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My music is often written from the perspective of an extroverted introvert.

Brent Faiyaz

I work while I’m on the move, so I’m able to book sessions in different cities.
BRENT FAIYAZ

City Different Myself Session Work
I think it’s good that YouTube decided that they really want to showcase Black talent.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Black Decision Myself Talent Thinking
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
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
I was reading Neil Postman’s ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’. It’s one of my favourites.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Book Death Myself Ourselves Reading
If it feels good coming out, then I really don’t care about anything else, for real. It’s all about just having fun with it. If it feels like less work, then the project is coming out better.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Better Care Feeling Myself Project Reality Work
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 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
I got a toy keyboard when I was around like five or six.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Age Music Time Toys
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
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
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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Money Myself Thinking Time
If I feel like making something, if I feel like saying something on the track, that’s what I am going to do – regardless of reaction.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Feeling Myself Reaction Track
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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Feeling Music Opportunity Yourself
I want to put my soul into the music and still be who I am when it comes to an actual conversation.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Conversation Music Myself Soul
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

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