Kid Cudi has, at times, found his creative impulses at odds with his fans' expectations. As he grew increasingly experimental over the past six years, he found himself alienating certain factions of his audience, a disconcerting feeling for any artist. But on his newest cut, "Love," Cudi reminds the rap world why he became one of the most buzzed-about artists in the genre at the turn of the last decade. Flipping a sample from longtime collaborators/muses Ratatat, the Cleveland singer-songwriter recalls his 2009 debut, Man On The Moon: The End Of The Day. He leans heavily on the notion that if you hold out, things will be okay, you will be loved, so on, so forth. It's Cudi.  The "Day N Nite" artist first rose to prominence in 2008; his work on Kanye West's 808s & Heartbreak afforded his mixtape A Kid Named Cudi considerable national attention.

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