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Kid cudi keep moving forward
Kid cudi keep moving forward













In 2007, Kid Cudi's song "Day 'n' Nite", began being featured on several blogs in 2007, after uploading the song to his MySpace page. Pretty funny me chasing after him in SoHo." I forgot to take a sensor off of one of the jackets he bought and I had to run out the store to catch him before he left. Cudi would later run into West again while working at the BAPE store in New York, and recalled: "I remember Kanye coming in one time and I was helping him get a couple things. He recounted in a 2009 SPIN interview, "I was looking at CDs, saw the gleam of a Jesus piece in the right side of my eye, looked up, and it was Kanye West." He introduced himself and offered West some of his music. In 2006, Cudi would run into his future mentor, rapper and producer Kanye West, in a Virgin Megastore. He worked at a couple of Manhattan clothing stores, before eventually sharing an apartment with friend and collaborator Dot da Genius in Brooklyn. After leaving Cleveland in 2005 with $500 and a demo tape, he moved in with his uncle, accomplished jazz drummer Kalil Madi, in the South Bronx. He later moved to New York City to pursue a music career. His subsequent plan to join the Navy did not pan out because of his juvenile police record.Ĭudi first began rapping in 2003, towards the end of his time in high school, and was inspired by alternative hip hop groups such as The Pharcyde and A Tribe Called Quest. He studied film at the University of Toledo, but dropped out after a year. He was expelled from the school for threatening to punch the principal, and would later earn his GED.

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Cudi attended Shaker Heights High School for two years before transferring to Solon High School. When Cudi was 11 years old, his father died of cancer his passing had a significant effect on Cudi's personality and music. His father, Lindberg Styles Mescudi, was a house painter, substitute teacher, and World War II Air Force veteran of African-American and Mexican descent.

kid cudi keep moving forward

His mother, Elsie Harriet (née Banks), is an African-American school choir teacher at Roxboro Middle School in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. He has two older brothers, Domingo and Dean, and an older sister, Maisha. Kid Cudi was born Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi in Cleveland, Ohio, on January 30, 1984.















Kid cudi keep moving forward