![]() Previous generations of humming have more closely resembled the adlib, an accent that bridges the primary elements of a song and helps to define its mood. Unlike the whistle, its more popular peer, the hum had only sporadically been used as a song’s hook or driving melody prior to Kid Cudi. In each case, however, the humming is used as an aside - akin to a vocal run - rather than a feature of the songwriting. Among the most iconic includes the Beatles’ closing passage on “Yesterday,” the “mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm” sound bite in Flo Rida’s “Get Low,” and the octave-jumping melisma on innumerable singles from R&B divas, such as Mariah Carey and Christina Aguilera. A primordial tool in the musician’s toolkit, you can draw a thread from the earliest humans using hums as prosocial signaling to a number of examples from across popular culture. The vocal equivalent to Eddie Van Halen's inventive guitar stylings, the Kid Cudi hum is among the last great sounds in modern music to be instantly recognizable and inseparable from its originator.Ī post shared by HipHopNumbers course, humming generally is not unique to Kid Cudi. Cudi himself has continued to build his sound around the instrument with increasing saturation across each of his subsequent solo albums. When musicians have desired that sound for their own songs, they have either turned to the original source or explicitly labeled their attempt to recreate it as homage. Humming in rap began with and still belongs to Kid Cudi. ![]() Unlike the proliferation of bleary auto-tune or the triplet flow, there is no cheap imitation that has been mass-produced for the mainstream. But even his most devout followers - a coalition that ranges from one-hit wonders like OG Maco to once-in-a-generation talents like Kendrick Lamar - have never replicated those thick, thrumming harmonies for themselves. The Kid Cudi hum, already fully formed upon his major label arrival, had a seismic impact on hip-hop music. Yet, even as much of the hip-hop universe oriented around a style he helped cultivate, he has remained among the most distinctive voices of his generation, leaving for himself a singular and endlessly evolving trademark. His inventions are vast and entrenched in what rap music has become in the 21st century, earning his North Star status through his recasting of vulnerability as bravado, his plain-spoken portrayal of his demons and depression, and his penchant for high-concept cosmic sing-song. ![]() While Kanye West, the Weeknd and Drake are often touted as the major inspirations for much of the current senior class of contemporary hip-hop, Kid Cudi is the original progenitor of this family tree, offspringing everyone from Travis Scott (as both his namesake, idol, and bandmate) to the late Juice WRLD. ![]()
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