{"id":139214,"date":"2022-10-12T01:49:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T20:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/kid-cudi-reveals-how-entergalactic-became-an-animated-special\/"},"modified":"2022-10-12T01:50:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T20:20:57","slug":"kid-cudi-explains-how-entergalactic-became-an-animated-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/kid-cudi-explains-how-entergalactic-became-an-animated-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Kid Cudi Explains How “Entergalactic” Became an Animated Special"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\nIf Kid Cudi really is Retire his persona of a rapper<\/a>Recent interviews indicate that Monday night may have been an early farewell party.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\nThe star smiled as he answered questions at the Netflix Tudum Theater, Hollywood. He also celebrated the release of the movie. \u201cEntergalactic,\u201d the new animated Netflix special that serves as a kind of filmic companion piece to Cudi\u2019s new album of the same name.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m just overwhelmed, you know?\u201d Cudi, who created, starred in, and executive-produced the project, said immediately after the screening, sitting next to the film\u2019s director, Fletcher Moules. \u201cThe past week has been really exciting to see the reviews, see the response. We\u2019ve been working on this thing for three years, man.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film, which boasts an all-star cast including Jessica Williams, Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet, Laura Harrier, Ty Dolla $ign, Vanessa Hudgens, Jaden Smith and Macauley Caulkin, was released on Netflix on September 30 and met with a widely positive critical reception.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe were texting this week, and I was like, I never knew that Twitter could be a platform of love,\u201d Moules joked.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tUndergirded by a number of tracks of Cudi\u2019s trademark spacy melodic rap from the accompanying album, Netflix\u2019s \u201cEntergalactic\u201dCudi’s character Jabari is a New York City artist who is trying to make sense of the chaos that is his love life. Cudi explained that the film grew out of an initial anthology series which, in its first season, would focus on the theme of love and feature an animated episode. Cudi developed the idea in collaboration with Kenya Barris. Barris encouraged Cudi instead to change his mind and lead to \u201cEntergalactic,\u201dNetflix has described this special as a TV show.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBarris \u201ctold me this would be ill if we ran it all-animated, because that\u2019s something that Netflix was looking for,\u201d Cudi said. \u201cSo I decided to take the one animated episode that I was gonna have in my anthology and kinda just extend the story.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEntergalactic\u201dThe music was the first thing that I did (\u201cAngel,\u201d \u201cDo What I Want\u201dAnd \u201cWilling to Trust\u201dThese three tracks were the inspiration for the initial ideas of the project. But as the project evolved, the writing of both film and record informed each other.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe album itself came together rather quickly,\u201d Cudi said, \u201cjust because in my mind I already knew the beats of what I wanted to cover, just kind of piecing the story in my mind early on.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tScott \u201cKid Cudi\u201d Mescudi attends the Los Angeles screening & reception for Netflix\u2019s \u201cEntergalactic\u201dAt Netflix Tudum Theatre, October 10, 2022, Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Charley Gallay\/Getty Image for Netflix)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nCudi was the mastermind of the unique album and film concept that attracted its star-studded casting, from friends Ty Dolla$ign and Chalamet to Williams and Harrier. \u201cI felt like Tony Stark, kinda like assembling the Avengers,\u201d Cudi said, laughing.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe project might signal a bookend of sorts to the career of Kid Cudi as we\u2019ve known it. Cudi mentioned both the album and film in a recent promotional video. Interview<\/a>Zane Lowe, and his appearance Hot Ones<\/a>He was more interested in retiring his persona than making music, and was leaning towards that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Kid Cudi stuff, I think I want to put it on the back burner and chill out with that,\u201d Cudi told Lowe. \u201cI think I want to be done with it. I think (I\u2019m) closing the chapter on Kid Cudi. The goal for \u2018Entergalactic\u2019 \u2014 I was bored of making albums\u2026 I went into this wanting to do something epic and different.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nCudi’s stardom was based on his influence as a musician, especially with his multi-platinum debut album in 2009. \u201cMan on the Moon: The End of the Day,\u201dFor many years, the 38-year-old has been an actor of great success. He has appeared in blockbusters.\u201cNeed for Speed\u201d) and indies (\u201cJames White,\u201d \u201cX\u201d) and served a stint as bandleader on the alt-comedy show \u201cComedy Bang Bang.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEntergalactic\u201dThis is one of many projects that Mad Solar, the production house Cudi founded in 2020 has, is working on. It points to a greater focus on television and film, both in front and behind the camera.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tNot everyone in Cudi\u2019s camp is expecting a wholesale turnabout in his career. \u201cNothing to me has changed in Scott,\u201d said Karina Manashil \u2014 his former agent and a close confidant who is now the president of Mad Solar \u2014 backstage when asked about Cudi\u2019s recent comments. \u201cNow everything that we\u2019re seeing, it\u2019s not so much a shift. It\u2019s more he now has everything around him that allows him to do all of the things he was always capable of, and he\u2019s in the headspace to experience all of those things.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\nCudi refused to give further details about his retirement or changes in direction, and he did not speak on Monday. Cudi instead shared a moment of vulnerability that reflected his desire to share what he wanted fans to take away from the film.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI want people to feel hopeful that their person is out there in the world,\u201d Cudi said. \u201cI haven\u2019t been lucky enough to find that person, but I made this to remind myself that \u2018Scott, your person could be out there. You could have a magical moment like this with someone.\u2019 So I know there\u2019s a lot of people out there that feel like maybe their person isn\u2019t out there or it\u2019s hard to find a person, but this is supposed to be a reminder that true love does happen.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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