Dr. Pill is a song that was written about the frustrations Kid Cudi had while trying various anti-depressants and only feeling ‘every side effect on the bottle’ according to an interview he has given Complex for their February/March 2013 issue.

I took a trip on antidepressant lane for a little bit. After the WZRD song “Dr. Pill” everyone thought I was talkings about molly or ecstasy. But I’m talking about prescription meds. I had just gotten a shrink. I was having an emotional breakdown with this breakup. I kept trying different pills for five months. It fucked me up. They weren’t working. It was every side effect on the bottle. I couldn’t fuck.

Check out the full interview here.

This song came together in the nick of time for WZRD. Cudi explains:

This was my clutch of all clutches. This was my Jordan Game 6 moment of this whole album…I didn’t have no lyrics when I gave the label the song for the track listing – I just had a beat. I just knew that this song had to be on this album…Mind you, I have two days to mix and master and then put it on the album and then get it out there

If I didn’t finish this in time, two things would have happened. We would have either pushed the date back, or kids would have had an album with a track listing that said “Dr. Pill,” but there’s no “Dr. Pill” on the album. All day that day, I’m listening to this beat – nothing. I couldn’t come up with shit. And then 4:30 in the morning, I’m just sitting there in my bed and I’m getting ready to pass out, and then it just hit me, and I just start going, [and I] wrote both verses