Look, I don’t have a lot to say about Kid Cudi‘s previous forays into music because, while I was always impressed, I thought he had something else going on. I thought he was great on How To Make It In America on HBO. I saw him at the Red Bull Moon Tower at SXSW 2009 and that was fresh as I recall. But really, I began going through my own non-committal phase with hip-hop and so I didn’t pay him much attention before he peaked, started fucking with liquid cocaine or some such nonsense and …. well, anyways, I missed out on a lot. I quickly changed my tune when I heard he was going to try to put together a rock project (entitled WZRD) because I feel like there’s been a missing link between rock & roll and hip-hop since the days of Black Jack Johnson and Body Count that nobody has fulfilled.
The promise of WZRD just became clear in this track, “Brake”, from the WZRD album due out on 30 January, 2012. Thanks for dropping this on us Cudi. I see you now. Si, claro. Twitter just exploded with WZRDRY.
