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 FAIYAZI 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.
More Brent Faiyaz Quotes
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I want to own my masters. That’s the main thing–owning all my music.
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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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I got a toy keyboard when I was around like five or six.
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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.
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When you’re initially making music, you’re kind of just shooting at the air.
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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’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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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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I want to put my soul into the music and still be who I am when it comes to an actual conversation.
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I probably talk to myself more than I talk to anyone.
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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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I was reading Neil Postman’s ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’. It’s one of my favourites.
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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 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.
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