oh I know oh no no no [Music] hey what's going on everybody for first week Feast I'm Sean Evans and you're watching hot ones it's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings and today we're joined by Kid Cudi he's a Grammy award-winning artist multi-hyphen
Entertainer and true to form he just dropped a brand new album accompanied by an animated TV special of the same name it's called Intergalactic check out the album wherever you get your music and watch the special which is now currently streaming on Netflix Kid Cudi welcome to
the show thanks for having me man I feel like this is one of those shoots been that's been literally years in the making yeah what's going through your head as you finally prepare to take on the hot ones gauntlet I'm confident that I would make it to
the end you know but I have no idea what I want to experience on this journey I'm really uh really kind of nervous I'm not gonna lie [Music] [Music] yeah let's do it no I can eat more if I want right go ahead and I'll follow you right along with oh good oh my God
nice so dating back to the original man on the moon your albums have always had a cinematic Sonic quality to them so I can only imagine how cathartic it must have been for you to take Intergalactic and then actually storyboard it out for an animated adaptation and then costume
design it's not a discipline that you'd often associate with animation but it really is at the heart of intergalactic's aesthetic what role did Virgil ablo play in shaping the fashion of this world well um it was really like I put it all on him you know I really
went into this knowing that like I wanted the characters to be fresh I didn't want it to be like you know a typical animated show where you see one character wearing the same thing every episode you know Virgil came through and just put his magic sauce on it and just
made you know wardrobe for each character in it that matched their personality I was so like happy because I was like oh my God like this is the best idea I could ever came up with you know we could have been could have been in this and making some
really shitty clothing you know but I have like the illest freshest [ __ ] alive doing this [ __ ] for me and it's in and it was just it was just the illest man and I love him to death of that you know [Music] yeah these first two I need them to go
so in the a man named Scott documentary playing Pats as a first working with you it was so different and weird that I'd feel uncomfortable but I love it was there a watershed moment maybe it was a song maybe it was a show where it went from this sort of experimental Bohemian
exercise to all of a sudden record labels and a bidding war for you I think I think it was the mixtape because the mixtape was playful and fun and it was just all about like showing people I could rap and you know the album was like no this is like the Oscar nominated
version of an album you know I live with DOT for almost three years and during this time we were making music and made day and night and a number of other records and from there and then we we added a meal and then it was just like when I had those three guys I was I was
golden and I liked even hearing from a meal when he was talking about how he'd play you beats that he prepared but you wouldn't really react to those things it wasn't until he would just be like playing Ascent or like pulling out old records yeah I mean that's because you
know that's the that's the [ __ ] that was like the type of Records he would play you know were always like interesting and like weird you know and that was you know my [ __ ] like I just wanted something that didn't sound like the typical [ __ ] that you would hear in
hip-hop you know like with ghosts like you hear ghosts you hear that sample I was like what the [ __ ] you know like and ghost is still to this day like one of my top three favorite songs you're crushing it are you ready to move on to Wing number three this is Pico
Rico here and you're doing great um these first three I'm good but I see when I get down to here it's probably gonna get real so even as your music career exploded you've still remained a prolific actor and earlier this year it was announced
that you'd be making your directorial debut in an upcoming Netflix project called Teddy what's the best audition tip or note that you've ever gotten from Timothy chalman I think I asked him about crying on camera once you know I've given him like audition
tapes that I've done before and I'm just like hell man shoot me straight you know he's always like oh it's good it's good he's like I don't know he could be lying to me uh but he's always he's always very supportive in in um I know Timmy is a fan of me for music but I you know I
think he's a fan of me as an actor as well my lips are tingling well a whole lot more is about to happen as we work our way down but first things first the hot ones barbacoa foreign [Music] I'm a two bite kind of guy I respect it I know you do the same
thing I do so I'm trying to test you I know you're testing me pushing me yeah who knows maybe you'll be the only one standing by the end of this I mean maybe I'm ready but you do this you do this all the time you do this on a rig I know right but at some
point I'm gonna hit that wall right I mean at some point you're gonna be like I'm tired of fire poopies and you're just gonna say like that's what I'm gonna ask you after this man sure you can ask me during whatever you know this can be this can go both ways because
your brows are probably like what the [ __ ] you know what's fascinating is your body adjusts this long I'll go to Equinox after this you know what I mean like oh no way I'm unstoppable I'm unstoppable I mean who knows like I don't want to get
overconfident it's like an athlete you know like I think you probably have a physical prime and then you know maybe the wings will start to slow me down but right now I'm good right now God age like Brady over here yeah I was like Sean has a stomach of Steel Man straight
up [Music] okay here we go it's crunchy foreign do I always have to take two bites you know you make the rules over here you're making the rules over here I'm just following along with you I'm just hungry so I came in here starving um I don't know if that was a good idea
I could cut you every crane segment on our show called explain that gram we're gonna do a deep dive in our guest Instagram interesting pictures that need more context and for you we have a theme it's a Kid Cudi style retrospective so what we've done is we've pulled some of
our favorite Kid Cudi fit picks and we're just curious how you react how you reflect looking back on those things now oh my God all right laptop please Bill there we go bring it back a laptop very rare thank you very much do you have a favorite memory from
walking at the Palais Royal Gardens for Virgil ablo's first Louis Vuitton collection yes I do it just didn't feel real you know the whole thing was just like you know like a dream you know um and I was soaking it up so much that like uh I was walking really slow on the
on the on the runway so like you can't see in this picture like there's like all those people stacked up behind me that's a trapping Champion that's why this person's got this good ass photo because it was like no it was like 20 feet between me and the other dude in
front of me like it's like right there but uh I was just uh I was really high and I was just soaking it up man I was like this is a beautiful moment so yeah what's the biggest difference between working at a vape store and working at Abercrombie and Fitch and then how did
each shape your personal style working at the Abercrombie and fish store the clothes sucked and it wasn't like it wasn't like I was like proud to be wearing Abercrombie and Fitch like their jeans were all right I guess they're just right I guess but
when I worked at the base sword that was the first time I was like oh man like this is like actually some fresh [ __ ] but like you know I was so poor when I got that job so I didn't own any bait prior to working there so uh I literally had the same brown bathing Aid t-shirt and these
jeans and these yellow uh Roasters and I had that for like two months that outfit I used to ask my co-workers if I could borrow some of their clothes and they would hold me down and let me borrow a hoodie or two and working at that store was was like
was like the greatest to me and at that time like it was bigger than getting a record deal yeah you know like and I really wanted the record just that time you know but it was like oh [ __ ] I got the baby store I'm good you know like it just it just it was such a major
thing because of what it meant to the culture and what it was Nigo came to the store with the Teriyaki boys one time and I met them fast forward all the years later when we did the the complex magazine cover so it was like this full circle moment you know just being around
the God you know it was so cool man so cool Bill thank you very much I gotta get one of those hot ones t-shirts too we got you put it put it in his to-go bag with the sauces all right and I wanted to go wings too there you go do we have extras the first four we
gotta hit that Rider we gotta hit that Rider Kid Cudi are you ready to move on here to the back half already you're doing great I'm gonna yeah I'm gonna waiting for this [ __ ] to get real now it's not it hasn't gotten real yet it's gonna like you know a little kick it but
it's not crazy this is the sea turmeric bomb see if this does it for you I mean this [ __ ] is like green this [ __ ] looks wrong [Music] oh my God I'm not gonna take two bites yes it's um I don't know I'm holding down hip-hop icons like Jay-Z Nas Eminem and
Snoop are often credited as being the first generation of rap Superstars to really show that they can age along with the genre I've heard you talk about how you don't want to be performing on stage late into your 40s but I'm curious are there people that you see as paradigms
for what it looks like to age as an artist to you yeah like um Jay-Z for sure you know um but I I feel like I don't have what they have and explain I don't I just don't I just don't know if I want to if I want to do uh if I want to just do music drop
albums for too much longer you know I'm kind of nearing the end on on all things Kid Cudi I think it sounds like kind of breaking news yeah yeah yeah I'm really curious to see what else I can do I was thinking about this and this is like a a wacky idea I had years ago
but like it would be cool to like one day like be a kindergarten teacher you know just do that for like a couple years like when I'm like 50 you know just like for like 10 years I was a kindergarten teacher you know and I just like infect the youth with that
freshness like you can get them young and then just those kids will just sprinkle the freshness to the world and I'll just be like yes [Laughter] [Music] Cosmic Disco sounds like my playback foreign [Music] a second bite no [Music] it's that time [Music] just happens like this I know
I'm following your lead to the strawberry oh my God oh my God no I'm on the topic of cosmic disco what do you mean when you describe the style of your music is space punk rock what was that repeat the question sweet Jesus space punk rock I've heard you describe
your style of music as space punk rock yeah it's baseball bro [Laughter] space punk rock yes that's that damn [ __ ] oh man uh super synthy but Reckless and dangerous and edgy if aliens visited Earth and all you were armed with was a Kid Cudi playlist to
greet the encounter which Kid Cudi song would you have as a way to you know make sure Humanity stays in the aliens good graces embrace the Martian embrace the Martian notice how from the second you said that you were waiting for it it came you know it's like you
you asked for it Scott you asked for it [Music] oh my God oh my God oh my God and that's immediately in outer space men on the moon over here [Music] there's some [ __ ] yo man yeah this one is [ __ ] up yeah 100 these are these last two like this kind of like that
so it's gonna be telling you the truth oh my God nothing is like this no okay okay it's like this sauce oh my God [ __ ] foreign so when we had Seth Rogen on the show he said that thick patties are for [ __ ] as a cheeseburger connoisseur
yourself do you agree or disagree on that big patties big patties for [ __ ] um huh oh my God see the water soothes better so science would tell you that the water makes things worse yeah but I find that there's something and maybe it's psychological about the ice cold water
it's kind of soothing to me yeah I think science is wrong on this one this makes it like I feel like I can get through I feel like I could get through with the water the milkshake the milkshake wasn't doing [ __ ] milkshake was just like delicious but
like still like on fire my [ __ ] nose is running oh my God sweet Jesus where do you fall on ketchup on a burger yay or nay on that yeah I mean I'm the type of person that puts a ridiculous amount of ketchup on a burger so much so like when you put the top bun on it just runs off the
sides you know check my favorite thing to do oh my God pucker butt it's a show I have to apologize for you know okay here we go so nothing fun about this one but I think after the last one I know I know do this is a nightmare I thought it was gonna be
fun talking to you about [ __ ] man I asked saiya if you get the the fire shits after this he said no so that's good right and I'm telling you no two we're good we're good we're good as bad as it is right now that's the worst it's gonna be oh my God so I once heard you
Muse about wanting to go on a bar mitzvah tour because you find them to be so fun exactly and lucrative what is the sickest Bar Mitzvah that you've ever performed at oh my God the very first one the very first apartment and and they they paid me 30 grand to do three songs
I come out and I do a song and the kids are all excited I was there and I was having a moment and they were like taking pictures and I was like wow I feel like it's like early on in my career so I was just like oh my God these kids make me feel more famous than
I ever felt before in my life you know and then after that I was like okay I've always wanted this Rolex a presidential day day right I I totally was like okay I'm gonna take this money and I'm gonna go buy this Rolex so that's and I still have that Rolex I
still wear it to this day and um it was it was a great buy it was one of the it was one of my most important buys because it was like first off I really really really really wanted that that watch and I was dreaming about it before I had money and then I finally got it and I
was like oh man this is so cool you know and you have that first bar mitzvah to thank for it yeah oh my God um goddamn [Music] my jibs are on fire right now Sean foreign [Music] you know let me put a little extra oh [Music] see that I see that I see that I'm following suit okay
okay just for all the marbles cheers get Cuddy cheers what a ride yeah [Music] I know oh I know my God oh I know I know but the good news hid Cutty is we have reached the end of our hot ones Gauntlet and just one more ball to balance on your nose before we roll
credits what the [ __ ] else you want you've hummed better Melodies than most artists have ever written and fans know that you can transform a whole song without even using a word so what I'll do to close things out is I'll point at a sauce and you just hum the first
feeling that it evokes when you think about what it was like to eat that sauce okay all right up first fly by jig [Music] [Applause] [Music] to bomb Beyond insanity [Music] was that good that was so good looks like we have another hit on our hands
and look at you Kid Cudi taking on the hot ones Gauntlet calling your shot making it all the way to the end now there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you this camera this camera this camera let the people know what you have going on in your life I
got this [ __ ] show Intergalactic coming out next week oh look I mean it's out now I don't know when you guys are airing this uh got a bunch of stuff going on just stay tuned stay tuned [Applause] oh I made it through though you bodied it I
did and no one can take that away from you no one can take that [ __ ] away from me Sean no one no one they can kiss my ass oh my God that wins fans thank you so much for watching what if you want to get your hands on the season 19 hot Ones hot sauce
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