Kid Cudi
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The coolest guy...
when I was a kid is the person who introduced me to rap itself.
It was Will Smith.
I was sitting in the living room and my uncle was watching TV on the couch and I'm sitting on the floor and the TV's here and the song, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air comes on and I'm like, yo, Uncle Mike, he's not even trying to sing.
Why is he not even trying to hold a note here?
What is this?
He's like, this is rap.
Listen, he's making the words rhyme.
And I fell into a trance at that moment.
I was just like, something unlocked in my brain.
And yeah, Will Smith was the coolest, man.
And my dad had his CD.
My dad listened to Will Smith and Tupac.
Erykah Badu and Destiny's Child.
That was it.
It was his four go-to albums.
And yeah, it was Will.
Will was like the one that like showed me how to be cool in a way that wasn't like stereotypical.
It was just like yourself, you know what I mean?
And he was like the coolest dude in the room and he had his own TV show and he could rap.