Kid Cudi is no stranger to controversy. The hip-hop artist, born Scott Mescudi on January 30, 1984 in Shaker Heights, Ohio, has had a much publicized “beef” with singer Wale, got thrown off of the Lady Gaga tour because of a physical altercation with a fan, and was arrested in June after a drunken tantrum in a young woman’s Chelsea apartment.
Though these incidents may seem to paint the talented musician as a loose cannon, a closer look shows a much different story, that of a young man going through a wild year but ready to right the ship.
The “beef” with Wale started over a line on one of Wale’s songs, and seems to be more media driven than anything. Cudi explains it simply: “I vibe with certain people and some people I don’t.” Wale, the D.C. based rapper who was recently featured with Kid Cudi and Drake in GQ’s Men of the Year issue, stated, “It’s a line, a freestyle…It’s just a rap. It wasn’t no malice out of it.”
As far as the incident with a fan during the Gaga tour, the altercation was in response to objects being thrown at Cudi during his set. The fan with whom Cudi fought later made nice with the artist, and was actually brought out onto stage by Cudi at the Sasquatch Music Festival in Washington to show all was forgiven.
The drunken tantrum and arrest, most damaging of all the shenanigans the artist was involved with this year, also seems to have turned out to be nothing: His criminal mischief charge was dismissed outright and a possession charge is pending dismissal in six months if he stays out of trouble and performs two days of community service.
Though trouble seems to have found the artist in spades, Cudi is determined to change his life for the better. Vada, Cudi’s first child, was born in late March and he credits her addition to his life as the driving force for quitting his recreational drug use and partying. “I want to be around for her,” Cudi says. “I can honestly say she was the wake-up call.”
“I’m a lot happier — things are in better order and there’s peace within my crew and within myself. I feel I had to go through the fire to get here and I wouldn’t change my experiences for the world. At this point, I’m locked in,” the artist stated. ”What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger — that’s a fact. Even in death no one will stop me from being great. That’s all I know.”
All of us here at Positively Celebrity are rooting for Kid Cudi with his recent lifestyle change, and wish him incredible success on the release of his sophomore effort, Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager, due in stores November 9 (above is the just released album art).
You can also see Cudi soon on the upcoming season 2 of HBO’s How To Make it in America, currently filming.
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