Quotes from Cordae

I liked Big L's wordplay with the multi-syllable rhymes he hit so clean.

If you're getting $80 a show, then you're not getting paid.

The first time I ever visited L.A., I wanted to move here. It's the land of opportunity.

The last thing I want to do with my platform is bash another young black man who is getting money.

You gotta be crazy to want beef with Eminem and MGK is that.

I don't know, I really try not to pay attention to comparisons, 'cause I'm my own artist. I try to build my own sound.

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 of you, a part of yourself as a person.

I'm perfecting my craft as an artist and as a performer, and my shows are getting better each time.

With my fan base, I'm just vulnerable. I'm very transparent and vulnerable.

My creativeness stems from my love of music. Music is pure emotion. Music is the infinity sign. Music is self-expression in its purest form - it's how I express my anger, my self-doubt, my love. I think my music is very vulnerable and very expressive, very transparent.

Hell yea bro I love Puma.

I want to impact the world and the culture in a positive way, spread super dope messages and help people through my music.

Sometimes as friends, you grow apart and you have different visions for what you wanna do and that's OK, there's no love lost.

Nobody wants to be nameless. Nobody wanna be forgotten.

My mom is the best. She's the dopest. She just loves everything that's going on. She's very supportive.

I keep a composition book with me at all times to write rhymes, to write down ideas, write down my thoughts, you know just so I don't forget any ideas.

I'm politically incorrect. I don't get into politics like that. I speak about what I know and what effects me personally, and effects my folks.

I don't try to portray some lifestyle that I'm not living.

I was on the debate team.

I freestyled the hook to 'Target.' I got into cadence and then it sparked the idea.

I got a cool car but I live fairly regular.

Having a dope mindset and good energy is rare, and you just putting a little bit of your light into someone else can change their whole perspective on life just doing that.

I always wanted to be a Freshman because XXL is really important in the history of hip-hop. It embodies the culture.

If you can do something that's authentic to yourself, how you feel as a person, then it's gonna be different than everybody else because everybody's different.