A biography for Cordaehasn’t been written yet.
“My grandmother was a sharecropper. That wasn't even that long ago! My grandma was a sharecropper.”
“If you're getting $80 a show, then you're not getting paid.”
“Nas' storytelling was just fire.”
“You gotta be crazy to want beef with Eminem and MGK is that.”
“I liked Big L's wordplay with the multi-syllable rhymes he hit so clean.”
“Words are powerful. The tongue is powerful. And when you write it down, and record it, and press it up, it's 100 million times more powerful. It's important to utilize our tongue to help people.”
“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.”
“Experimenting is part of the process. I remember when I was younger, I spent a whole year just writing on straight trap beats because I just wanted to be able to do that at a high level. So it's about perfecting your craft in every way.”
“At a festival, the people there are not all your fans, and this gives me a chance to win over new people. I look at it as a challenge.”
“I like to rehearse a lot. Before I hit the stage, I listen to the songs that I would perform and make sure I execute everything.”
“With my fan base, I'm just vulnerable. I'm very transparent and vulnerable.”
“XXL is the embodiment of hip-hop... Eminem even shouted it out in a song.”
“We're just unapologetically ourselves in the DMV.”
“Everything I involve myself with is an extension of me, so I take everything super seriously, from the music to the shows. That's the only way to do it.”
“I only know English, so I feel like I can be the dopest French rapper ever if I learned French.”
“My car had broken down, and a neighbor of mine, this old guy, helped me change a tire. We just had a superdope, thoughtful conversation. And I realized, yo, this is rare. Like, this needs to happen more often.”
“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.”
“If you think about it, hip-hop came out of nothing. It was a response to oppression.”
“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.”
“Hopefully, somebody who's hearing my music, it's relatable to them, and it strikes a cord with them.”