revealed the only guest appearance

On November 10, 2011, Kid Cudi revealed that the only guest appearance on the album would be Australian indie-rock band, Empire of the Sun . On November 18, 2011, Kid Cudi renamed the band once again to WZRD (pronounced one letter at a time W-Z-R-D), and announced that the album would be released on his 28th birthday, January 30, 2012. In December 2011, Cudi revealed ” The Wizard “, as performed by Black Sabbath , inspired his use of the term “Wizard”. On November 20, Cudi announced via Twitter that the album would not contain any profanity , including the use of the word ” nigga “. On November 21, 2011, WZRD released a song titled “Brake”, as the album’s first single. The next month, on December 5, 2011, Cudi released a snippet of “Teleport 2 Me, Jamie”, the album’s second lead single .