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In 2018, nothing is sacred. Everyone is everywhere and knows everybody. I don’t text too personal because somebody might screenshot it and share it.

Brent Faiyaz

I was reading Neil Postman’s ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’. It’s one of my favourites.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Book Death Myself Ourselves Reading
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 feel like any way you can get the message to resonate, I’m all for it.
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Feeling Message Myself
I’ve always felt like I was observing everything, like I’m just looking out of the window, peeping how everybody is living and just penning about it, so I made the album about that concept.
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Album Concept Live Myself Observation Window
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.
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Better Care Feeling Myself Project Reality Work
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
If I have a collection of songs for an EP or mixtape, I create the narrative afterwards; but usually with an album, I have a concept and the name first.
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Album Collection Music Myself Name
I feel you gotta be nervous. If you’re nervous, it’s just ’cause you want to do well, it’s not ’cause you’re scared.
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Fear Feeling Nervous Scare Yourself
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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Invitation Learning Motivation Purpose Question Serve Yourself
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
With the Sonder music, I pull a lot from what’s around me.
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Around Music Myself
I work while I’m on the move, so I’m able to book sessions in different cities.
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City Different Myself Session Work
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
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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Hard Kind Kindness Myself Sing Word
I want to own my masters. That’s the main thing–owning all my music.
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Master Music Myself Own
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

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