Cuco

It's cool to see a bunch of brown kids in the crowd. I wanna be a brown artist that they look up to. I didn't see that many artists with my same culture that I looked up to when I was growing up. The industry has always been whitewashed. ”

I would try to run when I was barely learning how to walk, so I would just fall. ”

My parents took me to Sam Ash, and I got a pretty cheap setup - a MIDI keyboard and one of those cheaper mixers - but it was dope, though; it was something. That was kind of how it was: just going to school, skating back home, making music, telling my parents I did my homework. ”

It's cool to be in your feelings, and it's cool to be sad, and it's cool to feel all of these things. ”

Love songs just kind of come out very naturally, me being a very romantic person. ”

My parents love what I'm doing. Like, at first, they were so skeptical, dude. Like, I would be ditching school and, like, do music. And I'd be telling my parents I'd be in class. ”

There's no secret crazy backstory. I actually suck at writing. It takes me forever to write a song. ”

I'm the only child of immigrant parents, you know? So all the pressure is just kind of on me: You have to make it. And I was like, 'Well, let me make it in music.' They were like, 'Nah, you gotta go to school.' ”

I'm not a singer. I double-track my vocals. I'm just not secure in my voice. I can't do single-track - I sound weird. ”

I don't really follow genres. I have a bunch of really poppy tracks and then another super-low-fi, tape-recorded sound. It's actually really random. ”