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Evening Standard
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Joe Bromley

Kid Cudi: ‘I have a duty. I’m an OG now, my voice is strong’

There is a swell of excitement that clings to Kid Cudi.

I am sitting in Selfridges’ second-floor private shopping suites waiting to slip into the side room and have some one-on-one time with the twice Grammy award-winning rapper, Emmy-nominated TV creator and, as of last year, fashion designer. We are running late, and he is nowhere to be seen. A good 30 minutes go by before the doors swing open, and in the middle of a stern-faced, rainbow-clad entourage led by a bodyguard in all-black, Cudi (real name Scott Ramon Mescudi) emerges.

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