DDG: Yeah. He used to come over all the time from Staten Island. I had a little studio in the basement. Dot came downstairs, like, 'Yo, my parents want to talk to you. So I went up to his parents room, and his dad was like, 'I think about it like this, if it was my son, what would I want another family to do for my son?
DDG: The grind was real then. Nobody had any money and you were still making time to get to the studio and get these songs done. So my dad would see that. They were used to his personality by then. KC: [ Laughs. My parents, they are very strict, so Scott would come and be all joking and stuff.
It was just funny to see them interact. KC: It definitely could be a TV show. It was like Full House , the Nigerian version [ all laugh ]. It was mad kids, but it was dope.
I remember the day they asked me to stay over. How did that come about exactly? And while he was mixing a vocal I had just laid down, I was talking to him about my circumstance. I had just gotten evicted—on New Years. My homeboy had, like, a small little basement space in his home in Staten Island, over on West Brighton. He had let me stay there for a while, and I was sleeping on the floor.
I got evicted on New Years Eve, right before I was about to go out. I was talking to O-Dot about this, and they were saying that I had to be out by January 31st—the day after my fucking birthday. Is it cool if I stay here? What happened? You guys have been productive, staying out of trouble, and you guys are working towards something. And you can still work with Dipo.
You guys can still work on your music. Like, really? It was really, really an amazing thing. It was a blessing just to have them in my life and for them to want to do that for me. Like I said, me and Dot only knew each other for seven months. How did you guys first link up? Dot, you were in New York, right? I was already in New York. But, being that our records have been so awesome [ Laughs ] he barely says anything. I want you to meet him. We met up, and Dot played me some beats.
KC: He had just started producing at the time. The first one was dope. We just started banging out records. We had chemistry instantly. When I would hum some shit, he would play it back proper— just right.
It was literally [ snaps fingers ] that fast. As soon as we got in the studio, we were out of here. KC: Dot is a songwriter. So I knew if we just stuck it out and worked together more and more, we would end up building something that was bigger than the both of us. DDG: Yeah, exactly. I will say that—especially when I finally linked up with Cudi—his creativity is fucking out of here.
He was always opening my mind to more eclectic-style stuff. This could work. Do you guys feel pressure to impress each other? DDG: Yeah, because DDG: Not even. You know what it is, though. He knows what he wants. We were just two dudes in the studio trying to make jams since we met.
I also feel pressure to impress my friends and to impress Dot. What am I going to do? DDG: Exactly. KC: Yeah. You definitely want to impress your partner. I would have never thought of that. Holy shit. Rock and roll has been low-key. Hip-hop is pop now. Think outside the box, man. See where my mind is at. This is what it needs to be. When did you guys think this album was a reality? I was sitting on the idea for a couple months. I want to do this. We need to make a whole album with this instrument.
Like, we have to. I want to be able to fucking sing my heart out and just fucking rock. All I wanted to do was rock, man. I just want to rock and roll. I think rock and roll has been like, low-key, man. When you watched an award show, it was mainly rock bands, and the hip-hop section was very small.
DDG: I think the special thing about the album is that he decided to play the instrument, having no previous knowledge or teachings or understanding of the instrument. He just wanted to make an album with it, by himself, playing the guitar. He could have easily gotten a whole bunch of people to come play guitar and play his riffs for him.
DDG: It is. KC: We can honestly sit here and say to you that it was our destiny to work together. Getting the phone call that I got the job, then going to work and meeting these guys that rap and me rapping and them realizing I had flow Meeting him So I got on the train and sought after him, and I really went hard, and he was ignoring my phone calls, and I kept at him and kept at him.
The chain of events is so boom-boom-boom. I almost got kicked out. Then, there was one mega-event: the parents saying I could stay there. That helped the story stay on its trajectory. There was so many points where we both could have went astray and lost our way.
Motherfuckers was in the hood. It was, like, a block away. This was my destiny. The stars lined up just right. Dot's parents [sat] me down like, 'You need to get a job. Your relationship was organic. This is some real shit. Like, I used to have to stay there and wait for him to come home on weekends, because he was staying in the dorms during his second year of school.
KC: Dot was there. We got in an argument. This is plan D. This is all we got. This is all we got right now. DDG: The shit is mind-blowing, because back then, we were just pursuing it blindl. Earlier beats that I was fucking around making I kind of took a whole other route with my music.
This is just something that I was inspired to write. Positive: 2 out of Mixed: 8 out of Negative: 0 out of Entertainment Weekly. All this publication's reviews.
WZRD's strengths are rooted in Kid Cudi's vocal tone, one that is gripping and melodic despite his quite limited singing ability. All this publication's reviews Read full review. WZRD, the album, is sort of emo, sort of dream pop, and surely an indulgent effort that surprises with its chemistry and willingness to follow the music.
The album lacks the urgency of successful rap and rock, instead wallowing in a blah middle ground in its best moments. Rolling Stone. The rudimentary guitar, starchy beats and formless synths just sound rough, never fun or spontaneous.
Q Magazine. Wonky vocals and a lack of guile strangle the project, not least on Efflictim, where a terminal aimlessness befits the melodramatic-teen lyric[s]. The delicate balance of good-then-bad-then-good-again ideas and taste appears rarely on WZRD. User Reviews. Write a Review. Positive: 5 out of 8. Mixed: 1 out of 8. Negative: 2 out of 8. Great album. Loved all the songs, Cudi is a pure genius when it comes to creating songs.
With his collaboration with Dot Da Genius, I believe they create a great album, although it is not traditional rap or rock, they blend together good enough to create great songs.
This is a very good and very misunderstood album. Like the other 2 albums, this one grew on me the more i listened to it. When i first heard This is a very good and very misunderstood album. When i first heard it, I did not like it at all. The songs were weird and I did not understand them. Well I'm glad I did. This album is really just like all of Cudi's other's. It has the same flow, same style, he just sings and uses the drums and guitar. But he does that in all his other albums too I promise anybody that is a Cudi fan, give this a try and let it grow on you.
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