Kid Cudi is opening up about how he had to break down the criminal trial involving Sean “Diddy” Combs to his teenage daughter.
On the premiere episode of his new podcast Big Bro with Kid Cudi, the 42-year-old rapper sat down with guest Kylie Jenner to talk about the realities of raising kids in the spotlight—and the difficulty of shielding them from situations beyond their control.
“I was all in the news with the Diddy trial, and all that shit was going crazy,” Cudi shared around the 39-minute mark of the video. “During that time, I know my daughter came across something online. Like, I know she saw that shit, and I can’t protect her from that.”
Cudi’s daughter, Vada, was 15 years old when her father took the stand against Diddy, who was found guilty in the widely publicized case last year.
“It’s when something like that happens and it’s like huge news and everybody’s talking about it,” the artist went on to say.
He added, “I think we had a conversation about it … I definitely should have that conversation because she is the type where she will see something and then not say anything to me because she feels like it’s out of line.”
Elsewhere on the podcast, Jenner, 28, opened up about her 8-year-old daughter Stormi becoming more aware of just how famous their family is.
“I think it’s super—maybe normal to them,” she explained. “They see people come up to me and ask me for photos. My son [Aire] not so much, my daughter for sure now. She asked me the other day, ‘Why are we famous? Why is our whole family famous?’ I’m like, ‘Actually, let me try to answer!’”
Jenner said she told Stormi that her family “started a television show when I was a year older than you,” and even sat down with her to watch the first episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians.
“I was so emotional after. Like, I don’t know what hit me, but I was weeping in my bed,” she shared. “Like I don’t know why that happened to me. I was just like maybe it’s like my daughter being the same age as I was. And just seeing my family and … just feeling so grateful for all that we’ve built but also mourning like that closeness when we were all kind of living under the same roof. It was very emotional. I didn’t know it was going to hit me like that.”
