Rapper Kid Cudi may be known as the “Man on the Moon,” but he’s come back down to Earth to share a more transparent look at his life and career in an all-new book, aptly entitled “Cudi.” And we’re already learning way more than we knew before– let’s get into it!
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Released earlier this month, the memoir dives deep into the rapper’s journey with and through depression, addiction, isolation, doubt and a whole lot more. But if you haven’t gotten the chance to dig into it yet, that’s OK! We’ll break down some of the most notable and shocking takeaways.
Kid Cudi Smoked 15 Blunts A Day
One of his most recent reveals the book, Cudi says that he’s recently completed a stint in rehab in November 2024 to get control over his marijuana usage. He shares that he wound up not smoking the popular drug at all for a few weeks because he’d gone overboard and wanted to find a balance.
“I just was in this place where I was abusing it. I was really abusing it. I was smoking maybe 15 blunts a day, wake up in the mornings, get high. It truly ruled my life,” he says according to PEOPLE.
While he did pick the habit back up earlier this year, he says he has a much better relationship with it now.
“Now I just get after it at night or on the weekends when I have the free time and I’m just relaxing, but I’m not smoking nowhere near as much weed as I was smoking before,” the “Day ‘n’ Nite” rapper says. “A joint lasts me all day, damn near. So my relationship has changed with that in a major way. And I’m just more interested in being sober a lot more and being more present.”
Kid Cudi Attempted Suicide as a Teenager
Cudi has long been open about his mental health struggles, but one of his more shocking revelations came when he revealed that he attempted suicide when he was just a teen. Pushed to the brink after his first love broke his heart and left him, per USA Today, Kudi reveals that he took “12 Tylenol pills” and called his friends.
In an attempt to save him, his friends ended up calling the police who brought him to a local hospital where they pumped his stomach and eventually made him stay a couple days in the psychiatric wing.
Kid Cudi and Ye’s Friendship Fizzled Out the Same Year Their Mutual Friend Virgil Abloh Died
In the book, Cudi also details how his friendship with Kanye West began and later fizzled out, sharing that late fashion designer Virgil Abloh was their mutual connector. After working with Ye on their 2017 project “Kids See Ghosts,” he felt the two of them were musically aligned and was positive about defining himself as an artist both with Yeezy and apart from him.
Sadly, that positivity would be short-lived as their friendship would come to an end in 2021–the same year that Abloh passed away from cancer, as noted by USA Today. While Cudi doesn’t specify what exactly caused him and Ye’s falling out, whatever it was, it still hasn’t been dealt with because the two aren’t on the best terms even to this day.
Cudi also revealed that Ye was “salty” about Abloh’s funeral because he wasn’t allowed to speak about him during the event. The reason why is because the pastor allegedly shut him down after he delayed the service from starting in the first place because he allegedly signed autographs for fans on his way inside.
Kid Cudi Was Still In Love With His Ex-Girlfriend While Dating Cassie Ventura
It’s no secret that Cudi and Cassie Ventura Fine were romantically involved at one point, around 2011-2012. Cudi himself was subpoenaed to testify during Sean “Diddy” Combs’ 2025 sex trafficking trial where he revealed he was the alleged person that set his car on fire in 2012 when he found out about them being an item. The reason why was because Ventura Fine was Diddy’s then-on-again, off-again girlfriend.
But while Cudi was trying to be with Cassie, he was still harboring some serious feelings for his own ex-girlfriend. But despite his own longing for his ex, he was “pissed at Cassie for going back to” Combs. But eventually, he worked it out in his mind to view her as a victim in a horrifically bad situation.
“But over time, I realized she was a prisoner,” he says according to USA Today. “I just prayed one day she would be free.”
Kid Cudi Started Using Cocaine After “Man On the Moon” Debut Album Was Released
In one excerpt of the book, Cudi reveals that after his debut album “Man on the Moon” came out in 2009, he turned to cocaine to help him get a grip on his newfound fame and help him creatively.
“I was drawn to it in isolation, and my time by myself was increasing. I was feeling shut-in and I could barely even leave my house,” he said. “The coke felt like a necessary countermeasure for my celebrity, but it was wreaking havoc on my life, creatively and personally. I had become super volatile emotionally. My relationships were in shambles, and I couldn’t get songs out like I wanted. The anger was boiling in me. My rage came from my reality not aligning with my dream.”
By the time his followup album, 2010’s “Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager,” was set to be released, Cudo shares he was doing multiple lines of coke while recording it. His drug use would continue on until his arrest later that same year. Per USA Today, that incident prompted him to kick the bad habit up until 2016–when he had a two week relapse.
Thankfully, he ultimately decided to check himself into rehab and he’s been sober since. Cudi says it was that rehab that gave him “a level of peace … I hadn’t felt ever in my life.”
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