''Both Parents Are Fit & Proper Persons...''
1:30PM ET November 20th, 2012
Contributor : Chris G.
A Rocky Williform Company

Cleveland-born rapper Kid Cudi lost a contentious custody battle with the mother of his daughter this week, and reports claimed that she alleged that he had been physically abusive towards her and struggled with drug addiction. The G.O.O.D. Music star's camp has issued a statement denouncing her claims and vouching for Cudi's behavior as a parent.

"The truth is that in August 2012, Kid Cudi and his daughter's mother jointly reached an amicable agreement on the issues of legal custody and parenting time. While Kid Cudi's lawyer, Lauren Blair of the Chicago-based law firm, Pedersen & Houpt, will not comment on the details of the parties' custody and parenting agreement, which are private, she did state that the final custody judgment in Kid Cudi's case expressly acknowledges that 'both parents are fit and proper persons to have custody of their child.' Ms. Blair also made clear that allegations of a purported history of drug and alcohol use and violent behavior that were made in the early stages of the case were based on "stale" information from internet videos, interviews and other 'unreliable hearsay sources' about alleged isolated incidents with unrelated persons as far back as December 2009, June 2010 and July 2010. In fact, Kid Cudi voluntarily agreed to take a drug test to dispute those allegations and to dispel any notion that he was unfit to parent based on allegations of illegal drug use, and the test results came back negative for drugs."