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 FAIYAZI really just wanted to make something special for women. There aren’t enough records uplifting them out there.
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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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I feel like any way you can get the message to resonate, I’m all for it.
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Music is my one opportunity to let out how I’m feeling when I’m not talking to a chick or my mom, you know what I mean? It’s just venting.
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I was reading Neil Postman’s ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’. It’s one of my favourites.
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Don’t stop until you get where you’re trying to go.
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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.
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I think if you’re an interesting person, you don’t have to cloud yourself in mystery for people to want to know more about you.
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An outside party don’t ever stay outside.
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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.
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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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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.
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With the Sonder music, I pull a lot from what’s around me.
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Rapping was kind of hard. It’s so many words. When you sing you can kind of stretch the words out. I didn’t have to write as much as everybody else.
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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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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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