Kid Cudi teams up with MGMT

In retrospect, an album about broken hearts, insomnia, alienation, night terrors and cold sweats was never going to be the year’s biggest seller – but Kid Cudi’s debut is well worth checking out. The Ohian rapper is a keen wordsmith, and his woozy backing tracks hover giddily in that twilight zone between wake and sleep.

His new single, Pursuit Of Happiness, features shape-shifting psychedelia meisters MGMT. Not that you’d know from the video.

KiD CuDi – Pursuit of Happiness

I used to do this when I was 16…

…but I’ve grown out of it now.

Kid Cudi, Common and Kanye West have done a rap over the top of Lady GaGa’s Poker Face and (snigger) made it about oral sex. Because, you see, “she loves it when I poke her face.” These are grown men, by the way.

Whoever said rap was misogynist? As if.

The sample, by the way, comes from this live acoustic version of Poker Face, which is staggeringly fantastic.

Culture wars, pt 45,334

Here are two versions of Kid Cudi’s Day And Night video, one for the US market (tripped out animation, ominous undertones) and one for the UK (girls, binikis, a ‘donk’). Which do you prefer?

Kid Cudi – Day and Night (US)

Kid Cudi – Day and Night (UK)