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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.

Brent Faiyaz

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.’
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Focus Music Myself People Sing Start Time Writing
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
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
With the Sonder music, I pull a lot from what’s around me.
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Around Music Myself
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.
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Change Culture Game Love People Rare Time Yourself
My music is often written from the perspective of an extroverted introvert.
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Extrovert Introvert Music Myself Perspective Writing
I want to own my masters. That’s the main thing–owning all my music.
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Master Music Myself Own
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.
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Album Collection Music Myself Name
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
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
When you’re initially making music, you’re kind of just shooting at the air.
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Initial Kind Music 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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Black Listening Music Myself People Start
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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InterAction Mirror People 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.
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Black Complete Honesty Loyalty Myself Sing
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
An outside party don’t ever stay outside.
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Party Place Stay

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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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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