KiD CuDi presents SATELLITE FLIGHT: The journey to Mother Moon

In the years since Kid Cudi’s breakthrough 2009 debut, he’s become one of hip-hop’s most versatile and mercurial superstars. Just as you’re getting hypnotized by his late-night rhymes, Cudi switches it up—singing in a laidback drawl or assuming the role of guitar-playing frontman. He\'s tapped off-the-wall collaborators (like soft rock crooner Michael Bolton), reinterpreted Nirvana\'s cover of blues legend Lead Belly, and pushed his production aesthetic into progressively more experimental terrain. For Cudi\'s fourth solo album, *Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon*, the innovative emcee brings in throwback-soul heartbreaker Raphael Saadiq and rekindles the collaborative magic with WZRD bandmate and producer Dot da Genius.

Cleveland rapper Kid Cudi's new Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon represents his catalog in miniature: A vast, serene, often-beautiful vista of sounds—and then this guy, standing right in front of them.

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