Sunday night we went to the Kid Cudi show at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. In terms of the venue, it was your typical auditorium. It feels kind of like you're in an airport hanger meets high school gym. We had floor tickets and the stage was not raised at all, so I could barely see. Chip da Rip opened for Kudi. I'd never heard of him but it wasn't bad. Cudi live is a great experience. He gets the crowd going and is high energy the whole time, jumping around and doing three songs straight. Kid Cudi did all of my favorite songs from all three of his albums. The man is a brilliant lyrcist and he doesn't shy away from showing emotion through his music. I still think my favorite is Pursuit of Happiness, but Soundtrack 2 My Life is really good too. He shows a lot of video footage in the background of him smoking weed and encourages the audience to do the same. But apparently he's 3 months "sober" from weed now, so it's kind of a mixed message. The best thing about the Kid Cudi show was the people watching. He's more indie hip hop (using bands like MGMT on some of his songs), so he gets the hipsters decked out in their shades ala Cudi-style, as well as the regular hip hop crowd. Watching the two different groups inter mingle is kind of hilarious.
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