I know, I know, to a lot of people, this should be obvious, but I'm one of the (seemingly) few people around these parts who actually likes dude's music a lot.

Yeah, he's emo. Yeah, in terms of bars, he's not much of a rapper. And yeah, a lot of his off stage antics are hilariously self destructive.

But somehow it worked for me. I think both of his first two albums are pretty friggin good, minus a few missteps here and there. I still play the shit out of both of them on the regular. "Heart of a Lion", "Cudi Zone", "All Along", "Ashin Kusher", "Simple As", shit even "Pursuit of Happiness", and many others are GREAT songs.

When he split with Plain Pat and Emile, I grew a little skeptical, cuz so much of Cudi's sound was tied into those two, and the production was as important as what he brought.

I've never been one to tell an artist to stick to something if their heart is elsewhere, because if someone is making music that they're not into, it's gonna be pretty evident in the product.

But yo, Kid Cudi, stick to that other shit. This ain't it buddy. At all.

Lil' Wayne's Rebirth album laughs at how bad this is.

Self indulgent artists around the world take note. This is what happens when your eyes are bigger than your stomach, or perhaps, when you don't have someone in your circle to tell you when your shit is wack.

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OL' DIRTY BASTARD on himself:
"I may curse, I may have a bad mouth, whatever whatever. I'm not that bad, yaknow'mean. Bad to y'all, I dunno how y'all... I don't give a fuck. Um, I'm a good person at heart, for real and shit.