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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.

Brent Faiyaz

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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Actual Collaboration Music Myself Way
I think it’s good that YouTube decided that they really want to showcase Black talent.
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Black Decision Myself Talent Thinking
I want to own my masters. That’s the main thing–owning all my music.
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Master Music Myself Own
In order for people to take what you say seriously, they have to know who you are as a person.
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Order People Person Serious Yourself
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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Difference Emotion Expectation Forever Listening People Yourself
Being old didn’t seem like an accomplishment. Everyone I knew who was old was like sick or broke. It just didn’t look appealing until I moved to L.A. and started interacting with people who were 50+ and still kicking it, having money, living large.
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Accomplishment Break Live Money Old People Sick
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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Listening Time Work Yourself
I really just wanted to make something special for women. There aren’t enough records uplifting them out there.
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Enough Myself Record Special Woman
I feel like any way you can get the message to resonate, I’m all for it.
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Feeling Message Myself
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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Compromise Emotion Safety Space Woman
I don’t wake up thinking about the genre of R&B as a whole. I just make music.
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Music Myself Thinking Wake Up
With the Sonder music, I pull a lot from what’s around me.
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Around Music Myself
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.
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Different Kind Myself Project Record Session Track
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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Best Education Myself Parents Proud Student
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.
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Give Up Motivational Myself People Potential Sound Stop Talent
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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Focus Music Myself People Sing Start Time Writing
Sonder is the realization that every individual passerby has their own life just as vivid and complex as yours.
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Complex Life Realization Yourself
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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Genre Music Myself Thinking Way
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.
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Feeling Myself Reaction Track
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.
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Hard Kind Kindness Myself Sing Word
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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Change Culture Game Love People Rare Time Yourself
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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Better Different Myself Point Sharp Sing Sword
I got a toy keyboard when I was around like five or six.
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Age Music Time Toys
I was reading Neil Postman’s ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’. It’s one of my favourites.
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Book Death Myself Ourselves Reading
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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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.
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Dreams Kind Musician Myself Realization Sing
I’ll listen to certain things that I made back then, and I’m like, ‘I wish I could have done this, I would’ve done that’. When you start out making music, you just want to make something that people will like.
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Black Listening Music Myself People Start

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