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Kid Cudi has long been associated with weed, describing himself as a “lonely stoner” as far back as his hit single ‘Day N Nite’. The Cleveland rapper has now opened up about how marijuana took over his life.

During a new interview, Cudi explained how he was abusing weed and was into double digits when it came to smoking blunts. He returned to rehab in November and quit the drug entirely for two weeks.

“I just was in this place where I was abusing it,” he told People. “I was really abusing it. I was smoking maybe 15 blunts a day, wake up in the mornings, get high. It truly ruled my life.”

He stopped smoking for two months before wanting to start again, but he’s now got to the point where he’s doing it for fun.

“Now I just get after it at night or on the weekends when I have the free time and I’m just relaxing, but I’m not smoking nowhere near as much weed as I was smoking before,” he revealed. “A joint lasts me all day, damn near. So my relationship has changed with that in a major way. And I’m just more interested in being sober a lot more and being more present.”

Cudi has been filming a new movie over the summer and has seen a difference in being sober on set. “Granted, it’s not like it hinders me in any type of way because I was smoking so much that I wasn’t really getting high,” he said.

“So people have seen me act for years and they love my acting. They love the stuff I’ve done, but it’s just something different when you’re on set and you’re sober and you can feel the emotions. Because in this movie, I cried a handful of times and it was easy to get there because I was sober. There’s no way I could have done this if I was high as shit.”