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I don’t wake up thinking about the genre of R&B as a whole. I just make music.

Brent Faiyaz

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
Me and Goldlink have known of each other for a minute and our managers know each other so they set up a studio session. When we got in the studio, we was cool; we’re from the same area so we have a lot in common.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Each Other Management Ourselves Session Studio Time
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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Best Education Myself Parents Proud Student
An outside party don’t ever stay outside.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Party Place Stay
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
As cliche as it sounds, don’t stop. I feel like so often people will have talent or have potential, and they’ll quit because they don’t get anywhere as soon as they want to.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Give Up Motivational Myself People Potential Sound Stop Talent
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
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
I think it’s good that YouTube decided that they really want to showcase Black talent.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Black Decision Myself Talent Thinking
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
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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Feeling Myself Reaction Track
The first couple of times I went out and heard my voice or heard people listening when I wasn’t the one playing it for them, it felt good.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Couple Goodness Myself Play Time Voice
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
Sonder is the realization that every individual passerby has their own life just as vivid and complex as yours.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Complex Life Realization Yourself
My music is often written from the perspective of an extroverted introvert.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Extrovert Introvert Music Myself Perspective Writing
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 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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Cloud Mystery People Person Thinking Yourself
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 got a toy keyboard when I was around like five or six.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Age Music Time Toys
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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Difference Emotion Expectation Forever Listening People 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.’
BRENT FAIYAZ

Focus Music Myself People Sing Start Time Writing
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 probably talk to myself more than I talk to anyone.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Myself Stay Talk
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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Different Kind Myself Project Record Session Track
In order for people to take what you say seriously, they have to know who you are as a person.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Order People Person Serious Yourself
I really just wanted to make something special for women. There aren’t enough records uplifting them out there.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Enough Myself Record Special Woman
Don’t stop until you get where you’re trying to go.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Inspirational Motivational Myself Stop

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