Kid Cudi Can't Wait To Leave 'Madness' Of Album Making Behind Him

Kid Cudi has said he’s looking forward to the day he no longer has to deal with the “madness” that comes with creating an album.

On Wednesday (November 9), the Cleveland rapper took to Twitter to share a cryptic message about how the making of full-length projects are affecting him.

“I’ll be happy when I stop makin albums so I dont have to deal w this madness anymore,” Kid Cudi tweeted.

What exactly Cudi means by “this madness” is not quite clear, but the Man on the Moon hitmaker recently hinted that he might be retiring from music.

Ill be happy when I stop makin albums so I dont have to deal w this madness anymore. 😔

— The Chosen One (@KiDCuDi) November 9, 2022

While speaking to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe in September, Cudi suggested his recently-released Entergalactic album — the accompaniment to his Netflix series of the same name — would be his last.

“The Kid Cudi stuff, I think I want to put it on the back burner and chill out with that,” he said. “I think, I want to be done with it. I think, closing the chapter on Kid Cudi. The goal for Entergalactic, I was bored of making albums. Just, doing an album, two music videos and that’s it. And I was like, ‘Man, I went into this wanting to do something epic and different.’ And now, that I’ve done that, I just… I’ve made a lot of music, man.”

However, earlier this month, Kid Cudi said he’ll be releasing at least one more album before closing the curtain on his music career.

The Cleveland rapper took to Twitter on Sunday (November 6) to reveal he has one more album left on his current deal with Republic Records. The project is set to include all-new music for his day-one fans, but won’t arrive until 2024 at the earliest.

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“Im doin 1 more album and then im done w my deal and not sure what ima do after that but yea, 1 more,” he wrote. “Wont be next year. Keep u posted. This is for all my fans that have been ridin w me for so long. This will be all new music. The songs ive teased ill prolly put out as singles here and there to hold u over.”

What he’ll focus on after his final album is yet to be determined, but he did hint in a recent appearance on Hot Ones that he might switch up his career completely and become a kindergarten teacher.

“I just don’t know if I wanna just do music, drop albums for too much longer,” he said. “I’m kinda nearing the end on all things Kid Cudi, I think. I’m really curious to see what else I can do. I was thinking about this, and this was like a wacky idea I had years ago, but it would be cool to one day be a kindergarten teacher.”

He added: “Just do that for a couple of years when I’m like 50. Just like, for 10 years I was a kindergarten teacher, you know? And I just infect the youth with that freshness, like get ’em young. And then those kids would just sprinkle the freshness to the world, and I’ll just be like, ‘Yes! Yes!’”