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DUBCC - Tha Connection => Outbound Connection => Topic started by: Tanjential on June 18, 2009, 10:54:34 AM
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How familiar are y'all with Cudi? How do you feel about his work?
I don't even have the Kid named Cudi mixtape yet, but I do have a mix of like 16 tracks of his and i'd say i like most of them especially:
-The Man on the moon
-The Prayer
-Dat New New
-Down and out
-Maui Wowie
-Embrace the martian
-cleveland is the reason
-and the slow version of 'day n nite'
anyway, I feel this artist encapsulates a lot of what I like about two other artists I like a lot: tv on the radio and daft punk, y'all familiar?
his shit is simple, he's not the best MC or singer but he does either well enough to be catchy and fun. His persona for me is relatable cause he is not trying to be gangster or a super baller but just a humble stoner artist dude...he samples cool shit like Band of horses and Ratatat...Or maybe it's not him...he doesn't have actual records out...so I don't know who's producing him? That guy Plain pat or what? Has Kanye produced stuff for him yet? He sounds like a Kanye/N.E.R.D product.....
Actually, that's part of my point...
Kanye, in the first place is a polished up Puff Daddy: A soft spoken slick little dude that samples 80s funk effectively to make new kitchy fun hip hop. Then he came out with Lupe who is a real tight MC over that kind of soundscape...unfortunately I think Lupe's over-morality and goody-two shoes persona has taken him as far as it can. Even the non gangster but still stony hip hop heads can not relate to him....he's a dope MC but a little too righteous and intellectual to be all that fun.
Cudi is simple yet positive, melodically hearwarming with slight implications of depth...depth that in all honesty, i don't think he ever delivers on but he doesn't really need to. His stuff is hella enjoyable.
as much as say, for example, this new eminem record is a great work on the part of an amazing MC and a veteran producer...you have to engage that record: Eminem's lyrics are not to be ignored and Dre's beats are treasures to be analyzed....not just kick back and cruise kind of stuff for the most part. Kid Cudi's tracks like Maui Wowie and Down and Out are old school yet modern sounding at the same time as being fun and as deep as you want them to be....I love fun stoner music and this music is that. I think Kanye and Lupe were a sign that more conscious, positive, fun hip-hop could be on its way...I think Cudi is the arrival of that promise. I am aware that he could just be another persona being sold to me (like all commercial art) but I dig a stony humble nice guy persona over a gangster misogynist baller persona any day. Kanye and his people have implied they will move hip hop past the bullshit it has been entrenched in for many years and Cudi has me believing him....i'm not saying it's the dopest, smartest hip hop...that shit has existed for a long time through cats like pharcyde, felt, dos1, atmosphere, murs, hiero, aceyalone COUNTLESS others and it's clear that that stuff is too cerebral to get huge.
What Kid Cudi and the like sybolize is the advent of simple, but positive and fun hip hop becoming prominent...which I find fun.
alot of cudi's songs aren't raps or songs by any strict definition but they work, you know? He and his producers know that people don't want to listen to and read poems so a hip hop artist's wisest decision is to make a song full of hook after hook after hook...and that's all Cudi does is sing hooks. he has almost no verses or hooks strictly...it's all singsongy rap that flows into each other.
Cudi is the reward for America's short attention span, fascination with electronic music, and desire for a fun rapper that doesn't talk to us like we're evil, broke and stupid (which we all are to an extent).....so in a while i can see getting tired of his simple, catchy, hooky music but I enjoy it for now and am looking forward to his full length album.
I have more thoughts but I'd like to get y'alls opinions before I continue...
-T
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I don't wanna read everything you wrote, but IMO Kid Cudi can rap... it's just that you get tired of him after 15 minutes.
kid_cudi-i_poke_her_face__feat._kanye_west_and_common_.mp3 - 9.09MB (http://www.zshare.net/audio/6155058593db5869/)
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kid kudi is a breath of fresh air in a period where most of the records sound the same
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Kid Cudi is one of the best new artists to come out in a minute... definetely one of the most original as well
I still play his mixtape and I'm coppin' the album once it drops 8)
"Sky Might Fall" is also my most played song on my iPod haha
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someone should link me to his mixtape
i only have this compilation my friend gave me
i don't think i have sky might fall, solo dolo, and many others...
-T
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Way too much to read but I don't like him. I downloaded 'a kid named cudi' n there were only about 5 tracks I thot were ok so I didn't bother checking out his other shit.
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i'll be real, there's only like 7 songs i like ALOT from what i've heard but i really really dig those 7 songs
-T
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i think hes aight but that crookers remix of day n nite was overplayed to the max and i havent really checked him since. not into this whole forced hipster image.in the uk theres bare people like him so its not anything new
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who mentioned anything about the U.K.? no hate, i'm just not sure where that tangent came from...are you from the U.K.?
Anyway....am I talking about buying his hipster image? Nah. I admit, the persona that comes off in his music appeals to me but I don't even know what the dude looks like. I don't watch music videos, I don't watch interviews, I don't look for pics and check myspaces...so I am talking purely about the music...at the most I'll mention the persona that comes off in the music.
what is crooker's remix? that whack ass fast version of day n night?
-T
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yer the club shit. i dont mind some club music but that was a cheap hit. yer im from the uk and this whole hipster music/image gets kinda rpeetitive. i dont smoke weed or wateva so i guess i dont give a fuck about what musics good for smoking to but id take lupe of him anyday.
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i am not familiar with kid cudi
who is he?
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well i figured there was some interest in his music so i upped a couple tapes. check here
http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=221693.0
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the day n night crookers remix is in continuously replay here since winter 08. at first i thought it was dope. but a year and a half later its getting annoying. it makes me wanna ignore everything cudi does.
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i guess i understand but i see that as ridiculous, he has other shit that has nothing to do with that song...but to each their own.
so, cudi hasn't been like a huge hit among the dubcc community?
it's funny, every time i find a rapper that really speaks to me it makes sense to me that that rapper would hit big on the Dub but it is never the case.
I still can't believe Murs and Mac Dre never really got a gang of love on these boards....
-T
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"A Kid Named Cudi" is a very good mixtape. Check that out!
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Kid Cudi is definatly lookin' bright.
he will have a successful career.
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Yeah, Kid Cudi is ait, he just gets boring after a 7-8 tracks. At least on that mixtape, but I'll def check his debut (if it drops, haha).
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I don't wanna read everything you wrote, but IMO Kid Cudi can rap... it's just that you get tired of him after 15 minutes.
kid_cudi-i_poke_her_face__feat._kanye_west_and_common_.mp3 - 9.09MB (http://www.zshare.net/audio/6155058593db5869/)
Props on that! I'm definitely looking forward to his album, gonna be some dope easy listening hip hop lol
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It's hard for me to consider him a rapper or a MC but I dig the majority of his material.
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exactly^^
-T
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*bumpin' some Cudi right now* 8)
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the day n night crookers remix is in continuously replay here since winter 08. at first i thought it was dope. but a year and a half later its getting annoying. it makes me wanna ignore everything cudi does.
That's why I NEVER listen to the radio/watch TV shit is brainwashing everybody plus all the "DJs" talk too much shit.
Just downloaded the song and it's first time I hear it.
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I still can't believe Murs and Mac Dre never really got a gang of love on these boards....
? I though they did. I've seen a lot of mac dre and murs sigs.
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word, that's cool
i guess i wanted to see Mac Dre take the Dub by storm and shit LOL
-T
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word, that's cool
i guess i wanted to see Mac Dre take the Dub by storm and shit LOL
-T
isnt he dead though?
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LMAO, yep
so who has been taking the boards by storm? is there anyone?
-T
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the huge amount of replies on the slaughterhouse thread suggests them. Crooked i has been pretty big atm on the boards lol.
O and btw mac dre has some dope tunes - that song since 84 was crazy back in the day
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I found Murs newest cd for a dollar but I didn't buy it. Is it any good?
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i am not familiar with kid cudi
who is he?
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murs for president is very good, but like most modern hip hop (to me) it's not very addictive. definitely worth more than a dollar though
the songs with snoop and Kokane would probably go over well here...
Kid Cudi is a vocal artist that is on Kanye's label. He is from Cleveland, Ohio.
i believe someone in this thread links to his mixtapes if you want t check them out...
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ok. good to know.
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ye i put up a thread in the hookup spot with a couple mixtapes if u wanna check his music out B.
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Murs is the shit! 8)
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ye i put up a thread in the hookup spot with a couple mixtapes if u wanna check his music out B.
i dont think i will.
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I found Murs newest cd for a dollar but I didn't buy it. Is it any good?
very good refreshing hip hop, 2nd best cd imo after MURS:3.16
Def 1 of my favourite artists, can relate to alot of his shit
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how you feel about felt? specifically felt 2?
that's one of my fave hip hop albums of the last decade for sure.
-T
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how you feel about felt? specifically felt 2?
that's one of my fave hip hop albums of the last decade for sure.
-T
I love Felt 2 but I acutally haven't even heard the 1st one..which is better?
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felt 2 is better by a mile.
but there's a couple heaters on felt 1
-T
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the day n night crookers remix is in continuously replay here since winter 08. at first i thought it was dope. but a year and a half later its getting annoying. it makes me wanna ignore everything cudi does.
hell yeah, I love that song when it first came out, but they still play it now... getting kinda old
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the day n night crookers remix is in continuously replay here since winter 08. at first i thought it was dope. but a year and a half later its getting annoying. it makes me wanna ignore everything cudi does.
hell yeah, I love that song when it first came out, but they still play it now... getting kinda old
Crookers are awsome, just seen their dj set last week, absolutly bangin from start to finish, got some excellent mixes too
Very hip hop influenced
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they're not hip hop? i don't even know who they are, what are they a band?
-T
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Kid Cudi is definatly lookin' bright.
he will have a successful career.
yeah but he shoulda dropped an album with the hype he was gettin for day-n-nite
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Yep once again the majors drop the ball.The song blows up and what do they do?Push the album back until the buzz is gone.They seem to do it to every fucking artist these days and it always ruins the sales.
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I haven't heard very much by Cudi, but the little I have heard sounds all good to me. I definately got my head up for the dude though, I'll be checking whatever he drops whenever he drops.
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Off topic:
Tanj: Did I see your ass in the audience of Conan's show the other day?
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they're not hip hop? i don't even know who they are, what are they a band?
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They are italian Electro/dubstep djs/producers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crookers read about them here
couple tracks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFi5b3cQGPk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FksFHBUi-cc&feature=fvw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsNDLbqEVNE&feature=related
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oh word,
any of y'all dig on daft punk and chromeo?
nah i wasn't at Conan LMAO, i'm down though
yeah, i've been thinking it's retarded that this guy's record is not out yet.
it's certainly a different industry than 7 years ago...
-T
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make her say is cool, never got into his other shit