Kid Cudi is from Cleveland.

But he doesn't rep his city like a lot of rappers rep there's.

LeBron James's agent and right-hand man, Rich Paul -- who's from Cleveland and has spent a good chunk of his life there -- thinks he knows why.

“Do I think how Cudi treats Cleveland is weird? No, because I don’t think Cleveland ever embraced Cudi, unfortunately. Because you can’t expect somebody to treat a situation any different to how they were treated," Paul said on fellow Clevelander Jake Paul's (no relation) podcast.

Would the planet (or at least Ohio) be more aligned if Cudi and Cleveland came to an understanding?