Child Cudi has issued a reminder to followers about his affect on Kanye West‘s 808s & Heartbreak, seemingly in response to being snubbed by West in a brand new interview.
On Friday (March 15), Cudder took to X (previously Twitter) the place he shared an excerpt from his personal Wikipedia web page, detailing his affect on Ye’s fourth studio album, 808s & Heartbreak.
The excerpt learn: “Child Cudi’s sound is what impressed and led Kanye West to create his cathartic ‘808s & Heartbreak’ (2008), with West later stating he and Cudi have been ‘the originators of the model, kinda like Alexander McQueen is to style… Every little thing else is simply Zara and H&M.’
“West additionally complimented Cudi by saying, ‘His writing is simply so pure and pure and essential.’”
The publish comes within the wake of West’s remarks claiming credit score for having “invented each model of music” of the previous a number of a long time.
“I invented each model of music of the previous 20 years. I created this style. I created Weeknd’s style, Trav[is Scott], Drake. I’m gon’ head & say, with all love, Future & [Young] Thug additionally… as a result of the autotune album,” he started in a video snippet from a current look on Ahmed’s The Ears podcast.
“808s [& Heartbreak], if you consider it… everybody consider Trav, Weeknd and Drake however nobody thinks of Future and Thug additionally. Autotune album. Now, everyone they added what it was to it,” he added.
— The Chosen One (@KiDCuDi) March 15, 2024
“I invented each model of music of the previous 20 years. I created this style. I created Weeknd’s style, Trav, Drake. I am gon’ head & say it, Future & Thug additionally….. It is known as ‘making your individual cash’ style.” -Kanye West pic.twitter.com/6UNsG7rMUX
— Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod 🇸🇴 (@big_business_) March 15, 2024
The Lonely Stoner has writing credit for 4 tracks on West’s 2008 basic: “Welcome To Heartbreak” (on which he’s a featured artist), “Heartless,” “Paranoid” (the place he sings backing vocals as properly), and “Robocop.”
In 2008, Cudi signed to West’s G.O.O.D. Music imprint and regardless of a string of fan-favorite collaborations, he and his former mentor haven’t been on one of the best of phrases in recent times.
Nonetheless, all appeared to be on the up-and-up after the Children See Ghosts duo have been seen late final yr hugging it out at a listening get together for Ye’s Vultures album.
Shortly after, Cudi additionally make clear how fences have been mended between the duo, citing a honest apology from West.
Throughout an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, he mentioned: “The explanation we grew to become cool once more is he apologized to me. And it was honest. I used to be like, ‘Wow, Kanye doesn’t apologize to anybody, he doesn’t ask for forgiveness to anybody.’
“That’s my brother man, I do know he loves me. There’s simply nothing like Kanye and Cudi. We [are] the duo everyone likes to see.”
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Child Cudi had beforehand mentioned he would by no means work with Kanye once more following their “Rock N Roll” collaboration on Pusha T’s 2022 album It’s Virtually Dry.
“I did this music a yr in the past once I was nonetheless cool w Kanye. I’m not cool w that man. He’s not my pal and I solely cleared the music for Pusha cuz thats my man,” Cudi wrote on X. “That is the final music u will hear me on w Kanye.”
Their falling out stemmed from Kanye reducing Cudi from Donda 2 as a consequence of his friendship with comic Pete Davidson, who was courting Kanye’s ex-wife Kim Kardashian on the time.
