Kid Cudi

Kid Cudi changed what vulnerability sounds like in hip-hop, and I don't say that lightly. Before him, melody and melancholy were seasoning; he made them the main course. That lonely hum running through Day 'n' Nite opened the door for a generation of artists who treat anxiety and isolation as legitimate subject matter rather than weakness. The Grammy and the acting career are nice footnotes, but his real achievement is cultural: a kid from Cleveland convincing rap that sad is not the same as soft. Whenever I hear today's moody, melodic charts, I hear his fingerprints all over them.

Name (English)

Kid Cudi

Name (Japanese)

キッド・カディ

Reading

きっど・かでぃ

Born

January 30, 1984 (age 42)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rat

Origin

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Occupation

rapper / singer / songwriter / record producer / actor

High school

Solon High School

University

University of Toledo

Awards & achievements

• 2012 Grammy Award for Best Melodic Rap Performance

• Official sitehttps://kidcudi.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/kidcudi/
• Xhttps://x.com/KidCudi
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid%20Cudi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q299138

Tags

• Ohio
• rapper
• singer
• songwriter

Last updated

2026-06-11

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.