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 FAIYAZI think it’s good that YouTube decided that they really want to showcase Black talent.
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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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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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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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I got a toy keyboard when I was around like five or six.
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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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In order for people to take what you say seriously, they have to know who you are as a person.
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Sonder is the realization that every individual passerby has their own life just as vivid and complex as yours.
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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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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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I really just wanted to make something special for women. There aren’t enough records uplifting them out there.
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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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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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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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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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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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