“Day N’ Night” is what one would deem a ‘played out’ song. The radio waves caught the tune in its track-repeating clutches, and it automatically reserved itself in the back catalog of great songs that were beat into our heads until we despised them. Maybe your sentiments are different, and for Kid Cudi’s sake, hopefully that is the case.

Why? Because looking past the self-loathing stoner track with the echoing, electric beat, we learn that there is much more to Kid Cudi and his craft than the average hip hop top 40 king. For one thing, he collaborated with MGMT for his most recent single “Pursuit of Happiness.”

But more than working with top notch psychedelic electro groups, Cudi has a sound unique to his genre. He’s a blend of the intelligence of Mos Def and A Tribe Called Quest, the beats of Kanye and Wayne and the soul of a man wiser beyond his years.

He is man who believes in fate, “Long before we know ourselves, our paths are already set in stone,” he says in the track “In My Dreams.” “Some may never figure out their purpose in life and some will.”

And unlike most rappers who try to present themselves as larger than life and too good for even the earth; kind of like Lil Wayne’s constant flow, “I am not the same/ I am a martian,” Cudi actually does land on the moon, but instead of making it his home and calling himself an extraterrestrial, he still professes that he is human, thus, he is flawed.

“Being a leader in this day in age is being a threat. Not many people stood up against the system we all call life. Toward the end of our first ten years into the millennium we heard a voice. A voice who was speaking to us from the underground for some time. A voice who spoke about vulnerabilities and other human emotions and issues never heard before so vividly and honest This is the story of a young man who not only believed in himself but his dreams too. This is the story of the man on the moon.”- Kid Cudi “In My Dreams”

Grab your space suits kids.

- Jessica Cole

Currently Listening to: “Simple As” by Kid Cudi