Kid Cudi was born in Cleveland, Ohio and grew up in suburban Shaker Heights and Solon.
His father was a house painter, substitute teacher and World War II veteran was Indigenous-Mexican, while his mother, a middle-school choir teacher at Roxboro Middle School, in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, is Africa-American.
Born Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi in suburban Cleveland, his career took off after he moved to Brooklyn and became affiliated with Fool's Gold, the label of DJs A-Trak and Nick Catchdubs.
When he was eleven years old, Mescudi's father passed away from cancer; his passing would have a significant effect on his personality and subsequently his music.
Kid Cudi attended Shaker Heights High School for two years, transferred to Solon High School, and earned his GED.
Later, Mescudi studied film at the University of Toledo then dropped out after a year.
Mescudi first began rapping towards the end of high school, inspired by alternative hip hop groups such as The Pharcyde and A Tribe Called Quest.
He moved to Brooklyn, New York to pursue a music career.
Cudi's debut album Man on the Moon: The End of Day was released on Universal Motown Records on September 15, 2009 and sold 104,419 copies in the first week and charted at #4.
On June 11, 2010, Kid Cudi was arrested in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York, and charged with felony criminal mischief and possession of a controlled substance after an alleged incident with him and a 24-year-old woman.
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