Cudi realizes that life is all about progression, and making changes, both in life and in music.

In life, he’s tried to make his life better through change by making the decision not to smoke any weed anymore.

In his music, he has tried to stay relevant through changing up his style a lot: from his hard raps in early 2000’s on “Rap Hard”, to his more chill/ depressing even Man on the Moon’s, to his new music, like this, which seems to be more straight raps. Also, he announced via Twitter that there won’t be any expletives on his upcoming album Wizard.

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When it’s raining, what else really is there to do other than think? And of course, Cudi’s always chasing that paper, so you already know what he’s thinking about.

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May 7th, 2013

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Einstein uses two similar metaphors here:

The first one says that his flow is so unique, if you try to steal it(bite it), you’ll fail.

The second one, reminiscent of Eminem’s “Beautiful”, says that the life he leads is so hard, if you tried to live it, you’d fail at that too.

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Using a play off of his own name, Einstein references the actual Einstein’s famous equation of E=MC squared.

However, he takes it a step further, saying he’s past that level, and the C should be cubed to describe his level in rap. Pretty difficult to grasp, huh?

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A reference to the classic Jay-Z album series, the Blueprints, with Einstein acknowledging that it’s gonna be hard to get to that level by using the metaphor of a colorblind man not be able to see blue

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Money= paper; paper= rubric.

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The Gym Class Heroes made the hit song Cupid’s Chokehold, so Einstein’s tryna get like them.

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A square is a very loose slang term for someone who is lame, boring, etc., and a Rubiks Cube is basically the most elaborate square

Does anyone else find it ironic that he uses “Rubik’s” and “stupid” in the same bar??

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Girls are always blowing up his phone like they’re come C4’s…. Get it?

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