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Before anything, I wanted to be a rapper. I used to make beats and I would start singing to layer my beats and that’s kind of how I realized I could sing.

Brent Faiyaz

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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Compromise Emotion Safety Space Woman
I could always sing just playing around, but I ain’t want to be no singer. I thought that was lame.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Lame Myself Play Sing Thinking
An outside party don’t ever stay outside.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Party Place Stay
With the Sonder music, I pull a lot from what’s around me.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Around Music Myself
I probably talk to myself more than I talk to anyone.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Myself Stay Talk
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.’
BRENT FAIYAZ

Focus Music Myself People Sing Start Time Writing
I want to put my soul into the music and still be who I am when it comes to an actual conversation.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Conversation Music Myself Soul
Being old didn’t seem like an accomplishment. Everyone I knew who was old was like sick or broke. It just didn’t look appealing until I moved to L.A. and started interacting with people who were 50+ and still kicking it, having money, living large.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Accomplishment Break Live Money Old People Sick
If it feels good coming out, then I really don’t care about anything else, for real. It’s all about just having fun with it. If it feels like less work, then the project is coming out better.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Better Care Feeling Myself Project Reality Work
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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Difference Emotion Expectation Forever Listening People Yourself
There’s the hype stuff that people love for five minutes and then there’s the stuff that changes cultures and shifts how you look at music. And then there’s that rare point where that hype stuff changes the game.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Change Culture Game Love People Rare Time Yourself
In order for people to take what you say seriously, they have to know who you are as a person.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Order People Person Serious Yourself
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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Black Listening Music Myself People Start
Sonder is the realization that every individual passerby has their own life just as vivid and complex as yours.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Complex Life Realization Yourself
I know when it comes to the actual narrative of my solo music, it’s its own thing. That’s why I went out of my way after ‘Crew’ to not do a bunch of collaborations.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Actual Collaboration Music Myself Way
If I feel like making something, if I feel like saying something on the track, that’s what I am going to do – regardless of reaction.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Feeling Myself Reaction Track

Before anything, I wanted to be a rapper. I used to make beats and I would start singing to layer my beats and that’s kind of how I realized I could sing.

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Before anything, I wanted to be a rapper. I used to make beats and I would start singing to layer my beats and that’s kind of how I realized I could sing.

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