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.
BRENT FAIYAZWhen you’re initially making music, you’re kind of just shooting at the air.
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I got a toy keyboard when I was around like five or six.
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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.
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I want to own my masters. That’s the main thing–owning all my music.
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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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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 feel like any way you can get the message to resonate, I’m all for it.
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With the Sonder music, I pull a lot from what’s around me.
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If I’m being honest, I was messing up on every other level in my life growing up – whether it was in school or in my jobs. I was always distracted by my love for music.
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Sonder is the realization that every individual passerby has their own life just as vivid and complex as yours.
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I really just wanted to make something special for women. There aren’t enough records uplifting them out there.
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I work while I’m on the move, so I’m able to book sessions in different cities.
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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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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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I still got bars, I just use ’em differently. I’d say I’m a better singer than I am a rapper at this point because I’ve been sharpening my sword.
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