Ever since Kid Cudi went public with his depression and checked himself into rehab there has been a huge public outpouring of support. Then during his interview with The Breakfast Club, Saturday Night Live’s Pete Davidson even said the creator of “Day n’ Nite” saved his life. ”Cudi is the best out of all of them,” said Davidson. “He saved my life. I would’ve killed myself if I didn’t have Kid Cudi. If you’re 25 and under, I truly believe that Kid Cudi saved your life.”
He added, “I truly believe if Man on the Moon didn’t come out, I wouldn’t be here.”
Earlier this month on DX Live, BZZY, f.k.a. Bizzy Crook echoed those sentiments when speaking about his own depression.
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“Cudi was one of the guys that, if it wasn’t for Cudi I probably would have offed myself years ago,” BZZY revealed in our exclusive conversation. “Cudi was one of the first guys that made [me] like, ‘Oh snap, he’s depressed too.’ One of the first guys to openly make music about it. And depression is one of the things that in any other race it’s kind of normal but in the Black community it’s kinda like ‘Oh, you trippin.’ You gotta tighten up.’ I think that Drake taking a jab at him, it kind of proved that.”
The South Florida rapper also spoke on the moment he realized that he was not alone in his own depression. “Depression is something especially in the urban community that happens normally. It’s life and life isn’t always a walk in the park, so initially I got into depression over a relationship,” noted Bizzy, who also pointed out the bond that it creates when people acknowledge their own inner darkness.
“It came to a point when I realized we all go through the same things. We all have this idea that we’re all separate and that’s not true,” BZZY says, pointing out his war wounds along the way. “We’re all connected. We’re all one. We all face the same issues, every single rapper so there’s the guys that run around and act like they’re invincible but I came to the realization they go through the same thing they’re just not openly talking about it so if I know you go through something and I go through it. I’m not gonna be afraid to talk about it.”
Back in August, months before Cudi went public with his depression, “Friends” singer Raury hailed Cudi and Cudi alone in an audio interview with TryTattle.com as the lone voice that saved his life and inspired the then teenage songwriter to devote himself to his art.
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“When I was like 14 I was in a very dark place man. I probably would have ended my own life man. I didn’t like life that much at all, you know what I’m sayin?’ I was, and I decided I didn’t fit in at high school or anything like that. This shit on my shirt right here I used to draw this stupid thing like on my binder cause it was weird it’s like my face whenever I draw myself playing music and stuff like that and that was the year I heard Cudi’s album, and I was a weirdo and I decided I’ma do music for the rest of my life and I don’t care if I don’t find success. If I don’t find success I’m just gonna die, you know or not be able to live cause like this is what I wanna do. I’m going for it, so that was that. That moment where, you know, everything changed for me.”
As Cudi receives continued support from his fans, it definitely looks like Hip Hop owes the “Man on the Moon” a debt of gratitude. Subtitled The End of Day and released in fall of 2009, Cudi’s debut album remains one of the defining moments that Internet and retail markets successfully pushed out viable product.
