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Disobey Kanye West? Yes: Kid Cudi hasn't got it
West's experiment set a precedent for the electronic influence and bare introspection of the singing rapper, making way for both Cudi's sonic trials—downtempo, spare keyboard whirrs plod over tribal or intergalactic drums—as well as for his whinier indulgences. But where West's very public trials—his near-fatal car wreck, the death of his mother, his outburst at the 2009 Video Music Awards—lend a certain well-manicured gravitas to his public persona, Cudi's youthfulness is easily read as folly. More
