Forget sex, drugs and rock’n’roll. Rap music is all about ‘money, cash, and hoes’. Or sometimes it seems that way.
It can be easy to put all rap songs – and rappers – into the same basket.
But 28-year-old Kid Cudi is a rap artist who is intent on changing modern hip-hop.
He says that he’s sick of listening to songs about money and women, and instead wants to see rappers taking responsibility for their influence.
He says: “My mission statement since day one … all I wanted to do was help kids not feel alone and stop kids from committing suicide.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDLmN84RQbo&feature=youtu.be
In an interview on the Arsenio Hall Show last week, Cudi explained that, “I think the braggadocio, ‘money, cash, hoes’ thing needs to be deaded.”
“If you’re gonna be an artist, there’s a time where you just have to … embrace the responsibility and understand that the power of music is something so special,” Cudi continued. “And to be able to do it on this magnitude where you reach millions of people, it’s like why not use that for good? Why not tell kids something that they can connect with and use in their lives?”
When asked why helping kids feel not alone, and preventing suicide, were his two main goals, Cudi replied, “I dealt with suicide for the past five years … and I know what that feels like. And I know it comes from loneliness, I know it comes from not having self worth, not loving yourself. And these are things that, you know, kids don’t have music that can coach them and give them that guidance.”
Can we get a standing ovation, please?
Has music ever helped you during difficult periods of your life?
Top Comments
Kid cudi is jesus in the flesh
This man saves lives everyday
Music can do so much more than it does in pop culture. Kid Cudi is hopefully showing
the next generation that there's more than ass, money and drugs to sing about.
Honestly, my brain just clicked into recovery one day when I was hospitalised for depression- the album was about the lead singer's own hospitalisation and realisation of just how much he can do for himself. I'd spent two months in there with no eureka moment.
I got to meet him the following year and I told them "you saved my life", their response was "No, you saved your life, we just make music". That shit is real and it can help.