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Sonder is the realization that every individual passerby has their own life just as vivid and complex as yours.

Brent Faiyaz

I started off making beats when I was like 12. Then when I linked with people who make beats full time, I was like, ‘Bet, now I can focus on writing and singing.’
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Focus Music Myself People Sing Start Time Writing
If you’re my woman, you’re somebody I give emotions to that I don’t give to nobody else. You’re my safe space. I don’t want my safe space to be compromised.
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Compromise Emotion Safety Space Woman
I recorded everywhere. I would go to different cities and do a session there for the project. I did sessions in New York and I did sessions in L.A. It was just kind of wherever I was and I felt like cutting a track.
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Different Kind Myself Project Record Session Track
I used to think that there was a certain way I had to stick to when it came to R&B, but now I’m saying whatever, the same way these rappers do. I’m bringing that into R&B music.
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Genre Music Myself Thinking Way
I really just wanted to make something special for women. There aren’t enough records uplifting them out there.
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Enough Myself Record Special Woman
I feel like any way you can get the message to resonate, I’m all for it.
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Feeling Message Myself
I’ll listen to certain things that I made back then, and I’m like, ‘I wish I could have done this, I would’ve done that’. When you start out making music, you just want to make something that people will like.
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Black Listening Music Myself People Start
I was reading Neil Postman’s ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’. It’s one of my favourites.
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Book Death Myself Ourselves Reading
An outside party don’t ever stay outside.
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Party Place Stay
I don’t really feel the loyalty to any particular genre. To be completely honest, I’m an R&B singer because I’m black and I sing.
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Black Complete Honesty Loyalty Myself Sing
If you tell somebody that you make music they’re all interested. But when you say you rap, they just start rolling their eyes at you. It would’ve taken me a lot longer to get my foot in the door if I’d continued rapping all the way.
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Eyes Interest Music Myself Way
If you can look in the mirror and say I love myself, that’s going to affect your interactions with people who look like you.
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InterAction Mirror People Yourself
With the Sonder music, I pull a lot from what’s around me.
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Around Music Myself
In order for people to take what you say seriously, they have to know who you are as a person.
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Order People Person Serious Yourself
We’re products of this world we were born into. We all battle our own demons. Everyone is troubled in the dark, but, please just stop & think about the babies. They’re gonna be here long after we leave.
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Battle Born Ourselves Product Stop Trouble
I’d prefer for people to know that they’re going to get some substance when they listen to my music versus hearing the same ‘Oooh baby, I love you.’
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Feeling Music People Substance

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