00:00Put your hands together, YBN Cordae.
00:05That record is fire. We was just talking about it.
00:07I'm like, because the record would have ended with a lot of artists as soon as the verses end, like that last hook.
00:13But the musicality kept going, and then it goes into an interlude where y'all have Bible study.
00:18Because y'all do the Have Mercy kind of like prelude at the end.
00:23It's like, again, it seems like you've put in a lot of thought into this to make it a complete work.
00:29And so we salute that.
00:32You know what I'm saying?
00:33You saw the heads.
00:34You know what I mean?
00:35That's incredible.
00:37I appreciate that.
00:38There's a record that I've seen you mention that you don't like to talk about, and it's Family Matters.
00:44Yeah.
00:45And Family Matters is, why don't you like to talk about it?
00:50Tell everybody who's watching.
00:52Just because this is all real.
00:54You know what I'm saying?
00:55Just real life shit that people in my family are going through things I was going through, knowing all of these things.
01:01So I just try not to speak upon it too much.
01:04You know what I'm saying?
01:05The record was my therapy in it.
01:07You know?
01:08So I don't want to, like, get into it.
01:10I don't really like getting back into it.
01:12Now, I saw you say that, and I was like, when I was writing down stuff, because I'm like, I listened to the album, like, all the way through when I first got it.
01:20Yeah.
01:21And I sat at home.
01:22I was in the driveway, actually, because I was like, I'm just going to listen to the rest of this.
01:26Oh, don't.
01:27And when I got to Family Matters, I sat there, and I was like, yo.
01:30And as a matter of fact, Johnny could tell you, I wrote an email to him and Horace and all that.
01:36And I'm like, I'll show it to you.
01:37I was just like, yo, I don't know if y'all know what y'all got right here.
01:41Because, and that song, again, it's not something you need to talk about a lot.
01:46Yeah.
01:47But that pain that's in that song is setting you up for bigger, better things.
01:54And I say that because, like, Jay-Z, when he talked about selling work to his mom and shot his brother and You Must Love Me.
02:01Or when Kanye talked about, you know, that horrific accident, you know, and through the wire.
02:07And we look at all the comedians that say all of the great comedy and great movie scripts come from pain.
02:13Yeah.
02:14People look at you like, yo, he's given us all.
02:17Yeah.
02:18When you do something like that.
02:19Yeah, for sure.
02:20I'm, you know, my music is just, I'm just very vulnerable.
02:24You know what I'm saying?
02:25Very transparent.
02:26I can't, I don't care about no facade, no image.
02:30I'm just being as vulnerable as possible because we all human beings.
02:33You know what I'm saying?
02:34I'm the same as everybody in here.
02:36You know, we all are human beings at the end of the day, first and foremost.
02:39Yeah.
02:40So, the music is just me being transparent and vulnerable because it's important as an artist.
02:46Because writing that song was therapeutic for me.
02:48So, somebody who may can relate to one of those things, you know, can help them, you know, go through their thing and let you know, like, we all go through the same shit.
02:57You know what I'm saying?
02:58It's just like, okay, he, you know, so yeah.
03:00Like, he's like us.
03:01Yeah, exactly.
03:02Because that record put a lot of people in a position of feeling like they're in your shoes.
03:06For sure.
03:07And there's even some lines that was like too personal that I had to change.
03:10I had to take out.
03:11I saw you say that though.
03:12Yeah.
03:13You took stuff out and it was still biting.
03:14Yeah, exactly.
03:15Like, I was like, yo, they gonna kill him at Thanksgiving.
03:17The thing is, the thing is, the thing is, I never, you know, I never said, I felt like I treaded that line very tightly.
03:25Right.
03:26I didn't say anybody names.
03:27You know what I'm saying?
03:28You did.
03:29Right.
03:30To where only they would know.
03:31But like, nobody, no outside people would know like nobody's names.
03:35They're like, oh yeah, that's the auntie.
03:36You know what I'm saying?
03:37Right.
03:38Like, I didn't say no names to where it would affect anybody's lives or nothing.
03:41So, but it's still some situations that it was like, oh yeah.
03:45That's true.
03:46Like you said when you pinned it.
03:47Yeah.
03:48You was on a plane.
03:49Yeah, I was on a plane from like back home going back to, I think I was going to New York
03:54or LA.
03:55And you just on the plane.
03:57Right in the shit.
03:58Yeah.
03:59Cause I had that beat for a while and then I just started right in that joint.
04:02But yeah.
04:03I mean, it's like, okay, we're going to play the record, but now listen, listen, listen.
04:11Now it ain't, cause I'm not gonna ask you to tell anybody's story or whatever.
04:14Yeah.
04:15But it's something that I think is a part of this because of what I said about the Jay,
04:22Kanye's the, that pain is, it's almost like having reservoir dogs without the, without
04:28the grind.
04:29Yeah.
04:30It's like having, you know, all these big type of motion pictures.
04:32Yeah.
04:33And don't have that part.
04:34Yeah, for sure.
04:35And, and, and it's crazy because your comment about your family supporting you after.
04:40Yeah.
04:41That was the crazy part.
04:42Like I was like, he ain't, he ain't coming home for the holiday.
04:45You like, nah, I, they, they all, cause I didn't put them out there.
04:49They knew it wasn't me selling them out.
04:51Yeah.
04:52You know what I'm saying?
04:53Like, so they actually backed you.
04:54Yeah.
04:55Yeah.
04:56Nah.
04:57It's from a place of super love.
04:58You know what I'm saying?
04:59It ain't no, it's just love.
05:00You know what I'm saying?
05:01It was from a place of love and discernment and, and you know, just, uh, you know, just
05:05straight pure love.
05:06So none of them, like it was no, like one family member might've said something, you know what
05:11I'm saying?
05:12Nobody else.
05:13Like rest shut them down.
05:14Yeah.
05:15I mean, yeah, nah, that's what I mean.
05:17They had a nigga, they had their own release party called family matters.
05:20Like shut up.
05:21Oh God.
05:22Nigga.
05:23Oh God.
05:24Literally.
05:25Like, like a week after like they dropped, they had like a little celebration.
05:27The family matters party dropping Saturday night.
05:29Yeah.
05:30Literally.
05:31All right.
05:32Well, here's the deal.
05:33I mean, cause I, again, and I'm going to tell you this just as big homie type talk.
05:38There are people who are going to try and make this salacious.
05:41There are people who are going to try and, you know, and try and play, make it a part
05:44of your story because they're like, Ooh, ah.
05:47Yeah.
05:48But the same love that you're talking about from the family, the people who really kind
05:52of gravitate to what you're doing.
05:54Yeah.
05:55And expecting you to walk across that Grammy stage are going to look at this as, as fuel
05:59for where you had it.
06:00Yeah.
06:01For sure.
06:02So that's the only reason why I incorporated us into this.
06:04And if you tell me don't, we won't run it.
06:07But I think they need to hear it and then we'll close out.
06:12Uh.
06:13What you think?
06:16I don't want to say don't, but, uh, why you got to put the pressure on me, bro?
06:20Ain't no pressure.
06:21Ain't no pressure.
06:22You are young boss.
06:24So I'm just letting you know that it's coming from a place of, of the, your whole story.
06:30Cause I don't think anybody in here after hearing your body of work is going to look
06:33at you and say, Oh, that's the guy.
06:35Nah, nah.
06:36It has nothing to do.
06:37Nah, nah.
06:38It's nothing to do with that.
06:39I just kind of like get emotional listening to it.
06:41So I would like actually rather like, and it'll be better for y'all if y'all had time
06:45to like, just listen to it on your own and solidarity.
06:48You know what I'm saying?
06:49Cause that's good.
06:50That was like the intent that I, this ain't some shit you play in the club.
06:53You know what I'm saying?
06:54I definitely would not play it in the club.
06:55You know what I'm saying?
06:56But like, this is not like, like I had to clean and my daughters was in the back seat
07:00and I was like, we going to turn on Disney now.
07:02Yeah.
07:03Cause I'm like, I just, you know, even, it ain't even the dirty words.
07:06It's the, it's the, the truth.
07:08Yeah.
07:09And it's, it's nothing bad about it at all.
07:11It's just like, just, I feel like a bunch of people was like tweet me saying like, yo,
07:15this song, like we played it.
07:16I played this song for like my dad and it brought us together closer because our family's going
07:21to like a lot of the similar situations and it's a conversation opener.
07:25It's nothing negative about this song at all.
07:27I haven't heard anything negative at all.
07:29It's just, it's just pure honesty, pure transparency.
07:32So y'all rather like people hear it on their own.
07:35When people reached out to you after hearing the song and saying they used it in that way.
07:39Yeah.
07:40What did that make you feel?
07:42I was like, Oh man, this is, that's what I made it for.
07:46You know what I'm saying?
07:47With that, it's just, it's just shows like how powerful music is.
07:49You know what I'm saying?
07:50Music.
07:51I take this shit.
07:52This is like a responsibility.
07:53We have a, as musicians, our music really affects people.
07:57You know what I'm saying?
07:58In a, in a, in a major way, music is therapeutic music.
08:02You listen to music.
08:03When you work out, you listen to music.
08:05When you drawing, you listen to music when you doing damn near every fucking thing, you
08:09know?
08:10So as, as musicians, you know, we gotta, that's why I take so much time.
08:14I don't take this shit lightly or for granted.
08:16You know what I'm saying?
08:17So yeah.
08:18Um, I'm gonna ask you this question.
08:21Cause I mentioned this before.
08:22Cause you said this going to give me a Grammy.
08:24Uh, y'all know I'm going to hold them to this.
08:29Okay.
08:30What would, uh, this rapper superstar hit record hammer say as advice to TGI Corday?
08:41Uh, keep it going.
08:46You doing everything you're supposed to do.
08:48Keep it going.
08:49I told them before you came in that I've done this with, with Cole back when he was ball
08:55Cesar Cole, like way, way back low cut, low cut Cole, you know, fresh off of giving Jay-Z
09:02his demo done this with the Ariana's, the Nicki Minaj's and all that.
09:06That's dope.
09:07And I got to tell you, I predict you walking across that Grammy stage.
09:11And I appreciate that.
09:12My brother, you know what I'm saying?
09:13You know, so I, I'm saying I'm gonna put that in the air, uh, and, uh, and say, keep
09:19doing it cause we need people who got a message like this in this game that, that keeps getting,
09:25getting, getting crapped on.
09:27You know what I mean?
09:28Yeah.
09:29Appreciate that.
09:30All right.
09:31Put your hands together, please.
09:33YB and Corday.
