-It is great to see you. We love it when you come by.
Always looking good, bud. -I love being here, man.
-Always a stud.
By the way, speaking of studs, look at this cover of "Esquire."
If anyone saw this. Look at this.
Hey, that's what I'm talking about.
[ Cheers and applause ]
No, just wait.
And I think you know what photo I'm going to show.
I'm reading about ya. I go, "Oh, cool, I saw."
And then we had the page marked and blocked off as well because.
[ Cheers and applause ]
What is going through your mind when you go,
"Oh, maybe I'll try this?" -Yeah.
[ Laughter ]
I was a fan of the photo.
It was inspired by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
I don't know if you guys are familiar with the photo.
But they used to put on shows
wearing just only a sock all the time.
And, you know, I just wanted something kind of
like shocking for this cover.
-You got it.
I want to talk about also the album, by the way.
We have to talk about this. I love the cover art right here.
Gorgeous.
But also you were in a movie earlier this year called "X."
-Yeah. -And I know that your mom is
a giant fan of your stuff, and you go,
"Well, maybe, Mom, you can't see this one."
-Yeah, this one I was like, "No, you can't."
[ Laughter ]
-I mean, the "Esquire" picture is nothing.
-No. I mean, she's seen "Esquire,"
but I don't know what she thinks about that one photo.
She kind of just like didn't say anything about it.
-This is the one thing that she can't see.
You go, "Here's the movie, Mom, but you can't see this.
Just trust me, it's good." -Yeah, yeah.
But she was hearing all these good things about it and,
you know, she was just like, "Man, I want to see it."
And I was, like, "Well, let me hit up Ti West and see if
it's possible to make like a mommy edit of the movie..."
[ Laughter ]
..."that has no sex included at all
and it's just nothing but gore and madness."
So he said, "Let me see what I can do."
And he hit me up two days later, and he was like,
"What's your mom's address? I'm going to send it to her house."
-No way. -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-So he really made a mom edit just for you?
-He made a mommy edit.
I call it the mommy edit.
-That's a good man.
That's a good dude right there.
I'd never heard the word "Entergalactic"
before as one word.
But you were telling me backstage, you go,
"Yeah, I think I actually created a different language
as well with my daughter."
-Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
-And I go, "What are you talking about?"
You showed me this. And it's very interesting.
Do you have a name for the language yet?
-No, not yet.
-No, because it's just starting really.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. -It's like meeping almost.
-Yeah, kind of like Road Runner.
-Yeah, meep, like "meep, meep."
-Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
-So it just started with what?
How did this start meeping?
-I send my daughter silly messages all the time.
Sometimes I'll just send her voice notes where I'm like...
[ Shouting gibberish ]
For no reason.
-Sounds like a goat in pain.
-And she's just like, "Hi, Daddy." You know?
But I was like, "Man, I just want to send her something.
I just want to play with her and see if she can pick up on it."
And I sent "Meep, meep."
And she responded like, "Meep."
And I was like, "Oh, I got her, I got her."
So I kept going with it. I was like, "Meep, meep morpus."
And then she responded, "Meep, meep, morpus, morpus."
And I was like, "Okay, okay.
Let me spice it up a little bit."
I sent, "Meep meeps poos. Meeps poopis morpus."
[ Laughter ]
Meaning like, I [bleep] my pants.
-Okay, alright.
Again, we're going to have to
edit a lot of things for your mom.
[ Laughter ]
This is the thing.
This is actually a text from you and your daughter.
-Yeah. -So this "mi meep--"
-"Meep meep merp merp meep.
Mi meeps mu muu."
Because I say "mi meeps mu." That's "I love you."
And she says, "I love you too."
And then thanks -- "muu meeps."
And she says, "mo mulem."
[ Laughter ]
-"Mo mulem," you're welcome, yeah.
Mi mi -- Mi mi meepies, which I think means very funny.
[ Laughter ]
Let's talk about "Entergalactic," please.
This is your 10th studio album.
It comes out on Friday.
Also your TV special "Entergalactic"
is on Netflix Friday.
How do these projects about and which one came first?
-Well, the music came first.
I was kind of like bored of doing the same old thing
with albums, like kind of releasing an album,
doing two or three music videos tops
and then that'd be the end of it.
I wanted something,
just a bigger splash this time around, you know?
And I thought about the idea to splice the music
with the animation but have the music kind of narrate the story.
You know, something that hasn't really been done before.
-Yeah. -You know?
And that's kind of why we've been calling it a TV event.
-You're always doing something different.
I love that you just keep going, something else different.
-I try to push it. I always try to push it.
-Yeah, and you got some good friends that come in
and do voices in this special. -Yeah, yeah.
I just reached out to people that I knew,
people that I love and see if they would do a favor for me.
-I mean, Timothee Chalamet is in it.
-Yeah, yeah. -That's fun.
You just call him and say, "Timothee, let's do this."
-Yeah, I was talking to him about it,
and he said it sounded cool.
And over the years, when things started to pick up, I was like,
"Hey, man, you're going to get an offer
one day to do this show.
I was serious about you doing this."
And he's like, "No, I'm serious. I want to do it."
-So he did it. -And he got the scripts.
We sent him everything. He loved it.
'Cause that's the thing, you know -- I never want my friends
to feel like I'm going to lead them into some bull[bleep].
I kind of wanted to let them know like, "This is dope."
-"You can trust me." -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
"-I'm going to make it cool. I'll make it look good."
Can you explain the story about the Netflix special?
-Well, pretty much it's about -- it starts with this guy, Jabari,
who just moved into his apartment and got a new job
working at this comic book company
to develop his character into a comic book.
And he meets this young lady, Meadow, who ends up
being his neighbor down the hall from him.
And he has, like, this instant connection with her.
And the show is pretty much about their relationship,
and will they or won't they, you know?
-Yeah, I want to show everyone a clip.
Here's Kid Cudi in his Netflix special "Entergalactic."
Take a look at this.
-What's up? -Right.
Uh, so I just want to apologize for last night.
I feel so bad.
I did not mean for things to get so out of control.
-It's all good. All good.
I can't be mad at a Friday night turn-up.
But I can be mad at your music.
-Uh, I'm sorry?
-Yeah. Was that Drew Hill?
-Okay, pre-"Thong Song" Sisqo was fire.
-Yeah, but never forget post-"Thong Song" Sisqo.
-Fair.
-Post-"Thong Song."
♪ Thong, thong, thong, thong, thong ♪
-Hold on, man. We love Sisqo. We love Sisqo.
Don't get it twisted. -Yeah, don't get it twisted.
Kid Cudi, everybody.
"Entergalactic" is on Netflix this Friday.
His new album "Entergalactic" is also out Friday.
When we come back, he's performing with Ty Dolla $ign.
Kid Cudi!