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.
BRENT FAIYAZI want to own my masters. That’s the main thing–owning all my music.
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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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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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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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I got a toy keyboard when I was around like five or six.
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I probably talk to myself more than I talk to anyone.
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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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I think it’s good that YouTube decided that they really want to showcase Black talent.
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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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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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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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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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I was reading Neil Postman’s ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’. It’s one of my favourites.
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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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An outside party don’t ever stay outside.
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With the Sonder music, I pull a lot from what’s around me.
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