:45,621 --> 00:36:47,247 -and he’s so sensitive. -You say what, now? 739 00:36:47,331 --> 00:36:48,498 -JEFF: But those melodies. -ALL: Melodies. 740 00:36:48,582 --> 00:36:50,542 No one else has those melodies. 741 00:36:50,626 --> 00:36:52,044 Like on, uh, "Heart of a Lion" and... 742 00:36:52,127 --> 00:36:53,921 ♪ No, no, no, no, no ♪ 743 00:36:54,004 --> 00:36:55,589 -♪ Yeah. ♪ -And all that stuff. 744 00:36:55,672 --> 00:36:57,633 You feel like, "Aw, if I had a beat, man, 745 00:36:57,716 --> 00:37:00,636 I could come up with that shit," you know, but you can’t. 746 00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:02,346 SCHOOLBOY Q: It was just a different vibe, 747 00:37:02,429 --> 00:37:04,306 and it was no shit I never heard before. 748 00:37:04,389 --> 00:37:05,474 Dude, I was just like, 749 00:37:05,557 --> 00:37:07,392 "What the fuck am I listening to?" 750 00:37:07,476 --> 00:37:08,977 Right, I’m like... I didn’t get it. 751 00:37:09,061 --> 00:37:11,021 Like, "Why do I like this shit?" Like... 752 00:37:11,104 --> 00:37:12,981 I kept playing this shit. 753 00:37:13,065 --> 00:37:15,067 Kept, kept playing this shit. 754 00:37:15,150 --> 00:37:18,737 And then I got it. I’m like, "This shit is just hard." 755 00:37:18,820 --> 00:37:20,572 JADEN SMITH: When I was younger, I would just always 756 00:37:20,656 --> 00:37:23,200 hang out with my older brother, and my older brother 757 00:37:23,283 --> 00:37:24,952 was just obsessed with listening to Cudi, you know... 758 00:37:25,035 --> 00:37:26,578 -"Pursuit of Happiness." -"Cudi Zone." -"Heart of a Lion." 759 00:37:26,662 --> 00:37:28,789 ...and he would just put it on loop, like, all day, 760 00:37:28,872 --> 00:37:30,624 so, like, I didn’t even know who we were listening to 761 00:37:30,707 --> 00:37:32,209 for the longest time, 762 00:37:32,292 --> 00:37:35,170 and then it just kind of became ingrained into me. 763 00:37:35,253 --> 00:37:38,382 It’s showing people all over the world that they can do whatever they want, 764 00:37:38,465 --> 00:37:40,258 especially people of color who are just like, 765 00:37:40,342 --> 00:37:43,095 "Oh, I can’t do this," or, "This is not my thing." 766 00:37:43,178 --> 00:37:45,097 It’s like, "No, this can be your thing." 767 00:37:45,180 --> 00:37:47,724 Whatever your thing is, you can do that. 768 00:37:47,808 --> 00:37:51,895 That opened up a whole new frontier of just kids 769 00:37:51,979 --> 00:37:54,564 that are now today the ones that are 770 00:37:54,648 --> 00:37:57,317 -the forerunners of culture. -I know. 771 00:37:57,401 --> 00:37:59,152 When I heard Man on the Moon, that was the first time 772 00:37:59,236 --> 00:38:01,488 I heard an album, like, so... 773 00:38:01,571 --> 00:38:02,614 ALL: ...unique. 774 00:38:02,698 --> 00:38:04,074 He just was the wizard. 775 00:38:04,157 --> 00:38:07,077 Bridging techno and rap, I mean, just all these things, you know, like, 776 00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:10,038 that weren’t necessarily being done. 777 00:38:10,122 --> 00:38:11,999 Wizard. 778 00:38:12,082 --> 00:38:15,168 You know, you bring in something from a completely different world 779 00:38:15,252 --> 00:38:18,088 into your world, and it’s not normal, 780 00:38:18,171 --> 00:38:21,883 but it works, and people like, "Okay, well, now we can do that." 781 00:38:21,967 --> 00:38:24,511 I don’t know. 782 00:38:24,594 --> 00:38:28,056 That nigga just was a different... he was a weird, ill nigga. 783 00:38:28,140 --> 00:38:29,933 (chuckling): Like... 784 00:38:30,017 --> 00:38:33,270 he was a ill nigga, man, you know? 785 00:38:33,353 --> 00:38:34,855 Honestly, "Sky Might Fall." 786 00:38:34,938 --> 00:38:36,898 Like, I can’t lie. I can’t lie. 787 00:38:36,982 --> 00:38:38,358 (laughs) 788 00:38:39,693 --> 00:38:44,698 ♪ The sky might fall, the sky might fall ♪ 789 00:38:44,781 --> 00:38:47,826 ♪ But I’m not worried at all ♪ 790 00:38:47,909 --> 00:38:49,745 ♪ Hey, hey, I let ’em know somethin’... ♪ 791 00:38:49,828 --> 00:38:51,955 -DON C: When it came out... -BOTH: Man on the Moon. 792 00:38:52,039 --> 00:38:55,417 DON C: ...album connected with a audience of kids 793 00:38:55,500 --> 00:38:58,170 that had never had a artist connect with them. 794 00:38:58,253 --> 00:39:01,173 Ye started the movement with College Dropout. 795 00:39:01,256 --> 00:39:04,634 Man on the Moon picked it up, and then it was a big momentum 796 00:39:04,718 --> 00:39:07,888 of that snowball effect that really completely affected culture. 797 00:39:07,971 --> 00:39:10,390 Before then, people only represented, 798 00:39:10,474 --> 00:39:12,517 like, "I’m the cool guy," or, "I’m the thug," 799 00:39:12,601 --> 00:39:14,269 or, "I’m the gangster." 800 00:39:14,352 --> 00:39:16,938 But it was never, like, "I’m a introvert. 801 00:39:17,022 --> 00:39:19,274 I’m hurt over these things that have happened in my life." 802 00:39:19,357 --> 00:39:22,402 These are feelings we all go through, but nobody wants to talk about it. 803 00:39:22,486 --> 00:39:25,697 Now we all feel comfortable because of that. 804 00:39:25,781 --> 00:39:29,451 A$AP ROCKY: He was changing the game by being his own protégé 805 00:39:29,534 --> 00:39:33,580 and musing himself and letting Kanye muse him and... 806 00:39:33,663 --> 00:39:35,499 and show people, like, yo, you can be weird. 807 00:39:35,582 --> 00:39:37,209 You can be yourself. 808 00:39:37,292 --> 00:39:38,585 You can be from Cleveland. 809 00:39:38,668 --> 00:39:40,212 You can be from wherever. 810 00:39:40,295 --> 00:39:41,838 TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET: There was that relatability to it. 811 00:39:41,922 --> 00:39:43,465 There was that immediacy to it. 812 00:39:43,548 --> 00:39:45,175 And this was the music 813 00:39:45,258 --> 00:39:49,805 I was hearing that I felt like, "Whoa, he’s speaking to my soul." 814 00:39:49,888 --> 00:39:51,598 I remember having to take pauses from listening to it 815 00:39:51,681 --> 00:39:53,225 ’cause I loved it and it was therapeutic, 816 00:39:53,308 --> 00:39:55,060 and yet at the same time, I don’t know what that... 817 00:39:55,143 --> 00:39:56,895 I’m sure a scientist could speak to it better than I could. 818 00:39:56,978 --> 00:40:00,190 DR. CANDICE NORCOTT: We don’t all have language about emotions, 819 00:40:00,273 --> 00:40:02,317 so to be able to see a piece of art 820 00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:06,363 and have that pull from you an authentic emotion is so powerful. 821 00:40:06,446 --> 00:40:11,118 Music that is emotional or "sad" helps you but also, like, 822 00:40:11,201 --> 00:40:13,245 brings it on even more in some way. 823 00:40:13,328 --> 00:40:15,497 And I think that’s really important. 824 00:40:15,580 --> 00:40:17,040 CUDI: All right, run it. 825 00:40:18,375 --> 00:40:20,585 ♪ I never gave a fuck ♪ 826 00:40:20,669 --> 00:40:24,548 ♪ I never gave a fuck about what niggas thought about me ♪ 827 00:40:24,631 --> 00:40:26,550 ♪ I mean, I did, but, like, fuck it ♪ 828 00:40:26,633 --> 00:40:28,677 ♪ You know what I’m saying? ♪ 829 00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:31,263 NOAH: Hip-hop had done an incredible job 830 00:40:31,346 --> 00:40:33,640 of articulating a lot of things 831 00:40:33,723 --> 00:40:36,101 about the environments that these artists 832 00:40:36,184 --> 00:40:39,896 were coming up in and did a lot less talking about 833 00:40:39,980 --> 00:40:42,566 what was going on inside of those artists’ heads. 834 00:40:42,649 --> 00:40:45,610 Cudi had no reservations 835 00:40:45,694 --> 00:40:50,448 about delving into his most private, dark thoughts. 836 00:40:50,532 --> 00:40:53,368 JOE LA PUMA: You’ll see it in today’s artists. 837 00:40:53,451 --> 00:40:55,537 They don’t talk about Cudi, 838 00:40:55,620 --> 00:40:57,455 "Oh, I love his music. He’s so dope. He dress great." 839 00:40:57,539 --> 00:40:59,207 You know what they say? 840 00:40:59,291 --> 00:41:01,251 Kid Cudi, man, Kid Cudi’s, like, really, like, 841 00:41:01,334 --> 00:41:05,088 one of the main dudes I kind of, like, looked at or listened to all the time. 842 00:41:05,172 --> 00:41:06,131 BOTH: He saved my life. 843 00:41:06,214 --> 00:41:07,591 He saved me from doing, 844 00:41:07,674 --> 00:41:10,969 like, random bad things to myself, kept me, like, focused. 845 00:41:11,052 --> 00:41:13,054 JOE: You hear that numerous times 846 00:41:13,138 --> 00:41:14,931 when people talk about Cudi. 847 00:41:15,015 --> 00:41:16,183 You hear that when 848 00:41:16,266 --> 00:41:17,767 his fans talk about Cudi. 849 00:41:17,851 --> 00:41:19,936 And you also hear it from 850 00:41:20,020 --> 00:41:21,813 some of the biggest people 851 00:41:21,897 --> 00:41:24,524 -in pop culture right now a decade later. -Pop culture. 852 00:41:24,608 --> 00:41:26,818 TRAVIS SCOTT: I feel like he really dialed in on, like, 853 00:41:26,902 --> 00:41:30,113 the youth and really dialed in on, like, um, inspiration, 854 00:41:30,197 --> 00:41:31,656 like, how to inspire you. 855 00:41:31,740 --> 00:41:34,868 Like, his words was, like, very selected on, like, what to do. 856 00:41:34,951 --> 00:41:36,578 I-I feel like he always made the soundtrack 857 00:41:36,661 --> 00:41:37,871 -to, like, my life. -Soundtrack to my life. 858 00:41:37,954 --> 00:41:39,039 Or anybody’s life who was, 859 00:41:39,122 --> 00:41:40,373 like, going through the same thing. 860 00:41:40,457 --> 00:41:43,335 If you’re a big Cudi fan, like, you know exactly what I’m saying. 861 00:41:43,418 --> 00:41:45,545 When I think about albums that have colored my life 862 00:41:45,629 --> 00:41:49,299 or narrated my come-up, this is the biggest one. 863 00:41:49,382 --> 00:41:53,136 This is the biggest one for my maturation from, like, being a little teenager 864 00:41:53,220 --> 00:41:55,222 to, like, stepping into the real world. 865 00:41:55,305 --> 00:41:58,141 He spit his truth in a way that seemed accessible, 866 00:41:58,225 --> 00:41:59,726 -and he was vulnerable. -DOT: Vulnerable. 867 00:41:59,809 --> 00:42:01,937 And was talking about things like, 868 00:42:02,020 --> 00:42:04,981 "Nobody knows, but I’m-I’m feeling a lot." 869 00:42:05,065 --> 00:42:08,109 He gave me, like, a waiver to be open to my emotions, you know? 870 00:42:08,193 --> 00:42:09,778 The album really starts there. 871 00:42:09,861 --> 00:42:11,404 TIMOTHÉE: And isn’t it ironic that 872 00:42:11,488 --> 00:42:15,408 in a genre that is about impenetrability, 873 00:42:15,492 --> 00:42:18,703 bravado in the face of pain, 874 00:42:18,787 --> 00:42:21,790 that the one that would’ve transcended 875 00:42:21,873 --> 00:42:27,212 that confrontation of ego and of, like, competition 876 00:42:27,295 --> 00:42:32,884 would be the one that was the least about how big his chain was 877 00:42:32,968 --> 00:42:36,012 or, you know, how hard his beats slapped 878 00:42:36,096 --> 00:42:39,474 but was the guy that was, like, "Hey, I’m a human, 879 00:42:39,557 --> 00:42:41,601 "and this is what I go through, 880 00:42:41,685 --> 00:42:46,147 and love it or hate it, like, this is my reality." 881 00:42:55,115 --> 00:42:57,993 LIL YACHTY: You know, I went to college, and I had this red hair, 882 00:42:58,076 --> 00:43:02,122 and, man, I’d walk in the cafeteria or when I walked to class, yo, I just... 883 00:43:02,205 --> 00:43:06,543 I saw people looking at me, laughing at me and made jokes. 884 00:43:06,626 --> 00:43:09,337 I mean, I was hurt, I felt it, I could feel the eyes, 885 00:43:09,421 --> 00:43:11,464 but it was this thing I had on my head. 886 00:43:11,548 --> 00:43:13,675 I always used to know, like, I had to embrace myself. 887 00:43:13,758 --> 00:43:15,844 With Cudi-- and I would never say this to his face. 888 00:43:15,927 --> 00:43:17,554 That’d be kind of weird. 889 00:43:17,637 --> 00:43:23,268 But definitely appreciate him for being him so that I could be me. 890 00:43:23,351 --> 00:43:24,853 ’Cause, you know, times get hard, 891 00:43:24,936 --> 00:43:28,064 for anyone at any time, but you just always have to realize 892 00:43:28,148 --> 00:43:33,486 that there’s more to life than that very moment. 893 00:43:33,570 --> 00:43:36,114 That thought can get clouded, 894 00:43:36,197 --> 00:43:38,616 you know, because sometimes it’s just, in the moment, 895 00:43:38,700 --> 00:43:42,704 things get so tough that it’s hard to even imagine 896 00:43:42,787 --> 00:43:45,498 the fact that-that things could be better somewhere else. 897 00:43:45,582 --> 00:43:47,917 I don’t know, it was just something I always had in mind. 898 00:43:48,001 --> 00:43:50,045 I always knew there was more to life than this. 899 00:43:50,128 --> 00:43:54,215 Than this school, than this dorm and these kids. 900 00:43:54,299 --> 00:43:57,927 Just knew there was more, and I knew I was gonna achieve it. 901 00:43:58,011 --> 00:43:59,554 ("Up Up & Away" by Kid Cudi playing) 902 00:43:59,637 --> 00:44:01,431 COMMON: ♪ The end is never the end ♪ 903 00:44:01,514 --> 00:44:03,350 ♪ A new challenge awaits ♪ 904 00:44:03,433 --> 00:44:05,852 ♪ A test no man could be prepared for ♪ 905 00:44:05,935 --> 00:44:08,396 ♪ A new hell he must conquer and destroy ♪ 906 00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:11,566 ♪ A new level of growth he must confront himself ♪ 907 00:44:11,649 --> 00:44:14,069 ♪ The machine and the ghost within ♪ 908 00:44:14,152 --> 00:44:17,572 ♪ This is the journey of the Man on the Moon. ♪ 909 00:44:23,661 --> 00:44:25,663 (song ends) 910 00:44:28,124 --> 00:44:30,543 I never worried about the music part. 911 00:44:30,627 --> 00:44:33,963 The sadness, I only worried about him. 912 00:44:34,047 --> 00:44:37,384 He was a guy that stayed to himself a lot. 913 00:44:37,467 --> 00:44:41,137 In the beginning, it was a hard adjustment for him to make. 914 00:44:44,015 --> 00:44:46,518 There’s the saying, right? "Everywhere you go, there you are." 915 00:44:48,436 --> 00:44:52,148 And when you get more money, you think that things will get better, 916 00:44:52,232 --> 00:44:54,442 things will get easier. 917 00:44:54,526 --> 00:44:57,070 But when you have lots of eyes on you, 918 00:44:57,153 --> 00:44:59,948 it can magnify feelings of negative self-perception, 919 00:45:00,031 --> 00:45:02,242 and that can be particularly vulnerable and hurtful. 920 00:45:05,495 --> 00:45:08,456 There are people who say, you know, "That song saved my life." 921 00:45:08,540 --> 00:45:10,834 And that’s got to feel extremely scary. 922 00:45:10,917 --> 00:45:15,672 I have these people’s lives in my hand, but I’m struggling here, too. 923 00:45:15,755 --> 00:45:17,757 What’s my responsibility? 924 00:45:19,217 --> 00:45:22,303 The pressure in that can be overwhelming. 925 00:45:27,392 --> 00:45:33,273 CUDI: I just really found it hard to be happy. 926 00:45:33,356 --> 00:45:35,275 (audience cheering) 927 00:45:35,358 --> 00:45:37,402 I’m like, "Okay, I’m successful." 928 00:45:37,485 --> 00:45:42,449 Like, I accomplished what I came to New York City to accomplish. 929 00:45:42,532 --> 00:45:45,243 But, um... 930 00:45:45,326 --> 00:45:47,454 I was miserable, man. 931 00:45:47,537 --> 00:45:52,625 I just couldn’t help but feel like Richie Rich or somebody. 932 00:45:52,709 --> 00:45:55,587 Like, you know, I had security with me everywhere I went 933 00:45:55,670 --> 00:45:57,630 and, like, people looking out for me. 934 00:45:58,882 --> 00:46:02,135 There would be some nights where I’d be at the club 935 00:46:02,218 --> 00:46:06,431 and I would just run out the club 936 00:46:06,514 --> 00:46:09,058 and run for blocks. 937 00:46:09,142 --> 00:46:13,271 And I would hop in a yellow cab, trying to get away from my security. 938 00:46:13,354 --> 00:46:15,148 And my security would get in a cab 939 00:46:15,231 --> 00:46:17,984 and follow me all the way home and be right there. 940 00:46:18,067 --> 00:46:20,069 I could never lose his ass. 941 00:46:21,112 --> 00:46:25,325 I just had a hard time dealing with the adjustments 942 00:46:25,408 --> 00:46:28,411 from being this-this guy, 943 00:46:28,495 --> 00:46:32,081 from being Scott, to being Kid Cudi. 944 00:46:43,426 --> 00:46:45,428 ♪ ♪ 945 00:46:55,647 --> 00:46:58,983 It was a little bit of a nightmare for me 946 00:46:59,067 --> 00:47:03,071 because I wasn’t right with myself. 947 00:47:06,199 --> 00:47:11,496 When I would do shows, I didn’t feel anything. 948 00:47:12,914 --> 00:47:18,378 I think I was scared and intimidated by the stage. 949 00:47:20,922 --> 00:47:22,966 Like, if you look at some of my early performances, 950 00:47:23,049 --> 00:47:24,676 I’m not smiling. 951 00:47:26,010 --> 00:47:29,180 I just want to be around good people. 952 00:47:29,264 --> 00:47:31,307 I want to look them in the eyes and see their soul 953 00:47:31,391 --> 00:47:34,978 and know that they’re real people and they’re shooting me straight. 954 00:47:35,061 --> 00:47:37,730 I didn’t get that a lot. 955 00:47:37,814 --> 00:47:39,524 I was just like, "Man, these people might... 956 00:47:39,607 --> 00:47:41,526 "I-I don’t know if they like me for me 957 00:47:41,609 --> 00:47:45,071 or if they like me ’cause of my cosign with Kanye." 958 00:47:45,154 --> 00:47:47,031 Or maybe they just like "Day N Nite" 959 00:47:47,115 --> 00:47:49,075 and they don’t even know about the other music. 960 00:47:49,158 --> 00:47:53,454 Like, I don’t... I didn’t really know what that was, 961 00:47:53,538 --> 00:47:58,042 why people were into me as a artist. 962 00:48:01,546 --> 00:48:04,465 And I was just like, "Well, maybe this isn’t for me." 963 00:48:07,218 --> 00:48:10,430 There was a lot of good moments recording the album. 964 00:48:13,391 --> 00:48:15,977 But after it was done, it was, like... 965 00:48:16,060 --> 00:48:19,606 promoting it, and people would ask me questions, 966 00:48:19,689 --> 00:48:23,985 personal questions that I wasn’t ready to answer. 967 00:48:24,068 --> 00:48:26,362 For some reason-- and this is the truth-- 968 00:48:26,446 --> 00:48:32,118 I never thought that being so honest would, in turn, have people wanting 969 00:48:32,201 --> 00:48:34,829 to ask me so many personal questions. 970 00:48:34,912 --> 00:48:37,290 People would be like, "Oh, you lost your dad at 11 years old. 971 00:48:37,373 --> 00:48:39,459 What was that like?" 972 00:48:39,542 --> 00:48:42,295 These are questions that I’ve never been asked before. 973 00:48:42,378 --> 00:48:44,922 This is, like, stuff that I’ve never even thought about. 974 00:48:45,006 --> 00:48:48,426 When my father died, I camouflaged all my feelings. 975 00:48:48,509 --> 00:48:50,720 I-I tucked that shit away. 976 00:48:50,803 --> 00:48:53,222 I pretended like that shit didn’t even happen. 977 00:48:53,306 --> 00:48:55,725 And I would do interviews with sunglasses on, 978 00:48:55,808 --> 00:48:57,727 and I’d be on cocaine, and I’d just be, like, 979 00:48:57,810 --> 00:49:00,271 sitting there and answering these questions. 980 00:49:00,355 --> 00:49:03,066 Because that’s the only way I could talk about stuff like that. 981 00:49:07,487 --> 00:49:10,156 I would never leave my house. 982 00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:12,784 I wouldn’t go out and do anything. 983 00:49:15,119 --> 00:49:19,916 But when I did cocaine, I could be out in the street. 984 00:49:22,335 --> 00:49:24,462 I’d be the mayor. 985 00:49:24,545 --> 00:49:26,130 I’d be running out in the street. 986 00:49:26,214 --> 00:49:28,132 People were seeing me signing autographs. 987 00:49:28,216 --> 00:49:30,718 I’m taking pictures. I’m like, "Yo, what’s good?" 988 00:49:32,387 --> 00:49:35,807 It gave me confidence to step out the house. 989 00:49:38,726 --> 00:49:39,894 To be normal. 990 00:49:42,855 --> 00:49:44,482 ROBERT: So, what was the approach 991 00:49:44,565 --> 00:49:46,401 of, uh, Man on the Moon II? 992 00:49:50,697 --> 00:49:53,408 (laughs) 993 00:49:53,491 --> 00:49:56,119 Ah, man. 994 00:49:56,202 --> 00:49:57,578 (sucks teeth) 995 00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:02,959 I don’t want to talk about Man on the Moon II. 996 00:50:03,042 --> 00:50:05,294 I don’t really want to get-- D-Do you want to go to Man on the... 997 00:50:05,378 --> 00:50:07,380 -Yeah. -Yeah? 998 00:50:09,632 --> 00:50:12,135 You know, early on, it was fine. 999 00:50:14,011 --> 00:50:17,682 It wasn’t till after, uh, everything became su-successful 1000 00:50:17,765 --> 00:50:20,935 that everything kind of, like, got dark. 1001 00:50:22,019 --> 00:50:23,479 Oh, you mean the ending? 1002 00:50:23,563 --> 00:50:25,898 -Yeah, it’s too... -(electronic tone plays) 1003 00:50:29,068 --> 00:50:31,279 (beat plays briefly) 1004 00:50:32,321 --> 00:50:34,282 Mm... 1005 00:50:34,365 --> 00:50:35,825 I want to put more, like... 1006 00:50:35,908 --> 00:50:37,702 -(makes whooshing sound) -PAT: Right, it needs... 1007 00:50:37,785 --> 00:50:39,537 it needs, like, some more layers and shit. 1008 00:50:39,620 --> 00:50:41,622 CUDI: After Man on the Moon was finished, 1009 00:50:41,706 --> 00:50:45,042 I went right back to the studio. 1010 00:50:45,126 --> 00:50:46,627 EMILE: You know, we were like brothers. 1011 00:50:46,711 --> 00:50:50,423 We were all in the studio constantly, and, like, you know, you have that thing 1012 00:50:50,506 --> 00:50:54,510 of, like, we shared hotel rooms and going and doing his first shows 1013 00:50:54,594 --> 00:50:56,512 for 30 people in Jersey somewhere and... 1014 00:50:56,596 --> 00:50:59,974 You know, we went through all that, and, uh, 1015 00:51:00,057 --> 00:51:03,060 you know, the dynamic shifts naturally. It just has to. 1016 00:51:04,270 --> 00:51:06,189 DOT: He definitely was going through things. 1017 00:51:06,272 --> 00:51:10,151 You could tell that he just wasn’t, like, feeling it. 1018 00:51:10,234 --> 00:51:13,905 I just remember it going from us doing a show, 1019 00:51:13,988 --> 00:51:15,281 doing an after-party. 1020 00:51:15,364 --> 00:51:17,033 (lively chatter) 1021 00:51:17,116 --> 00:51:20,870 Like, usually having a lot going on all the time, 1022 00:51:20,953 --> 00:51:23,873 and then he just completely deaded all that. 1023 00:51:23,956 --> 00:51:26,918 He would have moments like this before the first album. 1024 00:51:27,001 --> 00:51:29,670 You know, like, he would be dealing with something. 1025 00:51:29,754 --> 00:51:32,965 He’ll just lock himself in a room in the house by himself. 1026 00:51:33,049 --> 00:51:36,552 So that whole "lonely stoner" shit is... 1027 00:51:36,636 --> 00:51:38,054 you know, it’s a fact. 1028 00:51:38,137 --> 00:51:42,266 PAT: You know, for me personally, it was like... with Ye... 1029 00:51:42,350 --> 00:51:45,812 just, like, working with Cudi and Ye, I was... 1030 00:51:45,895 --> 00:51:48,397 I... it-it was a lot for me to handle because... 1031 00:51:48,481 --> 00:51:50,858 ’cause I-I feel like... I feel like I could’ve... 1032 00:51:50,942 --> 00:51:53,486 I feel like, um... (sucks teeth) 1033 00:51:53,569 --> 00:51:55,696 like I was... I just feel like I could’ve been there 1034 00:51:55,780 --> 00:51:58,449 for Cudi more, and maybe it would’ve went different. 1035 00:51:58,533 --> 00:52:01,452 -(cameras clicking) -(indistinct chatter) 1036 00:52:01,536 --> 00:52:04,121 EMILE: The train is just moving, like, super fast, 1037 00:52:04,205 --> 00:52:06,374 and he’s, like, traveling the world. 1038 00:52:06,457 --> 00:52:08,876 He’s got all these obligations. 1039 00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:10,169 CREW MEMBER: Roll playback! 1040 00:52:10,253 --> 00:52:11,504 EMILE: He’s got superfans. 1041 00:52:11,587 --> 00:52:13,464 He’s got huge tours. It’s all moving. 1042 00:52:13,548 --> 00:52:16,509 You don’t want to stop it, but what do you do? 1043 00:52:16,592 --> 00:52:18,219 He didn’t seem happy at all, 1044 00:52:18,302 --> 00:52:20,012 and he didn’t seem to be looking forward to anything. 1045 00:52:20,096 --> 00:52:25,643 I also think that he just had this idea that he wasn’t gonna live. 1046 00:52:25,726 --> 00:52:28,229 DOT: Besides the mood swings, it was always 1047 00:52:28,312 --> 00:52:31,023 100% in the studio. 1048 00:52:32,108 --> 00:52:34,402 You have to understand, Cudi’s my brother. 1049 00:52:34,485 --> 00:52:37,029 The fact that he was able to hide it from me 1050 00:52:37,113 --> 00:52:38,906 bothers me a lot, 1051 00:52:38,990 --> 00:52:42,493 but he was very good at-at hiding it. 1052 00:52:42,577 --> 00:52:47,081 CUDI: The pressures of having to live up to the hype, 1053 00:52:47,164 --> 00:52:52,086 I didn’t know if I could really embrace what I was becoming. 1054 00:52:52,169 --> 00:52:55,381 (sings indistinctly) 1055 00:52:55,464 --> 00:52:58,718 And I was using cocaine 1056 00:52:58,801 --> 00:53:04,098 to escape from reality. 1057 00:53:04,181 --> 00:53:06,684 PAT (chuckling): I didn’t realize that, like, how deep it was 1058 00:53:06,767 --> 00:53:08,561 of, like, how deep the lyrics were. 1059 00:53:09,645 --> 00:53:11,898 ♪ Want to know what it sound like ♪ 1060 00:53:11,981 --> 00:53:13,608 ♪ When I’m not on drugs? ♪ 1061 00:53:13,691 --> 00:53:17,236 ♪ Please, please don’t play this song... ♪ 1062 00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:18,779 Yeah, that song... I don’t know, man. 1063 00:53:18,863 --> 00:53:20,031 I never liked that song. 1064 00:53:20,114 --> 00:53:21,741 I produced it. We did it together. 1065 00:53:21,824 --> 00:53:25,119 It was too re... it was, like, I was seeing it every day. 1066 00:53:26,579 --> 00:53:27,830 ♪ ♪ 1067 00:53:27,914 --> 00:53:30,082 PAT: Like, you hear the lyrics, you know, 1068 00:53:30,166 --> 00:53:32,835 but it’s not just, like, for this album. 1069 00:53:32,919 --> 00:53:34,754 It’s like... this is his real life. 1070 00:53:47,266 --> 00:53:50,561 CUDI: I had got arrested before the album was finished, 1071 00:53:50,645 --> 00:53:55,900 and, uh, I remember I got out of jail, and I was ashamed 1072 00:53:55,983 --> 00:54:00,738 because I grew up with two uncles that were addicted to crack. 1073 00:54:00,821 --> 00:54:04,283 So the fact that I got into cocaine 1074 00:54:04,367 --> 00:54:07,870 really made me feel like I let them down, 1075 00:54:07,954 --> 00:54:10,498 like I was letting my mom down. 1076 00:54:12,041 --> 00:54:14,669 But I’m glad I got arrested because that’s when I quit. 1077 00:54:16,128 --> 00:54:18,214 I don’t think I would’ve quit if I... 1078 00:54:18,297 --> 00:54:22,885 If-if people didn’t find out about it, I would’ve kept-kept doing it. 1079 00:54:24,220 --> 00:54:25,554 (song changes) 1080 00:54:25,638 --> 00:54:26,931 ♪ ♪ 1081 00:54:27,014 --> 00:54:29,058 People started treating me different 1082 00:54:29,141 --> 00:54:33,980 and looking at me different, and that fucked me up. 1083 00:54:34,063 --> 00:54:38,609 Everybody, I think, like, in the media, they kind of... 1084 00:54:38,693 --> 00:54:42,279 for a long time, they just painted me as this guy who 1085 00:54:42,363 --> 00:54:46,492 has some personal problems and is depressed. 1086 00:54:46,575 --> 00:54:48,452 ♪ No one wants a troubled boy... ♪ 1087 00:54:48,536 --> 00:54:51,288 That really bothered me a lot... 1088 00:54:53,124 --> 00:54:58,087 ...’cause I wasn’t depressed and down all the time. 1089 00:54:59,338 --> 00:55:01,465 And that was the year my daughter was born. 1090 00:55:01,549 --> 00:55:03,134 And I want y’all to meet my daughter. 1091 00:55:03,217 --> 00:55:05,094 She’s the love of my life, and I just want her 1092 00:55:05,177 --> 00:55:07,805 -to see what Daddy does. -(cheering) 1093 00:55:07,888 --> 00:55:11,726 When I was with her, I was the happiest I could ever be. 1094 00:55:11,809 --> 00:55:13,728 But I wasn’t with her all the time. 1095 00:55:15,479 --> 00:55:17,857 It’s just something that comes with it. 1096 00:55:17,940 --> 00:55:20,609 It’s not about what the media is saying. 1097 00:55:20,693 --> 00:55:22,486 It’s about these kids. 1098 00:55:22,570 --> 00:55:25,614 So I just made sure to focus, like, on that, 1099 00:55:25,698 --> 00:55:29,160 the fact that it was helping people, 1100 00:55:29,243 --> 00:55:30,661 and that’s always been my mission. 1101 00:55:30,745 --> 00:55:32,204 It’s just like the line... 1102 00:55:36,417 --> 00:55:39,253 That’s truly what it was, you know? 1103 00:55:39,336 --> 00:55:43,591 I sacrifice the privacy of my life 1104 00:55:43,674 --> 00:55:46,886 and put my story out there to help others. 1105 00:55:46,969 --> 00:55:48,804 ♪ ♪ 1106 00:55:51,307 --> 00:55:53,225 (music stops) 1107 00:55:53,309 --> 00:55:55,436 -Need a break. -ROBERT: Okay. 1108 00:55:55,519 --> 00:55:57,146 Thank you. 1109 00:55:57,229 --> 00:55:58,606 ("Soundtrack 2 My Life" by Kid Cudi playing) 1110 00:55:58,689 --> 00:56:01,233 ♪ She copped the toys I would play with in my room by myself ♪ 1111 00:56:01,317 --> 00:56:04,028 ♪ Why he by himself? He got two older brothers... ♪ 1112 00:56:04,111 --> 00:56:07,865 SHIA: I’ve always felt like me and him are just very similar, man. 1113 00:56:07,948 --> 00:56:09,950 Like, he was always-- some kind of kinship, spirit-wise. 1114 00:56:10,034 --> 00:56:12,328 I have really charming memories of him, man. 1115 00:56:12,411 --> 00:56:13,954 He’s like a fucking teddy bear in my heart. 1116 00:56:15,039 --> 00:56:17,083 I remember being in Amsterdam with him. 1117 00:56:17,166 --> 00:56:19,251 People running around all through the fucking streets, 1118 00:56:19,335 --> 00:56:20,961 trying to chase him-- no bodyguard. 1119 00:56:21,045 --> 00:56:22,838 And I remember thinking, like, 1120 00:56:22,922 --> 00:56:24,632 "This motherfucker’s a superstar, and he’s just, 1121 00:56:24,715 --> 00:56:26,550 like, hanging out with us, you know?" 1122 00:56:26,634 --> 00:56:28,636 He never lost that... 1123 00:56:30,763 --> 00:56:32,598 You know, he still has that. 1124 00:56:32,681 --> 00:56:34,934 And really, you can only be his friend 1125 00:56:35,017 --> 00:56:38,145 if you are in the midst of creating something with him. 1126 00:56:38,229 --> 00:56:40,940 Not because he’s trying to use you, but because that’s the only time 1127 00:56:41,023 --> 00:56:43,067 when his spirits are up. 1128 00:56:44,860 --> 00:56:47,071 How’d the Shia interview come out? 1129 00:56:47,154 --> 00:56:49,573 I remember sitting with him. (laughing): Oh, my God. 1130 00:56:49,657 --> 00:56:51,200 I remember sitting with him. 1131 00:56:51,283 --> 00:56:53,244 I think he was on tour or something, and he’s like, 1132 00:56:53,327 --> 00:56:56,372 "Hey, man, I want to make this... this fucking cartoon about my childhood." 1133 00:56:56,455 --> 00:56:58,124 I’m like, "Bet. I’m on it." 1134 00:56:58,207 --> 00:57:01,377 So I write this treatment, and I put everything into it. 1135 00:57:01,460 --> 00:57:03,963 ROBERT: He talked about a Adult Swim meeting 1136 00:57:04,046 --> 00:57:06,590 -you went to with him. -(laughing) 1137 00:57:06,674 --> 00:57:08,717 There’s like five people in the room from Adult Swim, 1138 00:57:08,801 --> 00:57:10,761 and they’re all, like, kind of vibing with the treatment. 1139 00:57:10,845 --> 00:57:12,972 And I never really pitched shit in my life ever, 1140 00:57:13,055 --> 00:57:15,141 so I’m thinking, "Ooh, gosh, this is going well." 1141 00:57:15,224 --> 00:57:18,394 (laughing): And he, in the middle of the meeting, 1142 00:57:18,477 --> 00:57:20,271 he just takes the pages out of my hand. 1143 00:57:20,354 --> 00:57:23,732 He goes, "This is bullshit," and he threw the fucking pages out 1144 00:57:23,816 --> 00:57:26,152 in the meeting, and then stormed out of the meeting. 1145 00:57:26,235 --> 00:57:28,821 (laughing): Nah, I didn’t do that. 1146 00:57:28,904 --> 00:57:32,491 I grabbed... I grabbed the script out his hand 1147 00:57:32,575 --> 00:57:36,620 ’cause it was a script that I didn’t read that he wrote on his own. 1148 00:57:36,704 --> 00:57:37,746 It was quite aggressive. 1149 00:57:37,830 --> 00:57:39,415 It was really smooth how I did it 1150 00:57:39,498 --> 00:57:42,251 ’cause he took it out, and then right when he pulled it out, 1151 00:57:42,334 --> 00:57:43,794 I was like, "No, no, no, no." 1152 00:57:43,878 --> 00:57:45,379 And he was pissed. 1153 00:57:45,462 --> 00:57:48,799 He had given me a passport to his life story. 1154 00:57:48,883 --> 00:57:51,427 He had given me access to everything. I’m talking to his mother. 1155 00:57:51,510 --> 00:57:53,137 And I had put it in the pages. 1156 00:57:53,220 --> 00:57:55,139 And there was shit in the pages that he just... 1157 00:57:55,222 --> 00:57:57,099 we had never double-checked with each other, 1158 00:57:57,183 --> 00:57:59,310 and there were certain things he didn’t want to talk about. 1159 00:57:59,393 --> 00:58:04,732 He’s so aware of how he’s being perceived that he wants to shape it 1160 00:58:04,815 --> 00:58:07,067 to such a degree that it doesn’t allow him to be free. 1161 00:58:07,151 --> 00:58:09,528 Which is why we’ve had contention, me and him. 1162 00:58:09,612 --> 00:58:12,448 It’s ’cause I am a digger and I’m curious as fuck, 1163 00:58:12,531 --> 00:58:14,909 and I’ll go there with him and he’ll shut it down. 1164 00:58:14,992 --> 00:58:16,994 I didn’t understand that for years, you know? 1165 00:58:17,077 --> 00:58:19,205 Um, and we got better, and-and then we fell out, 1166 00:58:19,288 --> 00:58:20,873 and we got better and we fell out. 1167 00:58:20,956 --> 00:58:24,460 We both love each other, but we’re both really passionate people. 1168 00:58:24,543 --> 00:58:26,378 That’s why I love him so much, because, like, 1169 00:58:26,462 --> 00:58:28,339 I feel like he understands me 1170 00:58:28,422 --> 00:58:29,882 and I understand him. 1171 00:58:29,965 --> 00:58:31,467 It’s hard to find 1172 00:58:31,550 --> 00:58:33,385 people like that in the industry 1173 00:58:33,469 --> 00:58:37,556 that are, like, trying to create something new, 1174 00:58:37,640 --> 00:58:41,560 but it’s always been an escape for me. 1175 00:58:42,645 --> 00:58:44,647 And it’s freeing. 1176 00:58:47,566 --> 00:58:49,568 ♪ ♪ 1177 00:58:59,536 --> 00:59:01,247 Dennis, my manager, 1178 00:59:01,330 --> 00:59:03,916 bought me a guitar one year, and I was like... 1179 00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:07,628 "Why’d you buy me that?" 1180 00:59:07,711 --> 00:59:11,090 He said, "Ah, man, I was just thinking you could get into the guitar." 1181 00:59:11,173 --> 00:59:14,551 I was like, "I don’t play guitar, though." 1182 00:59:14,635 --> 00:59:16,136 (laughing): You know? 1183 00:59:16,220 --> 00:59:17,638 And he just bought me this guitar. 1184 00:59:17,721 --> 00:59:23,310 And then I got the idea to just go ahead and teach myself. 1185 00:59:23,394 --> 00:59:24,937 That was... 1186 00:59:25,020 --> 00:59:27,731 me just... 1187 00:59:27,815 --> 00:59:31,026 trying to feel something. 1188 00:59:31,110 --> 00:59:33,279 I needed to feel something with the music. 1189 00:59:34,363 --> 00:59:38,617 The fact that I was Black, playing the guitar, doing rock music, 1190 00:59:38,701 --> 00:59:41,870 that was, like, weird for people, I think. 1191 00:59:42,955 --> 00:59:44,832 Even if it was a weird thing, 1192 00:59:44,915 --> 00:59:47,209 I still wouldn’t care and I still was just, like, 1193 00:59:47,293 --> 00:59:49,336 adamant about learning this instrument 1194 00:59:49,420 --> 00:59:52,548 and proving to myself that I could do it. 1195 00:59:52,631 --> 00:59:54,633 (plays repeating electric guitar riff) 1196 01:00:06,020 --> 01:00:07,730 -Get any of that? -Hmm? 1197 01:00:07,813 --> 01:00:09,857 -You got it? -Uh, no. 1198 01:00:09,940 --> 01:00:12,067 Uh, let’s-let’s do it again. I wasn’t recording. 1199 01:00:12,151 --> 01:00:14,111 -You recording? -No. 1200 01:00:14,194 --> 01:00:16,488 (laughing): Son of a bitch. 1201 01:00:16,572 --> 01:00:17,906 Son of a bitch. 1202 01:00:17,990 --> 01:00:19,742 I was just getting warm anyway. 1203 01:00:19,825 --> 01:00:22,369 ("Brake" by WZRD playing) 1204 01:00:22,453 --> 01:00:26,040 WZRD, I did that album sober. 1205 01:00:26,123 --> 01:00:27,541 I wasn’t drinking. 1206 01:00:27,624 --> 01:00:29,918 I wasn’t smoking, I don’t think. 1207 01:00:30,002 --> 01:00:33,005 Or was I smoking and I wasn’t drinking? 1208 01:00:33,088 --> 01:00:35,341 I can’t remember. (laughs) 1209 01:00:35,424 --> 01:00:38,719 ♪ Mm, somebody help me ♪ 1210 01:00:38,802 --> 01:00:41,138 ♪ Does anyone care? ♪ 1211 01:00:41,221 --> 01:00:43,182 ♪ Can anyone hear me? ♪ 1212 01:00:43,265 --> 01:00:45,059 ♪ Is anyone there? ♪ 1213 01:00:45,142 --> 01:00:47,519 DENNIS: The motivation from that was 1214 01:00:47,603 --> 01:00:52,775 he definitely wanted to start a band with Dot. 1215 01:00:54,360 --> 01:00:56,403 ♪ ♪ 1216 01:00:56,487 --> 01:00:59,490 He may say something different, but I think some of it also 1217 01:00:59,573 --> 01:01:04,828 stemmed from him being, like, over being out on that stage by himself. 1218 01:01:04,912 --> 01:01:07,247 Him wanting to bring somebody else in that fishbowl. 1219 01:01:07,331 --> 01:01:10,417 ("Teleport 2 Me, Jamie" by WZRD playing) 1220 01:01:12,795 --> 01:01:14,797 (indistinct chatter) 1221 01:01:19,843 --> 01:01:21,845 (laughter) 1222 01:01:23,180 --> 01:01:24,932 ♪ I want you, girl ♪ 1223 01:01:25,015 --> 01:01:29,895 ♪ And I need your body right here... ♪ 1224 01:01:29,978 --> 01:01:33,190 CUDI: I was excited about this new sound 1225 01:01:33,273 --> 01:01:35,859 and everything about it. 1226 01:01:35,943 --> 01:01:37,528 I had the perm, and... 1227 01:01:37,611 --> 01:01:38,904 (laughing): Like, I had a new look and... 1228 01:01:38,987 --> 01:01:40,155 Like, you know what I’m saying? 1229 01:01:40,239 --> 01:01:41,490 ♪ Won’t you teleport to me? ♪ 1230 01:01:41,573 --> 01:01:46,662 ♪ Yo, oh, oh... ♪ 1231 01:01:46,745 --> 01:01:49,456 ♪ Right here, won’t you teleport... ♪ 1232 01:01:49,540 --> 01:01:51,083 It was therapeutic. 1233 01:01:51,166 --> 01:01:52,960 -♪ Baby. ♪ -(song ends) 1234 01:01:53,043 --> 01:01:57,256 You know, I was in a really happy place when I made WZRD. 1235 01:01:58,424 --> 01:02:00,342 We’re not coming at you like, "Shut the fuck up 1236 01:02:00,426 --> 01:02:02,177 and, like, listen to our music." 1237 01:02:02,261 --> 01:02:04,304 -You came here for a purpose. -WOMAN: Exactly. 1238 01:02:04,388 --> 01:02:06,140 -You came here to hear our music. -Fuck that... 1239 01:02:06,223 --> 01:02:08,058 So fucking listen to what we’re talking about 1240 01:02:08,142 --> 01:02:10,894 because we’re trying to educate you on what we’re doing. 1241 01:02:10,978 --> 01:02:13,897 -It’s as simple as that. -(applause, cheering) 1242 01:02:13,981 --> 01:02:15,441 You know what I’m saying? 1243 01:02:15,524 --> 01:02:17,651 -No claps! No claps! -(applause stops) 1244 01:02:17,734 --> 01:02:20,028 A lot of people think I’m an asshole and shit. 1245 01:02:20,112 --> 01:02:21,989 Whatever. Think what you want. 1246 01:02:22,072 --> 01:02:23,991 But, like, nigga, I... this is the shit 1247 01:02:24,074 --> 01:02:26,243 that keeps me alive, making these fucking songs, 1248 01:02:26,326 --> 01:02:29,455 so fuck you if you can’t listen while I’m playing ’em. 1249 01:02:31,165 --> 01:02:33,500 That’s how I feel. 1250 01:02:33,584 --> 01:02:35,711 Wholeheartedly. 1251 01:02:35,794 --> 01:02:37,796 (scattered chatter) 1252 01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:40,382 No more questions. I want to just get the fuck out of here. 1253 01:02:41,967 --> 01:02:44,136 I wouldn’t want to wish my life on anybody. 1254 01:02:44,219 --> 01:02:48,223 Like, the stuff that I was going through, I wouldn’t want anyone to go through that. 1255 01:02:50,684 --> 01:02:53,437 But I was coming to terms 1256 01:02:53,520 --> 01:02:57,941 with the reality of me being such a... 1257 01:02:59,735 --> 01:03:04,823 ...a dark person and being depressed 1258 01:03:04,907 --> 01:03:07,743 and facing the fact that people 1259 01:03:07,826 --> 01:03:12,581 don’t really want to fuck with someone who doesn’t have their shit together. 1260 01:03:13,916 --> 01:03:18,128 And then, after the second album, that’s when I switched labels. 1261 01:03:19,505 --> 01:03:24,968 And I lost Sylvia Rhone, and that was a big deal for me. 1262 01:03:25,052 --> 01:03:29,097 The person that believed in me and signed me, I lost her. 1263 01:03:30,432 --> 01:03:35,229 My career would have been different if I had Sylvia Rhone. 1264 01:03:36,271 --> 01:03:40,609 ’Cause Sylvia believed in me like nobody else in the industry. 1265 01:03:41,610 --> 01:03:43,904 No matter how weird or how strange the music would be, 1266 01:03:43,987 --> 01:03:47,157 she would be totally all in with what I wanted to do. 1267 01:03:47,241 --> 01:03:50,827 And it’s tough ’cause these labels are cutthroat. 1268 01:03:52,371 --> 01:03:54,540 I know they support me, but it’s still like, 1269 01:03:54,623 --> 01:03:56,625 "Where’s the radio single?" 1270 01:03:58,585 --> 01:04:00,587 And it’s like, "Man, I’m Kid Cudi. 1271 01:04:02,005 --> 01:04:04,341 We don’t think about that." 1272 01:04:06,343 --> 01:04:08,262 SHIA: You know, you wouldn’t have had 1273 01:04:08,345 --> 01:04:12,057 that lean into punk rock from rap without Cudi, like, risking. 1274 01:04:12,140 --> 01:04:14,977 He had to risk himself and get flayed for it 1275 01:04:15,060 --> 01:04:17,854 ’cause what they wanted from him was another Man on the Moon. 1276 01:04:17,938 --> 01:04:21,108 He’s got a bunch of Man on the Moons sitting in a backpack. 1277 01:04:21,191 --> 01:04:23,193 His thing is he hates repeating himself. 1278 01:04:23,277 --> 01:04:26,321 He feels passé or like he’s not pushing it. 1279 01:04:27,322 --> 01:04:32,160 He winds up sabotaging himself from, like, a certain kind of pop success 1280 01:04:32,244 --> 01:04:35,163 because he’s so dissatisfied with the rest of life. 1281 01:04:35,247 --> 01:04:38,458 Out of that dissatisfaction, you wind up with incredible art 1282 01:04:38,542 --> 01:04:41,336 and a really fractured person. 1283 01:04:41,420 --> 01:04:43,297 CUDI: I’ll be having to remind cats, 1284 01:04:43,380 --> 01:04:47,926 like, yo, we exist on a whole nother plane. 1285 01:04:48,010 --> 01:04:50,095 I didn’t get on through radio. 1286 01:04:50,178 --> 01:04:52,139 I got on on the Internet. 1287 01:04:52,222 --> 01:04:57,185 I was working with Kanye West, Jay-Z without radio play. 1288 01:05:02,733 --> 01:05:06,236 I can’t busy myself worrying about the radio. 1289 01:05:06,320 --> 01:05:08,238 The fucking radio. 1290 01:05:08,322 --> 01:05:11,408 (beat playing) 1291 01:05:11,491 --> 01:05:14,244 Do I want to have a record on the radio? 1292 01:05:14,328 --> 01:05:16,288 Yeah, but I want it to be organic. 1293 01:05:16,371 --> 01:05:19,833 I want people to play my record because it’s hot, not because 1294 01:05:19,916 --> 01:05:22,085 the label is telling them to play it. 1295 01:05:22,169 --> 01:05:26,590 I don’t really get caught up on sales or anything like that. 1296 01:05:26,673 --> 01:05:29,509 If I did, I would’ve been like, "Aw, it’s over. 1297 01:05:29,593 --> 01:05:33,055 People don’t want to listen to me anymore. I’m done." 1298 01:05:33,138 --> 01:05:35,515 But I was like, "Okay. 1299 01:05:35,599 --> 01:05:37,768 "People didn’t respond to that. 1300 01:05:37,851 --> 01:05:39,394 "Cool. 1301 01:05:39,478 --> 01:05:43,815 I’m-a get back to my shit, introduce some new vibes." 1302 01:05:45,400 --> 01:05:47,361 (heavy beat playing) 1303 01:05:50,113 --> 01:05:52,115 Let’s go! 1304 01:05:53,742 --> 01:05:56,328 All these songs, like, to perform at the concerts, 1305 01:05:56,411 --> 01:05:58,455 -are gonna be outrageous. -(music stops) 1306 01:05:58,538 --> 01:06:01,541 Outrageous, ’cause, see, the thing, like, with my shows, 1307 01:06:01,625 --> 01:06:03,293 there’s so much of that slow shit 1308 01:06:03,377 --> 01:06:05,170 on the Man on the Moon material, so it’s like, 1309 01:06:05,253 --> 01:06:07,047 we got high ones, we got low ones. 1310 01:06:07,130 --> 01:06:09,549 -Yeah, yeah. -And I never really have done up-tempo records. 1311 01:06:09,633 --> 01:06:11,218 -Right. -So the only time the show get hype 1312 01:06:11,301 --> 01:06:13,053 -is when we do the remix part. -Right, right, right. 1313 01:06:13,136 --> 01:06:14,930 But all these songs, "Immortal," like... 1314 01:06:15,013 --> 01:06:17,182 -Yeah, yeah, yeah. -Niggas gonna be turned up. 1315 01:06:17,265 --> 01:06:19,267 -♪ I’m living my life ♪ -(crowd cheering) 1316 01:06:19,351 --> 01:06:21,978 ♪ As if I got powers ♪ 1317 01:06:22,062 --> 01:06:26,066 ♪ And tonight I feel immortal ♪ 1318 01:06:27,150 --> 01:06:31,988 ♪ I said, tonight I feel immortal ♪ 1319 01:06:32,072 --> 01:06:33,699 ♪ Oh ♪ 1320 01:06:33,782 --> 01:06:37,202 ♪ Tonight I feel immortal ♪ 1321 01:06:37,285 --> 01:06:38,870 ♪ Whoa. ♪ 1322 01:06:38,954 --> 01:06:43,375 We have a job to introduce new flavors and new experiences. 1323 01:06:43,458 --> 01:06:45,919 -Hit it. -(beat plays, crowd cheers) 1324 01:06:46,002 --> 01:06:49,089 I’ve always been about: How can I do that? 1325 01:06:49,172 --> 01:06:50,799 How can I push it? 1326 01:06:50,882 --> 01:06:53,427 -How can I... -Everybody! 1327 01:06:53,510 --> 01:06:55,721 ...give people something that they haven’t heard before? 1328 01:06:55,804 --> 01:06:57,764 ♪ Say, who gonna hold me down now? ♪ 1329 01:06:57,848 --> 01:06:59,683 ♪ I wanna get high, y’all ♪ 1330 01:06:59,766 --> 01:07:02,060 Hey! ♪ Whoa, whoa ♪ 1331 01:07:02,144 --> 01:07:03,937 -♪ I wanna get high, y’all ♪ -♪ Let me know, hey ♪ 1332 01:07:04,020 --> 01:07:06,398 ♪ Need it, need it to get by, y’all ♪ 1333 01:07:06,481 --> 01:07:08,066 ♪ Whoa, I need it ♪ 1334 01:07:08,150 --> 01:07:11,570 -♪ Can you get me high, y’all? ♪ -♪ Hey, oh. ♪ 1335 01:07:11,653 --> 01:07:14,573 (cheering and applause) 1336 01:07:14,656 --> 01:07:18,243 In the moment, people might not understand that, but... 1337 01:07:18,326 --> 01:07:21,538 you have to stay true to your beliefs. 1338 01:07:21,621 --> 01:07:24,541 (chanting): Cudi! Cudi! Cudi! Cudi! Cudi! 1339 01:07:24,624 --> 01:07:26,084 CUDI: I always stay true to Scott. 1340 01:07:26,168 --> 01:07:30,589 And as long as I focus in that way, 1341 01:07:30,672 --> 01:07:32,174 I should be good. 1342 01:07:32,257 --> 01:07:33,967 Look at all these fucking people! 1343 01:07:34,050 --> 01:07:35,719 Y’all feel that energy?! 1344 01:07:35,802 --> 01:07:37,137 (cheering) 1345 01:07:37,220 --> 01:07:39,222 ("Down & Out" playing) 1346 01:07:39,306 --> 01:07:41,183 Let’s take it to the mixtape! 1347 01:07:41,266 --> 01:07:42,893 Hands high! 1348 01:07:42,976 --> 01:07:44,478 ♪ Yeah ♪ 1349 01:07:44,561 --> 01:07:46,980 ♪ Ha-ha-ha-ha ♪ 1350 01:07:47,063 --> 01:07:48,565 ♪ Yeah ♪ 1351 01:07:48,648 --> 01:07:51,526 ♪ Ha-ha, ha-ha-ha-ha ♪ 1352 01:07:51,610 --> 01:07:54,613 What? When I say, "Kid," y’all say, "Cudi." 1353 01:07:54,696 --> 01:07:57,741 -Kid. Kid. -Cudi! Cudi! 1354 01:07:57,824 --> 01:07:59,910 When I say, "Kid," y’all say, "Cudi." 1355 01:07:59,993 --> 01:08:02,913 -Kid. Kid. -Cudi! Cudi! 1356 01:08:02,996 --> 01:08:05,665 -Nice! -(cheering) 1357 01:08:05,749 --> 01:08:07,292 LIL YACHTY: When I do shit, 1358 01:08:07,375 --> 01:08:10,796 like, I’ll be so fearful of people 1359 01:08:10,879 --> 01:08:13,590 not understanding something, I’ll explain everything. 1360 01:08:14,633 --> 01:08:16,426 He’s kind of opposite. 1361 01:08:16,510 --> 01:08:17,886 He just drops it. 1362 01:08:17,969 --> 01:08:20,013 If you don’t understand it, whatever. 1363 01:08:20,096 --> 01:08:21,848 Which is so cool. 1364 01:08:21,932 --> 01:08:24,267 ("Going to the Ceremony" playing) 1365 01:08:24,351 --> 01:08:26,478 I wish I could be like that. 1366 01:08:27,521 --> 01:08:29,981 -Do you guys feel it? -(cheering) 1367 01:08:30,065 --> 01:08:31,858 CUDI: The moment I start 1368 01:08:31,942 --> 01:08:34,069 sounding like somebody else, that’s when I fail. 1369 01:08:34,152 --> 01:08:36,988 ♪ Drinking again, drinking again... ♪ 1370 01:08:37,072 --> 01:08:38,990 But then there’s also a side of me that’s like, 1371 01:08:39,074 --> 01:08:40,534 "Well, what if they don’t like it 1372 01:08:40,617 --> 01:08:44,871 and the label’s not gonna promote it and people are gonna shit on it?" 1373 01:08:46,540 --> 01:08:50,085 There’s kind of that, but it’s not stopping me 1374 01:08:50,168 --> 01:08:52,170 from executing it. 1375 01:08:52,254 --> 01:08:54,589 It’s like a thought, and then it’s like, "Well, fuck it. 1376 01:08:54,673 --> 01:08:56,466 I’m just gonna do this." 1377 01:08:56,550 --> 01:08:58,260 You know, I’m human. 1378 01:08:58,343 --> 01:09:00,512 (vocalizing) 1379 01:09:04,975 --> 01:09:08,061 -(song ends) -(cheering) 1380 01:09:09,104 --> 01:09:10,939 A$AP ROCKY: The connection is the high. 1381 01:09:12,649 --> 01:09:14,776 And that’s really what everybody’s chasing-- 1382 01:09:14,860 --> 01:09:16,820 that high, you know? 1383 01:09:16,903 --> 01:09:21,324 That’s when you finally feel like a natural part of something. 1384 01:09:21,408 --> 01:09:24,286 It’s like finding your roots. 1385 01:09:24,369 --> 01:09:26,705 Because you could have an opinion, 1386 01:09:26,788 --> 01:09:30,083 a strong opinion on something that says, 1387 01:09:30,166 --> 01:09:32,627 I know that this naturally isn’t supposed to be cool, 1388 01:09:32,711 --> 01:09:34,880 but there’s something really dope about this. 1389 01:09:34,963 --> 01:09:36,882 Man, this is amazing. 1390 01:09:36,965 --> 01:09:38,884 ♪ Can we take the journey... ♪ 1391 01:09:38,967 --> 01:09:41,177 You could make music about nothing all day, 1392 01:09:41,261 --> 01:09:44,556 and people still could play it-- it’s a dope beat. 1393 01:09:44,639 --> 01:09:47,767 You know, you’re saying some shit, repetitive, on the hook, but... 1394 01:09:47,851 --> 01:09:51,062 some people make shit you connect to, and you’re like, "Damn." 1395 01:09:51,146 --> 01:09:53,398 ♪ Where you at? Where you going? ♪ 1396 01:09:53,481 --> 01:09:55,650 ♪ Hey, Mr. Rager ♪ 1397 01:09:55,734 --> 01:09:58,403 ♪ Where the hell you at? Where the fuck you going? ♪ 1398 01:09:58,486 --> 01:10:00,655 ♪ Hey, Mr. Rager ♪ 1399 01:10:00,739 --> 01:10:02,824 ♪ Where you at? Where you going? ♪ 1400 01:10:02,908 --> 01:10:07,537 ♪ Hey, Mr. Rager ♪ 1401 01:10:07,621 --> 01:10:09,497 ♪ Hey ♪ 1402 01:10:09,581 --> 01:10:12,292 ♪ Mm ♪ 1403 01:10:12,375 --> 01:10:13,501 ♪ Yeah. ♪ 1404 01:10:13,585 --> 01:10:15,921 -Thank you! -(cheering) 1405 01:10:19,799 --> 01:10:21,801 ♪ ♪ 1406 01:10:32,520 --> 01:10:35,273 SHIA: His pain is always felt very at the surface. 1407 01:10:38,777 --> 01:10:41,363 He smiles a whole lot, 1408 01:10:41,446 --> 01:10:45,158 but his smile is hiding something. 1409 01:10:49,287 --> 01:10:50,830 I remember coming in one time. 1410 01:10:50,914 --> 01:10:52,666 I think he was making the rock album with Pat. 1411 01:10:52,749 --> 01:10:54,960 And I came in-- it was too far ahead for me. 1412 01:10:55,043 --> 01:10:56,962 I was like, "Nah, man, this ain’t it at all." 1413 01:10:57,045 --> 01:10:58,922 And I said that, and he kicked me out his house, 1414 01:10:59,005 --> 01:11:00,340 and we didn’t talk for a long time. 1415 01:11:00,423 --> 01:11:02,050 Even if-if you’re gonna tell him the truth, 1416 01:11:02,133 --> 01:11:06,429 you got to find a way to deliver it ’cause he’s such a fucking feeler. 1417 01:11:06,513 --> 01:11:09,391 He’s mining his heart every time he makes an album. 1418 01:11:09,474 --> 01:11:11,142 He’s in there digging. 1419 01:11:11,226 --> 01:11:14,479 You know, he’s digging and mining for his truth 1420 01:11:14,562 --> 01:11:17,357 that is also something that he feels like he can present 1421 01:11:17,440 --> 01:11:20,485 in an accessible way and make jams out of. 1422 01:11:21,778 --> 01:11:26,282 Sometimes you make your dopest shit in the darkest place. 1423 01:11:26,366 --> 01:11:31,037 I mean, my favorite Kid Cudi album is fucking, uh, 1424 01:11:31,121 --> 01:11:33,206 Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven. 1425 01:11:33,289 --> 01:11:35,208 It’s crazy. 1426 01:11:35,291 --> 01:11:38,461 Man, and "Confused," of course, "Confused." 1427 01:11:38,545 --> 01:11:41,881 It must have been a dark time for bro. 1428 01:11:50,932 --> 01:11:52,934 I don’t know if I want to talk about "Confused" 1429 01:11:53,018 --> 01:11:55,520 ’cause that was, like, a really dark time for me. 1430 01:11:55,603 --> 01:11:58,481 I don’t want to talk about any song from... 1431 01:11:58,565 --> 01:12:00,025 -Speedin’ Bullet. -ROBERT: Speedin’ Bullet? 1432 01:12:00,108 --> 01:12:01,651 -Okay, cool. -Yeah, yeah. 1433 01:12:09,242 --> 01:12:12,370 Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven, I was the darkest. 1434 01:12:12,454 --> 01:12:14,998 I was darker than Man on the Moon II. 1435 01:12:15,081 --> 01:12:19,753 I felt like I was living the right way, 1436 01:12:19,836 --> 01:12:22,464 but I still felt empty inside. 1437 01:12:23,757 --> 01:12:27,677 People look up to me, but I’m not a happy person. 1438 01:12:29,137 --> 01:12:32,390 So, a lot of the times, I felt like a fraud, 1439 01:12:32,474 --> 01:12:35,685 and that’s what drove me to... 1440 01:12:35,769 --> 01:12:39,522 the dark side of what I was dealing with. 1441 01:12:39,606 --> 01:12:42,275 SHIA: You know, the cocaine shit scared me deeply. 1442 01:12:42,358 --> 01:12:44,819 When he started doing it, I couldn’t talk to him no more. 1443 01:12:44,903 --> 01:12:46,321 Like, I couldn’t get to him no more. 1444 01:12:46,404 --> 01:12:48,323 He started getting isolated. 1445 01:12:48,406 --> 01:12:50,700 Wouldn’t respond, kind of thing. 1446 01:12:50,784 --> 01:12:52,577 That’s when we, like... 1447 01:12:52,660 --> 01:12:55,038 we lost all contact with each other for a long time. 1448 01:12:55,121 --> 01:12:57,165 Not just me, but a lot of his fr... 1449 01:12:57,248 --> 01:12:59,876 Like, he just... he got very, very isolated. 1450 01:12:59,959 --> 01:13:02,587 And I don’t really know about that chunk of his life. 1451 01:13:02,670 --> 01:13:04,589 I don’t re... We didn’t hang out then. 1452 01:13:06,883 --> 01:13:08,968 CUDI: Passion, Pain, I wrote from a hopeful place. 1453 01:13:09,052 --> 01:13:11,429 Like, "I hope I can feel this way someday," 1454 01:13:11,513 --> 01:13:14,265 and, "This is what I want to feel." 1455 01:13:15,767 --> 01:13:19,604 I feel sorry for every relationship I had, you know? 1456 01:13:19,687 --> 01:13:23,650 I just put girls through such... 1457 01:13:25,944 --> 01:13:31,574 ...drama because I wasn’t happy and I wasn’t where I needed to be. 1458 01:13:32,867 --> 01:13:34,536 That added to my darkness, 1459 01:13:34,619 --> 01:13:39,040 the fact that I couldn’t be in a relationship. 1460 01:13:42,544 --> 01:13:46,756 I had just started using again. 1461 01:13:48,007 --> 01:13:50,093 I’m not happy with myself 1462 01:13:50,176 --> 01:13:54,514 that I allowed myself to go back to that... 1463 01:13:55,723 --> 01:13:57,725 ...after all these years. 1464 01:13:58,935 --> 01:14:01,187 I was just really ashamed. 1465 01:14:02,981 --> 01:14:06,151 I was suicidal, 1466 01:14:06,234 --> 01:14:11,281 and I was at a place where I was trying to plan it. 1467 01:14:13,074 --> 01:14:16,494 And I knew that if I... 1468 01:14:18,246 --> 01:14:23,334 ...didn’t go get help that something would’ve happened. 1469 01:14:26,129 --> 01:14:29,674 I wanted to, deep down... 1470 01:14:29,757 --> 01:14:31,759 I wanted to be better. 1471 01:14:33,845 --> 01:14:36,055 And I didn’t want to give up 1472 01:14:36,139 --> 01:14:38,057 and let people down. 1473 01:14:40,059 --> 01:14:43,021 All would’ve been lost. 1474 01:14:43,104 --> 01:14:46,316 Everything I worked hard for. 1475 01:14:46,399 --> 01:14:49,319 I couldn’t leave my daughter. 1476 01:14:51,196 --> 01:14:53,615 Leave my mom. 1477 01:14:53,698 --> 01:14:55,408 My sister and my brothers. 1478 01:14:59,287 --> 01:15:01,581 I just had to get my shit together. 1479 01:15:01,664 --> 01:15:03,666 ♪ ♪ 1480 01:15:42,413 --> 01:15:44,415 (audience cheering) 1481 01:15:48,461 --> 01:15:51,798 I just want to take this time out to say 1482 01:15:51,881 --> 01:15:54,175 that... 1483 01:15:54,259 --> 01:15:57,804 Kid Cudi is my brother and I hope he’s doing well tonight. 1484 01:15:57,887 --> 01:15:59,889 (cheering) 1485 01:16:04,769 --> 01:16:07,563 The most important artist in the past ten years. 1486 01:16:08,898 --> 01:16:10,608 Most influential. 1487 01:16:12,193 --> 01:16:14,195 And I hope he’s doing well. 1488 01:16:14,279 --> 01:16:16,281 ♪ ♪ 1489 01:16:20,994 --> 01:16:22,912 WILLOW: We’re taught to come from 1490 01:16:22,996 --> 01:16:25,915 a mindset at a very young age of lack. 1491 01:16:25,999 --> 01:16:27,500 Everybody. 1492 01:16:27,583 --> 01:16:32,505 And I feel like that feeling of not thinking that you’re good enough 1493 01:16:32,588 --> 01:16:36,342 or being insecure about your art is-is natural, 1494 01:16:36,426 --> 01:16:39,762 but at the same time, I feel like it’s taught. 1495 01:16:41,264 --> 01:16:44,017 All humans are different, and every single human 1496 01:16:44,100 --> 01:16:47,061 has something so unique and special to offer. 1497 01:16:48,354 --> 01:16:52,525 And people forget that everyone is basically feeling the same way: 1498 01:16:52,608 --> 01:16:55,528 lost, confused, 1499 01:16:55,611 --> 01:16:58,364 not really sure why they’re here. 1500 01:16:58,448 --> 01:17:01,367 That anxiety-- like, everyone is feeling that 1501 01:17:01,451 --> 01:17:03,703 and trying to cover it up in some sort of way. 1502 01:17:05,246 --> 01:17:07,915 We’re gonna come together in our flaws, 1503 01:17:07,999 --> 01:17:13,087 in our insecurities, in our joy, in our happiness, 1504 01:17:13,171 --> 01:17:17,967 and accept it all as beautiful and as natural. 1505 01:17:18,051 --> 01:17:22,722 That’s what’s gonna break down those walls and make everyone be like, 1506 01:17:22,805 --> 01:17:25,725 "Nah, I understand you and your pain and your joy. 1507 01:17:25,808 --> 01:17:27,810 We’re gonna be okay." 1508 01:17:29,896 --> 01:17:31,898 WOMAN: I’m a little nervous, okay? 1509 01:17:34,567 --> 01:17:37,445 Every time I talk about him, I get a little emotional. 1510 01:17:37,528 --> 01:17:39,530 Always been there for me. 1511 01:17:39,614 --> 01:17:41,366 Tough times, sad times. 1512 01:17:41,449 --> 01:17:43,034 Good times. 1513 01:17:43,117 --> 01:17:45,661 His music helps me a lot. 1514 01:17:45,745 --> 01:17:47,997 When you’re feeling alone. 1515 01:17:49,082 --> 01:17:51,000 He means the world to me. 1516 01:17:51,084 --> 01:17:53,544 WOMAN 2: There was always someone who related to me. 1517 01:17:53,628 --> 01:17:54,879 Yeah, I knew that 1518 01:17:54,962 --> 01:17:57,173 somebody out there sort of knew how I felt. 1519 01:17:57,256 --> 01:17:59,509 And that was Cudi to me. 1520 01:18:01,636 --> 01:18:04,180 MAN: To me, he means like a brother to me. 1521 01:18:04,263 --> 01:18:05,765 Somebody I look up to. 1522 01:18:05,848 --> 01:18:11,521 Man on the Moon, that was like the start of my life. 1523 01:18:11,604 --> 01:18:15,149 WOMAN 3: He just... he opened up a new side of me 1524 01:18:15,233 --> 01:18:18,694 to where I could just totally understand that I wasn’t alone. 1525 01:18:19,821 --> 01:18:22,448 WOMAN 4: He’s helped me and motivated me 1526 01:18:22,532 --> 01:18:25,493 through a lot of down times in my life, 1527 01:18:25,576 --> 01:18:28,037 and I feel like he’s helped me as an artist grow 1528 01:18:28,121 --> 01:18:29,580 and be more vulnerable myself 1529 01:18:29,664 --> 01:18:32,708 and letting people around me know that, like, 1530 01:18:32,792 --> 01:18:36,963 it’s okay to feel the way you do and it’s okay to be sad. 1531 01:18:37,046 --> 01:18:39,632 SHIA: You know, I have huge chunks of my 20s, like, 1532 01:18:39,715 --> 01:18:43,136 where I held this, like... this bullshit exterior. 1533 01:18:43,219 --> 01:18:46,139 ’Cause I come from fucking Disney Channel into Spielberg, 1534 01:18:46,222 --> 01:18:48,224 where it was like, "You better smile a lot." 1535 01:18:48,307 --> 01:18:51,352 He had that, and I always identified with that in him-- 1536 01:18:51,436 --> 01:18:54,480 the fact that he smiles as a way of surviving. 1537 01:18:54,564 --> 01:18:59,318 And so I would bump his album nonstop all through that whole chapter of my life 1538 01:18:59,402 --> 01:19:01,487 because we shared sensibilities. 1539 01:19:01,571 --> 01:19:05,032 So he unlocked this certain kind of vulnerability which felt 1540 01:19:05,116 --> 01:19:07,618 more authentic to who I was. 1541 01:19:07,702 --> 01:19:10,705 It’s always been, like... like, that journey, like-- 1542 01:19:10,788 --> 01:19:13,458 he was always meant to be my best friend. Yeah. 1543 01:19:13,541 --> 01:19:15,460 And he may not speak about it the same way, 1544 01:19:15,543 --> 01:19:17,462 but I have no shame in saying that. 1545 01:19:17,545 --> 01:19:19,505 He... the dude has my heart. 1546 01:19:19,589 --> 01:19:22,550 Not just because of his music but because of the fabric of him. 1547 01:19:25,761 --> 01:19:27,763 This dude means so much to me, bro. 1548 01:19:27,847 --> 01:19:29,849 He’s really, like... 1549 01:19:32,059 --> 01:19:33,936 ...integral to my life. 1550 01:19:34,020 --> 01:19:36,481 Not just the music but just as a person, like, 1551 01:19:36,564 --> 01:19:40,443 just a big, big chunk of my... my life. 1552 01:19:40,526 --> 01:19:42,278 (chuckles): God. 1553 01:19:42,361 --> 01:19:44,947 But the music, too. Yeah, the music, too. 1554 01:19:50,077 --> 01:19:52,079 DENNIS: The highest moment... 1555 01:19:56,209 --> 01:19:58,586 ...if I look back... 1556 01:19:59,837 --> 01:20:02,423 ...is probably him going to rehab. 1557 01:20:04,258 --> 01:20:06,886 To know that I could’ve, like, 1558 01:20:06,969 --> 01:20:10,223 lost... lost him, you know what I mean? 1559 01:20:10,306 --> 01:20:12,808 It wasn’t like a... 1560 01:20:12,892 --> 01:20:17,230 a moment of happiness at all, 1561 01:20:17,313 --> 01:20:22,485 but looking back, it was like, man, I’m so glad that... 1562 01:20:24,070 --> 01:20:25,821 ...he went when he did 1563 01:20:25,905 --> 01:20:28,866 and not a... not a minute later. 1564 01:20:32,745 --> 01:20:35,414 CUDI: I wasn’t the best me I could be. 1565 01:20:38,751 --> 01:20:42,922 We sometimes have that in our lives, you know? 1566 01:20:43,005 --> 01:20:45,424 And these are things that I touched on in rehab. 1567 01:20:45,508 --> 01:20:48,386 I talked about could’ve did this way better, 1568 01:20:48,469 --> 01:20:50,221 I could’ve been there, 1569 01:20:50,304 --> 01:20:53,224 or I could’ve understood, I could’ve not been afraid. 1570 01:20:54,475 --> 01:20:57,728 I realize that a lot of what I was dealing with 1571 01:20:57,812 --> 01:21:00,064 was because I was always working. 1572 01:21:01,107 --> 01:21:06,779 And I wasn’t giving myself the time to live my life. 1573 01:21:06,862 --> 01:21:08,447 And I told myself 1574 01:21:08,531 --> 01:21:13,536 that I was going to pace myself with this shit. 1575 01:21:13,619 --> 01:21:16,414 I’m in such a happier place, and I feel 1576 01:21:16,497 --> 01:21:19,625 like I can talk about certain things, 1577 01:21:19,709 --> 01:21:22,670 and I’ve come to terms with my bullshit. 1578 01:21:22,753 --> 01:21:24,589 I faced my bullshit. 1579 01:21:26,299 --> 01:21:28,884 I know where I went wrong. 1580 01:21:28,968 --> 01:21:30,970 There’s no confusion about it. 1581 01:21:32,263 --> 01:21:34,348 So now I can talk about it. 1582 01:21:36,142 --> 01:21:39,729 And knowing that I’m at a better place with me, 1583 01:21:39,812 --> 01:21:43,190 with Scott, that I love myself, that I’m happy. 1584 01:21:45,192 --> 01:21:48,029 I just hope the fans 1585 01:21:48,112 --> 01:21:51,824 can see that, like, I finally 1586 01:21:51,907 --> 01:21:54,785 am at a better place. 1587 01:21:54,869 --> 01:21:56,871 ♪ ♪ 1588 01:22:07,340 --> 01:22:09,258 KANYE: ♪ Beautiful mornin’ ♪ 1589 01:22:09,342 --> 01:22:12,470 ♪ You’re the sun in my mornin’, babe ♪ 1590 01:22:12,553 --> 01:22:14,597 ♪ Nothing unwanted ♪ 1591 01:22:14,680 --> 01:22:16,432 Okay, L.A. 1592 01:22:17,558 --> 01:22:20,144 Now, Kid Cudi is in rehab right now, 1593 01:22:20,227 --> 01:22:22,813 but he’s got a number one song on the radio. 1594 01:22:22,897 --> 01:22:24,774 (cheering) 1595 01:22:24,857 --> 01:22:27,693 And I want us to sing it tonight, 1596 01:22:27,777 --> 01:22:32,323 loud enough for... for him to hear it and feel it and know we love him. 1597 01:22:33,407 --> 01:22:35,076 Y’all ready? 1598 01:22:38,579 --> 01:22:40,665 ♪ Beautiful mornin’ ♪ 1599 01:22:40,748 --> 01:22:43,501 AUDIENCE: ♪ You’re the sun in my mornin’, babe ♪ 1600 01:22:43,584 --> 01:22:45,544 ♪ Nothing unwanted... ♪ 1601 01:22:48,506 --> 01:22:50,466 DR. NORCOTT: Feeling lost is okay. 1602 01:22:50,549 --> 01:22:52,551 Everybody should feel lost. 1603 01:22:52,635 --> 01:22:55,846 No one has our purpose figured out. 1604 01:22:55,930 --> 01:23:01,727 And you can use the time of feeling lost and reframe it to say you’re exploring. 1605 01:23:01,811 --> 01:23:04,980 A lot of healing is about changing your perception, 1606 01:23:05,064 --> 01:23:07,358 and a lot of the work towards recovery is about 1607 01:23:07,441 --> 01:23:09,735 changing your perception of what you’re experiencing 1608 01:23:09,819 --> 01:23:13,864 and knowing that you can feel lost with other people. 1609 01:23:13,948 --> 01:23:15,366 So... 1610 01:23:20,579 --> 01:23:23,124 CUDI: I had just got out of rehab, 1611 01:23:23,207 --> 01:23:27,211 and I knew there was a lot of excitement about me coming home. 1612 01:23:29,088 --> 01:23:31,340 I was just really nervous. 1613 01:23:31,424 --> 01:23:32,842 And hoped to God 1614 01:23:32,925 --> 01:23:35,594 the kids still want to hear me. 1615 01:23:35,678 --> 01:23:38,681 Los Angeles, make some motherfucking noise. 1616 01:23:38,764 --> 01:23:40,766 (cheering) 1617 01:23:42,768 --> 01:23:45,229 Yo, right now I’m fucking fanning out. 1618 01:23:45,312 --> 01:23:46,897 I’m fucking fanning out. 1619 01:23:46,981 --> 01:23:49,316 This is, like, my favorite artist of all time. 1620 01:23:49,400 --> 01:23:51,777 (cheering) 1621 01:23:51,861 --> 01:23:53,904 I don’t know how many motherfuckers out here 1622 01:23:53,988 --> 01:23:57,074 feel the same, but I grew up on this motherfucker right here. 1623 01:23:57,158 --> 01:24:00,745 So make some motherfucking noise for Kid Cudi! 1624 01:24:00,828 --> 01:24:02,872 -("Pursuit of Happiness" playing) -(cheering) 1625 01:24:02,955 --> 01:24:06,459 CUDI: I love you, motherfuckers! 1626 01:24:06,542 --> 01:24:07,877 The fans-- 1627 01:24:07,960 --> 01:24:09,587 seeing the love, the excitement. 1628 01:24:09,670 --> 01:24:11,505 People were just so excited that I was home 1629 01:24:11,589 --> 01:24:13,758 and that I had made it. 1630 01:24:13,841 --> 01:24:15,259 Now, listen. 1631 01:24:15,342 --> 01:24:18,053 I missed every single one of you. 1632 01:24:18,137 --> 01:24:21,265 I love every single one of you. 1633 01:24:21,348 --> 01:24:25,770 I know life is crazy and shit, and shit comes our way, 1634 01:24:25,853 --> 01:24:27,521 but we can get through this shit. 1635 01:24:27,605 --> 01:24:29,440 We can make it through. 1636 01:24:29,523 --> 01:24:33,194 I am living proof. I am living proof. 1637 01:24:35,112 --> 01:24:38,741 And I don’t mean to preach, I don’t mean to preach... 1638 01:24:40,743 --> 01:24:43,996 ...but I just need you to know, I need you to know one thing. 1639 01:24:45,581 --> 01:24:46,957 Listen. 1640 01:24:47,041 --> 01:24:50,711 ♪ I’m on the pursuit of happiness, and I know ♪ 1641 01:24:50,795 --> 01:24:56,133 ♪ Everything that shine ain’t always gonna be gold, hey ♪ 1642 01:24:56,217 --> 01:25:00,387 ♪ I’ll be fine once I get it, yeah, what? ♪ 1643 01:25:00,471 --> 01:25:03,557 ♪ I’ll be good. ♪ 1644 01:25:05,893 --> 01:25:08,354 It brought me back a little bit... 1645 01:25:09,772 --> 01:25:11,315 ...into the light. 1646 01:25:11,398 --> 01:25:14,735 It was, like, it helped during that time. 1647 01:25:14,819 --> 01:25:16,362 ♪ ♪ 1648 01:25:16,445 --> 01:25:18,614 PAT: But when he came out of rehab, we just would cook. 1649 01:25:18,697 --> 01:25:21,242 Like, just go in the studio and work on music. 1650 01:25:21,325 --> 01:25:24,161 And that led into Kids See Ghosts. 1651 01:25:24,245 --> 01:25:27,873 And whether he was making beats with me or whether it was just him and Dot, 1652 01:25:27,957 --> 01:25:30,668 he just kept making and creating. 1653 01:25:30,751 --> 01:25:32,920 I don’t know if I would’ve dropped an album anytime soon. 1654 01:25:33,003 --> 01:25:36,632 I think I would’ve taken a couple years off. 1655 01:25:37,800 --> 01:25:40,928 But then Kanye, uh, 1656 01:25:41,011 --> 01:25:43,889 told me that he wanted to do this album, 1657 01:25:43,973 --> 01:25:46,225 and... 1658 01:25:46,308 --> 01:25:50,145 I was like, "Well, shit, this is cool, because... 1659 01:25:50,229 --> 01:25:54,191 now I have somebody lifting me up." 1660 01:25:54,275 --> 01:25:56,193 You know? 1661 01:25:56,277 --> 01:26:00,072 Letting me know that I can do this shit. 1662 01:26:00,155 --> 01:26:03,284 ("Reborn" by Kids See Ghosts playing) 1663 01:26:03,367 --> 01:26:05,286 So Kanye doesn’t know that, but he saved me. 1664 01:26:05,369 --> 01:26:09,832 He saved me from being depressed 1665 01:26:09,915 --> 01:26:15,087 all over again about where I was at with the music, and... 1666 01:26:15,170 --> 01:26:19,425 he helped me see that, like, no, no, I’m not done yet. 1667 01:26:22,428 --> 01:26:25,264 ♪ I’m so, I’m so reborn ♪ 1668 01:26:25,347 --> 01:26:27,433 ♪ I’m movin’ forward ♪ 1669 01:26:32,062 --> 01:26:35,274 ♪ Ain’t no stress on me, Lord ♪ 1670 01:26:35,357 --> 01:26:37,568 ♪ I’m movin’ forward ♪ 1671 01:26:37,651 --> 01:26:41,488 ♪ Keep movin’ forward, keep movin’ forward... ♪ 1672 01:26:41,572 --> 01:26:44,617 I just have no desire to make any more dark records. 1673 01:26:44,700 --> 01:26:46,452 ♪ I’m movin’ forward... ♪ 1674 01:26:46,535 --> 01:26:49,163 I don’t want to put more of that out into the world. 1675 01:26:49,246 --> 01:26:53,542 I hope people... got it when I put it out, 1676 01:26:53,626 --> 01:26:57,546 when I did it, but that chapter is done. 1677 01:26:57,630 --> 01:27:01,550 ♪ Keep movin’ forward, keep movin’ forward. ♪ 1678 01:27:01,634 --> 01:27:03,636 (cheering) 1679 01:27:07,431 --> 01:27:10,309 I recognized early on that 1680 01:27:10,392 --> 01:27:15,064 to be able to do music was such a special thing, 1681 01:27:15,147 --> 01:27:18,484 and it was a gift from God. 1682 01:27:18,567 --> 01:27:21,570 I knew that I had to use this gift, 1683 01:27:21,654 --> 01:27:25,991 this power that I had, for good. 1684 01:27:26,075 --> 01:27:27,993 So, listen, I just want to say, 1685 01:27:28,077 --> 01:27:29,870 before I go into this next jam, 1686 01:27:29,954 --> 01:27:31,872 I really appreciate each and every one of you 1687 01:27:31,956 --> 01:27:35,918 from the front to the motherfucking back that came here to see me rock right now. 1688 01:27:36,001 --> 01:27:38,379 Life is crazy, man. We all figuring this shit out. 1689 01:27:38,462 --> 01:27:39,546 It’s fucked-up, but we’ll survive. 1690 01:27:39,630 --> 01:27:40,965 We’re all survivors. 1691 01:27:41,048 --> 01:27:43,759 I like to think Kid Cudi fans are fucking survivors. 1692 01:27:43,842 --> 01:27:45,511 (cheering) 1693 01:27:45,594 --> 01:27:47,346 It’s been a long ride 1694 01:27:47,429 --> 01:27:49,807 since my mixtape, and you guys have been so supportive 1695 01:27:49,890 --> 01:27:51,475 in dealing with me all these years. 1696 01:27:51,558 --> 01:27:53,018 -MAN: I love you, Scott! -MAN 2: We love you! 1697 01:27:53,102 --> 01:27:56,480 And to come to the show tonight, to see all the beautiful faces 1698 01:27:56,563 --> 01:27:58,607 in the building, all the love, is just... 1699 01:27:58,691 --> 01:28:01,610 it’s still overwhelming to me, after all these years. 1700 01:28:01,694 --> 01:28:03,904 I just really want to let you guys know, you know, 1701 01:28:03,988 --> 01:28:05,781 when I was going through my shit, I really appreciated 1702 01:28:05,864 --> 01:28:07,408 that you guys never turned your back on me, 1703 01:28:07,491 --> 01:28:10,327 you never judged me, you never left me hanging, 1704 01:28:10,411 --> 01:28:13,831 and I could come out here and see all this love... 1705 01:28:13,914 --> 01:28:16,250 (crowd cheering) 1706 01:28:16,333 --> 01:28:19,753 ...from albums I dropped a year ago or two years ago or three years ago. 1707 01:28:19,837 --> 01:28:22,047 I mean, the shit is insane. 1708 01:28:22,131 --> 01:28:25,426 I know I’m helping you guys, but guess what-- 1709 01:28:25,509 --> 01:28:28,137 you guys are helping me more than you know. 1710 01:28:28,220 --> 01:28:29,972 This shit is like group therapy. 1711 01:28:30,055 --> 01:28:31,724 It’s amazing. 1712 01:28:31,807 --> 01:28:33,058 (cheering) 1713 01:28:33,142 --> 01:28:35,728 I knew that that was my mission. 1714 01:28:35,811 --> 01:28:39,064 I knew that that’s why I was born. 1715 01:28:40,315 --> 01:28:42,526 It’s my destiny. 1716 01:28:43,694 --> 01:28:46,947 Everything I make has to help people in some way. 1717 01:28:48,323 --> 01:28:50,451 Like, it has to. 1718 01:28:50,534 --> 01:28:53,662 I can’t make music any other way. 1719 01:28:53,746 --> 01:28:55,664 And that’s always been the goal-- 1720 01:28:55,748 --> 01:28:58,834 like, to inspire others... 1721 01:28:59,960 --> 01:29:02,546 ...so they can tell their story. 1722 01:29:02,629 --> 01:29:05,007 I felt like the rap game needed more of that. 1723 01:29:05,090 --> 01:29:06,633 Now it’s like... 1724 01:29:06,717 --> 01:29:08,385 you can’t get a deal 1725 01:29:08,469 --> 01:29:11,388 unless you sing and talk about your emotions. 1726 01:29:11,472 --> 01:29:16,310 And we single-handedly infected the industry with that shit 1727 01:29:16,393 --> 01:29:18,062 in 2009. 1728 01:29:18,145 --> 01:29:23,734 It sent a ripple effect through the whole entire industry for a decade. 1729 01:29:25,027 --> 01:29:27,362 So... 1730 01:29:27,446 --> 01:29:29,323 you’re welcome. 1731 01:29:29,406 --> 01:29:31,408 (laughing) 1732 01:29:34,286 --> 01:29:35,704 ("Freeee (Ghost Town, Pt. 2)" by Kids See Ghosts playing) 1733 01:29:35,788 --> 01:29:38,373 ♪ I don’t feel pain anymore ♪ 1734 01:29:38,457 --> 01:29:39,958 ♪ Guess what, babe ♪ 1735 01:29:40,042 --> 01:29:43,962 ♪ I am free ♪ 1736 01:29:45,881 --> 01:29:48,092 ♪ Yeah ♪ 1737 01:29:48,175 --> 01:29:51,053 ♪ Nothin’ hurts me anymore ♪ 1738 01:29:51,136 --> 01:29:52,805 ♪ Guess what, babe ♪ 1739 01:29:52,888 --> 01:29:56,433 ♪ I am free... ♪ 1740 01:29:58,268 --> 01:29:59,978 (song fades) 1741 01:30:00,062 --> 01:30:03,607 So, the ten-year anniversary of my first album. 1742 01:30:03,690 --> 01:30:05,109 (cheering) 1743 01:30:05,192 --> 01:30:08,862 It’s a beautiful journey we’ve all been on this whole time, huh? 1744 01:30:08,946 --> 01:30:11,365 (cheering) 1745 01:30:11,448 --> 01:30:12,950 I love y’all motherfuckers, too. 1746 01:30:13,033 --> 01:30:14,576 Let me see this tattoo right here. 1747 01:30:14,660 --> 01:30:16,954 MAN: Mr. Rager! I got it! I got a tattoo! 1748 01:30:17,037 --> 01:30:18,539 I fucking love you, Cudi! 1749 01:30:18,622 --> 01:30:20,874 -CUDI: Oh, fucking fire. -You saved my life, Cudi! 1750 01:30:20,958 --> 01:30:23,168 Can you sign my arm? Please, please! 1751 01:30:23,252 --> 01:30:25,295 -All right, I’ll sign your arm. -Please sign my arm. 1752 01:30:25,379 --> 01:30:26,588 (crowd exclaiming) 1753 01:30:26,672 --> 01:30:30,092 MAN: Oh, my God! Oh, my God! 1754 01:30:30,175 --> 01:30:31,969 Oh, fuck! 1755 01:30:33,929 --> 01:30:35,681 There you go. What’s your name? 1756 01:30:35,764 --> 01:30:37,432 You saved my life. My name’s Jacob. 1757 01:30:37,516 --> 01:30:38,684 I fucking love you. 1758 01:30:38,767 --> 01:30:40,227 (laughs) I love you, too, Jacob. 1759 01:30:40,310 --> 01:30:42,604 Make some noise for Jacob, y’all. Yeah! 1760 01:30:42,688 --> 01:30:44,439 (cheering) 1761 01:30:44,523 --> 01:30:46,733 So, look, Jacob. 1762 01:30:46,817 --> 01:30:48,861 This next song is for you, all right? 1763 01:30:48,944 --> 01:30:51,446 I’m gonna... I’m gonna be checking 1764 01:30:51,530 --> 01:30:54,408 and making sure you’re raging your fucking face off. 1765 01:30:54,491 --> 01:30:56,451 All right, you ready for this next one? 1766 01:30:57,536 --> 01:30:59,663 -Let’s do it. -("Pursuit of Happiness" playing) 1767 01:30:59,746 --> 01:31:02,791 -(cheering) -(Jacob shouting) 1768 01:31:02,875 --> 01:31:04,042 I fucking love you! 1769 01:31:04,126 --> 01:31:06,044 You ready? You gonna sing it with me? 1770 01:31:06,128 --> 01:31:07,754 Yeah. 1771 01:31:11,758 --> 01:31:13,343 Yeah. 1772 01:31:13,427 --> 01:31:16,805 ♪ Crush a bit, little bit, roll it up, take a hit ♪ 1773 01:31:16,889 --> 01:31:21,101 ♪ Feeling lit, feeling right, 2:00 a.m., summer night ♪ 1774 01:31:21,185 --> 01:31:22,686 ♪ I don’t care, hand on the wheel ♪ 1775 01:31:22,769 --> 01:31:24,188 ♪ Driving drunk, I’m doing my thing ♪ 1776 01:31:24,271 --> 01:31:26,315 ♪ Rolling the Midwest side and out ♪ 1777 01:31:26,398 --> 01:31:28,275 ♪ Living my life, getting out dreams ♪ 1778 01:31:28,358 --> 01:31:30,068 ♪ I’m-a do just what I want ♪ 1779 01:31:30,152 --> 01:31:31,820 ♪ Looking ahead, no turning back ♪ 1780 01:31:31,904 --> 01:31:34,656 ♪ People told me slow my roll, I’m screaming out ♪ 1781 01:31:34,740 --> 01:31:37,576 ♪ "Fuck that," I’m screaming out, "Fuck that" ♪ 1782 01:31:37,659 --> 01:31:40,329 ♪ I’m screaming out, "Fuck that, fuck that ♪ 1783 01:31:40,412 --> 01:31:43,081 -♪ Fuck that, fuck that, fuck that" ♪ -♪ Yeah ♪ 1784 01:31:43,165 --> 01:31:46,376 ♪ ♪ 1785 01:31:48,962 --> 01:31:50,839 (cheering) 1786 01:31:53,967 --> 01:31:56,261 ♪ Yeah ♪ 1787 01:31:57,888 --> 01:31:59,723 ♪ Yeah ♪ 1788 01:32:01,516 --> 01:32:03,310 ♪ Yeah ♪ 1789 01:32:03,393 --> 01:32:05,854 ♪ What? What? What? ♪ 1790 01:32:05,938 --> 01:32:09,942 ♪ What? What? What? What? ♪ 1791 01:32:10,025 --> 01:32:11,693 Yeah, Jacob, yeah! 1792 01:32:13,153 --> 01:32:16,657 ♪ Tell me what you know about dreaming, dreaming ♪ 1793 01:32:16,740 --> 01:32:20,619 ♪ You don’t really know about nothin’, nothin’ ♪ 1794 01:32:20,702 --> 01:32:24,081 ♪ Tell me what you know about them night terrors every night ♪ 1795 01:32:24,164 --> 01:32:28,335 ♪ 5:00 a.m. cold sweats, waking up to the sky ♪ 1796 01:32:31,421 --> 01:32:32,422 ♪ Hey ♪ 1797 01:32:35,717 --> 01:32:36,718 ♪ Yeah ♪ 1798 01:32:38,845 --> 01:32:39,846 ♪ Yeah ♪ 1799 01:32:43,308 --> 01:32:47,271 ♪ I’m on the pursuit of happiness, and I know ♪ 1800 01:32:47,354 --> 01:32:51,858 ♪ Everything that shine ain’t always gonna be gold, hey ♪ 1801 01:32:51,942 --> 01:32:55,195 ♪ I’ll be fine once I get it ♪ 1802 01:32:55,279 --> 01:32:58,198 ♪ I’ll be good ♪ 1803 01:32:58,282 --> 01:33:01,868 ♪ I’m on the pursuit of happiness, and I know ♪ 1804 01:33:01,952 --> 01:33:06,665 ♪ Everything that shine ain’t always gonna be gold, hey ♪ 1805 01:33:06,748 --> 01:33:09,167 ♪ I’ll be fine once I get it ♪ 1806 01:33:09,251 --> 01:33:12,462 ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah... ♪ 1807 01:33:12,546 --> 01:33:14,965 ComplexCon! Yes! 1808 01:33:15,048 --> 01:33:17,384 Yes! 1809 01:33:17,467 --> 01:33:20,971 What the fuck?! Make some noise! 1810 01:33:24,850 --> 01:33:27,394 ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪ 1811 01:33:31,565 --> 01:33:32,858 Yeah! 1812 01:33:32,941 --> 01:33:34,318 ♪ ♪ 1813 01:33:34,401 --> 01:33:35,819 ♪ Yeah ♪ 1814 01:33:38,405 --> 01:33:39,573 ♪ Yeah ♪ 1815 01:33:42,743 --> 01:33:44,202 ♪ Yeah ♪ 1816 01:33:45,120 --> 01:33:47,122 Yeah! 1817 01:33:47,205 --> 01:33:48,874 I love you motherfuckers. Yes! 1818 01:33:49,833 --> 01:33:51,335 I love you! Get home safe! 1819 01:33:52,502 --> 01:33:54,171 Jacob, I love you. 1820 01:33:54,254 --> 01:33:55,797 Get home safe. 1821 01:33:58,425 --> 01:34:01,261 (echoing): Yes. Yes. 1822 01:34:01,345 --> 01:34:03,263 -Peace. -(song ends) 1823 01:34:03,347 --> 01:34:05,682 (cheering)