“Surfin'” by Kid Cudi featuring Pharrell

Kid Cudi launched Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin', his sixth studio album, with "Surfin'", the lead single, which came out in 2016 on the same day as "Frequency". He wrote it with Pharrell Williams, who produced it and turns up in person on the long outro of the album version. Vulture found Pharrell's production all sunshine and electronic brass, there's a pulse of African drums underneath, and the whole thing sways like a sea shanty.

The single runs just under four minutes, but the album cut stretches past six, and after all that rapping around the chorus Cudi signs off, closing both the song and the record, with 15 seconds of a cappella yodeling. He directed the video himself, and the song later made his first greatest-hits set, The Boy Who Flew to the Moon, Vol. 1.

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