Free, Kid Cudi's new album, tells us what life is like after the trauma he faced in his new memoir, Cudi: The Memoir.
Kid Cudi is a unique artist that has a cult-like fanbase that beg for him to return to the tortured soul they fell in love with in Man of the Moon. But, with growth comes change, and he is healed. Free expressed the freedom of a man in love and happy.
“I wanted something that really expressed freedom, so the concept of me leaping into the clouds made so much sense,” he wrote on IG when revealing the cover. “Inspired by The Truman Show. I cant WAIT for u guys to hear this album and really see the album art brought to life. You’re in for a beautiful ride. Promise.”
The album speaks on his new marriage and finding love again. Ahead of it's release, he would reflect on his near-death past. He wrote to fans: “I was at peace with dying. After doing more coke than I ever had in my life I was losing all sense of what was real. I’d been alone in my New York apartment, crying for hours, listening to the Lykke Li song ‘Time Flies’ on repeat. It was a love song, but the melodies and her voice filled me with despair.”
Cudder would eventually find what he was looking for. He added: "I was a role model, but I didn’t feel like one. People called me their savior. But who was going to save me? I was a lighthouse for others, but I couldn’t find my own way,” he added. “It was peace I was after."
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Free - Kid Cudi
Official Tracklist
- Echoes of the Present
- Neverland
- Mr. Miracle
- Opiate
- Deep Diving
- Truman Show
- Submarine
- Ashes
- Grave
- Past Life
- Picnic In Paris
- Stargazing
- Salt Water
