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Enlightened

by Son-Ray

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For the haters that hope that I fall and hate the movement/ I just give’em a nod and keep it moving/ I just give’em a nod and keep it moving/ I just give’em a nod and keep it moving/ Now those same dudes all on my balls and its confusing/ I’m just telling’em nah i keep it moving/ I’m just telling’em nah i keep it moving/ I’m just telling’em nah i keep it moving/ Friend or Foe homie which are you/ Man look at you/ should be embarrassed trying to pull a switcheroo/ man or bitch? I don’t know but I wish I knew/ no respect for ya ya lucky i aint spit on you/ cuz I did this alone you know I got it covered/ you was praying for me to fail but I rose above it/ just keep it moving , and smile becuz you gotta love it/ so when they try to be cool I don’t think nothing of it/ but I keeps it real I give my heart or nothing/ they just actors that mastered the art of frontin/ switch siders when these niggaz started stuntin/ dick riders, just want to be Apart of something/ gotta watch the snakes make sure that they in ya reach/ cuz the same ones that hate will be the ones to leech/ but i stay on my grind to keep from losing/ so i dont even pay'em no mind i keep it moving/ Hook: before they tryed to blackball me/ now them cats call me/ they see i'm doing my thing they checking back for me/ do your homework you should of got the back story/ so when they holla they only get my back. sorry/ you take it how you want but nah i can't forgive'em/ but i don't pay them no mind i'm to busy living/ i gotta eat tho so my grind is hunger driven/ so just call me lincoln cuz i got that tunnel vision/ i just keep it moving you know i'm skating pass/ all about my movement and just making cash/ just becareful cuz you dont wanna make him spaz/ i got two middle fingers for ya hating ass/ all ya rappers make me laugh ya probably need some hugs/ but im good with mines homie i dont need ya love/ i tell you this becuz i don't want confusion/ so next time we meet again you should keep it moving/ Hook:
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What I Do 03:39
straight shots of ciroc and patron/ take flicks with brunettes and the blonds/ I grind till 6 in the morn/ make hits when i'm dropping these songs... its what i do/ go getter go figure i'll be back, back/ go better go-rilla on the track, track/ tell dealers wholesale up on that crack/ units sell quicker man my albums like a pack/ i'm telling you the facts/ no matter where i'm at/ look for SonRay kid he's all over the map/ GPS ya boy, yes i appear/ search for the best it directs you to here/ they tell me not to brag cuz it gets them in tears/ I’m just doing what I do. you expect me to care?/ you say you a boss, better switch ya careers/ cuz you aint got the balls, better get you a pair/ still I find it weird how you flying in them leers/ when you aint never balled like a full set of hair/ this is my year! how could i lose/ oh i guess you aint hear it’s just what I do/ take hook: get at me come holla i'm usually in the cut/ usually with a cup, of a bluey drinking up/ groupies and the sluts, like who he gonna fuck?/ so excuse me my dude don't rudely interrupt/ i'm steady making moves while you feuding for a buck/ this is what i do you just doing what you must/ you just gonna lose if you move against us/ cuz you moving at a movement that is moving in a rush/ i'm gone on these tracks like Huessin Bolt/ they just talk fast but aint came close/ word on the street is that you lames choke/ so along with ya girl the kid brang rope/ Van Gogh this is art at its best/ a star? you aint up to par with a sketch/ they know a nigga eat so its hard to digest/ so they sob then they blog and throw harsh indirects/ while i hook: i just do me i aint worried about the next guy/ i'm big homie they aint even chest high/ they drown whenever the depth rise/ face down, homie this is bedstuy/ i try to tell them you can't do what i does/ the ones that try to judge for they knew what i was/ try to walk in my shoes bet you dudes wouldnt budge/ i'm that guy like a hive man i move with a buzz/ but, its just me i dont even need the swarm/ all these dudes shook ever since i gotten on/ all the ladies hooked now saying he the bomb/ but when you got the looks you don't even need the charm/ straight swag, can't move how i move/ i take cash homie pay ya dues or ya lose/ push the brake pads, on these dudes if i chose/ I aint trying to be rude/ i'm just doing what i do/ i just
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Im Gone 02:58
Hook: I crawled, I walked, I ran, I flown/ I lived, I seen, and now, I’ve grown/ With time i came into my own/ And now I’m gone/ This is my maturation/ You aint gonna find no exaggerations/ always Stay real to myself, you could feel it yaself, that right there is ya validation/ I passed on graduation no caps and gowns/ But I’m the one whose laughing now/ I left for a minute but I’m back around/ And this time around I aint backing down/ Feel like I’m gone but still up in my pivot/ Tired and I’m worn body looking livid/ But I gotta move on if I’m a say I did it/ I’m my biggest fan but I’m my biggest critic/ Like damn son you nice listen to your lyrics/ started off right, but you just gotta finished/ came up from the bottom so there aint no limit/ Take life as it comes they don’t wanna see you live it/ I aint mad at them I dont never mind them/ I just brush it off its all about the timing/ A diamond in a rough somebody better find him/ It just allows me to think of a time when/ Hook: 2x I’m gone aint nobody catching ray/ Gone like I blazed a batch of haze/ Gone for the past few days like a cast away/ Just thinking bout when I pass away/(like) Will I be remembered for the glowing ember/ That’s shines in my heart or my short temper/ Just trying to make a mark in the short tenure/ I have on this earth I just need a pen to…/ Jot it all down/ you got it all now/ Doesn’t matter much it’s a matter of trial/ And error, whatever we gotta eat now/ traveled alot but a thousand more miles/ Awaits me fuck it you can add them on now/ I know I’m a make it you wanna know how/ Cuz I flip a beat in one or more styles/ So I’m a spread my wings and just hit the clouds/ And fly away I will stay up high and hey, no confusion/ progressions a problem I’m the solution/ ya just witnessed the evolution of how i…./ walked I ran etc.
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verse1: I fear that life is taking its toll, I’m feeling lifeless/ The fight for taking control has got me righteous/ A crisis waits to unfold how can I write this/ Without being blatant and cold man I don’t like this/ My own family hating on me what kind of shit is that/ No room for the negative had to get rid of that/ Not the type to talk Was never one for chitter chat/ Respect is only given to those who learn to give it back/ In other words you gotta earn it/ every bridge built has a foundation that strong without it, gotta burn it/ moving on only way I’m getting threw the storm/ I just grind till I have my own horn to toot upon/ Prove me wrong but I doubt that that’ll happen/ If I fail bet their reaction will be one of satisfaction/ I guess that’s what was lacking only thing that was gone/ But everything is clear now so I’m headed back home/ Hook: I'm taking control/ of my life my mind and my soul/ no one is gonna tell me where i'm at is wrong/ or where there going is where i should of been all along/ verse2: i Had to do some soul searching/ But now I’m so certain/ That I’m a make it I’m a be the sole person/ To do it my way only way that its working/ I’ll let you see it all homey there aint no curtains/ this is not a show This is me exposed/ as opposed to always being clothed/ bare my soul in the song through lyrics that I told/ on the highway of life I’m just trying to make it home/ but lust try to misdirect me I almost got lost/ a course to a dead end damn I had to hop off/ almost lost shorty now my time i allocate/ for me to think it over gotta reevaluate/ but now I’m almost home the distance getting shorter/ I just gotta get my priorities in order/ Left as a youngster and i came back grown/ Now I’m in good place so I’m coming back home/ hook: I'm taking control/ of my life my mind and my soul/ no one is gonna tell me where i'm at is wrong/ or where there going is where i should of been all along/ verse3: so i took a furlough but ya boy is back/ and now i'm on the Merlot it's no longer yak/ enlightened by the fact/ that there's people in the world who actually relate to what i'm writing in my raps/ and that alone is good enough/ feel like i'm full of luck/ cuz i done came a ways from days of being hooded up/ so like my attitude my wardrobe change/ just a grown man doing grown man things/ so whateever is to come i hope that god prepares me/ always on the run i'm never stationary / i could see it all i'm a visionary/ but its hard to see the truth when the information varies/ who do i believe aint no one here to trust/ i'm trying to tell my fam there aint no one here but us/ cuz they dont give a fuck so i feel alone/ but i done had enough its time i headed home/ hook: I'm taking control/ of my life my mind and my soul/ no one is gonna tell me where i'm at is wrong/ or where there going is where i should of been all along/
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NY ANTHEM 04:04
Hook: N.Y home of the jackers/ Stick up kids out for their taxes/ When you live in N.Y got dealers On the stoop selling blow/ Pimps got Prostitutes on the stroll/ Up in N.Y where they letting off shots/ hide ya chain and ya watch cuz you could get got/ up in N.Y where the good die young/ it aint hard to tell where I'm from/ verse1: In the city that never sleeps/ With low lifes and a bunch of cheats/ 4'5's on a guy who just got released/ Long knives that slide in a pocket crease/ Archives show it would be Wise for you not to speak/ You got ya dealers and hustlers you know they got rock/ we got real killers amongst us who let the shots pop/ the blocks feel like the summer the way the cops watch/ dice games on the same grounds where they hop-scotched/ an ugly picture but living here you have to look/ futures slipping due to decisions and actions took/ playing spades is the only time they'll grab a book/ creeping late night on the avenue to catch a jook/ but when you from the brook none of this is new to you/ you get accustomed to all the memorials and funerals/ just the long term effect of what Brooklyn could do to you/ and although its ugly at the same it is beautiful in.../ Hook: verse2: I'm from the place where everybody's a hustler/ But in reality everybody's a customer/ You violate ya body be in a dumpster/ Don't flash ya cake cuz these niggaz a touch ya/ so Do what you must in this world of sin/ It's dog eat dog in the world I'm in/ Don't trust a bitch cuz she'll turn you in/ Hanging on a threads end/ Guess they're wrong bout a bitch being a man's best friend/ overtime you learn not to trust/ Don't mix business with pleasure cuz they might combust/ Where niggaz bust at the cops just to feel that rush/ And if you seen anything it is not discussed/ I'm talking Brooklyn, NY, Bedstuy, Buck Town/ When these killers let off niggaz better duck down/ Born and raised till the day I die/ It's in my blood man I love Ny/ Hook: verse3: take a walk with me son so you could get a glimpse/ and you can see what spawns from all the negligence/ Show you elegance or show you where the ghetto is/ I'll take you to the top of the rock down to the sediments/ The bottom pit, at times seemingly is bottomless/ But what it seems to be is just a stream of broken promises/ Or we could hit the city where the boushy live anonymous/ See the different walks of life so you could feel apart of it/ a melting pot, and everybody splashing in it/ so if you aint here to win it then you aint gon' last a minute/ it's the school of hard knocks you gotta major in it/ if you wanna stay afloat man you gotta play to finish/ it's the bottom line if you don't do it it'll cost ya/ I do by myself man I'm a lone walker/ I do it from the heart i aint just a smooth talker/ I'm a boss, signing off "MR. NEW YORKER"/ Hook: Ny......Ny.....Ny......Ny
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Its Whateva 03:33
Hook: 2x Tell me what you wanna do… its whatever! You could go and get ya crew… its whatever! Go ahead and make ya move … its whatever! Anything that you can do I can do it better!! Tell me where you wanna start homie its whatever/ Everything from the whips to the women and the cheddar/ You know I do it better, but you just keep denying it/ How? when I got ya own girl co-signing it/ right in between the lines all you gotta do is read it/ you better keep in mind that I never been defeated/ You talk so much shit that you starting to believe it/ Oh you wear ya heart on ya sleeve? then I’m a leave you sleeveless/ You could pray to jesus that alone will not help/ Ya broke ass got no cash, you low class, I got wealth/ Ya flows trash, I blow pass, They feel me, you not felt/ Yo just fail, I’m upscale, you bum juice, I’m top shelf/ You in the back of the line I’m front and center/ I own this shit you under a nigga you just a renter/ The trend setter you just a loser and I’m a winner/ Go getter, however you want it cuz its whatever/ Hook: They smile when they around me when I’m gone it’s something different/ I aint worried about these haters tho, they gon’ have opinions/ And You aint gotta like me but you do gotta listen/ and we all playing the game but not everybody winning/ its time you pay attention ya probably gonna wanna/ cuz this summer ray’s heating up hotter then a sauna/ you could pick a genre/ I hit and split ya armor/ so the shit I spit they feeling it like a hit of ganja/ they say to watch for karma/ that she’s right around the corner/ but the day I get to meet this bitch you know I’m shitting on her/ so you gon’ be a gonner if you trying to see nirvana/ I’m a Cobain ya brain and probably leave’em on ya/ Now you could brush ya shoulders off/ I do this all with no remorse/ Guess when they said you lose ya head, that literally it’s coming off/ And this is all I know guess I’m stuck with this vendetta/ So go and make ya move cuz homie its whatever/ Hook: I’m attracting all these haters what the hell they want from me/ I see now that they miserable they looking for some company/ They just want attention but they aint getting none from me/ They probably getting restless because I’m living comfortably/ I see the greed and envy, it’s like a feeding frenzy/ but the drive that is inside is like a Beamer, Benz, or Bentley/ but I aint needing any Gucci, Prada lu or Fendi/ just to prove that I’m the shit which is why they all resent me/ I guess I understand tho/ flows too much to handle/ And its Hard to see me like a nigga spit in camo/ I’m looking at the angles to take a new approach/ Im trying to find the quickest way to double what I gross/ I need to see results its time I bring the noise in/ I could cover everything homie pick ya poison/ Anything that you could do just know I do it better/ So you could name the time and place homie its whatever/
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Verse1: We gon toast up to the life you know what it is/ Put a toast up in the air if you do it big/ Pour it up for ya man that just did his bid/ And pour some out for all those that no longer live/ Aint no beefing tell ya man better keep his lid/ Forget about it, It’s just water underneath the bridge / We getting right here fill ya cup up, take a swig/ Light a L might as well, Homie what you think this is?/ Said i’m on a natural high…/ yea it Got me reaching for the sky…/ uh no greater feeling can be giving then the feeling of you living and not caring if you die../ so if the feeling got you hype…/yea and if you feeling like you right…/uh let that feeling just ignite every feeling that you feeling and just toast up to the life…/ Hook: Everybody hold ya drinks up, make sure you hold them high/ Go- head and light ya L’s up,and wave them in the sky/ And don’t worry about ya problems everything will be alright/ cuz if you feel like I do, then just toast up to the life/ We toasting to “The Life”/ Verse 2: I feel like a kid like when Santa comes for Christmas/ Cuz as the days pass man I’m checking off my wish list/ Some say it’s luck I say being ambitious / Has put me in positions and places of my interest/ So now I see the light and found of its existence/ I’m talking about “the life” I thought it was fictitious/ But very much real like you see in painted pictures/ I’m just gonna chill and just basked in all its richness/like Said i’m on a natural high…/ yea it Got me reaching for the sky…/ uh no greater feeling can be giving then the feeling of you living and not caring if you die../ so if the feeling got you hype…/yea and if you feeling like you right…/uh let that feeling just ignite every feeling that you feeling and just toast up to the life…/ hook: Everybody hold ya drinks up, make sure you hold them high/ Go- head and light ya L’s up,and wave them in the sky/ And don’t worry about ya problems everything will be alright/ cuz if you feel like I do, then just toast up to the life/ We toasting to “The Life”/ Verse3: This a tribute to “the life” in which that you chose/ To the hustlers on the block who be moving o’s/ To the artist on the grind always doing shows/ To everyone that’s moving even if you moving slow/ I’m gunning for success, words a be the bullets/ got a fully automatic and I aint afraid to pull it/ im just doing what a lot people are afraid they couldn’t/ So I’m toasting to the life cuz I’m living to the fullest/ cuz Said i’m on a natural high…/ yea it Got me reaching for the sky…/ uh no greater feeling can be giving then the feeling of you living and not caring if you die../ so if the feeling got you hype…/yea and if you feeling like you right…/uh let that feeling just ignite every feeling that you feeling and just toast up to the life…/
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hook: what up! what up! to my niggaz over there/ what up! what up! yea i dont think you wanna stare/ what up! what up! if you wanna shoot the fair/ what up! what up! yea nigga meet me in the square/ what up! what up! to my niggaz over here what up! what up! yea kid you better say a prayer/ what up! what up! oh you claim that you aint scared/ what up! what up! yea nigga meet me in the square/ verse1: (son-ray) what up! what up! nah i aint telling you hi/ everything is all real i aint telling a lie/ if you prepared and you willing to die/ then step in the square i'm over here nigga still in the stuy/ wouldn't bother with a prayer... you could give it a try/ but if god really cared then he would of arrived/ now the fear of him gone got him starting to cry/ so now the tears that have formed slowly fill up his eyes/ but fuck that be careful how you talk to ray/ usually gon' be the loser that'll often say/ you should be the bigger man and just walk away/ but i feel bigger when the bigger man walk away/ I'm on my hood shit hoodies and caps on/ got him on some shook shit talking like cam'ron/ repeating himself, i told him to shut up shut up/ with my hat back, arms crossed looking at him like.../ Hook: what up! what up! to my niggaz over there/ what up! what up! yea i dont think you wanna stare/ what up! what up! if you wanna shoot the fair/ what up! what up! yea nigga meet me in the square/ what up! what up! to my niggaz over here what up! what up! yea kid you better say a prayer/ what up! what up! oh you claim that you aint scared/ what up! what up! yea nigga meet me in the square/ verse2: (Robbie Shades) Hold up Youngin pump ya breaks/ before i introduce my timberlands to ya face/ no broadway show but that ass gets stomped/ simon says get the fuck up like pharoah monche/ i aint done yet pick him up bring up dead/ send the paramedics the medic bring the ems/ see what you get playing that role running ya yapped/ fuck ipod i rob got a kicking ass app/ nip tuck, my razor cut ya face son/ i aint from the jersey shore but you dont want no situation/ guns come out like ricky martin out the closet/ locked flow ready to go and you the target/ i see you in icu sucker/ you won't see the next friday like chris tucker/ i'm on that brooklyn bullshit come get flipped/ korna res robbie shades google me bitch/ verse 3 (son-ray) so throw ya hands, shoot the five, or throw ya dukes/ if you a man and you live aint no excuse/ i dont care about the guns nobody saw you shoot/ meet me in the square not 14th or forty deuce/ so we clear man i'm talking about the ring/ i aint worried about these lames they aint talking about a thing/ they just tend to front cuz aint nothing what it seems/ when heads bump they left slumped, like puppets without strings/ but it aint a thing for ray he stay clever/ with better preparation then the 8th letter/ i can't chill cuz fake niggaz get ray fedup/ plus my handskills is way better then mayweather's/ so if you want it you'll get what you ask for/ a fragile nigga I'm breaking ya glass jaw/ so one hit and you'll be left in the air/ SonRay and Robbie Shades nigga step n the square/ Hook: what up! what up! to my niggaz over there/ what up! what up! yea i dont think you wanna stare/ what up! what up! if you wanna shoot the fair/ what up! what up! yea nigga meet me in the square/ what up! what up! to my niggaz over here what up! what up! yea kid you better say a prayer/ what up! what up! oh you claim that you aint scared/ what up! what up! yea nigga meet me in the square/
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hook: i'm trying to leave my mark 'for i go / i'm trying to live my life 'for i die/ everything they said that i can't do/ i just always seem to defy/ I... gotta put that work in,, gotta go hard, put in time/ and eventually i will get whats mine/ although nothing certain, i could say that one thing is certain, that i know it's gonna be a climb/ but i will never lose/ i will never lose/ i will never lose / i will never lose/ nope i will never lose/ i will never lose/ i will never lose i will never lose/ nope verse1: got my eyes on the prize in the dark i could see the light/ you don't see how i see we don't see alike/ see you see it wrong, me i see it right/ i came to live you just came to see the sights/ you only live once remember what you see in life/ you may not get it, but you don't get to see it twice/ so make the best of it, certainly i will/ and just treasure its better if you make sure it's real/ cuz i'm tired of the bullshit/ tired of excuses/ tried and i tried now i'm chucking up the deuces/ the problem is elusive i gotta find solutions/ bouncing like a ball off the walls like acoustics/ see the truth is i aint like these losers/ every man you asked walks the path that he chooses/ so i gotta ask in the past was I stupid/ but now i'm on the path for this music/ hook: i'm trying to leave my mark 'for i go / i'm trying to live my life 'for i die/ everything they said that i can't do/ i just always seem to defy/ I... gotta put that work in,, gotta go hard, put in time/ and eventually i will get whats mine/ although nothing certain, i could say that one thing is certain, that i know it's gonna be a climb/ but i will never lose/ i will never lose/ i will never lose / i will never lose/ nope i will never lose/ i will never lose/ i will never lose i will never lose/ nope verse2: i'm the long shot the one that aint suppose to make it/ from the wrong block now i'm everybody's favorite/ this that joint where them bars is like god relayed it/ with more points from a star than the star of David/ i'm trying to leave my mark here/ i'm shutting down the streets dog/ i'm a double park here ya gon' play some leap frog/ i aint gon' move take a detour/ start another groove when in deep thought/ keep off/ life's a see-saw, when you deal with ups and downs/ i'm on a free fall, waiting to hit solid ground/ what a feeling, when its hard to find a ceiling/ skin was made to shed don't worry if they see you peeling/ stand up tall don't ever let them find you kneeling/ and if they do tell'em pain is just a part of healing/ it don't matter cuz when its said and done/ i know that i'm gonna be the one/ hook: i'm trying to leave my mark 'for i go / i'm trying to live my life 'for i die/ everything they said that i can't do/ i just always seem to defy/ I... gotta put that work in,, gotta go hard, put in time/ and eventually i will get whats mine/ although nothing certain, i could say that one thing is certain, that i know it's gonna be a climb/ but i will never lose/ i will never lose/ i will never lose / i will never lose/ nope i will never lose/ i will never lose/ i will never lose i will never lose/ nope
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Son-Ray's Debut Album. Came at a time when he was going through a lot of personal issues and trying to find himself. "Enlightened" was the best word to describe how he felt. You hear the pain, evolution, and personal growth in such songs as "toast To The Life" "I'm Gone" "Back Home" and "Never Lose" Album has good energy to it. Give it a listen.

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released October 7, 2010

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Son-Ray New York, New York

Son-Ray is a young aspiring talent and a creative Hip-Hop artist from Bedstuy, Brooklyn, NY.
In 2010 he would drop his first album "Enlightened".
Taking a break in 2011 to build his company; In 2012 he is back on track with his artistic career. Most recently dropping his video for "Finding Me" youtu.be/uq9ycyoxcOU off his new EP Face Value. Expect more good music from this upcoming artist.
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