Who is in the band wzrd

Sfondo Il cantante dei WZRD, Kid Cudi, ha svelato per la prima volta il progetto nel gennaio dopo essere tornato su Twitter annunciando un nuovo album che sperava di uscire entro l'estate: "spingendo per un'uscita estiva dell'album dei maghi Una cosa nuova di zecca Il 10 novembre , Kid Cudi ha rivelato che l'unica apparizione come ospite nell'album sarebbe stata la band indie-rock australiana Empire of the Sun.

Kid Cudi ha pubblicato "Brake", la prima offerta dell'album il 21 novembre Il 5 dicembre , Kid Cudi ha pubblicato un frammento di "Teleport 2 Me, Jamie", il primo singolo dell'album.

Detto questo, abbiamo deciso di cambiare la data di uscita. Stiamo guardando approssimativamente a febbraio Tuttavia, per avervi fatto aspettare ancora un po', pubblicheremo 'Brake' e 'Teleport 2 Me' su iTunes nella data precedentemente indicata.

I think rock and roll has been like, low-key, man. When you watched an award show, it was mainly rock bands, and the hip-hop section was very small.

DDG: I think the special thing about the album is that he decided to play the instrument, having no previous knowledge or teachings or understanding of the instrument. He just wanted to make an album with it, by himself, playing the guitar. He could have easily gotten a whole bunch of people to come play guitar and play his riffs for him.

DDG: It is. KC: We can honestly sit here and say to you that it was our destiny to work together. Getting the phone call that I got the job, then going to work and meeting these guys that rap and me rapping and them realizing I had flow Meeting him So I got on the train and sought after him, and I really went hard, and he was ignoring my phone calls, and I kept at him and kept at him.

The chain of events is so boom-boom-boom. I almost got kicked out. Then, there was one mega-event: the parents saying I could stay there. That helped the story stay on its trajectory. There was so many points where we both could have went astray and lost our way. Motherfuckers was in the hood. It was, like, a block away.

This was my destiny. The stars lined up just right. Dot's parents [sat] me down like, 'You need to get a job.

Your relationship was organic. This is some real shit. Like, I used to have to stay there and wait for him to come home on weekends, because he was staying in the dorms during his second year of school.

KC: Dot was there. We got in an argument. This is plan D. This is all we got. This is all we got right now. DDG: The shit is mind-blowing, because back then, we were just pursuing it blindl. Earlier beats that I was fucking around making I kind of took a whole other route with my music. This is just something that I was inspired to write.

I felt like, if I was going to talk about it, this was a good first shot at expressing myself, and how I feel about this person. Just like how I was saying I want to do a song singing to my daughter.

It better be the most glorious song with the most beautiful melodies that no one has ever heard. How did Jamie react to it? KC: She loved it. I fumbled, and making this song just happened to be my redemption to her. Thank God she loved it. A motherfucker makes a song about me, and then it just sucks! But for me, this is the most emotional, because I was so excited about this feeling I was having. I always like to take it to the next level, and then expand my palette of different styles.

So I definitely feel like it was my most emotional, man. Hip-hop is a really lucrative business. Why not? The artistry is lost in the cracks.

KC: I woke up one morning, I grabbed my guitar. It was like, 9 a. I sat on my couch in my drawers and started playing this melody. KC: Bitches and hoes [ Laughs. The songs that transcend through time are the songs that evoke some kind of emotion in me, whether it makes me mad or sad. KC: Yeah, man. The tweet said it all [ Laughs.

People are really feeling this song right here? You have to search for it. Music is a very powerful medium, and you could really use it for some good, and affect a lot of people in a really, really positive way and save lives.

But at the end of the day, when you think of Kid Cudi, you know the basis of my shit, my whole theme is telling my tale and inspiring people and helping people. Your whole mind will go to a whole other place and a whole other space. I feel like I understand my purpose now, as a human being on this planet. Niggas is weak. And sometimes something just needs to be put out there in the universe.

What new people in hip-hop are you guys excited about? I love how him and Schoolboy Q chopped up 'Pursuit. They did really well on that. So I thought it was really interesting. Whoever produced that: bravo. Then my attorney hit me up and asked me to clear it, and I was really excited.

Did it get easier to make songs as Cudi got better at playing the guitar? DDG: Absolutely. It was easier for him to play ideas he had. I fumbled my way through it, and we kind of ended up figuring out the sound that we want. The most recent one is Lil Wayne. What do you think WZRD brings to the table that other artists have failed to do? I think, anyone who sets out to do anything out of their comfort zone deserves a round of applause.

Fuck it. I mean, WZRD brings that same energy. We have our own sound. We really built this shit from the ground up with me playing guitar, without much experience, playing this shit on the tour bus. It was almost like we were in a high-school garage band. You know why, though? So it was like, I wanted to keep it a secret for a long time. How did he react?

KC: He loves it. He was like, really excited. I really do. Rock stars back in the day were like, mythical artists. No one knew what they were doing. Twitter has really killed that. Coming up, we had our favorite artists, but we would never see them, unless it was at a concert, let alone being able to say something to them.

You were getting some fan-mail shit, like posters and shit. Things have changed so drastically since we were young. If I had something like this when I was in school, I probably would have been even more inspired. I probably would have had a deal by 17, just off of being inspired. I noticed this year that a lot of my heroes and people that I look up to are deceased.

I was just really inspired by Kurt Cobain's life and his story and his music. I just felt really empty at that point in my life. The rock album was definitely a risk. Did you have any major doubts?

KC: Yes. Usually I write fast, but this time it happened full-on. KC: Oh, no. I know myself. The stars will line up just right. I just started listening to a lot of songs that I liked with beautiful melodies, just to get my mind going. I saw the pictures. It seemed like you were really soaking in that moment on the bench. What was that like for you?

I just felt really empty at that point in my life, at that low point. It was sad. It was something that I always wanted to do, when I got the chance to do it, and I was happy about that.

But it was just really, really sad. Cage has been, like, my outlet to rock and roll, on the low. Any questions I have, I just turn to Cage, and he would put me on. I remember that was the song that stuck out the most and hit me the most, but then I did some research, and I found out it was a cover of Lead Belly. Who the fuck is Lead Belly? I feel like we should touch this. Like, we should try to put our own spin to it. So when he told me about the history behind it, it was amazing.

One of the greatest bands ever? Let me fucking push it. Let me Kid-Cudi-ize whatever I could get my fucking hands on. Are you guys aware that critics may gravatate to that cover when it comes out? DDG: Yeah, absolutely. Has the label given you guys any problems about this album being such a departure?

KC: No. I did a whole album with my buddy—just us. We did that shit, and that shit sounds amazing. I feel really, really good about it. DDG: I feel really good about the sound. We already know that the next album is going to be fucking WZRD is forever. I felt so alive working on this project. Hip-hop will stress you out, man.

So this is not a one-off? You guys plan on doing another one at some point? I felt so alive working on this project, man. It was so awesome. KC: Oh, yeah. Well, I was saying, in hip-hop, each rapper is like a car-salesman. I got this. I got that. All the things that they talk about, they want you to believe them. This is what it is. Accept me for me. We are who we are.

Fuck that. Some of the best bands have broken up. We knew when we first got into this what we wanted to do. Me and Dot have always been prolific with work.

Did that factor in going back to working with Dot exclusively, and not, say, Pat and Emile? Not at all. I had a particular vision for the Man On The Moon shit. But Dot was always around sending beats and shit. We were all jamming. Are you excited to play it for Emile and Pat? I think they might just hear it. I mean, Pat will probably shit on it [ Laughs.

Pat will probably say it sucks. I like these songs. I like these songs, and they help me. KC: Yeah, for the first time. I woke up, and I embraced the day. I was excited to see the sun. I started experiencing new things.