YBN Cordae Net Worth

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YBN Corda Net Worth, How did the American rapper earned his wealth? Check this article to find out more about YBN Cordae Net Worth and his career.

YBN Cordae Early Life

He is an American Rapper. YBN Cordae  took an interest in music as his father would always play classic hip hop around him, from artists such as Rakim, Nas, Big L and Talib Kweli. 

He began writing raps around the age of fifteen, but did not take it seriously, as it was only a hobby for him. Following the influence he gained from the music his father listened to, he would do research on certain artists through YouTube, attempting to find similar music and ‘getting lost’ in the recommended videos section.

Cordae began gaining more interest in pursuing a rap career as he aged, but focused on his education first, although writing lyrics often distracted him from his studies. He released three mixtapes as a teenager under the name ‘Entendre’ – Anxiety ‘2014’, I’m So Anxious ‘2016’ and I’m So Anonymous ‘2017’.

He graduated from high school in 2015 and decided to go to college at Towson University, later dropping out in 2018, explaining that college was ‘bigger than him’. He moved to Los Angeles shortly afterwards.

YBN Cordae Career

Cordae Amari Dunston was born on 26th of August, 1997 in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is best known for being a Rapper. Cordae began taking his rap career seriously in the beginning of 2018. 

Although he hadn’t been releasing any music with them, he’d often hang around YBN Nahmir and YBN Almighty Jay when visiting Los Angeles, whom he’d initially met through social media. Nahmir had taken interest in a song that Dunston had made with fellow rapper and brother Simba, and reached out to him.

Dunston is the only member of YBN that hadn’t been introduced to everyone as a gamer, as he doesn’t take gaming too seriously. He had already felt like he was a part of YBN, the only thing that hadn’t solidified his presence being his social media handles, which he soon changed from Entendre to YBN Cordae. 

In May 2018, he released his first single, which he called his ‘introduction to the world’ and a remix of the 1999 song ‘My Name Is’ by Eminem, which he released along with a music video via WorldStarHipHop on YouTube. Subsequently, he released ‘Old Niggas’, as a response to ‘1985’ by J. Cole, before releasing the tracks Fighting Temptations and Kung Fu, respectively.

His debut live performance was at the annual Rolling Loud music festival in May 2018, in which he performed with both YBN Nahmir and YBN Almighty Jay. He performed with the duo again for the 2018 XXL Freshman Show in New York, after Nahmir was announced to be an inductee of the yearly freshman class.

Dunston was then announced to be joining Juice Wrld on his North American WRLD Domination tour from May to September 2018, along with Lil Mosey and Blake, ended up reaching 28 cities. Soon after, it was announced that YBN would be going on a month-long tour in Europe as a collective.

He then said he would release multiple singles up until his debut project is complete. Both Nahmir and Cordae released a video for their single, ‘Pain Away’ on August 2, 2018. On August 12, YBN Nahmir announced that an official YBN Mixtape, featuring the trio, would be released September 7, 2018. He released the music video for his single, ‘Scotty Pippen’, on August 23, 2018.

On January 28, 2019, Cordae released a music video for a new song titled, ‘Locationships’ on his YouTube channel before releasing another song titled, ‘Have Mercy’ in March 2019, with the latter song becoming the lead single from his debut studio album, ‘The Lost Boy’ which was released on July 26, 2019.

He was later named as one of the members of XXL’s ‘2019 Freshman Class’ on June 20, 2019. Cordae later released ‘Bad Idea’ and ‘RNP’ as the second and third singles from the album respectively.

The album landed YBN Cordae two nominations at the 62nd Grammy Awards; Best Rap Album and Best Rap Song for the single ‘Bad Idea’. In November 2019, YBN Cordae announced that he would be headlining ‘The Lost Boy in America Tour’, which is due to begin in January 2020.

YBN Cordae Net Worth

As of today, YBN Cordae Net Worth is estimated to be $500 Thousand. YBN Cordae Net Worth is accumulated from his career as  a rapper.

Summary: 

Cordae Amari Dunston also known as ‘YBN Cordae’ is an American rapper who started taking his rap career seriously in the beginning of 2018. 

He released his first single, which he called his ‘introduction to the world’, in May 2018.

As of 2020, YBN Cordae’s net worth is estimated to be $500 Thousand.