Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven is the fifth studio album by American musician Kid Cudi, released on December 4, 2015, through Republic Records and Cudi's Wicked Awesome Records imprint. Announced in April 2015 and completed in October of that year, the album was primarily produced by Cudi, with Plain Pat co-producing four of its tracks. It was released as a 26-track double album, consisting of the album proper ("Side A") and eight bonus tracks of demos and outtakes ("Side B").

A grunge and alternative rock album, Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven marked a departure from the hip-hop sound of his previous projects, drawing comparisons to his previous rock music project WZRD and Nirvana. The album is held together by four skits featuring Mike Judge voicing the titular characters of his animated sitcom, Beavis and Butt-Head. Its lyrics explore mental health, depression, alienation, self-harm, anger, and suicidal thoughts. Cudi said that the album was written during one of the darkest periods of his life, and later described it as a "cry for help".

Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven was promoted by two official singles, "Confused!" and the title track. Kid Cudi was due to embark on The Especial Tour from November to December 2015, but was cancelled and later rescheduled to January to March 2016 following the tour's first show. The album debuted at number 36 on the US Billboard 200 chart with first week sales of 19,000 album-equivalent units—a career low for Cudi—and received mixed reviews from critics. Due to its poor reception, Cudi abandoned his plans to release Man on the Moon III after Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven, in favour of Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin' (2016).

Background and recording

In October 2013, Kid Cudi announced that he would be releasing the long-awaited third and final part of his Man on the Moon series in 2015, with an extended play (EP) due to follow as a a "prelude" between his third album Indicud (2013) and the album.[1] By January 2014, Cudi had expanded the EP into an album,[2] which he suprise released the following month as Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon.[3] After previously hinting at the possibility of releasing another album before Man on the Moon III in a January 2015 interview with Billboard at the Sundance Film Festival,[4][5] Cudi announced on Twitter that his next album, titled Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven, was "coming really really soon".[6] Later that month, he said that unlike Satellite Flight, the album would not be a suprise release.[7]

On April 10, 2015, American drummer Travis Barker revealed he was in the studio with Kid Cudi and praised his upcoming album.[8] However, on May 25, 2015, Cudi announced that Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven would have no guest features.[9][10] On July 4, 2015, Cudi reported Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven to be "98% finished" and that its first single would be released by the end of the month.[11][12] He also stated that it would "consist of all guitar and bass",[11] although he later clarified that drums and electric guitar would appear on most of its tracks.[12] On October 17, 2015, Cudi tweeted that he was finalizing the album's tracklist and mixes;[13] he confirmed the album's release date on October 27.[14][15]

Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven was recorded at CA, Chalice, Conway and Henson Recording Studios in Los Angeles, and Red Barn Recording Studios in Big Sur.[16] Cudi produced the entireity of the album himself and performed all of the album's bass and guitar parts; he said that the album contained no "synths or electronic sounds" and that the only other person involved in its production was Plain Pat.[11] Cudi avoided using click tracks and quantization,[17] and recorded everything on the album using two-inch tape "for a richer and warmer sound quality".[15][18] Dennis Cummings, Cudi's manager, was given executive producer credit.[19]

Music and lyrics

Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven is a 26-track double album, consisting of eighteen tracks on the album proper ("Side A") and eight bonus tracks of demos and outtakes ("Side B").[20] Musically, it has been described as alternative rock,[21][22] grunge,[22][23] indie rock,[24] punk rock[25] and lo-fi.[22][24] Cudi described the album as alternative music.[26][27] Employing a 1990s-era sound,[21][28] and minimalistic production,[29] the album was described as a departure from the hip-hop sound of his previous albums.[21][30] Cudi employs singing,[31][30] groaning,[32] crooning,[30] shouting and screaming[31] throughout the album. According to Chris Mench of Complex, its songs lack traditional structures and "end up feeling more like unfiltered bursts of emotion".[22] Kris Ex of Billboard writes that Cudi "differentiates things raging up and down emotional scales, mores than musical ones."[21] The album is held together by four skits[22] featuring Mike Judge voicing the titular characters of his animated sitcom, Beavis and Butt-Head.[30]

Ex and Maxwell Cavaseno of HotNewHipHop compared the album's sound to WZRD, a collaborative project between Cudi and Dot da Genius whom released its epynomous debut album in 2012; the former characterized it as more of a stylistic "hard left turn" than in light of this.[21][28] Matthew Ramirez of Pitchfork considered it to be a more "unfiltered and unpolished" album compared to WZRD,[31] a sentiment also shared by David Jefferies of AllMusic.[29] Its also drew frequent comparisons to Nirvana.[22][23][33] Cavaseno and Tim Coffmann of Far Out both noted Cudi's past admiration for the band's frontman Kurt Cobain,[28][34] whom he gives a shout out on "Man in the Night".[31] In 2024, Cudi credited the Brett Morgen documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015) with inspiring Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven and "[expanding his] mind as an artist."[35]

The Chosen One
@KiDCuDi
 Twitter logo, a stylized blue bird

This album is dedicated to everyone strugglin with mental disorder all around the world

August 6, 2015[36]

Lyrically, Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven explores mental health,[31][25] depression,[22][32] alienation,[21] self-harm,[31] anger,[22] and suicidal thoughts.[22] Prior to its release, Cudi dedicated the album to "everyone strugglin with mental disorder all around the world."[37] Ex described its themes as "more internal — the flight is more about Cudi breaking free from his mortal coil than anything around him."[21] Mench wrote that it "spell[s] out [Cudi's personal struggles] in alarming sonic clarity".[22] Jeffries described the album's songwriting as stream-of-consciousness given the "generally simple or just strange" nature of Cudi's lyrics.[29]

In an 2016 interview with Billboard, Cudi said that Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven was intended as his "last outing as the dark, depressing character" people perceived him as, stating that he "didn’t want to come back to hip-hop making that type of music".[38] In 2019, he called the album's writing period one of his darkest and felt that "scream[ing] and yell[ing] and mak[ing] angry songs [...] was the only I could express what I was feeling at the time."[39] In 2020, he described the album as a "cry for help", stating: "I was literally screamin out to the world that I was hurting deeply and just wanted so badly to be understood."[40]

Songs

"Confused!"
The album's lead single sees Cudi "pondering huge questions" over post-punk guitar and clicking percussion.[25][32]
"Handle with Care"
"Handle with Care" is an acoustic number[30] that serves as a warning for a potential lover of his faults.[25]
"Speedin Bullet 2 Heaven"
On the album's title track, Cudi softly sings about manic depression over a "nostalgic" breakbeat.[31]
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Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven opens with "Edge of the Earth/Post Mortem Boredom", which Mench describes as a "folksy, mesmerizing tune".[22] "Confused!" sees Cudi "pondering huge questions" over post-punk guitar and clicking percussion.[25][32] On "Screwed", Cudi croons over "carefully plucked" guitar chords, per Mench.[22] Troy L. Smith of The Plain Dealer highlighted the song's "punk and grunge tendencies".[41] "Fade 2 Red" features a looping, droning riff and "shout-sing[ing]" vocals from Cudi, whose lyrics Adam Kivel of Consequence of Sound described as "mashed together with unrhymed lines about dealing with idiots."[32] "Adventures" is among the few tracks on Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven to display hip-hop influences.[32][30] Cudi said "The Nothing" is about "addiction, [and] the hauntings of it. Calling us."[42] Ramirez described the song as "a riff" on the nursery rhyme "Mary, Mary Quite Contrary".[31] "Handle with Care" is an acoustic number[32] that serves as a warning for a potential lover of his faults.[25] "Judgemental Cunt" features a "classic stoner stomp"[32] and sees Cudi break his voice whilst screaming.[31] Kivel described the song as "a middle finger to the people hating on him",[32] though Smith and Ramirez saw its lyrics as self-critical.[25][31] Chris Tart of HotNewHipHop viewed "Séance Chaos" as worshipping the hardcore punk of Bad Brains.[33] Jefferies described "Fairy Tale Remains" as sounding like "Death Grips [attempting] to make a My Bloody Valentine album" without "the chops".[29]

"Wedding Tux" is an acoustic jam[43] revolving around an "entrancing" two-chord pattern. Cudi sings about "maggots eating away [at his] memories",[32][31] and calls his girlfriend an "emotional slave slut" who uses him and treats him like "rotting meat", per Rap-Up.[43] Tart compared its "absolutely miserable" vibes to those of Elliott Smith.[33] On the album's title track, Cudi softly sings about manic depression over a "nostalgic" breakbeat, per Ramirez.[31] Mench compared the song and "Insides Out" to Cudi's earlier songs "All Along" and "Mr. Rager".[22] The title track also appears as an acoustic demo at the end of "Side B".[21] Hench described "Embers" as "a fever-dream of quiet existentialism".[22] Kivel described "The Return of Chip Douglas" as a "groaning-over-acoustic-guitar" song and compared it to a joke warm-up by Gordon Gano at a Violent Femmes rehearsal.[32]

Release and promotion

On May 12, 2015, Cudi posted a link to a preview a song via his Twitter account, which he quickly deleted after.[44][45] On August 1, 2015, he released "Confused!" as the lead single from Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven.[46] On September 29, 2015, he revealed that it would be released as a double album.[47] On October 2, 2015, following delays related to iTunes and his record label,[43] Cudi released two new songs, "Wedding Tux" and "Judgmental Cunt", on his SoundCloud page.[48][49] On November 13, 2015, Cudi revealed the track-listing to the album's first disc (Side A).[50] Four days later, he unveiled its cover art.[51]

Kid Cudi was due to embark on a concert tour of the United States, The Especial Tour, from November 30 to December 22, 2015.[52] However, following the tour's first show in Denver,[53] Cudi cancelled the rest of the tour for various reasons, such as production and personal issues. He wrote: "I got a lot I'm dealing with at this time in my personal life too and in order for the shows to be the best experience possible as well as keeping my sanity intact, I need to regroup. I have to." To make up for postponing the concert tour, Cudi released the album's title-track as the second single the following day.[54][55] On January 5, 2016, he released an acoustic version of "Confused!".[56] The Especial Tour dates were later rescheduled to January 31 to March 12, 2016.[57]

Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven was first released through digital music platforms on December 4, 2015, with its physical release arriving on December 18.[55] Cudi explained: "The detailed package design I created requires some human assembly and takes a lil longer which is why the physicals come out 2 weeks later".[58] The album sold 19,365 album equivalent units in its first week, and 14,210 which were from pure album sales, and debuted at number 36 on the US Billboard 200 chart.[59] It was Kid Cudi's first album to not chart within the top 10,[38] and its sales and chart positions marked a career low for him.[60] In January 2025, the album was issued on vinyl for the first time through Complex.[61]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic44/100[62]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[29]
Billboard[21]
Complex[22]
Consequence of SoundD+[32]
HipHopDX[30]
HotNewHipHop68%[28]
The Needle Drop0/10[63]
Pitchfork4.0/10[31]
The Plain DealerC−[25]

Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven received mixed reviews from critics.[60] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100, to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 44 out of 100 based on five reviews, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[62]

Troy L. Smith of The Plain Dealer called the album it "a poor man's Yeezus - a baffling case of experimentation without any of the sonic depth."[25] Jason Bisnof of HipHopDX deemed it creatively inferior to his first two albums Man on the Moon: The End of Day (2009) and Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager (2010), stating: "For many artists or rock groups this would show pieces of strong artistry, but for the man behind two of the best albums of the last decade, it seems like yet another identity crisis on wax".[30] The Michigan Daily's Matt Galatin criticized its length and Beavis and Butt-Head skits, feeling that the latter characters' "irreverent and self aware comedy" was at odds with Cudi and would sometimes appear to mock him "without his realization".[23]

Adam Kivel of Consequence of Sound felt the album would have benefitted from using a better producer or skilled group of musicians.[32] Maxwell Cavaseno of HotNewHipHop stated that Cudi's "musicianship is at best, limited, or at worst, the patched together works of a deluded wanna be rock-star".[28] Matthew Ramirez of Pitchfork wrote that Cudi's "approach to making a 'rock album' is even more dated than Lil Wayne’s, grounded in ideas and sounds that are now two decades old."[31] Anthony Fantano of The Needle Drop gave the album a zero out of ten, calling it the worst album he had reviewed in 2015.[63] Fantano's review led to the album becoming the subject of memes.[64]

Vice's Adam Downer considered the album to be a work of "so bad it's good" art, comparing it to Tommy Wiseau’s 2003 film The Room. [65] Chris Mench of Complex called the album "ultimately messy, challenging, and rough around the edges (perhaps more so than anything Scott has ever released), but there's also something about it that's admirably unique."[22] Kris Ex of Billboard found the album "uncomfortably internal" but nevertheless "a pleasurable listen. It's not as gleefully nihilistic as Future, but comes across just as revelatory. And it's more pointed than the fabricated faux-rebellion of Travi$ Scott."[21] The album was praised by several of Cudi's peers, including Erykah Badu,[66] Kanye West,[60] and André 3000.[67] ASAP Rocky later named it his favorite Kid Cudi album.[68]

In 2018, Gus Fisher of HotNewHipHop suggested that the negative reception to the album was a "glaring [example] of the music media immediately shutting down Black artists for stepping outside of the confines of what is deemed as 'Black music.' "[69] In 2019, Cyclone Wehrer of The Music called the album "underrated".[70] In a 2022 listicle covering "Hip-Hop Albums That Didn't Live Up to the Hype", XXL wrote the most of the album's songs lacked "enough oomph to make them remarkable" and remarked that although "Day-one Cudi fans would argue that his project wasn’t nearly as bad as people make it out to be", fans that "[knew] the full extent of his artistic talent [...] would say otherwise."[71] In 2024, Rolling Stone dismissed the album as "bland, Afropunk-baiting alt-rock".[72]

Aftermath

In an April 2016 interview with Billboard, Cudi said that he would no longer be releasing Man on the Moon III after Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven.[38] He said that the the response to the album "tore [him] up" and that its poor commercial performance led him to "[question] my fan base and if I even have one at all".[38] The following month, Cudi claimed in a Tweet that Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven was ahead of its time and believed its impact would be seen "In five years, maybe sooner".[60] In December 2016, he released his sixth album, Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin', which he later he revealed that the album was intended to be Man on the Moon III but wanted to "be in a better place" when he ultimately released the final installment of his trilogy.[73] Cudi refused to discuss Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven and its songs in the 2021 documentary A Man Named Scott.[68][74] In 2022, "Confused!" and "Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven" were included in Cudi's first greatest hits compilation The Boy Who Flew to the Moon, Vol. 1.[75]

Track listing

All songs are written by Scott Mescudi; all songs are produced by Mescudi, except where noted.[16]

Side A
No.TitleProducer(s)Length
1."Edge of the Earth/Post Mortem Boredom" 4:43
2."Confused!" 3:56
3."Man in the Night" 3:50
4."Screwed" 2:27
5."Fade 2 Red" 2:57
6."Adventures"
6:10
7."The Nothing" 3:30
8."Amen"
  • Mescudi
  • Reynolds
3:04
9."Handle with Care" 3:45
10."Judgemental Cunt" 3:05
11."Séance Chaos" 1:53
12."Fairy Tale Remains" 3:06
13."Wedding Tux" 2:32
14."Angered Kids"
  • Mescudi
  • Reynolds
3:31
15."Red Sabbath" 4:38
16."Fuchsia Butterflies" 2:45
17."Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven"
  • Mescudi
  • Reynolds
4:34
18."Embers" 3:00
Total length:63:26
Side B
No.TitleLength
1."Anomaly" (Rehearsal Demo)4:34
2."The Return of Chip Douglas" (Demo)4:15
3."Trauma"2:44
4."Wait!" (Rehearsal Demo)1:58
5."Insides Out"3:07
6."Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven" (Acoustic Demo)3:24
7."Worth"5:17
8."Melting"2:37
Total length:27:56

Notes

  • All Beavis and Butt-Head interludes written by Scott Mescudi and Mike Judge.[16]
  • "Confused!", "Amen" and "Melting" are stylized in all caps.

Personnel

Credits for Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven adapted from liner notes.[16]

  • Scott Mescudi – vocals, guitars, bass, production, executive producer, art direction, creative art
  • Oladipo Omishore – bass (B4)
  • Mike Moore – live drums (A2, A3, A5, A8, A11, A12, A14, B1, B4)

Production

  • Patrick Reynolds – production (A6, A8, A14, A17)
  • Dennis Cummings – executive producer
  • Iain Findlay – engineer (A3, A4, A5, A9, A15, A18, B3–6), mixing (A18, B3, B4, B8)
  • Anthony Kilhoffer – engineer (A1, A2, A6, A7, A8, A10–14, A16, A17, B1, B2, B7, B8) mixing (A1–17, B1, B2, B5, B6, B7)
  • Gavin Lurssen – mastering

Studios

  • CA Recording Studios – recording (A1, A10, A13)
  • Chalice Recording Studios – recording (A3, A5, A9, A15, A18, B4, B5, B7), mixing (A2, A5, A6, A8, A10, B7)
  • Conway Recording Studios – recording (A1, A3, A10, A13), mixing (A1, A3)
  • Henson Recording Studios – recording (A4, A8, A11, A12, A14, A16, A17, B1–3, B6, B8), mixing (A4, A7, A9, A11, A12–18, B1–6, B8)
  • Red Barn Recording Studios – recording (A1, A2, A6, A10)

Artwork

  • Sandy Brummels – creative art
  • Vada Mescudi – City Heart sculpture, Daddy portrait
  • Kyledidthis – art direction

Charts

Chart (2015) Peak
position
US Billboard 200[76] 36
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[77] 5
US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard)[78] 3

Release history

Country Date Format Label
United States December 4, 2015
December 18, 2015 2xCD
October 28, 2016 Cassette[79]
January 30, 2025 2xLP[61]

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