After setting the bar at Olympic levels for Kid CuDi’s debut, Man in the Moon: The End of Day, I’ll be extremely pissed if any amount of it sounds like the recently leaked “That Girl.”
Seeping into the stream so close to the release date, I figured it had to be from the cutting room floor and was initially pretty hype to hear another hint from a potential Top 10 of 2009 candidate.
Then I hit play.
Initially, the addictive bass-drum combo left me like a snake slithering upward out of a basket, enchanted by a rhythm sounding straight from Holland/Dozier/Holland. A few seconds and a couple irking ad-libs later, I pull a Soul II Soul and realize the song is going absolutely nowhere. Not a rhyme in sight, CuDi’s unexplained lady adoration gets more and more drawn out and becomes reminiscent of a whining high school sophomore, reading his creepy love letters to the prom queen. Aside from the forced yearning, sadly, the beat doesn’t change a lick neither.
Since rave reviews have already been written, I think it’s safe to say the lackluster “That Girl” was Tupperwared for a reason. If it is a sign of things to come, though, 808 & Heartbreaks will end up looking genius.
*Shivers*
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Download — Kid CuDi – “That Girl”
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KiD CuDi – Man on the Moon: The End of Day (German Album Promo)
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If anybody cops this over “Superbad” I am slapping them so hard.
Survival Skills is the album of the 15th!
I heard the album snippets. It sounds like a winner.
Cudi keeps this up he will get offical membership in SHITHOUSE!!
fuck this guy.
cudi makes drake look like mozart.
Beats dope! If someone talented that spit on this would rip it to shreds. I just don’t think Cudi is as talented as people make him out to be. I like him, just the stannery isn’t justified imo.
I hate this dude’s personality, but i really do have high hopes for this album. I wasn’t a huge fan of his mixtapes, but he seems to have alot of potential to make a really polished full length retail album if he puts his heart into it..
We’ll see though..
speaking of.
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When does the album drop?
that beat is hyperz, cudi comes off being lazier than mos def on this
BLU>ALL THEM ROOKIES
What the hell happened to this place? I just logged on and I see all this shit.
I liked his debut mixtape tremendously but ultimately, I feel like Joe Buddens does, “I just want him to rap.” He hears a beat and he immediately hones in on it and crafts a hook/tone that will draw almost any type of listener in. He ‘s great at his beat selection but when is he going to rap…
Hopefully KiD CuDi has learned how to paint a picture as a lyricst, or else we are going to hear an album full of sing-songy-raps about extra terrestrial encounters and maui-waui marijuana….
I hate this song. Album sounds nothing like it so you won’t be disapointed.
i like the song and all the demos i have heard that did not make the album were awesome
what happened to this place???!!!
but this beat is bonkers though..
Yo that track was a demo, probably 5 years old, before A Kid Named Cudi, his album will be dope stop hating when youu dont know what your talking about, that track was never supposed to leak