Kid Cudi says he applied to his dream job four times before they hired him, then quit it for a tour with no money and no plan. Two days after he got home, Kanye called
“The mixtape came out, blew up. I got an offer to tour Australia. It was three weeks, traveling all around Australia.”
“I remember asking BAPE if they would let me take the three weeks off, and my manager said they couldn’t do that, because they needed me. They could give me like a week off, maybe. But they couldn’t give me three weeks.”
“So I had this decision to make. I was like, okay, do I stay working at my favorite job ever, or do I go and do this tour, have this new experience? There was uncertainty at the other end of that opportunity.”
“I had the opportunity, yeah, but when I came back, I was going to be jobless again. And I didn’t know where my next check was coming from.”
“I decided in that moment, I was like, hey, I love BAPE. But I didn’t come here to work a 9-to-5. I came to New York to pursue music, and that’s what this is doing for me. I put out a body of work that people are responding to. People want me to come tour, come do shows all around the world. I’m going to do it.”
“So I quit my job and went to Australia, did the shows, came back, was home two days and then I got the call that Kanye wanted me to come to Hawaii and work on Blueprint 3 and 808s & Heartbreak.”