Kid Cudi Talks About His Upcoming Album 'Entergalactic'

Earlier this year, Kid Cudi announced his next album 'Entergalactic'—which will accompany his upcoming Netflix adult animated series—is set to arrive in 2020.

Earlier this year, Kid Cudi announced his next album Entergalactic—which will accompany his upcoming Netflix adult animated series—is set to arrive in 2020. In Complex's new cover story, he shared more details on what to expect from his first full-length solo project since 2016's Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin'.  

Cudi told Complex's Karizza Sanchez he "needed to do something different" this time around with his music, which led to the decision to create a project that would narrate the first season of his Netflix show. "A lot of the songs aren't really from the Scott perspective; they're from the perspective of the character," he explained. 

He added: "A lot of the songs are about love and relationships. I'm not in a relationship right now, so it's purely written from my imagination and writing as this character." This new approach brought excitement back to the music-making process for Cudi, who had considered taking five years off from music.

"I had this idea for the show, and then it was like, how can we incorporate the music? How can we have the music be a part of the show?" he said. "I initially wanted to make a visual album, but I was like, that's been done before. How can we give it a little twist? How can we do something different? That's how I came up with the idea for the show, Entergalactic. I'm trying my hardest to still introduce new sounds and push the envelope, sonically. So it's still gonna be like everything that people love about Kid Cudi music. The only difference is that it's gonna be told from a different perspective. Some songs, not all songs."

Along with the different perspective, fans can expect Entergalactic to highlight Cudi's rap abilities and thoughts on love. "I have some songs where I'm just rapping—it's just Cudi having fun again, and I think people miss that side of me. I used to do that a lot on my mixtape, so getting back into that was fun, and I think people are gonna be into it. I think this [album] is my perspective on love, and people haven't really heard that. I'm not somebody who makes R&B music, and I'm not somebody who makes lovey-dovey songs like that. I've just never really had much luck in relationships, so I've never had anything to write from. And if I did write about my relationships, it would've been all disasters, so I needed something to inspire me to get me there, to wanna write about relationships, and this show did it for me."

Kid Cudi also assured fans that more material from him and Kanye West will be coming. "There will be more Kids See Ghosts albums. Kanye already told me he wants to start working on the second one," he said.

"With the first album, I didn't know how serious he was about making a collab album with me," he continued. "He had mentioned it, but I thought it was just a good idea he had in the moment. But then he kept bringing it up and kept having me come to his house, listen to music, and work on beats, so I was like, 'Wow, he's really into this.' We had a discussion where he said he wanted to make a spiritual album and I told him, 'Great. That's what I do. I would love to do that, something I can sink my teeth into.' So there will definitely be more."

Read Complex's cover story with Kid Cudi and NIGO®here.

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