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.

I value companionship. I like being with my girlfriend, my best friends. I'm hella clingy. And I'm hella emotional.

I never had connections at any point to the industry.