Kid Cudi Gets Blunt About Falling Out With Kanye West

Kid Cudi Gets Blunt About Falling Out With Kanye West: 'I Don't Need That in My Life'

Kid Cudi is getting very honest about the status of his relationship with former collaborator and friend Kanye West

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Following a public falling out earlier in the year, during which Kanye announced that Kid Cudi would not be on Donda 2 for being friends with Pete Davidson

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the 38-year-old Man on the Moon rapper opened up about the situation in an interview with Esquire for their September issue, out now.

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“I’m at a place in my life where I have zero tolerance for the wrong energies. I’ve watched so many people throughout the years that are close to him be burned by him doing

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“I just want to clear that up for anybody that feels like Kanye made my career or made me who I am. He brought me on to do 808s. I thought that was really f–king awesome

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“I’m not one of your kids. I’m not Kim. It don’t matter if I’m friends with Pete or not friends with Pete. None of this shit had anything to do with me,” Cudi continued.

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“With all due respect, I’m not Drake, who’s about to take a picture with him next week and be friends again, and their beef is squashed,” Cudi. “That’s not me. What I say, I mean

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