Cordae said that Lil Wayne’s wise words were one of the main things that inspired his new record, The Crossroads.

In an Instagram post on Thursday (November 14), just before the project came out, Cordae talked about how the record was made and shared Weezy’s special part.

It’s finally out tonight! The Crossroads is out,” he wrote. “Push that pen, push that pen has been my mantra the whole time I’ve been working on this body of work.”

Wayne, the GOAT, told me something great that I wrote on a whiteboard: “Treat every song like it’s the first time people hear you.” “That was the standard we used to make this jaint.”

He then told his fans to “listen to it in order, from top to bottom.”

“But really, a lot of you n-ggas don’t follow directions anyway,” he joked. “So just have fun and pay attention.”The above message shows that Cordae is very proud of The Crossroads. He is so happy that he doesn’t care about how many copies sold in the first week.

On X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday, November 12, the rapper didn’t seem to care about how well his new record would do in the marketplace.He said, “I don’t care about a first-week sale! Want to say that now?” With the way streaming metrics work now, it’s a very bad way to figure out effect. Someone did an 11K the first week and then an arena tour with the same record. “That’s the end of my second Ted talk.”

N-ggas said that the first week sales of my last project weren’t good, and I ended up going on a sold-out world tour…

Continuing his point, he said, “People used to buy albums and listen to music in the 1990s and 2000s.” When you said “100K first week,” it meant that 100,000 people bought the CD. You can now have 300,000 people stream your music, which is the same as selling 200 copies.

At the end, Cordae said, “The whole point is let’s stop making music about money and numbers; it’s killing something so pure.”