{"id":806360,"date":"2020-04-14T09:50:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T15:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=983386"},"modified":"2020-04-14T09:50:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T15:50:47","slug":"kid-cudi-hums-has-finally-humming-intensifies-returned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/kid-cudi-hums-has-finally-humming-intensifies-returned\/","title":{"rendered":"Kid Cudi *Hums* Has Finally *Humming Intensifies* Returned"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kid Cudi<\/a> has a knack for timeliness. For the last 12 years, the mush-mouthed Cleveland musician has always been a half-step ahead of popular music\u2019s curve of influence. There are the obvious examples, like abandoning the classic strictures of mainstream rap for more melodic pastures, and harder-to-pin-down one, like his narcotized, diary-esque tales of intoxication and suicidal thoughts that turned out to presage hip-hop<\/a>\u2019s very depressing present. That\u2019s what makes \u201cLeader of the Delinquents,\u201d Cudi\u2019s latest major release since 2018\u2019s Kids See Ghosts \u2014<\/em> and his first during a pandemic \u2014 feel like an outlier.<\/p>\n

\u201cLeader of the Delinquents\u201d features very few of Kid Cudi\u2019s codified music traits. There\u2019s zero humming, harmonies, or melodies. Instead, Cudi decides to simply rap; it isn\u2019t his best skill, but has often allowed the perennial sad boy to free himself from his more dour tendencies (See: 2010\u2019s \u201cCudderisback\u201d<\/a>).<\/p>\n

In spurts, \u201cLeader of the Delinquents\u201d is genuinely funny. During the song\u2019s opening salvo, Cudi raps an appropriately dour couplet, \u201cHello friends, Cudder\u2005again \/ Gotta smack \u2019em with some shit before the world ends.\u201d Granted, the lyric is very old<\/a>, but it\u2019s become more potent to hear in 2020 than it was in 2012. Stylistically, Cudi\u2019s rudimentary flow sounds lifted from a late \u201980s Will Smith song, and there are a couple of Chicken Soup for the Soul<\/em>-style lyrics: \u201cFame and loneliness, the recipe for disaster.\u201d Thankfully, by the second verse, Cudi bounces back reminding listeners he\u2019s \u201cbeen that nigga even back when I was trippin\u2019 off that white.\u201d<\/p>\n

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