{"id":838235,"date":"2026-09-06T08:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T08:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/838235\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T08:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T08:14:09","slug":"kid-cudi-defends-kanye-west-reconciliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/838235\/","title":{"rendered":"Kid Cudi Defends Kanye West Reconciliation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tKid Cudi<\/a> is shedding light on his reconciliation with Kanye West<\/a> on-stage during his Friday Chicago concert.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe rapper played two shows in Chicago this week, the first on Thursday, Sept. 3. His Friday night show was met with a number of surprise appearances, including Rick Ross, Travis Scott, Don Toliver and Cudi, and he\u2019s defending his decision to partake in the performance.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI understand ur frustration Peter, I fucks w u, but I dont really care if ur disappointed in me,\u201d he wrote on X<\/a> in response to radio DJ Peter Rosenberg who said he was \u201cdisappointed in a lot of people\u201d who \u201care being openly lame about Kanye.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat man is my brother. U dont have a relationship w him like I do. Damn near 2 decades of art and friendship. U not family. So I get it,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIve been around Ye, and I can honestly say talking to him now is how it use to be when I first signed to him, but even better. He was dealing w mental health struggles for years and now hes good.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWest had a fall from grace in recent years due to a number of controversies, including sharing antisemitic\u00a0and pro-Nazi remarks. In January, West placed a full-page ad in\u00a0The\u00a0Wall Street Journal where he apologized<\/a> and took back his past antisemitic statements.<\/p>\n

\n\tCudi continued, \u201cEveryone deserves some grace when they family. I was the hardest on him out of anybody. I held him accountable. He apologized and it was sincere. But like I said, u not family so I get it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe two rappers have publicly fallen out<\/a> a few times. The \u201cDay \u2018n\u2019 Nite\u201d rapper addressed their friendship fallout in a 2025 interview with CBS Mornings, where he said West broke \u201cthe code of a friendship.\u201d He also explained that they had tried to make up in the past, but \u201cwe always have a falling out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOne of their more recent conflicts arose when West slammed Cudi for being friends with Pete Davidson, whom West\u2019s ex-wife Kim Kardashian was dating at the time. \u201cJust so everyone knows Cudi will not be on\u00a0Donda\u00a0because he\u2019s friends with you know who,\u201d he wrote in a since-deleted Instagram post in 2022, while tagging Cudi and Kardashian. <\/p>\n

\n\tCudi responded on X<\/a>, writing, \u201cWe talked weeks ago about this. You\u2019re whack for flipping the script and posting this lie just for a look on the internet. You ain\u2019t no friend. BYE.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kid Cudi is shedding light on his reconciliation with Kanye West on-stage during his Friday Chicago concert. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,4860,31786,216],"class_list":["post-838235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-kanye-west","tag-kid-cudi","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}