Most artists' real names are far from their screen names, and it is incredibly embarrassing if you confuse someone over another or don't know someone at all.
For Cordae, this "incredibly embarrassing" moment happened to him, he revealed recently.
The rapper remembered the experience in a new interview with Ebro.
The confusion
According to a tape shared first with Billboard by Apple Music, he recounted that the accident occurred because Stevie Wonder's number was kept as his birth name, Stevland Morris.
The 24-year old rapper detailed that he got a phone call telling him that Stevie Wonder wanted to "pull up on him in the studio" to work on a record.
Agreeing instantly, Cordae saved the icon's number using his birth name - Stevland Morris. Days passed, the young rapper received a call from the same name but hung up on it, thinking it was one of his uncles.
Dawning on him afterward, Cordae realized that he had just hung up on Stevie Wonder and immediately called the soul icon back.
When Cordae and the veteran R&B-soul artist got into the studio to record "Can't Put It in the Hands of Fate," Cordae stated the veteran musician was really hands-on throughout the entire process.
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Working with Wonder, Cordae recalled that the musician "is there every part of the way".
He also added that Stevie takes time to understand and suggest what could make the material better, going on to the depths of how Cordae can articulate his words better than the last time they did it.
Cordae also gushed how the 25-time Grammy winner is an "icon's icon". The Maryland native described Stevie Wonder as "one of the greats of the music industry", comparing the icon to the late Michael Jackson.
He added that one could "actually put up a great argument" that Wonder is one of the best artists of all time.
Can't Put It In the Hands of Fate
The track in which Cordae was featured was one of Stevie Wonder's most recent works.
The star-studded track is released because of the rise of police brutality cases among African American people in the United States and the "Black Lives Matter movement" in 2020.
A response to systemic racism, the politically-charged song addressed issues of racism in the country and as well as referenced the controversial death of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in the same year.
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