Kid Cudi & XXXTENTACION – X & CUD Lyrics

“X & CUD” is the fifteen track on INSANO and is Kid Cudi’s first official collaboration with late rapper XXXTENTACION. The track samples XXXTENTACION’s “Orlando” and finds both Kid Cudi and XXXTENTACION discussing mental health and death.

The collaboration was teased on March 14, 2021, when Kid Cudi tweeted about XXXTENTACION’s remix of Kid Cudi’s song “Edge of the Earth” titled “The Edge”. John Cunningham, XXXTENTACION’s close friend and producer, then replied asking on how to get in contact to Kid Cudi. The two later got in contact confirming a Kid Cudi and XXXTENTACION collaboration was in the works based around Kid Cudi recording new vocals on XXXTENTACION’s “The Edge”.

On September 15, 2021, John Cunningham replied to a tweet by an XXXTENTACION fanpage talking about the Kid Cudi and XXXTENTACION collaboration, saying “moment(s)” hinting at more than one collaboration between the two releasing.

In August 2023, a tracklist which was made by a fan based on the image of the pre-order vinyl showed that the fifteen track on INSANO was titled “X & CUD” starting speculation that this is the XXXTENTACION collaboration which was teased two years prior.

On January 8, 2024, Kid Cudi posted the official tracklist to INSANO confirming “X & CUD” as the fifteenth track with XXXTENTACION being listed as a feature. John Cunninghan later shared on the same day that the song had no new vocals from XXXTENTACION and was just a sample of one of his previously released songs, making it completely seperate collaboration to the previously teased “The Edge”.

X & CUD Lyrics by Kid Cudi & XXXTENTACION

[Intro: XXXTENTACION]
The pain in my heart just won’t end
The words that I find just don’t seem to compare
Awaitin’ my death in the end
Alone, I must seek out the end to begin

[Verse 1: Kid Cudi]
Mind is the maze thinkin’ ’bout what I can’t change
Devil’s on my head and I don’t want to worry my friends
They told me, “Say somethin’,” don’t think they’d understand
Momma truly gets when my daddy left, the wound, it ain’t mend
Livin’ out a life surrounded by lies, I try, I know
Sayin’ goodbye, but you’re stuck in my mind, the sun done went away, oh
Heaven, she knows I try, burn this blunt of mine, oh, with teary eyes
Search and you will find you, yeah, ay-oh

[Bridge: XXXTENTACION]
So nobody wants death ’cause nobody wants life to end
I’m the only one stressed and the only one tired of havin’ fake friends
Faced my fears, can’t keep love at all

[Verse 2: Kid Cudi]
Will he cower? Never, ever, Cleveland City
Born a grinder, watch him ripping, can’t stop him
Came in filthy, double O’a, reppin’ for ’em
Keep a flow up, bumpin’ Camp L’oa, Cud Lucini
Boy in the gritty city, this nigga had his Wheaties, huh
Runnin’ my mission, love, and God had looked out
Them niggas lungin’, dawg, don’t care about y’all
See, I’m off and I’m finna soar, I’m goin’ high up
You can’t tell me nothin’, you could never
In my varsity sleeves, leather, know I do it better
And these things, it seems, pile up on me heavily
So I just need my blunt and my girl to cuddle and love
I’m done with that deal, got Nikes back on my heels
Call up my nigga, Sil, world tourin’, pack up, we kill
And it’s pictures on Reels, we gettin’ it poppin’, no pills
You see they jockin’ ’em still, nigga, I’m doin’ it ill