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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.

Brent Faiyaz

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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Dog Eat Exercise Healthy Reflection 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
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
Don’t stop until you get where you’re trying to go.
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Inspirational Motivational Myself Stop
Sonder is the realization that every individual passerby has their own life just as vivid and complex as yours.
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Complex Life Realization Yourself
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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Feeling Music Opportunity Yourself
I don’t wake up thinking about the genre of R&B as a whole. I just make music.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Music Myself Thinking Wake Up
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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Listening Time Work 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.
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Album Collection Music Myself Name
In order for people to take what you say seriously, they have to know who you are as a person.
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Order People Person Serious Yourself
An outside party don’t ever stay outside.
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Party Place Stay
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 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
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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Change Culture Game Love People Rare Time Yourself

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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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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