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I think it’s good that YouTube decided that they really want to showcase Black talent.

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
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
When you’re initially making music, you’re kind of just shooting at the air.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Initial Kind Music Yourself
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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Black Complete Honesty Loyalty Myself Sing
I really just wanted to make something special for women. There aren’t enough records uplifting them out there.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Enough Myself Record Special Woman
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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Compromise Emotion Safety Space Woman
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.’
BRENT FAIYAZ

Focus Music Myself People Sing Start Time Writing
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’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
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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

InterAction Mirror People Yourself
I was reading Neil Postman’s ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’. It’s one of my favourites.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Book Death Myself Ourselves Reading
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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Album Collection Music Myself Name
Sonder is the realization that every individual passerby has their own life just as vivid and complex as yours.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Complex Life Realization Yourself
Don’t stop until you get where you’re trying to go.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Inspirational Motivational Myself Stop
In order for people to take what you say seriously, they have to know who you are as a person.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Order People Person Serious Yourself
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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Battle Born Ourselves Product Stop Trouble

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