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Holy shit earsucker fans, incoming new music! If you’ve never heard of Kid Cudi then I am asking you to gently crawl out from your comfortable safety zone and have a go at this new track by new new king of Cleveland (even though he mostly lives in NYC now, if he’s ever in Cleveland he on the top of our list of local people I’d like to interview).

In Mojo So Dope, which has gloriously ended up leaking early from Cudi’s upcoming album (which is still untitled AFAIK Man On The Moon II is it?), the synthesized hip-hop feel that is Cudi’s trademark are ever present, but I’m really digging the almost minimalist, monotone approach that Cudi will take from time to time with his rapping.

Lyrics in the post

I will say thanks to KillerHipHop.com for making the lyrics available. Mad props and free linkage, check out their blog.

[Kid Cudi]
Did it leanin, skinny jean wearing, ‘fro for days in the O A A
balls so low most fools couldnt price me
sign and stunt with a blunt full of B E
and I guess you know me,
been in NY so long got Tri-State family
especially Brooklyn shout out to Damati’s
my bloodline runs deep, unless I don’t sleep
figure it’s my pops keeping me away
help me keep my mind off the clouds for reality
these muthaf-ckers can’t fathom the wizardry
slow more brain thats backwards cowards
took a shower your attitude stinks
wanna know what I think?

[Chorus]
Oh ohhh, oh,
hey my mojo so dope b-tch
hey my mojo so dope
yep we live it, live it
yeh we on it, on it
give a f-ck about your lifestyle,
give a f-ck about a muthaf-cking lifestyle cause n-gga
we, we live this sh-t
Oh ohhh, oh,
give a f-ck about your lifestyle,
give a f-ck about a muthaf-cking lifestyle cause n-gga

[Kid Cudi - Verse 2]
I live through words not metaphors
so I passed to be the rest of the freshmen
playful tough talk
often the fave till I came to park heart
and said true things
a whole new legion of some n-ggas
aiming high pass the idea slangin
praise Allah for keeping me awake man
I lot of my n-ggas fell victim to the dope game
some things will never be same
wish I could tell my brother something for some motivation
and get him out that gutter
he’s leaving behind a family and a mother
damn you must understand when I speak about a song its how I really am
yeah this is how I really think
you could see what I see, yes I really wink
yes I really drink
I really do rage my demons at the cage
by most of the day before I became the age to even rage
I was drowning them sorrows with some more E n-gga
[Chorus]
[End]

Someone also posted this on mediafire to thwart the cyber police, but it appears those links are all dead pretty quick. If you see any download links, feel free to share them in the comments.

Also, if you have anything to ask Cudi, post a comment and we’ll forward it to his beeper right away.