Between the moon and NY city
Rapper Child Cudi will get round, with many genre-bending ventures and an intensive appearing profession. This 12 months he appeared (below his actual identify, Scott Mescudi) in indie slasher movie X, co-produced by his firm Mad Photo voltaic. Subsequent comes Entergalactic, a brand new album and animated Neftlix collection, which he co-created and by which he voices the lead character. (Others concerned embody Timothée Chalamet, Laura Harrier, Ty Dolla $ign, Vanessa Hudgens and Macaulay Culkin.) He’s additionally touring in the meanwhile, reaching the UK in November.
Pursuit of unhappiness
In the meantime, Cudi has been embroiled in a rolling beef with Kanye West. I believe it’s obtained one thing to do with Cudi’s buddy Pete Davidson’s short-lived romance with Kim Kardashian, Kanye’s ex-wife. Any which means, it wasn’t at all times thus: in 2007 Kanye signed Cudi to his GOOD Music label and the pair had been common collaborators, starting on the latter’s 2009 album Man on the Moon: The Finish of Day.
Frequent hyperlinks
One other rapper on that report was one in every of Chicago’s most interesting MCs, Frequent. Within the late 2000s, Frequent dated tennis celebrity Serena Williams; she later moved on to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. They married in 2017.
A powerful forehand
Not content material with dominating tennis, Williams is not any stranger to popular culture: she was in an episode of ER and a Beyoncé video, amongst different cameos. She and Venus did their bit to burnish the household legacy by overseeing the biopic of father/coach Richard – the well-received King Richard. Much less good for anybody’s legacy was Will Smith’s flip at this 12 months’s Oscars – he gained greatest actor within the movie’s title function but additionally smacked host Chris Rock within the face. It generated just a few headlines.
Voice notes
Not too long ago Rock has been seen courting Lake Bell, who wrote, directed and starred within the pleasurable 2013 comedy about voiceover artists, In a World. Recently, like everybody else, Bell’s been drawn into the comic-book world, voicing a personality within the animated Harley Quinn collection. In 2010 she and Child Cudi appeared in HBO comedy-drama Methods to Make it in America, about inventive varieties working round in New York. Flash ahead to Entergalatic, and Cudi and Jessica Williams play two younger artists falling in love and working round a extra animated New York.
Pairing notes
Watch Scott Mescudi was within the wonderful ensemble solid for Luca Guadagnino’s mini-series We Are Who We Are. Underrated on the time, it may possibly nonetheless be revisited on iPlayer.
Eat In the case of tour snacks, Cudi as soon as revealed he loves tacos in LA and the “Italian spud” in Chicago.
