I've only gotten into him just recently. Like, his name and hype been around me for awhile now and I just brushed it off cuz people hype up anything. I heard that Day n Nite song and thought it was cool but didn't think much of it and didn't know who the hell it was from. Then I heard just the instrumental for Sky Might Fall on some basketball mix and I got hooked as I got some mixtapes. Kid's got a good ear for beats and he can ride a track well.
Cudi's def the best of the newbies in the game right now
co sign as well, really liked his first tape, but couldn't get into Kid From Cleveland, hit or miss
as far as Drake, I like some of his music, So Far Gone was a hot tape, but his hype is getting way too big
regardless it's nice to see people being themselves for once in hip hop, I don't think I would have ever started to play around with music if hip hop was in the state it was 4 or 5 years ago
I personally like So Far Gone better than Comeback season. But Drake's like a hybrid of Wayne, 808s Kanye and Trey Songz to me but I think he's dope. A lot of the beats on So Far Gone the mixtape sound like remakes or slightly remixed versions of kanye's "welcome to heartbreak" but i find them & the lyrics dope.