Plain Pat has been absent from Cudi’s discography since Mr. Before that album, his biggest blip, Cudi had ventured off on Indicud and Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon losing steam all the while. It makes his sixth LP the best effort in some time.įor one, the album is a return to Rap, Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven, the 2015 release, was a grunge album that deserted a part of his fan base and pundits, alike. Also back from recess is the partitioning of the record Demon Slayin’ is split in four parts. As opposed to times when he’s left his audience too far in the dust on a soul searching mission, which was the case on his last three major releases, Cudi’s circled back, making the fans privy of this most recent prospect. He lugs his longtime demons, (the ones he’s slayin’) with “Unfuckwittable” hubris and a capitulant smile -the kind of smile you might give upon hitting your pillow after an exhausting day. Passion, Pain, and Demon Slayin’ finds Cudi on that same flight. And he’s quick to point out to us places where hope glimmers, even if just momentarily.
Resilient as he is though, he winds around the universe of mind on the hunt for a wormhole to slip down that might promise some positivity where it seems to be lost. However, when Solo Dolo, Kid Cudi is also most distressed. Alone, as has been his nature for much of this flight, buzzing and hovering about, Cudi soars like no other.
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It’s a feat he’s spent much of his career not trying to show us how to do but encouraging us in manning yokes of our own instead. While we’ve always kinda known, it wasn’t until Indicud that Cudi ‘fessed up.