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Kid Cudi is at "complete, total peace"

The multi-platinum musician released his revelatory new memoir and 11th studio album this month, telling PEOPLE about the process of looking back at his rise to fame, experiences with addiction and depression and life now as a father and husband

"I know that I help people with the music, but I try to not dwell on it too much," he says

Kid Cudi 's powerful new memoir begins with a just-as-powerful introduction from his mother, Elsie Mescudi.

By all accounts, Elsie has been her son's champion throughout his story, having nurtured Cudi's creative spirit as an aspiring rapper in Cleveland before his meteoric rise to fame in the late '00s. She knows her son, born Scott Mescudi, better than most, so her words in the opening pages of his r

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