OPEN UP YOUR HEART AND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND ME

FALL INTO THE MUSIC AND LET YOURSELF GOOOOOOOO

I can’t pin exactly what this era of Cudi has that the new doesn’t have necessarily (although I still like Cudi new music)

if you are in your mid/late 20s it's because of the time you first listened to those old cudi albums

That but also idk it’s like he was so fresh, bruh off the domes was just so different & singing was smoother. Can’t explain it

Edit: ITS THE CHARISMA

it was so effortless back then, like Ye during Dropout era

That little run from Save My Soul to Cleveland is The Reason goes so hard

he said he had a stroke when he went to rehab a few years back, I think that changes a person completely afterwards. I know exactly what you mean though, cause this freestyle and the Tim Westwood one is a gem

Damn he had a stroke?? How tf did I miss that info

In that case yeah I can see why you’d say that

Tim Westwood one is for the books

yea he talked about it in one of those magazine stories, think like pre MOTMIII. could be post, don’t quote me. a glimmer of classic cud still pops out here and there

I like to say somewhere during 09-10. He was having a lot of ups and downs emotionally and was dealing with the fact that the fame got to him really hard.

And it's what drove him crazy into the d****, which f***ed up the soulful tone that his voice used to have

This even goes deeper into it

Never really liked this one

Word???? :(

classic, he went off

I’m truly an old head now, this is a classic

Yeah I think that and is there any love are the only 2 songs I didn’t have downloaded from there lol

This era was just so soulful. And he never really tapped in to that energy again

I used to watch this video so much as a kid because of how great Cudi’s singing voice sounds. I definitely miss the smooth and soulful vocals from back then

This is pretty good

i’ve recently heard Spaz for the first time and am obsessed with it. this is really fun :))

PP&DS was the real MOTMIII for me. he’s still my goat. this new overpriced era I just go to cause nostalgia. makes me realize I’m getting old too lmao

Have you listened to Seeing Sounds?

Classic. Cudi is a legend idc what anyone says

spaz bridge

not yet.. just finished in search of recently and still just going through that

08-09 Cudi is GOATed to me