Indicud

by Kid Cudi

Overview

After an amicable split with Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music label, Kid Cudi's third official album landed on Island proper, but it comes off as a label sampler itself, perhaps for the mythical Indicud Records (and that's the marijuana type Indica mixed with the name Cudi) or Kid Enterprises where the Cleveland rapper executive produces it all. Prime example has to be late album highlight "Beez," where Wu-Tang leader RZA brings his own Killer Bees mythos and delivers what could be his anthem ("I don't write songs, Grasshopper/I write sceneries") while Cudi handles the production and delivers the simple hook. In "Girls," it's merely a matter of framing veteran pimp Too Short in Cudi's bud smoker's vision of alt-rap, while "Solo Dolo, Pt. 2" takes the Kid's theme song and allows Kendrick Lamar to run with it, all the way to the Left Coast. Elsewhere, there's the delicious idea of surrounding AOR singer Michael Bolton with cloud rap and EDM beats for the epic "Afterwards (Bring Yo Friends)," or making indie rockers Haim sound something more like the Weeknd on stoner-R&B cut "Red Eye," and then there's the small instrumental/lark called "New York City Rage Fest," which is nothing more than middle-album tomfoolery. All those guest shots are worthy bangers, but Indicud still has some truly Solo Dolo numbers that shine, with "Immortal" turning a MGMT tune played backwards into Cudi's best anthem to date, while "Unfuckwittable" is the off-kilter, brain-melting mutant brand of pop-rap that made the Man on the Moon albums such a thrill. Cudi's said that Indicud is his 2001, in reference to the Dr. Dre album, but Dre was always considered a producer first, and this rapper's shift to producer/rapper is much more sudden and drastic. Still, it's an entertaining, vibrant, and artistically filling album, so consider it a "presents" effort and enjoy the show. ~ David Jeffries

Product Details

Release Date:	04/30/2013
Label:	Republic
UPC:	0602537356713
Rank:	4737

Tracks

Disc 1

1. The Resurrection of Scott Mescudi
2. Unfuckwittable
3. Just What I Am
4. Young Lady
5. King Wizard
6. Immortal

Disc 2

7. Solo Dolo, Pt. 2
8. Girls
9. New York City Rage Fest
10. Red Eye
11. Mad Solar
12. Beez

Disc 3

13. Brothers
14. Burn Baby Burn
15. Lord of the Sad and Lonely
16. Cold Blooded
17. Afterwards (Bring Yo Friends)
18. The Flight of the Moon Man

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Kid Cudi   Primary Artist
Michael Bolton   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
RZA   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Too $hort   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Kendrick Lamar   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
A$AP Rocky   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Father John Misty   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
King Chip   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
HAIM   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Haim   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Bill Conti   Composer
Isaac Hayes   Composer
W. Dennis   Composer
Veronica Mendez   Composer
Robert Diggs   Composer
R. Diggs   Composer
C. Brown   Composer
Todd Shaw   Composer
Michael Monagan   Composer
Scott Mescudi   Composer
A. Haim   Composer
Derrick Ordogne   Composer
Brad Jordan   Composer
Ben Goldwasser   Composer
Carl Brown   Composer,Composer
Josh Tillman   Composer
Andrew VanWyngarden   Composer
Dion Norman   Composer
Kendrick Duckworth   Composer
Chauncey Hollis   Composer
Alana Haim   Composer
Este Haim   Composer
Rakim Mayers   Composer
Danielle Haim   Composer
Albert Cota   Composer
Chantel Roquemore   Composer
Daniel Brattain   Composer
Darrell Mitchell   Composer
Shelly Goodhope   Composer
Tanesa Tarvin   Composer
D King   Composer