The Sagacious & Zany Thoughts of Mr. Abreu "My Mojo is so Dope. An Ode to Kid Cudi"

Since Kanye dropped his first album, I haven't heard any musician with such a unique combination of flow, lyrics melodies and beats. But then I discovered Kid Cudi over a year after his rookie album was released. I heard samples of his songs on iTunes, but the music just didn't catch my attention other than "Day N Nite." One day I put his name into Pandora and it literally changed me overnight. I heard something I never heard before, and it reminded me of the last track on Kanye's College Dropout album, when he is recalling his attempts to get signed and one of the executives, i think Dame Dash goes, "Man, that's not even rap." It's no coincidence that Kanye and Cudi teamed up and are creating masterful music. In two different Complex magazine interviews, both artists state that Cudi wrote a handful of songs on 808s and Heartbreak and declined to disclose the amount of songs he helped write on Kanye's My Beautiful, Dark Twisted Fantasy, which is by far the most innovative collection of songs in hip-hop and easily in the music world.

Both of Cudi's solo albums are full of real emotions from a man no different from any of us. In the song "Man on the Moon," he writes,

They can't comprehend
Or even come close to understanding him
I guess if I was borin they would love me more
Guess if I was simple in the mind
Everything would be fine
Maybe if I was jerk to girls
Instead of being nice and speakin kind words
Then maybe it would be ok to say then
I wasn't a good guy to begin with

HOOK
But my mind is all crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy...
They got me thinkin I aint human,
Like I came in from above, above, above, above...
Feelin like a airplane in the sky
But then they say I'm crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy...
They got me thinkin I aint human,
Like I came in from above, above, above, above...
Feelin like a bird sittin high high

The song is about the inner struggle we all have of distinguishing between how we think we come across to others, and how we assume we're so different that we can't relate. It's ironic how we generally think the same thing about ourselves, but feel like we can't relate. These are the thought-provoking verses that Cudi produces in almost every song and mirrors some songs on Kanye's new album, leaving little to the imagination of what songs he wrote. Just look at Gorgeous, Blame Game, Dark Fantasy.

Along with some dark songs, Cudi makes some real good inspirational songs like REVOFEV from his second album where he sings,

"What will I say to the kids?/ Wake up - things might get rough/No need to stress; keeps you down too much/Wake up, I heard they found a solution/But where will you be, for the revolution?"

While I'm in the comfort and safety of my own home, I think about all the Egyptians fighting for their freedom and how this revolution might change the Islamic world; therefore, the entire world. These are the type of ideas that penetrate my mind constantly when I listen to Kid Cudi, and I could go on and on. From societal issues to real deep personal ones, and for me, that's what music is about.

"Life is like that
Beat me up and I’ll fight right back
Poof poof - be gone 
I see the devil linger on
Yeah,  stuck in my hell 
Writing my mom and I ain’t doing so well
Lord let me in
I feel like he’s my only friend"

Cudi f/ Mary J. "These Worries"