Day ‘N’ Night (The Remixes)
Kid Cudi
“Day ‘N’ Night” is the next in a recent lineage of electronic-influenced hip hop making a huge impact on hit radio. Hip hop has been courting electronica and club music for several years now, but unlike people like Pitbull and Kanye West who just blatantly sample club hits [presumably because the genre is less familiar to the general public and they assume no one’s going to notice their highway robbery], Kid Cudi makes the music his own, using the genre’s legacy as inspiration instead of a gimmick, and creates a hybrid sound that is innovation not imitation. And unlike a lot of hip hop, Cudi isn’t the least bit afraid of a club mix, employing the talents of Bimbo Jones, Crookers, D.O.N.S., Agent X, TC and Mobin Master, all with incredible effect.
