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Cordae
Cordae Amari Dunston, born August 26, 1997, in Raleigh, North Carolina, and
raised in Suitland, Maryland, is an American rapper who first released music as
Entendre. He began writing and recording as a teenager, drawing on old-school
hip-hop artists such as Nas, Big L, and Talib Kweli. After moving to Los
Angeles, he joined the YBN collective and adopted the name YBN Cordae. In 2018,
he drew online attention with a reworking of Eminem’s “My Name Is” and “Old
Nggas,”* his response to J. Cole’s “1985.” Follow-up tracks “Fighting
Temptations,” “Kung Fu,” and “Scotty Pippen” helped b...
