Kid Cudi sat down with Joe Rogan for a reflective interview on his career, his past addictions with drugs, and the life he lives today.
The rapper who will star in the upcoming indie romantic comedy, Two Night Stand, candidly talked about his journey from uploading his songs on MySpace to revealing his studio rituals.
"I feel like I was at the beginning [early stages] of that wave," he said of artists who made a name for themselves on the web. "Another way to find people for music online. Music that you probably wouldn't hear on the radio, stuff that's quality music. Now things are really advanced even since I started. I dropped "Day n' Nite" that was 2007 and the only platform at that time that I had to my disposal to upload music was MySpace."
He also says he likes to be in the studio alone when he makes music.
"They are kind of sad sessions," he said. "But I'm in there like a mad scientist inventing. An inventor don't got 20 mother-f****** in his lab while he inventing s***. N****s will steal his s***, or lack focus and distract him. I find when you have your friends in the studio you got a couple guys on World Star, a couple of guys on Twitter, a couple of guys over here. Everybody's talking about what's going on and you're trying to write this song."
Cudi shared that his 2013 release, Indicud was his darkest album yet. The album made multiple "Best Of" lists, but the artist insists that the album process was unlike his previous releases.
"I definitely did [Indicud] with this angry, spiteful, villainous energy," he said. "I was able to make some really great records, but it was the most aggressive music I ever made," he told Rogan, adding that Indicud was the angriest album he's ever made. "For what I set out to do, it all benefited. But it wasn't the normal way I went about making an album. It was weird."
Check out the three-hour interview on sex toys, Google Glasses and more above.
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