Kid Cudi Warns Fans That Hard Drugs Are ‘Going to Make Yo…
Kid Cudi wants his fans to abstain from using hard drugs, and used his own troubled history as a cautionary tale.
The Free artist warned fans against some types of drug usage on the August 23 episode of podcast Sally, where the French journalist asked Cudi about “the biggest lie” that cocaine told the rapper-actor about himself.
“That I was invincible. I was so reckless on that shit…Like, I was living life on the edge,” Cudi said around the nine-minute mark of the video below.
“And when I look back, it’s so scary to realize that like I was very much so gambling with the devil. And it made me not care whether I lived or died,” he continued.
“It just made me invincible, like I could take on the world. I’m happy that I was able to come out of that,” Cudi said. “And you know they always say, ‘There’s no high like the first time you get high,’ and that is true. The whole time on cocaine I was chasing the very first time high that I never got again.”
Cudi then turned his attention to “kids” watching the interview, saying, “Don’t fuck with that shit. The first high, you’ll get it. The rest of the highs will never be the same.”
“And you’ll be chasing that first high the rest of your life,” he stressed. “It’s going to make you miserable. You’re going to be a shitty person. It’s going to fuck with your creativity. It’s going to fuck with everything about your mental.”
The entertainer added that he doesn’t think “anyone should try hardcore drugs.” “You shouldn’t try cocaine. You shouldn’t try molly. You shouldn’t try any of that shit. I don’t think you’ll get anything out of it. I know you won’t get anything out of it,” he explained. “You’ll end even more miserable than when you started. And there’s no happy ending to that story. There just isn’t. There’s just nothing.”
Cudi described drug usage as “nothing but darkness” and likened it to being in the “basement of hell,” where he had been for “years,” although he was putting his “feelings” into his music.
“The public was still getting art from me, but I was truly damaged and tortured inside. And that’s what drugs will do to you,” he said. “Even if you stop, it will still fuck with you for years after.”
The artist also explained that although he’d stopped using drugs in 2010 after an arrest, he relapsed in 2016.
“There was still a little voice in the back of my head [that] was like, ‘Come on, let’s try it again. Why not? Just take it easy this time, but let’s try again,'” he explained. “So once you let that demon in, he will make a home in your mind and will wait there. He’ll wait there for your moment of weakness to pop up and be like, ‘Hey, what’s up? I got answers for you. I can help you get through this.'”
He concluded, “And so, young kids, if you’re if you’re watching this, take it from the Rager: Do not do cocaine. Don’t do molly. Don’t do meth. Don’t do heroin. Like, steer clear. Steer clear because life ain’t that bad. You don’t have to do hardcore drugs.”
Cudi wrote about being on the brink of death during his first drug overdose in the introductory chapter of his new memoir, which he discussed on CBS Mornings earlier this month.
“I had a hard time dealing with the fame, and the reason why I was doing cocaine was so I didn’t blow my brains out,” he said on the show.
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