In his early years as a musician,Kid Cudiwas heavily associated withKanye West.
After hearing the younger rapper’s breakthrough mixtapeA Kid Named Cudi, West signed him to his G.O.O.D.
Music label in 2008.
Once close collaborators, Kid Cudi and Kanye West are no longer friends.Jerritt Clark/WireImage
But these days their friendship is in tatters, and Cudi has no interest in repairing it.
Mental health is no joke for Cudi, whochecked himself into rehabin 2016, citing depression and suicidal urges.
Addressing West directly, Cudi continued, “I’m not one of your kids.
I’m not Kim.
It don’t matter if I’m friends with Pete or not friends with Pete.
None of this s— had anything to do with me.
If you might’t be a grown man and deal with the fact that you lost your woman?
That’s not my f—ing problem.
it’s crucial that you own up to your s— like every man in this life has.
I’ve lost women, too.
And I’ve had to own up to it.
I don’t need that in my life.
I don’t need it.”
So is there any hope for reconciliation?
Cudi says it’s unlikely.
“That’s not me.
What I say, I mean.
I will be done with you.
It’s gonna take a motherf—ing miracle for me and that man to be friends again.
I don’t see it happening.
He gon' have to become a monk.”
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