1/4/2024 0 Comments Gravity brent faiyaz![]() I ain’t know how that was going to be powerful. “I wanted to talk about, but I was scared. So I might’ve written songs and known people were gonna like, and knew going to be received a certain way and it was safe – but in my head I always wanted to make a ‘Fuck The World’. When you start out making music, you just want to make something that people will like. He explains it comes from growth and experience of being a musician, and says that earlier on in his career he may have felt swayed to make music that sounded a certain way: “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’. But how does the timid guy from the debut, who spoke about loyalty and ‘simping’ over his love interests, end up as the cheeky and cocksure Brent we all love today? Listening back to his discography, you can hear Faiyaz’ confidence grow across his years in the limelight. “Motherfuckers will take literary somersaults and tricky words and euphemisms and metaphors and similes over an actual message… It’s like when you have a favourite rapper and people will be like, ‘Man, that punchline is crazy!’ – but what are they actually talking about?’” Earlier in his career Brent, felt pressured to make hits “It’s so crazy that people decide that a book is challenging or oppressive based on the type of words they use versus how profound it is,” he says. While lockdown has offered Brent a lot of time to sink his teeth into some good paperbacks, for him it’s not necessarily about reading the most complex texts – it’s about a book’s message. Making ‘Make it Out Alive’ is going to be a reflection of all of that.” I’m working out, eating healthier, reading books. “The entire process of working on that record, I was on bullshit. “Around the time I was working on ‘Fuck The World’, I was travelling everywhere, just wiling out, living out of a suitcase,” he says. He’s still in the early stages of making the album and believes he’s “in a more mature space” to make us an album even better than his previous releases. However, he’s only been working on it for the past year so don’t expect it too soon. His next project’s title, he lets slip to NME, is ‘Make it Out Alive’. That’s right – a second album is on the horizon! Normally, artists think of the names of their albums after they’ve made the music, but not Brent: “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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