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With his collaboration on “All Summer” for Converse along with news of his impending album release Man On The Moon II: The Legend Of Mr. Rager, Kid Cudi has entered himself back into the music world’s consciousness. The news this time around is mostly positive, as opposed to that concerning a June arrest for possession and felony criminal mischief. With the overwhelming popularity of this artist escaping nearly unscathed, this led me to thinking: What is the perception difference for musicians and drug problems compared to, say, actors?
We can just get it out of the way in stating drugs are generally bad, right? I won’t get into the many issues surrounding drugs so I’ll just say drugs of all sorts have ruined many lives. Yet, there is a belief that musicians often produce better music when under the influence. To my knowledge, this isn’t said about many other professions other than perhaps other artists who produce tangible works of art. What is it about music or other art forms that lend themselves to psycho-tropic vulnerability in a ‘good’ way? Based on the multiple instances in this article, it seems drugs have certainly had a negative impact on the behavior of Cudi on multiple occasions. Yet he hasn’t taken an image hit in a manner such as a Lindsay Lohan, who has gotten herself involved in many altercations and has paid the publicity price. Do we let musicians off the hook a bit more in the perception game? Why is this? Is it because as music lovers form a more personal attachment to an artist or a musician’s work because of its own-able nature, more than one might with an actor whose work is more detached and just observed?
I don’t have any of these answers, but I found the lack of news and resulting hoopla following this arrest to be interesting. I was disappointed to learn of the arrest because I felt a personal connection to Cudi following his debut album. To hear of these problems after the displays of the personal anguish he conveyed in his lyrics on that album, in relation to crime and violence and drugs, made this worse perception wise for me. Why did that not transfer to the mainstream media? Is it because of my personal connection to music as an art form is stronger than my desire to be a peeping-tom and read gossip mag’s the likes of which Lohan graces covers frequently? I guess I don’t give a shit about what any celebrity does with their lives, but I would rather get a new Cudi album than watch a Lohan (or any other drug addled actor for that matter) movie I suppose.
KiD CuDi – Mr. Rager (mp3)
KiD CuDi – Wylin Cause Im Young (ft. Kanye West) (mp3)
KiD CuDi – Mojo So Dope (mp3)
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