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“Do you know how it feels to wake up one day, look at your social media, and you’re trending because somebody’s talking some s*** about you?” he asks. “And then you got this person’s trolls sending you messages on Instagram and Twitter? All in your comments? That s*** pissed me off. That he had the power to f*** with me that week. That he used his power to f*** with me. That pissed me off.” He adds gravely, “You f***ing with my mental health now, bro.” Cudi eventually brushed it off and burrowed into his peace bubble.

Here in the studio, he leans forward in his chair, a blunt between his fingers. “I’m at a place in my life where I have zero tolerance for the wrong energies. I’ve watched so many people throughout the years that are close to him be burned by him doing some f***ed-up s***. And then they turn around and forgive him. And there’s no repercussions. You’re back cool with this man. He does it over and over.”

He addresses West directly: “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,” Cudi says. “If you can’t be a grown man and deal with the fact that you lost your woman? That’s not my f***ing problem. You need to 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.”

Cudi is also bothered by the idea that people credit his success to someone other than him and his original team of producers: Patrick “Plain Pat” Reynolds, Oladipo Omishore (aka Dot Da Genius), and Emile Haynie. He says he was hesitant to sign to G.O.O.D. Music. His fear manifested when West released 808s & Heartbreak and you heard Cudi’s haunting vocals on the second track and his songwriting throughout, playing what he felt was a critical role when he had yet to release his debut album. Cudi’s a little stuck here: He was a young rapper who emerged in the shadow of a superstar.

“I just want to clear that up for anybody that feels like Kanye made my career or made me who I am,” Cudi says. “He brought me on to do 808s. I thought that was really f***ing awesome. I wanted to be a part of a family and saw G.O.O.D. Music as that opportunity. So I finally said yeah. Kanye West did not come and pluck me out of Applebee’s or the Bape store.”

This is a lot of talk about Kanye for someone who didn’t want to discuss him. Cudi says the difference is that he’s speaking about it on his own terms. If there is an olive branch in the future, it’s somewhere lost in the woods. Cudi continues, “With all due respect, I’m not Drake, who’s about to take a picture with him next week and be friends again, and their beef is squashed. That’s not me. What I say, I mean. I will be done with you. It’s gonna take a motherfucking miracle for me and that man to be friends again. I don’t see it happening. He gon’ have to become a monk.” (Since this is Ye we’re talking about, I consider this unlikely but not impossible.) In a twist of fate, Cudi replaced West as the headliner of this year’s Rolling Loud Miami festival. But after a few concertgoers tossed objects at Cudi during his set, he threatened to walk offstage if they continued. True to his word, he dropped the mic and left. (Ye, meanwhile, made a surprise cameo during rapper Lil Durk’s set.)

bro wtf is going on

wtf is that picture

spoiler the picture @op

In

Cudi and Ye been having those big bro, lil bro fights for years now

They’ll make up like always eventually

cudi on his no stylist s***

dam

LMAOO

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Mane you gotta spoiler that

these niggas are way too old to behave like this

He has a c***sock on his d***

he not wrong for what he saying

it SAYS NSFW

Is cudi ok? He been moving weird the past year

just put a # after the ! mate

Um

not just a c***sock... its a Dior c***sock.

Whelp u did warn me but I opened it at work