In May 2018, Cordae released his first single, which he called his "introduction to the world": a remix of the 1999 song " My Name Is" by Eminem. I was already "YBN" without the social tag". And, I was thinking, yo, I need to change my shit to like, Cordae, and shit, my actual first name. He also said that Entendre had been a name that he'd wanted to change for while: "I was just always around Nahmir and shit, those were just like my brothers. He said he already felt like a part of YBN, and so changed from "Entendre" to "YBN Cordae".
Dunston is the only member of YBN who hadn't been introduced through video games. Nahmir had reached out to Cordae after hearing a song Dunston made with his brother Simba. When visiting Los Angeles, he hung around YBN Nahmir and YBN Almighty Jay, whom he'd met through social media. Career 2018–2019: Early beginnings, record deal, and The Lost Boy Ĭordae began taking his rap career seriously in early 2018. He moved to Los Angeles shortly afterward. He dropped out in 2018, explaining that college was "bigger than him" as a first-generation student, and he was mainly doing it for his mother.
He graduated from high school in 2015 and decided to go to college at Towson University. He released three mixtapes as a teenager: "Entendre" – Anxiety (2014), I'm So Anxious (2016), and I'm So Anonymous (2017). He prioritized his studies, but often became distracted by writing lyrics. As Dunston grew older, he became more interested in pursuing a rap career. As he got older, he would do research on artists through YouTube, attempting to find music like his father played. He began writing raps around the age of fifteen.
As a young child, he took an interest in music after his father played classic hip hop artists such as Rakim, Nas, Big L, and Talib Kweli. Cordae was a member of the YBN collective from 2018 until he left the group in 2020 and dropped the "YBN" from his stage name.Ĭordae was born in North Carolina, then moved to Prince George's County, Maryland. His debut studio album, The Lost Boy, was released in 2019 to wide acclaim it received two nominations for Best Rap Album and Best Rap Song for the single " Bad Idea" at the 62nd Grammy Awards. Videos to both remixes were uploaded to WorldStarHipHop's YouTube channel, which led to an immense and immediate positive response from both mainstream media and the online rap community. He gained popularity by releasing remixes of popular songs, such as " My Name Is" by Eminem, and "Old Niggas", which was a response to the song "1985" by J. On the 10th, he took back to social media to announce the album’s tracklist with eleven new tracks.Cordae Amari Dunston (born August 26, 1997) known mononymously as Cordae (formerly YBN Cordae and Entendre), is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. On December 3, he released the project’s final single, the Lil Wayne-assisted “Sinister.” Just days later, on December 8, he revealed the album’s title, artwork, and release date of January 14, 2022, parodying Steve Jobs' reveal of the iPhone from 2007. On its cover, Cordae hints at the project’s impending release: While the original did not make the final cut, a new remix to featuring Eminem did.Ĭordae’s first release of 2021 took the form of April’s JUST UNTIL…, a four-track EP intended as a teaser for the album. Nearly two months after the release of “Gifted,” he dropped “The Parables”. From a Birds Eye View is Cordae’s sophomore studio album, which follows the Maryland rapper’s 2019 debut album, The Lost Boy.Īfter announcing it on his birthday, Cordae dropped the Roddy Ricch-assisted single “Gifted,” on Augalongside a Cole Bennett-directed music video as the album’s first single.
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