Top 60 Cordae Quotes

Longevity always come from lyricism. From the people who can actually rap.

Washington D.C. and the entire DMV area are very dope places because they’re such musically-inclined areas.

We’re just unapologetically ourselves in the DMV.

If you think about it, hip-hop came out of nothing. It was a response to oppression.

I can rippity rap, lyrical miracle all day, but if you don’t have a message behind it and you not saying nothing, it doesn’t make sense.

I would always read a lot.

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.

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.

Nahmir is just an idiot. He just glorifies street life. He idolizes it.

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

The artists with lyrical content and who say something seem to outlast the fad rappers – I always noticed that.

Competition is the best form of motivation.

There are a lot of dope people in the DMV: WillThaRapper, Big Flock, GoldLink, Logic, IDK, Rico Nasty, Goonew and Q Da Fool. Seeing them get national attention motivated me to do my thing.

If you’re thinking about your brand over your people, you’ve lost yourself.

I just always wear Pumas. I like the work they do in local communities, worldwide.

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 don’t wear jewelry. It’s not really my thing.

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

I don’t even really try to do something different. I just do what’s authentic to me.

Nas’ storytelling was just fire.

In YBN, we all have our own lanes. We’re not necessarily a group. We’re more of a collective – it’s like a movement. It’s like a brotherhood outside of music and everything has been organic.

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

Jay-Z was huge. I was like 2 years old throwing up my diamond, rapping. I know all of ‘The Blueprint.’ I’ve heard that album 1,000 times. And ‘Reasonable Doubt.’

Nahmir got smash hits.

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

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.

Just stay true to myself. That’s not even my goal. That’s what you always have to do, ’cause at the end of the day when the cameras are off and you put your phone down, you got to live with yourself, be comfortable and sleep at night with the decisions you’ve made so I’m just always myself unapologetically.

Hell yea bro I love Puma.

I want the biggest artist of 2030, 2027 or even 2025 to say, ‘I was inspired by Cordae. Cordae is the reason I make music.’

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

I’m really grateful for my mom. And my mom always raised me being a single mother. Being a single mother, a lot of stress comes with that. You gotta work, you gotta come home and do everything.

Just trust your intuition and beware of outsiders.

I study all the greats.

When you’re not authentic to yourself, you’re lying. You’re going to get found out and you’re going to slip up.

Hip-hop has always been evolving.

I went to seven different elementary schools.

I was on the debate team.

XXL is the embodiment of hip-hop… Eminem even shouted it out in a song.

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

We all take life for granted, one way or another.

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

I don’t have nothing to prove.

I don’t wanna marginalize myself. I don’t wanna be the overly woke rapper, and I don’t wanna be the turned-up rapper.

For a lot of artists in the entertainment industry, we can’t become too jaded with what’s going on with our personal lives and still not be connected with our people.

I always say I am myself unapologetically.

I’m just trying to get better as an artist and as a human being. I feel like that’s mad important.

I want my music to make you reminiscent or nostalgic of your childhood, or take you back to a better place.

I set my own goals higher than what anybody else has set for me.

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

Nas was a huge influence. That’s probably my favorite rapper of all time.

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 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.

People compare me to Kendrick. I’ve seen comparisons with Jay-Z, with Nas, with Chance The Rapper. I get a lot of Eminem comparisons.

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

Hopefully, somebody who’s hearing my music, it’s relatable to them, and it strikes a cord with them.

I only know English, so I feel like I can be the dopest French rapper ever if I learned French.

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 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.

Puma just, they really rock with me the long way. They’ve been rockin with me for a while.

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.