In his recent interview with CBS Mornings, Kid Cudi opened up about his past friendship with Kanye West and said they will never be friends again.
“He’s said some things that there’s just no coming back from. The comments that he’s had about Virgil Abloh are just some of the most evil, vile, disturbing, f–ked-up things I’ve heard. Every time he took a dig at Virgil, it just made me super angry. Virgil was an angel to everyone,” he explained.
West and Abloh were once close creative collaborators after meeting during a 2009 internship at Fendi and later worked together at Ye’s creative agency, Donda. Tensions surfaced in 2018 after Abloh was named Louis Vuitton’s menswear artistic director, a move Ye later admitted sparked feelings of “jealousy and fear.”
Kid Cudi says his friendship with Ye is officially over, calling the fallout “heartbreaking.”
“The man that he has become, I just don’t know that guy anymore.”
— XXL Magazine (@XXL) August 13, 2025
After Abloh’s death in 2021, Ye publicly slammed him, accusing him of betrayal.
Cudi continued, “There’s no coming back from that, man. I’m done with you. And it breaks my heart because I loved Kanye. I really loved him. He was part of my life changing and at some point he was a really good friend but the man that he has become, I just don’t know that guy anymore. I don’t know him. I don’t know that version of him and it’s really heartbreaking.”