Kid Cudi revealed that he smoked between 15 and 20 blunts a day and traveled with a Louis Vuitton suitcase packed with “hundreds” of pre-rolls.
Speaking with Travis Barker on his Big Bro with Kid Cudi podcast, the rapper, 42, admitted he was rarely sober while awake.
“If I was awake, I was smoking no matter what I was doing,” he recalled.
Cudi said his ability to work through the habit kept others from intervening, although he privately recognized something was wrong.
“I’ve been able to be productive, but there was something for me that, I [was] just like, ‘Man, this feels wrong.’”
He entered rehab in early 2025 but relapsed three months later amid personal upheaval, including a stalker breaking into his home following California wildfire evacuations. Although Cudi continues using marijuana, he says he’s cut back to roughly four joints daily.
The admission follows years of personal and professional ups and downs, including his explosive feud with Kanye West in 2022. Ye publicly attacked Cudi over his friendship with Pete Davidson, who was romantically involved with Kim Kardashian at the time. The two musicians eventually squashed their beef.
Cudi is now preparing for his upcoming movie, in which he portrays celebrated artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Basquiat, the Brooklyn-born son of Haitian and Puerto Rican parents, rose from New York’s street art scene to international fame in the 1980s. Known for his crown imagery and paintings addressing racism and inequality, he died of a heroin overdose at 27.
Cudi’s film is expected to begin production in 2027.
