produced some of Kid Cudi’s earliest work

In addition to being very good friends, Dot da Genius has produced some of Kid Cudi’s earliest work from his demos , to songs on his critically acclaimed mixtape A Kid Named Cudi (2008), which was Cudi’s breakout project and the first to feature their hit single ” Day ‘n’ Nite “. Since then they have worked together on Cudi’s debut album Man on the Moon: The End of Day (2009) as well as his second album, Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager (2010). It was not until they were recording “Trapped in My Mind” for Cudi’s second album, that ideas of a rock album surfaced. In an interview with Complex magazine , Dot da Genius recounted the recording session: “It was pretty much the same time that we built a studio in Cudi’s crib. We did “Trapped In My Mind” and we were dwelling on it like, “This is crazy, we need to put some guitar riffs on this.” So I had my homie B-rent, come through Cudi’s crib with his guitar, and Cudi did the guitar riff with his mouth cause Cudi couldn’t play the guitar. So Brent replayed it. Then Cudi picked up [Brent’s] guitar and started fiddling around with it, and I swear to you within like five minutes, he had a legitimate guitar riff. He never played a guitar a day in his life, but had an ill riff that we could make a song with.”