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I don’t wake up thinking about the genre of R&B as a whole. I just make music.

Brent Faiyaz

When you’re initially making music, you’re kind of just shooting at the air.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Initial Kind Music Yourself
I think it was ‘The Diary of Alicia Keys’. That was the first time album I ever bought with my own money. I had a little Discman.
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Money Myself Thinking Time
You gotta question the purpose you serve for those who invite themselves into your life. Learn who you are and always question the motive. No one knows you the way you do.
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Invitation Learning Motivation Purpose Question Serve Yourself
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
People will listen to a song and expect that you just have that persona on all the time. But really, that was your one outlet that one day to get that emotion out. The only difference was you put it on a canvas that’s going to be there forever.
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Difference Emotion Expectation Forever Listening People Yourself
I mean, I wasn’t the best student in school. It would be different if I were to pursue music while I was already in school and doing things for my parents to be proud of and music was a side thing. Being that I dropped everything to do music, they was not with it.
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Best Education Myself Parents Proud Student
I want to put my soul into the music and still be who I am when it comes to an actual conversation.
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Conversation Music Myself Soul
I got a dog and am trying to elevate. I’m working out, eating healthier, reading books. Making ‘Make it Out Alive’ is going to be a reflection of all of that.
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Dog Eat Exercise Healthy Reflection Work
Me and Goldlink have known of each other for a minute and our managers know each other so they set up a studio session. When we got in the studio, we was cool; we’re from the same area so we have a lot in common.
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Each Other Management Ourselves Session Studio Time
You work on something for so long that you become numb to it. Like, you don’t even know how to listen to it because you listened to it so many times.
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Listening Time Work Yourself
My music is often written from the perspective of an extroverted introvert.
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Extrovert Introvert Music Myself Perspective Writing
I probably talk to myself more than I talk to anyone.
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Myself Stay Talk
I could always sing just playing around, but I ain’t want to be no singer. I thought that was lame.
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Lame Myself Play Sing Thinking
I think it’s good that YouTube decided that they really want to showcase Black talent.
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Black Decision Myself Talent Thinking
I got a toy keyboard when I was around like five or six.
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Age Music Time Toys
Sonder is the realization that every individual passerby has their own life just as vivid and complex as yours.
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Complex Life Realization Yourself

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