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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.

Brent Faiyaz

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
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
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
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 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
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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Accomplishment Break Live Money Old People Sick
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

Change Culture Game Love People Rare Time Yourself
I was reading Neil Postman’s ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’. It’s one of my favourites.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Book Death Myself Ourselves Reading
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
With the Sonder music, I pull a lot from what’s around me.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Around Music Myself
I got a toy keyboard when I was around like five or six.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Age Music Time Toys
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 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
I could always sing just playing around, but I ain’t want to be no singer. I thought that was lame.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Lame Myself Play Sing Thinking
In 2018, nothing is sacred. Everyone is everywhere and knows everybody. I don’t text too personal because somebody might screenshot it and share it.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Myself Personal Scare Share Text
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’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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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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