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I feel you gotta be nervous. If you’re nervous, it’s just ’cause you want to do well, it’s not ’cause you’re scared.

Brent Faiyaz

I work while I’m on the move, so I’m able to book sessions in different cities.
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City Different Myself Session Work
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
I got a dog and am trying to elevate. I’m working out, eating healthier, reading books. Making ‘Make it Out Alive’ is going to be a reflection of all of that.
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Dog Eat Exercise Healthy Reflection Work
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
I feel like any way you can get the message to resonate, I’m all for it.
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Feeling Message Myself
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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Conversation Music Myself Soul
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.
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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.
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Difference Emotion Expectation Forever Listening People Yourself
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.
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Album Concept Live Myself Observation Window
I got a toy keyboard when I was around like five or six.
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Age Music Time Toys
We’re products of this world we were born into. We all battle our own demons. Everyone is troubled in the dark, but, please just stop & think about the babies. They’re gonna be here long after we leave.
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Battle Born Ourselves Product Stop Trouble
I want to own my masters. That’s the main thing–owning all my music.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Master Music Myself Own
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 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
Music is my one opportunity to let out how I’m feeling when I’m not talking to a chick or my mom, you know what I mean? It’s just venting.
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Feeling Music Opportunity Yourself
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
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 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
Don’t stop until you get where you’re trying to go.
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Inspirational Motivational Myself Stop
If I’m being honest, I was messing up on every other level in my life growing up – whether it was in school or in my jobs. I was always distracted by my love for music.
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Distraction Growth Honesty Life Music Myself
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
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.
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Money Myself Thinking Time
My music is often written from the perspective of an extroverted introvert.
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Extrovert Introvert Music Myself Perspective Writing
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 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
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

I feel you gotta be nervous. If you’re nervous, it’s just ’cause you want to do well, it’s not ’cause you’re scared.

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