The track that proved Kid Cudi is “no joke”

Kid Cudi has at all times been an outsider in hip-hop. With conceptual albums, experimental manufacturing and introspective lyrics, he’s exterior the realm of your common rapper and, as such, is of a lot curiosity to music critics.

Kid Cudi first emerged within the late-2000s when he started importing his materials to the music-sharing platform MySpace. The emcee (actual identify Scott Mescudi) labored extensively with the underground New York-based producer Dot da Genius for years, and after importing his single ‘Day ‘N’ Nite’ to MySpace in 2008, Cudi was featured as an thrilling up-and-coming artist on a number of music blogs.

Though he signed with Kanye’s G.O.O.D. Music label, many within the scene nonetheless thought-about Mescudi, a suburban emcee who lacked aggression and uncooked emotion. Nevertheless, in 2009, the artist launched a monitor that proved to the tradition that he was “no joke.”

Since signing with Kanye West in 2008, Kid Cudi has launched 9 studio albums, one compilation album, three EPs, one mixtape, and two collaborative albums. Nevertheless, there was one track specifically that modified his notion, and that monitor is ‘Heart of a Lion’.

‘Heart of a Lion’ featured on his debut album, Man On The Moon: The End Of Day, a 15-track idea challenge break up into 5 acts about life. The physique of labor explores themes comparable to his father’s loss of life and struggles as an adolescent. Nevertheless, ‘Heart of a Lion’ was one of the vital highly effective tracks.

On the track, Mescudi declares how he’s “not a loser.” In a verse about how individuals underestimate him, the lyricist rapped, “When I was coming up, you would think that I didn’t have any potential to be anything. I drew a lot, so people that knew me really well thought that I was gonna end up doing something with art or drawing or being a cartoonist or something like that.”

He continued, “But to the outside world, I used to get in so much sh*t in school, and I had very little motivation to do anything, you would think I was a completely worthless kid.”

In an interview with HipHopDX, Cudi spoke concerning the monitor, explaining, I wished it to at all times have that imply undertone like, that is no joke, this can be a severe factor. Despite the fact that ‘Heart Of A Lion’ is type of an uplifting joint, it’s [got] some seriousness to it. It’s like, ‘Man, I’m not f*cking enjoying.’ The synth provides that actually dope, imply vibe. And I wished that darkness on the album.”