Maryland singer Brent Faiyaz goes deep on why he's not your average R&B artist
His years of drawing inspiration from rappers like Curren$y and Lil Wayne, mixed with the likes of Curtis Mayfiled and Gil Scott-Heron, come through on songs like “Clouded,” where Faiyaz delivers bars for almost two minutes straight without a hook. On the uplifting track “Let Me Know,” he sheds light on the challenges faced with self-love and masculinity as a black man, and on the EP’s intro, “Skyline,” he delivers a message of unity as a solution to gang culture.
“Rehab” has a similar feel to some of your earlier songs, like “DSN” and “Allure” — stripped-down ballads where you sing without too many drums. What inspired you to take that route? I look at the track like it’s a canvas. You got four minutes to make the wildest shit you can. To make the most appealing shit that you can for someone’s ear. And most people are going to cut off a track that they don’t like within the first 15 seconds, for real. So what’s the first thing I can say to suck you in? Like, “I got too many hoes” — from there, it’s like, “Aight, I want to keep listening to what he got to say.
It feels like the music industry often tries to categorize and generalize black artists. Do you agree?
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