It’s been a busy yr for Child Cudi. Again in Could 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 word, Cudi additionally received married a few weeks in the past, and as we speak he’s introduced a brand new album known as Free that’ll be out subsequent month too.
TMZ studies 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 received engaged final yr and married within the South Of France, the place Sartore is from. In keeping with their coveted Vogue Weddings function, 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 function the Could single “Neverland” in addition to as we speak’s new single “Grave.” “Grave’ is a melodramatic stomp-clap ballad about discovering causes to need to keep alive: “Now I’m seeing choices/ And I wanna choose in,” he sings. Watch Samuel Bayer’s video for it beneath.
Free is out 8/22 by way of Republic.