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

Brent Faiyaz

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
Don’t stop until you get where you’re trying to go.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Inspirational Motivational Myself Stop
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
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

Dreams Kind Musician Myself Realization Sing
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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Album Concept Live Myself Observation Window
I was reading Neil Postman’s ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’. It’s one of my favourites.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Book Death Myself Ourselves Reading
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

Myself Personal Scare Share Text
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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Album Collection Music Myself Name
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.’
BRENT FAIYAZ

Feeling Music People Substance
I want to own my masters. That’s the main thing–owning all my music.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Master Music Myself Own
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
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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Money Myself Thinking Time
I don’t wake up thinking about the genre of R&B as a whole. I just make music.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Music Myself Thinking Wake Up
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
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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Listening Time Work 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

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