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“Don’t act like I’m average,” Maryland-hailing crooner Brent Faiyaz sings on 2021’s Tyler, The Creator collaboration, “Gravity”. For what was likely a throwaway line, it’s a perfect distillation Faiyaz’s charisma, the singer making a play for a potential lover’s attention while wholly unwilling to downplay his own self-admiration. The singer would break on a national level by way of a scene-stealing chorus on fellow Maryland MC GoldLink’s 2016 hit “Crew”, but by the time of 2020’s <i>Fuck the World</i>, Faiyaz’s time as a member of Sonder, the R&B trio he got his start in, was more or less an afterthought. He had, by the time of <i>Fuck The World</i>, fully realised the consistently shades-clad, proudly emotionally unavailable Lothario he showcased across songs like “One Night Only”, “Wasting Time” and “Rehab (Winter in Paris)”. No less self-assured, his sophomore project <i>WASTELAND</i> would feature some soul-searching, but his conscience was fully clear by the time of 2023’s <i>Larger Than Life</i>. Maybe it was the whole time. “Everybody need love, even n****s like me,” he sings on “Trust” from his <i>Lost</i> EP.

“Hey Siri, play the Heartache playlist.”