I don't know why people are coming for Cudi when all he did was speak the truth?
Cudi's music has actually been pretty good and quite influential, he just doesn't get the same kind of promo and respect the other big dogs get. And he has a point.
There are certain artists (not just rappers) who love to boast about how great they are and use their hits as some form of bragging rights, when they would be nothing without their team of 84 writers and co-producers behind them. Yes, that's how the industry works, but I see nothing wrong with him calling out the fakeness of it all.
Funny how yall were all praising Zara for doing the same thing, but suddenly it's wrong now that Cudi is doing it.
a whiny baby with no talent or self-awareness
And the spacey elements owe more to the 808 drum machine Kanye used and synthpop artists like Gary Numan than Cudi. I think Cudi's influence stops at the pathos and that's important enough imo. But he definitely is influential for that and the way he specifically raps and sings and I hear it on Travis
