Kid Cudi goes semi nude for Esquire magazine as he slams Kanye West

Kid Cudi goes off on Kanye West:

“I’m not one of your kids. I’m not Kim. It don’t matter if I’m friends with Pete or not friends with Pete. If you can’t be a grown man and deal with the fact that you lost your woman? That’s not my f*cking problem.”

On Ye’s beef with him going viral: “Do you know how it feels to wake up one day, look at your social media, and you’re trending because somebody’s talking some shit about you? That shit pissed me off…You fucking with my mental health now, bro.” 

On his therapist, Nika: “I’m very much a mama’s boy, and feminine energy is nurturing and comforting for me…I need to know the person receiving this on the other end has a heart, someone who’s open…And somebody that’s going to challenge me.” 

Introducing Esquire’s September issue, starring KiD CuDi. 

Not long ago, Kid Cudi was in rehab and at a mental health low-point. Now he’s got new music, a new tour, and a new show, ‘Entergalactic.’ What a difference a couple years makes.

On Virgil Abloh’s passing: “Over the months, I found peace with it because I got a chance to tell Virgil how I felt about him, and he knew. It gets hard sometimes. I think about him a lot. I get emotional. But what pushes me through that is knowing.”

He’s healed, and emerged even stronger: “I actually can say, at 38, that I love myself. And I couldn’t have said that 6 years ago. I can say that with confidence now and truly believe it, and it shows.”

In 2016, Kid Cudi checked himself into rehab for “depression and suicidal urges.” But what many people don’t know is that 2 weeks in, Cudi had a stroke and was hospitalized. For months, his speech and movement were slow. “Everything was fucked,” he says.