YBN Cordae Part 3
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00:00Put your hands together, YV and Cordae, R&P.
00:05Rich Brother Problems.
00:07Man, so who came up with that whole concept?
00:10Because Anderson .Paak is in there like a trumpet.
00:12Like, was that done and then he just slid in?
00:14Or did y'all create it together?
00:15We created it together.
00:17I came up with, like, the name of Rich Nigger Problems.
00:19And I was like, one of y'all niggas gonna be fucking with me?
00:22And I know he has a super cool voice.
00:23I was like, you gotta say that shit.
00:25You know what I'm saying?
00:26But all the verses, we just went back and forth.
00:29No pen, no pad.
00:30Like, verses.
00:30I say a line.
00:31He go in and say a line.
00:32I say a line.
00:33He say it.
00:33Like, we just was just feeding off each other energy.
00:35Because that's like my brother in real life.
00:37You know what I'm saying?
00:38So it was super easy.
00:39Oh, so it wasn't even like a business thing.
00:41Nah, nah.
00:42It was like my brother in real life.
00:43Like, super vibing.
00:44Because I think he's a genius, man.
00:46Nah, he the truth.
00:47He's one of them prodigies out there.
00:48Yeah, nah, for sure.
00:49You know, like the kids that, you know, come out of TGI Fridays.
00:53Yeah, yeah.
00:53Exactly.
00:54Exactly.
00:55That was, as a matter of fact, we gonna call you TGI Cordae then.
00:57Oh, no, I'm saying that.
00:59I'm saying that.
01:00Yeah, right.
01:01Oh, that's actually a bar.
01:03Oh, yeah?
01:04Okay.
01:05All right.
01:05Get at it now.
01:06All right.
01:08Y'all, I'm gonna get a credit on that or something.
01:11There's a lot of cameras and witnesses in here, nigga.
01:14You good.
01:14Grammy speech.
01:15You be like, hey, here's your shout.
01:16That's all.
01:16You good.
01:17Yeah.
01:18When you talk about the album, I may have wrote down a few of them.
01:21Bad Idea, Have Mercy, Thanksgiving, R&P, Way Back Home.
01:25These are just ones that I enjoy.
01:27But new releases don't really get people putting out lists of their favorites.
01:32You know what I'm saying?
01:32And I know it's kind of feel like people gassing you.
01:37But you got it.
01:38You're like, no, I did it.
01:40I made those records.
01:41But I'm saying nobody really comes out with a new record and people run five, six, seven records that they're like, yo, these are just the ones.
01:47Like, as a creator, does it make you nervous because you've cultivated the story a year, eight months, nine months, you worked on it.
01:57Like, now it's out there.
01:58Like, now you're like, oh, damn.
02:00Like, what am I going to do for the next one?
02:04Like, does that even set in?
02:06Nah, because I'd just be like, yo, my dad, it doesn't give me more motivation.
02:09I got to give you eight or ten joints you fuck with on the next one like that.
02:12Super heavy.
02:13You know what I'm saying?
02:14But, nah, it's definitely, and with this, I spent so much time, bro, just like with the transitions, with the, you know, the order of the track list and just all that.
02:25And, honestly, if it was up to me, I would have spent more time on that.
02:28You know what I'm saying?
02:29But, not even that, but I feel like I still got room to grow.
02:35I still can get better.
02:36It's not like that shit is, like, perfect.
02:38You know what I'm saying?
02:39You know, I really love it.
02:41I put my all into this body of work, you know what I'm saying?
02:44Everybody involved put a lot in, and we put, like, my engine, we was up, bro, like, 16-hour days, recording days, you know what I'm saying?
02:52Just, like, for real, just going in crazy, doing nothing but focusing on this body of work, you know what I'm saying?
02:59So, just next, I just got to approach it the same way but at a higher level.
03:03You still get better, you know what I'm saying?
03:05Your first year in radio wasn't your best year, you know what I'm saying?
03:09You got better, wiser, your technique, you know, everything's getting better with time.
03:15So, I just keep my pen sharp.
03:17I'm still recording.
03:18I got music.
03:19If I had to drop again today, I could, you know what I'm saying?
03:22But I'm just taking my time with it, you know what I'm saying?
03:26Just still recording every day, still writing every day, keeping my instrument sharp.
03:30So, yeah.
03:30For everybody who has followed you online, they see all of your videos, how much creativity
03:37did you get to put into those or were they treatments that came in from directors?
03:41I know R&P was a throwback to the old.
03:44That's all my shit.
03:45Bad idea was all me.
03:47R&P, I collectively came up with that with Fredo.
03:51All my, like, the broke as fuck idea, that shit.
03:53All my videos, I have old niggas was all me.
03:56You know what I'm saying?
03:57Like, the barbershop thing, all that.
03:59So, I'm super hands-on in all my, in everything, really.
04:02I'm, like, super, you know, and it's stressful, but it got to be like that because the fans
04:07feel that shit.
04:08They can tell when, like, that shit isn't you and somebody, that shit is, like, just
04:12label produced or manufactured versus, like, when the artist really put his hands in the
04:16kitchen.
04:16You know what I'm saying?
04:17Really, like, taking his time on it.
04:19So, yeah.
04:19Talk about those nerves, though, because you being new in the game, walking in 20 years old
04:24saying, yo, I'm on, I got the treatment.
04:26Like, you know what I'm saying?
04:27Like, people looking at you like, uh-oh, really?
04:29Yeah, nah, for sure.
04:30Like, nah, everybody around me, I fuck with them because they let me do me.
04:35Like, they didn't, like, when I was in the studio, I didn't even allow business people
04:38in the studio.
04:39Like, my managers couldn't even come in the studio.
04:41You know what I'm saying?
04:41Just because I didn't want no outside influences to infiltrate my thought process because
04:46it can be a song I love that they don't rock with and I'll, like, overthink it.
04:50You know what I'm saying?
04:51Because I overthink, like, shit.
04:52Like, that's not one thing I'd do.
04:53I'd be overthinking like a mofo.
04:55But, uh, yeah.
04:58So, like, with the video, I'm super, I wish I had my iPad on me to show you.
05:02Like, I'd be, I'd be, I'd really do this shit.
05:04That's incredible.
05:06I, just seeing all of the work, because, like, I mean, you, you hear, like, Beyonce
05:09puts out an album and they have, all have videos and you expect that with a million
05:13people running around.
05:14But to have all of this creativity going through you, um, I kind of want to talk about
05:20you coming, coming up in Raleigh and then moving to South Carolina and everything else
05:26and a lot of the struggle.
05:28Yeah.
05:28How much is that struggle that you went through playing into who you are right now?
05:33Oh, man.
05:34It's everything.
05:35Like, even when I was in Maryland, like, just my, my, watching my mother struggle as,
05:40like, a single mother, but, like, breakthrough barriers.
05:43I remember when we first moved to Maryland, we was in, like, a one-bedroom apartment, her,
05:46me, and my little brother.
05:47Then we moved to, like, a one-in-a-den and we used the den as, like, me and my little brother
05:52bedroom.
05:52You know what I'm saying?
05:53And then we moved to, like, a two, like, two years later, we moved to, like, a two-bedroom
05:57apartment.
05:58So, I'm like, oh, shit.
05:59Me and my brother, we got a home room.
05:59We moving on up.
06:00We moving on up.
06:01And then we moved to, like, a little townhouse and we finally have to share a bathroom with
06:05our mother.
06:06And we like, nigga, we out here.
06:08You know what I'm saying?
06:09So, just, and it's not even on some, like, just woe is me shit.
06:13Because, you know, everybody got their own struggles they go through.
06:16But, you know, I've been through things.
06:19I've witnessed things.
06:20I've experienced a lot of shit.
06:21I went to, like, eight different elementary schools.
06:24You know what I'm saying?
06:24But all of that is a part of me because I had to move around so much when I was younger.
06:28That made me more comfortable in environments that I'm not accustomed to, to new environments.
06:35You know what I'm saying?
06:36Having the ability to adapt to new environments.
06:39You know what I'm saying?
06:39Having to make new friends and shit.
06:42So, uh...
06:43The diversity.
06:44Yeah, exactly.
06:45So, yeah, exactly.
06:46So, yeah.
06:48For sure.
06:49I love it.
06:49Um, your story began with your mom, and she was 16 years old?
06:54Yeah.
06:54When you were born?
06:55Yeah.
06:55I, you know, I know that the cameras are watching us and everybody's in here and everything,
06:59but I just wanted to look at you as a man and just say, statistically, you ain't supposed
07:04to be here.
07:04Oh, for sure.
07:05Like, that just has to be said.
07:08Yeah.
07:09Because, like, you are this wonder kind that everybody looking at, like, this prodigy that
07:13walked in with this bomb project, but statistically, it was just built against you.
07:20Yeah.
07:20To be here.
07:21Yeah.
07:22So, it's almost like you gotta shine.
07:25Yeah, for sure.
07:25Oh, yeah.
07:26I'm gonna take it and run with this motherfucker.
07:29For real.
07:29So, I think I believe him.
07:34I think I believe him.
07:35Don't you?
07:35All right.
07:36Wait.
07:36All right.
07:36Well, let's rock out another one here, because I just got, I mean, bruh, like, you were not
07:42supposed to be here.
07:43Yeah, for sure.
07:44It's a lot of people out there that went through that struggle.
07:47It's people in here that went through that struggle.
07:48Yeah, for sure.
07:49And the thing is, it's like, this isn't, like, my story isn't uncommon.
07:54It's not like, I always say this, I'll never be like, woe is me, you know what I'm saying,
07:58or poor me, because, like, niggas go through shit, niggas go through way worse shit, you
08:02know what I'm saying, than things I've gone through.
08:04My shit is just regular shit, you know what I'm saying?
08:07But you just got, whatever you're going through in life, you just gotta, don't even look,
08:11I don't even look, the way you said that, like, you ain't supposed, I never even thought,
08:15that never even entered my head before, before you said it just now.
08:18I'm not supposed to be here, like, I never looked at my, like, surroundings and my environment
08:23and my situation as that.
08:25I just look at it, oh, this is what it is, and this is what I gotta do to get out of
08:29it, to make something better of myself, you know what I'm saying?
08:32So, yeah.
08:32And, I mean, it's true, because, I mean, I've seen you on a few interviews and stuff
08:36where you talked about how your family made sure that not only were you reading what school
08:41was giving you, or what entertainment, like, you know, Harry Potter and all that other
08:45stuff.
08:45Yeah.
08:45But you were reading about Dr. DuBois.
08:48Yeah.
08:48You know, you were reading, you know, a lot of work that wasn't being assigned to you,
08:53but your family was like, this is essential.
08:55Yeah, for sure.
08:56So, take a 16-year-old mother who, you know, has everything stacked against her with children
09:02and all that.
09:03So, it was a lot of people working to get you here.
09:05Yeah, for sure.
09:06It's a process.
09:07It's definitely a process.
09:08So, I mean, to see that happen, you just kind of got to salute everybody who put you
09:13on this path.
09:14Broken roads or not, they led you here.
09:16Oh, for sure.
09:17You know what I'm saying?
09:17We got, I want to play Have Mercy, because I just, after this, after that conversation,
09:22I just want to, I want to get that in the air, and we'll close up with YV and Corday.
09:28Let's get it.
09:28Let's get it.
09:29Let's get it.