If you're thinking about your brand over your people, you've lost yourself. — Cordae Copy Share Image
I don't even really try to do something different. I just do what's authentic to me. — Cordae Authentic Copy Share Image
I just always wear Pumas. I like the work they do in local communities, worldwide. — Cordae Copy Share Image
I only know English, so I feel like I can be the dopest French rapper ever if I learned French. — Cordae Copy Share Image
YBN is family. Everybody in YBN is family. Nahmir and Jay, those are really my brothers. — Cordae Brotherhood Copy Share Image
The artists with lyrical content and who say something seem to outlast the fad rappers - I always noticed that. — Cordae Copy Share Image
People compare me to Kendrick. I've seen comparisons with Jay-Z, with Nas, with Chance The Rapper. I get a lot of Eminem… — Cordae Chance Copy Share Image
Puma just, they really rock with me the long way. They've been rockin with me for a while. — Cordae Copy Share Image
If you can do something that's authentic to yourself, how you feel as a person, then it's gonna be different than everybody… — Cordae Authentic Copy Share Image
I'm perfecting my craft as an artist and as a performer, and my shows are getting better each time. — Cordae Art Copy Share Image
My grandmother was a sharecropper. That wasn't even that long ago! My grandma was a sharecropper. — Cordae Copy Share Image
I've been through college, and I lived in a trailer park for five years. I've lived in the trenches of Maryland, and… — Cordae Copy Share Image
In YBN, we all have our own lanes. We're not necessarily a group. We're more of a collective - it's like a… — Cordae Brotherhood Copy Share Image
My creativeness stems from my love of music. Music is pure emotion. Music is the infinity sign. Music is self-expression in its… — Cordae Anger Copy Share Image
With my fan base, I'm just vulnerable. I'm very transparent and vulnerable. — Cordae Fan Copy Share Image
When you're not authentic to yourself, you're lying. You're going to get found out and you're going to slip up. — Cordae Authentic Copy Share Image
Jay-Z was huge. I was like 2 years old throwing up my diamond, rapping. I know all of 'The Blueprint.' I've heard… — Cordae Album Copy Share Image
I bought an audio technician mic and Pro Tools SE, the demo version and was recording in the basement. — Cordae Copy Share Image
Having a dope mindset and good energy is rare, and you just putting a little bit of your light into someone else… — Cordae Change Copy Share Image
Hopefully, somebody who's hearing my music, it's relatable to them, and it strikes a cord with them. — Cordae Cord Copy Share Image
I can rippity rap, lyrical miracle all day, but if you don't have a message behind it and you not saying nothing,… — Cordae Day Copy Share Image
I like to rehearse a lot. Before I hit the stage, I listen to the songs that I would perform and make… — Cordae Copy Share Image
I just want to use my voice and my platform to help people. Whether it be political or therapeutic. — Cordae Help Copy Share Image
I want my music to make you reminiscent or nostalgic of your childhood, or take you back to a better place. — Cordae Copy Share Image
Washington D.C. and the entire DMV area are very dope places because they're such musically-inclined areas. — Cordae Copy Share Image
I keep a composition book with me at all times to write rhymes, to write down ideas, write down my thoughts, you… — Cordae Book Copy Share Image
Sometimes as friends, you grow apart and you have different visions for what you wanna do and that's OK, there's no love… — Cordae Friend Copy Share Image
The first time I ever visited L.A., I wanted to move here. It's the land of opportunity. — Cordae Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a Freshman because XXL is really important in the history of hip-hop. It embodies the culture. — Cordae Copy Share Image
Nas, Big L, Rakim, Jay-Z, Eminem, those was all my influences, but I didn't start recording until I was 16. — Cordae Copy Share Image
For a lot of artists in the entertainment industry, we can't become too jaded with what's going on with our personal lives… — Cordae Art Copy Share Image
Fashion is definitely important. It's like peanut butter and jelly with hiphop music, you know what I'm saying? So, it's a part… — Cordae Fashion Copy Share Image
At a festival, the people there are not all your fans, and this gives me a chance to win over new people.… — Cordae Chance Copy Share Image
I'm politically incorrect. I don't get into politics like that. I speak about what I know and what effects me personally, and… — Cordae Copy Share Image
