Kid Cudi has a fun idea to bring some of his fans into the rollout process for his new album.
Taking to X on Monday (March 31), the Cleveland rapper said he’s going to create some exclusive listening experiences in select cities.
“Hey fam. I see the excitement. I have an idea. I wanna get 10 fans in a room to hear my first 2 singles and then afterward, we interview u and u tell us what u heard. Plannin on it this month,” he wrote. “Ill be listening w u so u meet me and we chill and vibe out.”
The cities he plans to activate this in are New York, Los Angeles and his hometown of Cleveland.
Hey fam. I see the excitement. I have an idea. I wanna get 10 fans in a room to hear my first 2 singles and then afterward, we interview u and u tell us what u heard. Plannin on it this month.
— The Chosen One (@KiDCuDi) March 31, 2025
Ill be listening w u so u meet me and we chill and vibe out
— The Chosen One (@KiDCuDi) March 31, 2025
LA, NY, CLE
— The Chosen One (@KiDCuDi) March 31, 2025
In an interview with Hube earlier this month, Kid Cudi shared some information about the upcoming album. It came up after a question about what “makes a collaborative project successful.”
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“This new direction that I’m taking with my album has been exciting for me because I put myself in an uncomfortable situation to achieve it,” he said. “When I first started making this album, I didn’t know if I would even be able to sing at the level I needed to in order for it to be executed in the right way. Working on these songs, collaborating with the writers and producers, and building songs from the ground up—it did something for me as an artist.
“I haven’t created like this in a long time. It’s been years. With my last few projects, I was getting beats from different people and building an album that way, but there is something about being in a room and creating something from scratch—from a simple hum—it’s so fulfilling.
“I proved to myself that I was able to accomplish it when I finished it. I had to take a step back to realise, ‘Wow, that was so outside of my comfort zone.’”
Then he began talking about how his relationship with his fiancée, designer Lola Abecassis Sartore, influenced the project.
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“It felt like one of the easiest albums I’ve ever done because I’m in this place in my life where I’m happier than I’ve ever been, and the emotions were real,” he explained. “I had a lot of things to say, a lot of things in my heart. The album is damn-near dedicated to my fiancée, every song is like a love song with me kind of confessing my love, so it was very, very fulfilling. I feel like a lot of people are going to hear this record and really be blown away by just how different it feels, but also how it still feels like Cudi.”
Cudi quietly revealed his engagement to Sartore last April.
