Kid Cudi Saved My Life
How one artist changed mental health in pop culture forever.
7 min readApr 11, 2018
If you’ve paid any attention to hip-hop over the last decade, you understand the transcendence of Kid Cudi and his music. Unlike his contemporaries, Cudi’s popularity isn’t an offshoot of “hard raps,” fashion statements, or mainstream dominance. Rather, he’s made waves through sentiment, ethics, intuitions of originality.