Kid Cudi and Cage kill people in “MANIAC” mini-movie

Ah, Kid Cudi – how nice of you to finally join us.

Man On the Moon II dropped almost a year ago today, but it’s only been in recent months that the Cudster has actually bothered promoting the thing. In September he dropped a music video for the album’s non-single “Mr. Rager”, and earlier today Cudi and his cohort Cage finally released the long-awaited visual for another one of the album’s non-singles, “MANIAC”.

The video comes in the form of a violent 10-minute mini-movie directed by actor Shia Lebeouf, and contains no actual music except for a few instrumental scraps from “MANIAC”.

This video ain’t as good as what T-ara’s “Cry Cry” is gon’ be, but proceed below for the tea anyway.

The visual follows the cold and reckless pair of Cudi and Cage as they go on a Christmas murder spree with a camera crew in tow, shooting innocent folk, robbing pharmacies, and kissing corpses. The majority is shot in black & white, and it’s all in French. Why, you ask? I’m guessing it was Kanye West’s lame idea.

“Yo Cudi man, you need to shoot this “MANIAC” thing in black & white, and make it all in FRENCH! It’ll give it that next level edge you know? We ain’t just makin’ videos, we’re making ART, and it’s up to us to lead the way and fight this mainstream bullshit. It’s like my masterpiece ‘Runaway’, which was inspired by Fellini. Man, I ain’t never sat through a Fellini film all the way, they just way too long, but man, it’s just about cutting through the crap and doing some real shit. WHAT DO YOU MEAN TAYLOR SWIFT’S NEW ALBUM SOLD 6 MILLION WORLDWIDE! This bitch is STILL on my DAMN DICK getting those sales off of my name. Nobody knew who she was before me. You may as well add those 6 milli figures to my tally coz she is irrelevant without Yeezy, ya heard?”

Nah, that’s actually not the real reason. It was in French and black & white because “MANIAC” is a recreation of the Belgian film Man Bites Dog. It’s a clear homage, but a rather pointless one. Cudi made one of the best albums of 2010, only to barely promote it, and then when he finally releases another music video from the damn thing, it contains no actual music and is an exact replica of something we’ve seen before.

Seriously dude, that’s not cool, and the only person that this mini-movie is going to blow away are stupid Kanye West stans. At least next time put some music in the music video, mini-movie, whatever you want to call it.

FYI: I still love you Cudi and you’re forever my husband.

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  • http://thehomosocial.com/ Petey Pete

    I loved the short film, I thought it was very well made.

    But saying that it makes me uncomfortable knowing kids idolise Cudi. I don’t think there is anything wrong with the film what-so-ever but Cudi still has a responsibility over his younger fans.

    Of course I did not pick up on a story-line and the characters had nothing to make them interesting, it was pretty much 10 mins of pretentiousness but you can’t deny that it was well made.

    As far as releasing it so late, I would love to see more albums promoted over longer periods of time. I hate that albums die out after a few months. The only problem with Cudi is the fact that he disappears for long periods of time.

  • http://thehomosocial.com/ Petey Pete

    I loved the short film, I thought it was very well made.

    But saying that it makes me uncomfortable knowing kids idolise Cudi. I don’t think there is anything wrong with the film what-so-ever but Cudi still has a responsibility over his younger fans.

    Of course I did not pick up on a story-line and the characters had nothing to make them interesting, it was pretty much 10 mins of pretentiousness but you can’t deny that it was well made.

    As far as releasing it so late, I would love to see more albums promoted over longer periods of time. I hate that albums die out after a few months. The only problem with Cudi is the fact that he disappears for long periods of time.

  • http://thehomosocial.com/ Petey Pete

    I loved the short film, I thought it was very well made.

    But saying that it makes me uncomfortable knowing kids idolise Cudi. I don’t think there is anything wrong with the film what-so-ever but Cudi still has a responsibility over his younger fans.

    Of course I did not pick up on a story-line and the characters had nothing to make them interesting, it was pretty much 10 mins of pretentiousness but you can’t deny that it was well made.

    As far as releasing it so late, I would love to see more albums promoted over longer periods of time. I hate that albums die out after a few months. The only problem with Cudi is the fact that he disappears for long periods of time.

  • http://thehomosocial.com/ Petey Pete

    I loved the short film, I thought it was very well made.

    But saying that it makes me uncomfortable knowing kids idolise Cudi. I don’t think there is anything wrong with the film what-so-ever but Cudi still has a responsibility over his younger fans.

    Of course I did not pick up on a story-line and the characters had nothing to make them interesting, it was pretty much 10 mins of pretentiousness but you can’t deny that it was well made.

    As far as releasing it so late, I would love to see more albums promoted over longer periods of time. I hate that albums die out after a few months. The only problem with Cudi is the fact that he disappears for long periods of time.

  • Faithz

    Alrighty  then

  • SerferTJ

    lol, Thanks for saving me an extra 10 minutes of my life! Now I’m not the least bit interested in watching this video. hahaha!
    Shame too, cuz “Maniac” was one of my favorite Kid Cudi tracks.

    Now excuse me while I spend those 10 minutes watching Girlicious’ much more tangible “Maniac” 3 times…
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgjwywlSrZ0&ob=av2e

  • Lovemusic1

    love him.

  • Lovemusic1

    He is not your husband, He is mines lol

  • Lovemusic1

    Yeah agree, He could put more music.

  • Lovemusic1

    lol you should watch him on How to make in America on HBO Love that show.

  • Lovemusic1

    Love him

  • Lovemusic1

    He is so cool.