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Kid Cudi is a Brooklyn-based rapper from Cleveland whose real name is Scott Ramone Seguro Mescudi. He was born Jan. 30 , 1984 to a Mexican father and an African-American mother. Cudi attended Shaker Heights, Ohio, for two years before dropping out. Cudi earned his GED and then later attended University of Toledo, where he studied film. Cudi attended the university until the end of his freshman year where he dropped out. After dropping out, he moved to Brooklyn to pursue his career in music.

After moving to Brooklyn, Cudi worked effortlessly and released his first mixtape titled, A Kid Named Cudi. Not long after the release of his mixtape, he eventually became affiliated with GOOD Music record label. Now Cudi isn't just a rapper, he takes on many occupations such as songwriter, singer, and actor. He has broadened his musical genre to alternative hip hop, trip hop, and alternative rock. Kid Cudi has worked alongside numerous artists such as Common, Lady Gaga and Jay Z. He's even helped Kanye West with his songwriting for the song, Heartless. When Cudi finally released his debut solo album, Man on the Moon: The End of Day, it sold over 100,000 copies in the first week. Cudi received various awards and nominations, such as MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist, BET Award for Best New Artist, and BET Hip Hop Award for Track of the Year.

Kid Cudi wrote every song on both his mixtape album, as well as his studio album; producing five of the songs. Entertainment Weekly awarded Cudi's album an A-rating saying, "Cudi turns out to be the rarest of rap phenomena: a hyped upstart who really does represent a promising new phase in the genre's evolution." Cudi is on his way to becoming one of the world's most well renowned songwriters. The Boston Globe commended the uniqueness of his album, stating, "It's spacey, adventurous, and ridiculously intriguing if only because it's so different." Complimenting Kid Cudi, saying he had an eclectic taste in beats and an insatiable ear for melody.