As I wrote my last blog entry and as I write this one I am listening to the album "Man on the Moon: The End of Day" by Kid Cudi and I thought, I should really spread the word.
This guy is genius, most people will have only heard the Crookers Remix of "Day N' Nite" but I doubt many others are familiar with any of his other songs (mainly cos I think he's only released one other single over here, "Make her Say") so I urge people to buy this album because it is brilliant.
If you like Hip Hop that'll definitely help but his music feels like so much more than just a standard Hip Hop album (not just about Hoes, Money and the club), it's a journey, each track moves you along in a sort of story based Scott Mescudi's (AKA Kid Cudi's) life. Starting with the failry dark side where you get the feeling that he has or has had troubles in his life and it slowly progresses through his addiction to the ganja and eventually towards finding meaning in his life, it's not just great beats and great rapping, it's deep stuff.
I'm not saying you have to be deep in thought to listen to it, you can easily just stroll along with the music playing on your iPod and still appreciate it (that's what I do most of the time) because the flow and the sound is so good but the diversity of the different songs will also heko keep it fresh, I've had the album for a couple of months now I think and it still sounds amazing.
What more do I need to say, I've give it enough praise already, now it's down to you to sample some of the tracks and appreciate some good, different music rather than whatever generic bit of mainstream stuff you're probably considering because we need more artists like this.
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I'll have to give it a try. Thanks for the heads up.
ReplyDeleteI listened to Man On the Moon, and I thought it was awful, but i'm not a fan of hip-hop so that's probably why.
ReplyDeleteI miss the old days of music where songs were catchy and fun...