Why did you want to make a song about it? Your upcoming single “Show You Off” is about International Women’s Day. But Tyler’s one of the only artists that I’m willing to sit back for and let him do his own thing. That’s not to say I don’t respect other collaborators I work with, but because I’m a singer, and I’m often times the only singer in the studio, if I get in the studio with a rapper, nobody’s going to tell me how to sing or what to do vocally or write anything for me. How did working with Tyler on “Gravity” differ from your previous collaborations? You’ve collaborated with a lot of artists before. I was working on that record, and that’s the one I was working on with DJ Dahi, and I was like, “Man, what could really set this shit over the edge?” So I hit him up, and he put a verse on it. He had reached out to work on some music, so we were doing a whole bunch of sessions, and we’ve got hella shit. You collaborated with Tyler, the Creator on your song “Gravity.” How did you guys connect? And I see some of the homies in there Yung Baby Tate and Mariah the Scientist. I think it’s good that YouTube decided that they really want to showcase Black talent. I feel like so much and so often, we bring so much to the forefront and are often overlooked. SPIN: What did it mean for you to be included in the #YouTubeBlack Voices Artist Class of 2021?īrent Faiyaz: I think it’s dope that YouTube is representing Black artists in that way. We recently spoke with Faiyaz about working with Tyler, the Creator, being included in the #YouTubeBlack Voices Artist Class of 2021, and releasing a song for International Women’s Day. Despite his incredibly hectic schedule, he “would do this for fun and for free.” “It’s cool I can make music and branch out and be able to do other things like that,” Faiyaz says. Even aside from his music, he’s spent time modeling for Calvin Klein as part of a collaboration with Kendrick Lamar and Dave Free’s new company, pgLang. In the meantime, he has a single, “Gravity,” with Tyler, the Creator, and an upcoming song titled “Show You Off,” slated for International Women’s Day in March. The Maryland-based artist has since released five EPs, one of which was with his side project Sonder, and a studio album, 2017’s Sonder Son. The 25-year-old R&B vocalist has, in fact, put out plenty of music since his 2013 EP Black Child. “I’m actually surprised that I do put out music in a timely fashion.” “I don’t even really calculate this shit like that,” he continues. “Everything I do is organic,” Brent Faiyaz says when asked about his songwriting process.
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