“Drake & Josh” was actually a kids’s present, however one well-known rapper apparently beloved it.
Former solid members of the Nickelodeon sequence reunited Sunday for a panel dialogue on the Anaheim Conference Middle, the place one of many titular stars, Josh Peck, mentioned rapper Child Cudi was “a massive fan” — and recalled studying that when he ran into him at a membership.
“Kid Cudi was a big fan of ‘Drake & Josh,’” Peck mentioned through the Nostalgia Con panel, per Individuals. “Which I didn’t know. But I was in some club … and I see a buddy, [actor] Bryan Greenberg, he’s on a show with Kid Cudi. I’m a massive fan. He was like, ‘Yo, let me introduce you. He’s great.’”
Peck recalled attempting to dissuade his pal from making the introduction, which will need to have occurred within the late 2000s or early 2010s, as Greenberg and Cudi — whose actual title is Scott Mescudi — co-starred on HBO’s “How to Make It in America” from 2010 to 2011.
“So I’m walking up to him and he goes, ‘AAAAAA, I love “Drake & Josh,”’” Peck recalled Sunday. “I’m like, ‘I love you Kid Cudi.’ And he’s like, ‘Call me Scott.’ And I’m like, ‘I don’t want to.’ So he’s like, ‘Yo, take my number down, we should talk.’”
“[I] was like, cool, if this bubble comes up green tomorrow, I won’t be hurt,” he added.
Peck remains to be finest referred to as the full of life teen on “Drake & Josh,” which started its run in 2004, when Cudi would have been 20 years previous.
However Peck can also be a lifelong hip-hop fan whose encounter with Cudi naturally left him in disbelief. Peck recalled steeling himself in opposition to the prospect of by no means talking to him once more, however was rapidly proved flawed.
“The next day he texts me like, ‘Yo, what’s good. Whatcha doing?’” Peck recalled Sunday, per Individuals. “He’s like, ‘Oh, I’m about to go shopping on Rodeo Drive.’ I’m like, ‘Cool, I’m playing Xbox in my friend’s basement. So, samesies.’”
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Peck mentioned he was finally invited over to hearken to his album “and talk about ‘Drake & Josh’ for three hours.” Whereas Cudi obsessives will certainly attempt to decipher which LP, precisely, the rapper performed for him, Peck remains to be surprised that he received to befriend the rapper within the first place.
“It makes no sense,” he reportedly mentioned onstage Sunday.
Peck has lengthy publicly spoken about his love of hip-hop and famously starred reverse Wu-Tang Clan rapper Methodology Man within the critically acclaimed, criminally underseen 2008 drama “The Wackness” — a bona fide love letter to the boom-bap period of the Nineteen Nineties.
“I love hip-hop music,” Peck instructed Ion Cinema in 2008. “I think it’s ingrained in you. And it’s music of my generation. It’s poetry set to a beat. … Now I don’t really get into the generic rap music, talking about pimps and hos and bling and what not.”
“But, I feel like if you don’t like old school hip-hop, you’re not a hip-hop fan to me,” he added.
