KiD CuDi Elaborates on Issues w/ Wale

Complex just dropped off some quotes from CuDi’s already crazy interview that were left on the cutting room floor…

Complex: Where did the whole attitude shift towards Wale stem from?

KiD CuDi: I really don’t understand what’s up with this guy, but he’s just somebody I don’t click with anymore. I started making changes in my life and started to realize positive energy around me, and he never really had a good energy. I never felt like he wanted to see me prosper, it was just one of those niggas that was envious rather than happy for a nigga. I could be reading it wrong, but I’m not making beef and rearranging my life. It’s pretty obvious he feels some type of way about it. I’m not into peer mediation and working things out, I’m just trying to provide for my daughter and my family and making music for my fans. I vibe with certain people and some people I don’t.

… I always kept quiet when he used to say his little things, say his slick shit in the interview. Even the song we were supposed to do. Man, there was never a song that we were supposed to do. He heard a record and wanted it. It wasn’t meant for him to hear it, some bosses were talking. I just don’t understand how niggas get too big for their britches. I don’t get it. I don’t know it. Even at the GQ shoot he was sending little shots, talking about my skinny jeans, and saying Cudi’s size is “Schmedum,” trying to be funny. But I’m a goofball and a comedian, and was just joking, because he’s harmless to me, I don’t see him as a threat in any way, shape, or form, he’s just someone who has a chip on his shoulder. I have no ill will towards dude, I want to see him prosper, I wish that we could make records—however, I’m not going to feed into the bullshit, and I’m not going to be around people who I don’t feel right around. And when you start going talking about me in records, the silence has to be broken. I have to defend myself and talk about what it really is and show my side. You going to put me in your art, now it’s like you’re thinking about me, and I’m not thinking about you. It’s not like last year; I’m in another place. And if I was to think about reconciling, he’s probably talked so much shit about me, it’s too late to renege on anything. The guy obviously feels type of way. I just got done getting off coke, real problems. Competition? Freshman class? That shit is last year, we ain’t on that. I’m not in any class, I dropped out. I got my GED, I’m good. There’s no more categorizing competition, there’s no competition. I laid my pavement on my own road, and I have my crew of fans that follow, I have my own 104-thousand first week of fans that are right there with me. I’m happy with that. That nigga want to be No. 1, that’s why he has that song ["Number Won"]. Like I like being No. 2, No. 2 never gets old, it’s a solidified spot, No. 1 changes all the time. You always remember that one nigga that’s the ill myth in the underground scene, the nigga that you heard about with classic joints but hasn’t had mainstream success but you respect him as an artist. I’ll be that nigga.

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116 Responses to “KiD CuDi Elaborates on Issues w/ Wale”

  1. I can kind of feel where Cudi is coming from now. Shit is still stupid tho.. Its been known that Wale is a bit diva’ish and self-absorbed tho

  2. I guess I won’t be buying Complex this month.

  3. He skewered that dude wale

  4. If number one is susceptible to change so is number two. Nothing is solidified in life dumbass. Not even the reality that you will probably go back to Coke.

  5. *yawn*

  6. Cudi sounds like the coke head diva and a hypocrite. He says one thing like I’m goofy and a comedian. But you took the skinny jeans and smedium comment personal.

    Thinking about you. You have done two interviews about the dude.

    Stop wearing skinny jeans and smediums and dudes will stop trying to punk you.

    You coke head.

  7. I’m speechless and I’m the biggest Wale stan on the Western side of the country.

    The only thing i can say is that wale is quick to assume things.

  8. um.. these are just the outtakes..

  9. Are you a Kid Cudi hater? Well I used to be too. Until I heard the song “The Prayer”. If you are hating Kid Cudi but haven’t heard The Prayer or original songs everybody can relate to such as Wasting My Minutes (cuts that aren’t from his album).. Then you sir/madam need to #smackyourself. I used to dismiss the man too because he isn’t a MC, until I realized this dude makes great MUSIC ! Swear I listen to The Prayer and Cudi Zone atleast 10 times a day lol
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  10. i just got off coke….man shut the fuck up you were yapped outta your mind during this interview the way your focus bounces around. i love how hes like nanana i dont care about wale im doing me…but spends the entire interview basically talking about his issues with wale calling him a skinny jean wearing bitch…..grow the fuck up

  11. blah blah blah. i dont give a shit about wale, but seriously cudi shut up already. this dude act like he making masterpieces when in reality 10 years from now the only song he’ll be remembered for is day n nite.
    he says, “I just don’t understand how peopla get too big for their britches.”
    do you listen to yourself bro???

    Someone call Intervention, this guy is wylin.

  12. he talks about wale not having positive energy, but then says hes not into working things out, like mediations…..weird…

    its also funny he got his feelings hurt bc he wears skinny jeans. i THOUGHT him and wale were cool, so if they were hanging and wale said something about his clothes its not a big deal. thats how men talk, we clown, be goof on each other, shouldnt take it so personal…

    with all that being said, these excerpts are better than the last, makes it seem a little less hostile, and just petty. cudi really was just high and started talking too much about something he prob didnt even mean to talk about.

    i wish they could do music….

    real talk. i feel like they on some bad break up shit. super homo

  13. “my head is so big i have to buy more coke than the normal person. thats just not fair.” – Cudi.

  14. He gets asked the questions.. dumbass. Complex brought up wale, not him.

  15. Wow once Cudi starts talking…he just takes off lol

  16. @johnnie on some real shyt. I’m Dead ass tired of coming to the c-section and hearing ur opinion on anything. Cudi’s the ish no doubt bout that, but that doesn’t give him a reason to go round talking down on folarin like that.

  17. @J’ai C
    I agree, I didn’t say Cudi was right for talkin like that lol he’s turning into a young Kanye..I won’t be suprised if a year from now he snatches the microphone from Justin Bieber at the 2011 VMAs

  18. But he has point… take this past weekend for example. Wale had a show in South Carolina in a small town. He got his wish of paid travel expenses and then wanted $6,000 by the promoters just to tweet about him coming down here. My boy put the 6k in his account. He gets here, wants a private room at the club with bottles of “this” and bottles of “that”. The promoter did that. Then when it comes time to perform, Wale says he wants 13,0000 to go on stage. The promoters already payed $10,500 to his name and WALE still asking for more before he even stepped on stage. Long Story, short…

    Wale Never Performed.

    I am a huge wale fan but this kind of shows everyone what fame can do to a brotha. MAKE GOOD MUSIC and don’t let a little bit of fame ruin your values.

  19. @johnnie Lol he might do that man that coke fugging with dude foreal. No ill feelings just opinions bro

  20. clownin on cudis shmediums and homo ass skinny jeans! love it. im ohio all day but im like wale i know a herb when i see one.

  21. Cudi takes himself too seriously, me thinks. This will only fuel the fire.

  22. No doubt man

  23. Lol at people actually caring about this.

    Ha. Ha. Ha.

  24. Ha……….an interviewer asks questions, and Cudi gives answers, and the internets starts crying about it. Hilarious.

  25. i dont care for cudi but i like what he said at the end

  26. I’m scaling the motherucking building keep those trees bundle up

  27. damn bloggers for real ,shake you see why artist hate on leak websites idk 2dopeboyz.com is good yet type of shit like this makes the website feel un- legit

  28. you do realize he can say whatever he wants right, compelex didnt slip him a talkshit serum.. its called restraint. go back and remember plenty of ‘beefs’ where one party simply didnt acknowledge the other (unless it was on a track).. look at jay. im sure hes been asked about budden and camron and whoever plenty of times and he dont just start talkin crazy. he throws as subliminal in a track or two and still walks about with the W. cudi just sounds mad.

  29. he should have just dismissed the question. this makes him look weak for discussing it for soo long. just fuck it. do you, make your money.

  30. it was good stuff. complex should have added this to the article instead of the simple “beef” shit that cudi said that they kept in the interview. i like what he said too @YABOYMAL. besides in my frank opinion, wale might be more hip hop, but cudi makes better music. i own both of their records and in my car man on the moon gets played a hell of a lot more than that AD shit that wale made with some party tracks.

  31. I ACTUALLY TRIED TO BE A WALE FAN.

    I DL’d his mixtapes and listened to his album and I just don’t see why people like him.

    The only song I liked out of his entire repertoire was that song with J. Cole…and J. Cole had the only good verse in the song!

    Wale has a whiny voice and mediocre rhymes.

    Kid Cudi might not be a lyrical genius but the dude can craft a great song with replay value.

  32. @Fredy: How does this discredit the site?

  33. cudi is just being honest. Dude even said he wants to work with Wale again but oh well. They both make good music to me and at the end of the day, none of these motherfuckers paying me so I just want to see the good music coming from both sides.

  34. Shout out Kid CuDi Luv u bra… ANYBODY WANT IT IN THAT 2K11 GET @ ME GIVING OUT FREE ASS WHOOPINGS AS WE SPEAK!!!!!!

  35. obviously CuDi doesn’t have a personality. Do your thing but don’t bitch about others. Be glad you were mentioned in someone else’s song. It shows that you mean something in the world.

  36. That was almost like a bed time story because I damn near fell asleep.

  37. i knew jay-z dissed the kid cudi and wale thing
    kidcudi mentions “britches”

  38. At the end it seems like Cudi confused himself with Blu.

  39. ^whats britches? i heard that in jays verse too wasnt sure what it meant

  40. Like for real tho guys, they’re both human beings so treat them as such!! Geez!!

  41. I’m sick of rappers that don’t beef anymore on wax. Bunch of pussies runnin around calling each other names that would otherwise get their ass kicked. Now they all on twitter and interviews/video blogs talkin shit but nobody wanna get in the booth and really test them. These new rap niggas are just sitting ducks waiting to get bombed on by somebody who’s not gonna keep it PC for industry politics. Thats why I appreciate Kid Cudi for saying what he’s saying, though I’m a fan of Wale. Stop being “rappers” and start being MCs!

  42. is the song cudi talks about that wale wanted “a star is born” ? because i remember around the time wale’s debut came out him talking about wanting that song so bad

  43. i can tell this nigga Cudi is a herb… nigga can’t take jokes and shit…He’s just a stuck up pretentious muh fukka… Take the stick out your ass and just chill… This nigga talking about 104,000 in sales and shit? For what? I can see why this he talks about be picked on in school and “being an outcast”.. This dude turned into a uber Hipster lol.. ha damn and to think i really like his music at one point

  44. ^^ what he said

  45. ^^
    agreed. fuck a hipster

    “You always remember that one nigga that’s the ill myth in the underground scene, the nigga that you heard about with classic joints but hasn’t had mainstream success but you respect him as an artist. I’ll be that nigga.”

    NO CUDI. YOU ARE THE DEFINITION OF MAINSTREAM. MY 10 YEAR OLD BROTHER AND ALL HIS FRIENDS ARE YOUR BIGGEST FANS. WALE WILL ALWAYS BE HARDER THAN YOU, STOP CRYING

  46. ^So you don’t like his music anymore because of his character? Wow..why do you guys care bout these nigga’s personalities so much anyway, long as they make quality music nothing else matters to me.

  47. lol at “real problems”

  48. @YURP

  49. ti kid cudi, you´re da one hit wonder nigga, nothing else.

  50. ^^^ except he’s had like 3 hits already you big silly sill!!

  51. SMH at Cudi believing he be underground, and unknown by the masses. Everybody knows about him, everyone is playing Erase Me where I live. Wale is much more that Number 2 dude.

    But w/e, I love both Wale and Cudi, and whatever beefs they have (or Cudi just being butthurt), I don’t really care if they keep making dope music. But if they could do something together sometime, that would be even doper.

  52. Both them niggas are whack LOL

  53. @slaughterboss

    if cudi a 1 hit wonder thats still more than wale who is a ZERO hit wonder!!!!!!

  54. Wow. Cudi losing my respect on this one. How you still crying about something a rapper said that wasn’t even a diss. There is no beef. Plus lyrically Wale would end Cudi. So why Cudi egging that man. And why the hell that nigga crying over jeans for. Niggas need to grow up and show some maturity for Wale flambé his ass.

  55. “Dont Cry Hater, I Forgive,Now Go and Get My Album & Get Off My Dick” – CuDi

  56. lmao this is a work.. Cudi and Wale planned this together to make more noise in the industry

  57. worst “beef” ever. y did i even comment #smh

  58. Probably because his music has become worse and at the same time his head has become bigger.. I still like some of his tracks but i don’t really consider myself as a fan of dude anymore… He’s not even as nice as i once thought. All his is a ill beat and a nice hook nowadays… I was bumping “Prayer” and all his mixtape shit back in 08 he hasn’t made anything better.. An artist like Curren$y is dude that i respect and has a personality i can relate to unlike this guy Cudi.. He should have just stayed retired back in 08-09 when he was crying about the game before his album even dropped.. Who the fuck does that shit?

  59. Uh huh, where’s the response to Sean Price? LOL kitty cooty is a joke, Wale must be seen as a threat if he blabs on and on about him, Wale rarely spoke of the dude. End of discussion

  60. who is wale?

  61. @Emmay It’s not a question if Wale could beat him in a diss song, it is about record sales and your team. I must say, though Cudi doesn’t get as much spins on Hip Hop stations the Top 100 be eating him up. Wale on the other hand has been played on Boston radio stations twice that I can remember for Nike Boots though when they were doing a mix it would only be the Wayne verse and Chillin for Lady Gaga more. Just saying Wale is a great lyricist not a Top 100 maker like Cudi and his camp. Sure Wale makes a diss track and Cudi will make another successful song. Hate to say it Wale might end up the new age Jadakiss, lyrically top notch, but record sales ehhhhh……

  62. Pretty standard cokehead rant. I’d like to see the list of underground legends that he thinks he is comparable to.

  63. somebody tell me who the fuck is wlae before i google this nigga!!

  64. Wack fuck Wale… He aint all that and I peeped how he stay switching styles.. He’s trying to find an identity

  65. I personally dont wanna hear nun ya fools without a beat behind ya…shut the hell up and make music..all of ya’s…

  66. That nigga went in!!!! On whale bitch ass hahhaa

  67. Either way this is too damn bad… I bought both of their first albums last year and had always thought they would be great doing a single together. Oh well guess I will just have to listen to Cudi’s mixtape tracks featuring Wale.

  68. @YURP I feel you..I still think his latest music is dope tho

  69. Yea I mean at least he is keeping busy with GOOD and kanye on a regular basis. I could be wrong but I havent heard about another album from Wale yet.

  70. he just put out the mixtape of the year. pay attention

  71. Lol at people actually caring about this.

    Ha. Ha. Ha.

    AnonymousSynonymous said this on October 5th, 2010 at 2:10 pm

    ^^^lol at u caring enough to comment

  72. FIASCO FRIDAY! Oct.15

    The march, called Fiasco Friday, will be held on Oct. 15 outside of Atlantic’s various offices around the nation. Lupe will reportedly be in attendance at the march in New York City.

    “Fans and supporters will be wearing Fiasco attire, carrying picket signs, chanting, and spreading the message with any who will listen,” said Winchester.

  73. You always remember that one nigga that’s the ill myth in the underground scene, the nigga that you heard about with classic joints but hasn’t had mainstream success but you respect him as an artist. I’ll be that nigga.

    ^^ the cocaine must be getting to his head. He done went mainstream.
    Talib is an underground legend, slug is an underground legend, not cudi

  74. Catchin feelings much Cudi? Sounding real sensitive dude, that white fucking wit yo emotions

  75. he didnt catch feelings about the tight jeans and schmedium comments. he was just noticing that wale was trying to get under his skin with those comments. you can laugh something off but still be pissed that someone u were cool with is obviously purposely fuckin with you. bitterness has a bad stank and it was coming out of wale’s pores.

  76. Andrew Bynum = LMAO

  77. Im definitely a fan of both Wale more than Cudi but Cudi’s right why do you need to be bringing up other artists in your lyrics especially when you are labelmate cousins (or whatever you want to call it). Hope Wale doesn’t do some stupid shit and release a dis track.

  78. Cudi gave wale knowledge

  79. beef is dumb but i like what he said at the end there:

    “Like I like being No. 2, No. 2 never gets old, it’s a solidified spot, No. 1 changes all the time. You always remember that one nigga that’s the ill myth in the underground scene, the nigga that you heard about with classic joints but hasn’t had mainstream success but you respect him as an artist. I’ll be that nigga.”

  80. Jonnie,
    you sicken me nigga. every time i come to a Cudi post you on here dropping a million comments and they all got one thing in common: you ridin Cudi’s dick like a full blown prostitute. Always defending this clown ass nigga to the death, you damn near playing goalie for this nigga’s ball sac you defend him so much. Its clear to see this dude is an AVERAGE artist. He has never drop any classic material (and yes i listened to his shit before the album). The Prayer was dope but reality is he cant rap worth shit and he is inconsistence as fuck. His new music blows. And he is gone off the coke, reading way to deep into Wale’s prior comments. Cudi needs to man up and stop bitchin about little shit and stop tryin to be Kanye w/ some off these bold mag comments….That is all.

  81. go back to folding shirts at bape cudi you crybaby. you suck at rap

  82. the only reason why he keeps talking about wale is because he was asked a question, you dumb fuck pieces of shit. please everybody stop being ignorant

  83. people get addicted to drugs, doesnt mean that there a bad fuckin person. who the hell cares if he did drugs, cudi makes great music and wale doesnt. end of story. and you fools say he can’t rap???? WHAT! look a the westwood freestyle on youtube you stupid niggas, then youll see what rap is

  84. 1st of all. cudi was good until he started to go mainstream, he lost his originality and lost his way as soon as he started to get big. Soon his fanbase will consist of 11-17 year old middle class suburban kids, and that is why i no longer respect cudi. Wale’s mixtape were better than cudi’s album and long since portrayed a more matured rapper with a distinct style, but his style is too distinct to go mainstream.

  85. what kinda fucking name is Wale haha! Cudi wins, GOOD MUSIC you hoe ass niggas!

  86. TELL ‘EM WHY YOU MADD

  87. i should just not read these dudes interviews cuz they make me not like them. and i like their music. but these guys act like bitches

  88. He should have asked for artistic control of the cover, because that photo says it all. Close ya moth, un flare ya nostrils, stop jumping up and down, and get that white stuff out ya left hand. Coke, Coke, Coke, Coke, Coke.

  89. WALE is GARBAGE. I think thats what all you kids have been missing the whole time

  90. wait wait wait…Did I just read this guy CuDi saying he took offense to this dudes skinny jeans??? Not only is that some elementary school i’m not your friend anymore cause you said this bullshit…it’s also foolish cause didn’t Death of Autotune have a shot at all those guys SINGING and wearing SKINNY JEANS????

  91. Cudis that dude who gets clowned on all the time, and laughs on the outside, but curses and crys on the inside. THEN HE BLOWS UP IN A BITCH FIT later…

    FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGOOOOOOT.

    Dude is bitchmade, any real niga would NOT fuck wit this feminine bitch.

  92. This interview alone has generated a bigger fan base for him. So the haters still commenting at this point are contributing and have lost.

  93. I’d like to hear his thoughts on Sean Price’s comments about him.. lol

  94. I cosign bennyblanco

  95. cudi is right wale acts bigger than what he really is

  96. there’s no competition mixtape Wale is dope to me…I don’t even look @ Kid Cudi as a rapper…he’s something else that I don’t like..if U wanna call it hip hop then it’s wack

  97. and the crazy thing about this is that it was just a punchline…it wasn’t even a diss…

  98. i enjoy both artist and it’s ashame that they’re beefing ’cause in all honesty they flow well together on wax. remember, “look up at the stars”?
    neither one of these dude should be talking about their debut album when both albums were mediocre; compared to their mixtapes.
    some people on here needs to be less bias, and rate artist by their music rather than their personality ’cause otherwise youse all sound like groupies.

  99. haha, cudi should stop being a bitch and gain 30 pounds. fool’s waist is as big as my arm.

  100. If ever there was a rant that sounds inspired by a noseful of cocaine, it’s that.

  101. Personally both of them aren’t really as hot as people make them out to be listen to Wale he raps weird and Kudi music makes me depressed rather listen to some OneBeLo

  102. kid cudi sucks. he shouldnt be doing any interviews. his rhymes are horrible. and he called wale a simple rapper. haha. this skinny jean wearing hipster needs to fall back.

  103. *Face..haha..
    This is all pure comedy..
    especially the comments about these two people’s comments…
    most of these comments are by men..about two men..
    So we have men, studying mens comments about their relationship or how they feel about each other…
    (?? How does that sound?????..)
    How about we $tudy something more profitable….productive…my first and last time ever reading the C BOX…a pure waste of my time… “My fellow americans, stop wasting your time arguing about such stupidity, and open a book..learn a language, a new skill, a new trade, so that we can be competitive internationally….Kid Cudi, Wale, and Obama can’t change America..”

    Back to your regularly scheduled stupidity..
    “My fellow Americans..”lol..Muhfucka’s arguing about Wale and Kudi when unemployment is 10%…sh**ted, MF’s must be crazy

  104. if you are a fan of cudi, drake, or wale, the world already knew wale was bitter towards both of those dudes success and was being a baby, i like wale, but he is a diva, thinks he is too cool at his shows, it sucks that he is a diva…

  105. sounds fair to me

  106. blackswimmingbird… that was abeautiful

  107. @ blckswimmingbird

    That was truly inspiring G

  108. NIGGAS DEAL WITH EMOTIONS LIKE BITCHES

  109. ^

  110. btw the cover is gay

  111. I’D BE BE COMPLAINING AND BITCHING IF ALL THEY HAD WAS SKINNY JEANS AND SMEDIUM SHRTS DURING A PHOTOSHOOT. CUDI DON’T GET MAD BECAUSE WALE WASN’T FEELING THE GAYWEAR.

  112. Cudi has fans. Wale has fans. Cudi makes good music. Wale makes good music. Are they both acting like some little bitches? Yes. This is the most ridiculous “beef” I have ever heard. It seems to me that they are both scared about one being better than the other. That aint what they need to be worried about. They need to shut the fuck up and make music.

  113. “You always remember that one nigga that’s the ill myth in the underground scene, the nigga that you heard about with classic joints but hasn’t had mainstream success but you respect him as an artist. I’ll be that nigga.”

    Sir, I believe MF DOOM would like to have a word with you :/

  114. y’all talk shit about kid cudi
    but hes the only one in the game making
    good song and being him self tell what rappers is
    better and him-self??

  115. Bottom line isss….

    Haters STFU and get out if you dont care. Its simple. Your complaining bout cudi, like he cares about you.Just Saying.

    Cudi>Wale
    My dog>Wale
    Any one that commented on this> Wale.
    (Get my drift?.) lol

  116. I’m fans of both. Morely cudi. I can relate to him more. His songs haven’t lost anything. The whole g.o.o.d music squad inovating. Wale ….. eh. Typical rapper to me. Cudi on his own style. I own all cudis mixtapes. Wale…. Nah. His work ain’t as good. Style, lyrics, and relationship with fans foes to cudi. Also beats. Strange and new. Can’t wait on the sequel. But i understand whys cudi went on. It was to say he didn’t have no reason not to be cool with dude. He just being straight up. No bitchness in that.

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