Kid Cudi has celebrated his longtime collaborator, Dot Da Genius for the contributions he’s made to the Cleveland native’s work.
Cudi took to X, formerly known as Twitter, on Friday (February 23) to sing the praises of the producer, with whom he began working in 2007.
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“17 years of Dot and me cookin, Dose Of Dopeness to Human Made, oh what a journey, what a fuckin journey,” he wrote.
Check out the tweet below.
Back in December, Dot defended Cudi after Rich Paul and Jake Paul questioned the Cleveland rapper’s standing in his hometown.
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LeBron James’ agent and the YouTuber-turned-boxer, who also both hail from the 216, made the controversial comments on a recent episode of the BS w/ Jake Paul podcast.
“Do I think how Cudi treats Cleveland is weird? No, because I don’t think Cleveland ever embraced Cudi, unfortunately,” Rich Paul said. “Because you can’t expect somebody to treat a situation any different to how they were treated.”
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Jake Paul went one step further by claiming that Cudi has “switched up” on the city since rising to fame and “acts like he’s not from there.”
He also accused the “Day ‘N’ Nite” hitmaker of slighting him by quoting an “astronomical fee” to perform at his fight against Tyrone Woodley in 2021, which was held in Cleveland.
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Speaking to HipHopDX on the heels of signing a new publishing partnership with OTM Music, Dot Da Genius refuted the suggestion that Kid Cudi doesn’t get love in his hometown, saying he’s “as Cleveland as it gets.”
“That statement just sounds ridiculous,” he said. “I’m not from Cleveland, I’m from Brooklyn, but when I met Cudi, that’s as Cleveland as it gets. And since having actually been to the city, I think it’s a ridiculous statement.
“His signature C’s hat, he wore that for a big part of his career. We have a song that’s important in the city, ‘Cleveland Is the Reason.’ He talks about Cleveland all the time. Most of the stuff I know about Cleveland came from my relationship with Cudi.”
He added: “As someone that’s not from Cleveland, the love that I get from people from Cleveland because of the music that we’ve made, so I think that statement is inaccurate.
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“I don’t know Jake Paul, but I don’t look at him and think, Cleveland [laughs]. I don’t look at Rich Paul and think, Cleveland […] But when I look at Cudi, I think, Cleveland.”
