Hip-hop has allowed Kid Cudi to cope with his depression and his songs have changed — and even "saved" — the lives of people like Travis Scott, Logic, and Pete Davidson.
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00:00And I'm getting so worked up talking about this.
00:03All I wanted to do was help kids not feel alone
00:06and stop kids from committing suicide.
00:09♪♪
00:16I was like, man, I'm going to either kill myself
00:19or I'm going to do some drugs.
00:21I don't want to live, so...
00:23♪♪
00:48Music is a platform for me to express myself
00:51and also realize that I'm not that crazy,
00:55that there's other kids out there that might be depressed
00:57or lonely dealing with suicide.
00:59♪♪
01:28I didn't like that I had money and success
01:33and I had made it,
01:35and everybody I had ever met in my life,
01:38good people, were able to experience the same.
01:42♪♪
01:46With any addiction, you have to be ready to make the choice.
01:50Whether it's cigarettes or anything,
01:52you have to just commit, and you just have to stick with it.
01:56♪♪
02:00He saved my life. I would have killed myself
02:02if I didn't have Kid Cudi.
02:04If you're 25 and under,
02:06I truly believe that Kid Cudi saved your life.
02:09Kid Cudi, man, Kid Cudi's really one of the main dudes
02:12I looked at and listened to all the time.
02:15He saved my life.
02:17He saved me from doing random bad things to myself.
02:20And Cudi was one of the persons who showed me
02:23you don't have to be scared to sing.
02:25Every time I would see him, every day, I'd be like,
02:28thanks, man, I really appreciate this.
02:30And he's like, man, shut the f*** up.
02:32Stop thanking me, thank yourself.
02:34♪♪
02:37I'm gonna take this time out to say
02:40that Kid Cudi is my brother,
02:43and I hope he's doing well.
02:45♪♪
02:49When I started making a song like Day or Night,
02:52I was 23 years old, living in New York,
02:55still trying to figure it out.
02:57I just wanted to make music that was true to me,
03:00and I just wanted people to take whatever inspiration
03:03they got from it and apply it into their worlds and grow,
03:06and I wanted people to see me grow as an adult
03:09through the music.