Kid Cudi

I had met Scott “ Kid Cudi” Mescudi a couple of years prior to these photos. He went to high school with my college roommate and came to visit us one weekend. He played his soon to be smash hit “Day ‘N’ Night” off of Myspace and told us that it was the song that was going to change everything. He wasn’t lying.

Funny side story, Scott couldn’t get into one of the bars when he was visiting us because he was wearing these old grey/blue Timberland boots, so we went back to our dorm room and he swapped them out for my roommates Nike Air-Force Ones. Well, Cudi ended up leaving his Timberland boots behind and taking the Nikes, while I ended up cleaning high school boiler rooms in them for an entire summer. Haha!

Fast Forward, I ended up introducing Chip Tha Ripper, Cleveland native hip-hop star to Cudi a few years later and the two would go on to create hit songs like “Just What I Am” and “Hyyerr” featuring Kanye West. They still continue to collaborate to this day.

*These pictures were taken backstage at a Fools Gold show in Chicago during the release of Cudi’s debut mixtape “A Kid Named Cudi.” It was a night to remember.