"I thought some people would be foolish about it and be like, 'Oh, he must've talked to Kanye' or 'Kanye must've got to him' or some s**t like that," Cudi explained of their relationship. "I think he knows where I stand (politically), and I think he doesn't bring it up ...
“Kid Cudi was nobody,” Jim Jones said to begin his reasoning. “He worked in a f*cking store under Koch Records. I was signed to Koch Records. I didn’t even know Kid Cudi worked down there. Lisa Brunt’s nephew at the time was doing some work for me in my studio, and he’...
“It’s so many days I prayed to God/All this pain I couldn’t seem to find a way,” he raps on “Fire,” co-produced by André 3000. Though this subject matter is new for Cudi songs, it’s well-trodden territory for Kanye, who—from “Jesus Walks” to “Ultralight Beam”—...