It’s been a busy 12 months for Child Cudi. Again in Might he testified towards Sean “Diddy” Combs within the music mogul’s intercourse trafficking and racketeering case, with Cudi confirming that his automobile exploded in his driveway in 2012 shortly after Combs threatened to blow it up. Perhaps we’ll hear extra about that in Cudi’s recently-announced memoir, which is popping out subsequent month. However on a a lot lighter be aware, Cudi additionally acquired married a few weeks in the past, and at this time he’s introduced a brand new album referred to as Free that’ll be out subsequent month too.
TMZ stories that Cudi married menswear designer Lola Abecassis Sartore on June 28. They met in 2018 on the late Virgil Abloh’s debut Louis Vuitton present; Abloh was a good friend and collaborator of Cudi’s and had requested the rapper/singer to stroll in that present, whereas Sartore was additionally working at LV. The pair acquired engaged final 12 months and married within the South Of France, the place Sartore is from. Based on their coveted Vogue Weddings characteristic, BADBADNOTGOOD carried out throughout cocktail hour, Cudi sang a few his personal unreleased songs, they usually had a ginormous cake.
Cudi hasn’t launched the tracklist for Free but, however we all know it’ll characteristic the Might single “Neverland” in addition to at this time’s new single “Grave.” “Grave’ is a melodramatic stomp-clap ballad about discovering causes to wish to keep alive: “Now I’m seeing choices/ And I wanna choose in,” he sings. Watch Samuel Bayer’s video for it under.
Free is out 8/22 through Republic.