“Day ‘n’ Nite” is the debut single by American rapper Kid Cudi. The song was written and produced by Cudi alongside his longtime collaborator and friend, Brooklyn-based producer Dot da Genius. It was issued as Cudi’s commercial debut single on February 5, 2008, but had initially been released on Cudi’s MySpace page and later featured on several music blogs in November 2007.
The single, which was included on his breakout mixtape A Kid Named Cudi (2008), also serves as the lead single from his debut studio album Man on the Moon: The End of Day (2009). The song has since been certified diamond (10× platinum) in the United States.The song peaked at number three on the US Billboard Hot 100. The song was ranked at number 15 on the “Best 25 Songs of 2009” list by Rolling Stone and also ranked at number seven on Complex’s “100 Best Songs of The Complex Decade”.
