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.
BRENT FAIYAZThere’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.
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I got a toy keyboard when I was around like five or six.
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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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With the Sonder music, I pull a lot from what’s around me.
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In order for people to take what you say seriously, they have to know who you are as a person.
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If you tell somebody that you make music they’re all interested. But when you say you rap, they just start rolling their eyes at you. It would’ve taken me a lot longer to get my foot in the door if I’d continued rapping all the way.
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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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I think it’s good that YouTube decided that they really want to showcase Black talent.
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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.
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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 work while I’m on the move, so I’m able to book sessions in different cities.
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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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I feel like any way you can get the message to resonate, I’m all for it.
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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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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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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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