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Cordae has revealed one of the biggest inspirations for his new album The Crossroads: wise words from Lil Wayne.
In a post to Instagram on Thursday (November 14), just in advance of the release of the project, Cordae spoke about the making of the record, and revealed Weezy’s special role.
“The Crossroads is finally out tonight,” he wrote. “My whole mantra while making this body of work has been push that pen, push that pen.
“The GOAT, Wayne, gave me great advice that I put on a whiteboard, ‘Treat every song like it’s people’s first time hearing you.’ And that was the standard we followed while making this jaint.”
Cordae went on to ask fans to “listen to it from top to bottom in its order.”
“[B]ut honestly a lot of you n-ggas don’t follow instructions anyway,” he joked, “so please just enjoy and pay attention.”
Check the message in its entirety below.
Cordae, as the above message reveals, is proud of The Crossroads — proud enough that he does not care about first week sales.
Taking to X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday (November 12), the rapper seemed nonplussed about how his forthcoming album would land commercially.
He said: “Want to say this now I don’t give 1 fuck about a first week sale. It’s a very inaccurate way to calculate impact, especially with the current streaming metrics. I seen somebody do 11K first week and then do a ARENA TOUR off the same album. That’s the end of my Ted talk *2nd one.”
Cordae added: “N-ggas said my last project first week numbers wasn’t good and I ended up doing a sold out headline world tour….”
He continued his point: “In the 90/2000s music was consumed by people actually going to the stores and buying albums. When you did 100K first week that meant 100 thousand people went and bought the cd. Now you can have 300,000 people Listening to your album on streaming, and the units Equivalent is 200.”
Cordae concluded by saying: “Whole point is let’s stop making music about numbers and money, it’s killing something that’s so pure.”
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GloRilla‘s mysterious baby bump that she was showing off last month finally has an explanation: it was part of the storyline of her new video.
On Thursday (November 14), Glo released the clip for her T-Pain collaboration “I Luv Her.” The Benny Boom-directed video shows Glo and a man (played by actor Abraham “Da’Vinchi” Juste, best known for his role as drug kingpin Terry “Southwest T” Flenory in BMF) meeting and falling in love.
Towards the end of the video, she’s shown to be pregnant as a happy ending for the storyline — before a final reveal that it was all a daydream.
Check the video out below.
In the run up to the clip’s release, GloRilla posted two pictures of herself looking heavily pregnant.
While the Instagram post featured no caption, Glo later wrote on her Instagram Stories: “Was so sick of hiding & sucking my stomach in lol.”
Most fans weren’t fooled, but the rapper doubled down, posting photos of her and Da’Vinchi in which she referred to him as her “baby daddy.”
In real, non-music video life, GloRilla just recently discussed her desire to start a family but was honest about not wanting to go through pregnancy herself.
Speaking to Charlamagne Tha God for his Out of Context podcast, she said: “I do want to have kids, but not my own kids. I wanna do the surrogate. I want somebody else to have my baby.
“I want them to have my DNA, but I don’t want to have it. I just don’t want to actually have a baby. All of my friends got kids and they’re restricted a lot when they’re pregnant. [Nine months] is too long.”
The conversation was inspired by a lyric on her Latto collaboration “Procedure”: “This n-gga tryna get me pregnant, I need to tie my tubes.”
GloRilla previously caused controversy after joking about having multiple abortions.
After Sexyy Red debuted her baby bump on social media last year, Glo shut down speculation that she was the next female rap star to fall pregnant by joking: “Stop asking am I next y’all kno what I do. I damn near gotta membership at dat place,” referencing the abortion clinic.
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