The Man on the Moon has flown back to Earth to drop another intergalactic album, Satellite Flight: The Journey to the Mother Moon, and he claims that it will be his finest work yet, but he has a lot to live up to with that statement.
Cleveland-born, but Brooklyn-raised Hip Hop/Rock star/actor Scott Mescudi, better known as Kid Cudi, released his fourth solo album this February.
Kid Cudi made such a colossal impact in a variety of music genres such as Hip Hop, R&B, and even alternative Rock with his first two legendary projects of the “Man on the Moon” trilogy “Man On The Moon: The End of the Day” and Man on the Moon II: Legend Of Mr. Rager,” but it seemed like “Kid CuDi fell off the map of the music industry after that. It was like he was literally on the Moon for a while, but after a three-year drought of releasing no solo work at all, he released the highly anticipated solo album, Indicud, in April 2013.
But for a lot of hard-core Kid Cudi fans, “Indicud” was sort of a disappointment and didn’t live up to its hype. “After waiting for three years I was expecting something crazy, like hands down his best album yet, but I was very dissatisfied with the album,” said sophomore Matt Stallings. “It wasn’t a bad album at all I just had higher expectations for it. Then again, I’m sure it’s difficult to follow up an album like Man on the Moon II.”
Around mid-December 2013, CuDi released a single for his fans called Satellite Flight. Cudi fans loved it, mostly because it sonically sounded like his first two albums.
“I really liked Satellite Flight a lot; it brought me back to the times of Man of the Moon I and II, which are both up there for one of my favorite albums of all time,” said freshman Chris DelRosario. And within a blink of an eye, a simple single just let his fans know he’s still in the studio, turned into an album.
Since October 2013, Kid Cudi always planned to release some sort of EP to hold his fans over until the release of MOTM III, but Cudi hit such a creative stride during the making of the single that he just decided to make a full album.
“It starts where Indicud left off perfectly, and takes you right into MOTM III. It’s like a TV show that ends with a cliffhanger,” said CuDi in his interview with MTV news. He also added that this album is the bridge between his last full length solo album and the third chapter of his Man on The Moon series.
“I just know that people are really gonna love this music [because] it’s perfect and brings them right back to the Man on the Moon theme,” said Cudi.