Kid Cudi - Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven ALBUM REVIEW
When I said I was bringing back written reviews, you didn’t think it’d be this album, huh? Well, let me flex my ability to write decent articles before I started doing YouTube videos and talk to you about Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven.
This album right here is quite an oddball. Scott Mescudi, or Kid Cudi, was in a dark place for some of his life. That’s nothing new, we all have rough patches. Cudi here happens to be a musician, and music is a way to peer into the mind and emotions of that artist. Sometimes, it even connects to you, the listener. When Cudi pivoted from hip-hop to rock on this project, it was pretty shocking. Yes, he’s dabbled in rock music before with his WIZRD group, but a Kid Cudi rock album? The amount of emotion that he puts into his music already was different for hip-hop at the time, but if that was put into a rock album… the concept here was pretty amazing on paper. On paper.
This is a pretty ambitious undertaking for such an established name in the rap game. Along with that, Kid Cudi’s will to live and his grasp on reality are in question here. This is a legitimately depressing album. It tackles very dark themes like depression and drug addiction, and one could even argue that this album was a pariah at the time, with this project having a very similar style to this new generation’s stripped back, emo-rap artists like XXXTENTACION and Lil Peep. If this was released now, the same people that praised albums like 17 would most likely be praising Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven here. As I said earlier, this is a pretty interesting concept for an artist of Cudi’s stature on paper. See, that’s where the cons roll in. Musically, this album is awful. The instrumentation and production, Cudi’s vocal performances, the bloated tracklist, and the appearances from Mike Judge's Beavis and Butthead sketches are god-awful. While the lyrics aren’t the biggest crime here, the production here waters everything down so much that his message, or his cry for help, in this case, is watered down.
For one, it’s glad to see that Cudi is okay now and that he’s (mostly) back in the swing of things musically, but I cannot stop thinking about this album. For how horribly it was received when it first released, the same media outlets and social media are praising artists like XXXTENTACION for doing the same things that Cudi did on Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven which he got demolished for. That just might be me not liking the type of music that X made anyway, but it’s a weird double-standard now. For how bad Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven was, it was an omen for how one of the most popular subgenres of rap would exist. Conceptually, this was incredible, but the music just sped out of my brain as fast as it could.
2/10
Listen to it here
YouTube
This album right here is quite an oddball. Scott Mescudi, or Kid Cudi, was in a dark place for some of his life. That’s nothing new, we all have rough patches. Cudi here happens to be a musician, and music is a way to peer into the mind and emotions of that artist. Sometimes, it even connects to you, the listener. When Cudi pivoted from hip-hop to rock on this project, it was pretty shocking. Yes, he’s dabbled in rock music before with his WIZRD group, but a Kid Cudi rock album? The amount of emotion that he puts into his music already was different for hip-hop at the time, but if that was put into a rock album… the concept here was pretty amazing on paper. On paper.
This is a pretty ambitious undertaking for such an established name in the rap game. Along with that, Kid Cudi’s will to live and his grasp on reality are in question here. This is a legitimately depressing album. It tackles very dark themes like depression and drug addiction, and one could even argue that this album was a pariah at the time, with this project having a very similar style to this new generation’s stripped back, emo-rap artists like XXXTENTACION and Lil Peep. If this was released now, the same people that praised albums like 17 would most likely be praising Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven here. As I said earlier, this is a pretty interesting concept for an artist of Cudi’s stature on paper. See, that’s where the cons roll in. Musically, this album is awful. The instrumentation and production, Cudi’s vocal performances, the bloated tracklist, and the appearances from Mike Judge's Beavis and Butthead sketches are god-awful. While the lyrics aren’t the biggest crime here, the production here waters everything down so much that his message, or his cry for help, in this case, is watered down.
For one, it’s glad to see that Cudi is okay now and that he’s (mostly) back in the swing of things musically, but I cannot stop thinking about this album. For how horribly it was received when it first released, the same media outlets and social media are praising artists like XXXTENTACION for doing the same things that Cudi did on Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven which he got demolished for. That just might be me not liking the type of music that X made anyway, but it’s a weird double-standard now. For how bad Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven was, it was an omen for how one of the most popular subgenres of rap would exist. Conceptually, this was incredible, but the music just sped out of my brain as fast as it could.
2/10
Listen to it here
YouTube
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