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Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager is the second studio album by American hip hop recording artist Kid Cudi. It was released on November 9, 2010, by GOOD Music and Universal Motown. The album was supported by two singles: "Erase Me" featuring Kanye West and "Mr. Rager".

Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager debuted at number three on the Billboard 200, selling 169,000 copies during its first week of release. The album received generally positive reviews from critics. On July 26, 2012, the album was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), for shipments of 500,000 copies in the United States.

Jim Jonsin compared Cudi's blending of sounds to B.o.B's genre-bending album The Adventures of Bobby Ray, stating "It's a mix. It's kind of some club stuff, some hip-hop traditional rap stuff, and then some rock-pop stuff. He's goin' everywhere." Cudi later said that Jonsin had misinformed fans about the new album, "I got mad love for Jim but he was misinformed. There is no Kanye & Kid Cudi Duran Duran song, I'd sample a 90s record before a 80s record anyday and when I worked with Jim, I hadn't even started sessions with Plain Pat and Emile yet so the direction of my album was yet to be determined."

Cudi stated that "Man On The Moon II is dark by nature and instead of bringing you into my dreams like my first album, I'm bringing you into my reality, good and bad. It will explain more of who I am as well as pushing the envelope musically." Cudi also stated he has scrapped the collaborative theme of Cudder for a project that is more personal. He also discusses his former cocaine addiction on the album. Music critic Matthew Cole, noted elements of rock music on the album and wrote that it "finds Cudi burrowing deeper into the black hole of spacey psychedelia, fusing the clinical, synthetic hip-hop of 808s & Heartbreak with rock sounds derived from Hendrix, Pink Floyd and Zappa."

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