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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
from Kid Cudi's tweets i don't think he thinks he will be "bigger" than them, more so seems he is criticizing them from a strictly artist's perspective as being either lazy or boring and he seems to suggest he will continue to create art.
now, again i don't know anything about his music, and if those statements can in fact ever be true, but like i said i definitely didn't interpret them as to imply he will be more popular or commercially successful
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Sure, I get ya.
Probably doesn't have anything to do with popularity or commercial success. But even on the purely musical side of things, Cudi's done nothing to suggest that he has the chops to put someone like Kanye to shame. Drake, probably. He's more open minded and adventurous than Drake. But even if I wasn't a Ye obsessive, I'd find his tweets laughable. Music aside, Kanye's the reason Cudi's well known. And he is, actually, pretty well known... His newest albums can always be found at major retailers like Best Buy, Fred Meyer, Barnes & Noble, Target and the like. When Indicud came out in 2013, it was a pretty big deal. Even Speeding Bullet to Heaven got a fair amount of press, despite being universally panned.
The fact that he would have a problem with Kanye doesn't make much sense. From what I've seen, Ye has been nothing but supportive of Cudi even after he left GOOD. He's been on
every Kanye album since 2008, including Pablo. And Ye has praised him publicly as a hip hop innovator countless times, even though I don't think many would agree with that assessment.
Game was already heating up before joining G-Unit, and his inclusion in the group was in my opinion a poor marketing decision from Dre and Jimmy Iovine. He wasn't part of that group because he "came up with 50".. It was an Aftermath promotion pitch for their new star. He didn't mesh well. Was too fiercely independent, I think, to hitch his career to someone else's over the long term. Also, Game was basically just starting out. Cudi's been at this for a while, and he's not breaking ranks from a group, he's just trash talking two people, one of whom has been nothing but supportive of him even after he stopped being an A-lister.
*shrug*