Man On the Moon

I was reading his interview over at Complex magazine, and It made me cry!! I mean he came to New York with only a demo and 500$, and look at what he has become! A mega effin success, sometimes we have to step out on only faith and our dreams!! Damn I love Kid Cudi & If you dont know him intimately, then you are already behind!

- Jonez Tristan

(Here are some excerpts from the Interview)
Speaking of your grind, when did you decide to move to New York?
Kid Cudi: I was working at this restaurant in Cleveland. There was this white dude in his 40s who was cool as sh!t and would tell me, “You’re funny and people like you. You need to move the fu(k out of Ohio and just do this.” My uncle told me I could come out there and stay with him in the South Bronx until I got on my feet. I’d never met him; this was my father’s older brother, the last of my father’s siblings, so I wanted to make that connection anyway. I moved in 2004 with my little demo and maybe $500.

Your uncle let you stay for free?
Kid Cudi: Yeah. I didn’t have a job for about the first five months there, so I had to make that $500 stretch. [Laughs.] I didn’t have any friends and I didn’t know anybody, so my thing to do then was to go to Times Square and just walk around. I wanted to be a New Yorker so bad.

What would your dad say to you if he was still here?
Kid Cudi: "Keep it up, young man." He was always like, "Pick your head up! It shows confidence!" Now, with my confidence, because of my father and those moments, I remember why I’m here.