"The Reflection" Mixtape is now out. Download now at somstudios.com or edumusic.bandcamp.com

Feel free to follow along with the lyrics:
Woman – I don’t cry every time that it’s not perfect, every time that it’s not perfect, I fix it! Every time that it’s not perfect, and we haven’t seen each other for three months, I make sure that I save my money and buy a ticket , and I make sure that I get my work done so we spend time together. Every time it’s not perfect, I fix it! 

 Man – I’m going to go, you stay. I’ll get my clothes in the morning. 

 Woman – No, no, no, no, no, no, we can survive this. We can survive this. If you go now, - if you go now, we are not going to get through this. If you go now! We don’t have a chance. We don’t have a chance! If you go now. If you go! 

 *[Doors open] [Doors close] [Time ticks forward]* 


 Chorus [2x]: 
 Flashback, twisted up 
 I’m so close to giving up, 
 Don’t Cry 


 Verse 1: 
 Damn! Another year that I don’t see you 
 You needa understand, I’ve been facing a lot of issues 
 I know I said, the first chance I’d get, I’d get on a plane 
 And never turn away, life would never be the same 
 Plans always get changed 
 Life can not be tamed 
 What if I get a chance, I might be way too late? 
 But I keep my composure, We’re separated by oceans 
 But every time we speak, I feel us getting closer 
 The world is against me, the world is against us 
 Up for hours, thinking of your love 
 Connected by keyboards, ups and downs like seesaws 
 There were days and months that we hardly even talked 
 Never considered that as time that we lost 
 They say I’m wasting time, but it’s a good cause 
 All that matters is what we believe, 
 and I believe one day it will be, 
 you and me. (you and me) 


 Bridge: 
 But they say, 
 (I should just let go) 
 Don’t wanna let go from you 
 (I should just let go) 
 Don’t wanna give up now! 


 Chorus [2x]: 
 Flashback, twisted up 
 I’m so close to giving up, 
 Don’t Cry 


 Verse 2: 
 They are telling me to be more realistic 
 Where have you seen it work in a distance? 
 Especially in the industry, everyone is cheating 
 But I cant even listen, I only can envision 
 You may say that I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one 
 And that’s not me, it was John Lennon 
 After six years, we’re still going strong 
 Had our shares of altercations but that was preparation 
 For the bigger picture, for the days that we are missing 
 All the nights we stopped to think of, looking up at the big dipper 
 Waiting for a star, where we could make wish, 
 To forget about the world and leave this shit. 
 Take a trip Jupiter, meet up in Venus 
 There’s no limit in the world of a dreamer 
 Any who hates, tell em to leave us 
 Living in the clouds we should be called nimbus 


 Bridge: 
 But they tell me that 
 (I should just let go) 
 Don’t wanna let go from you 
 (I should just let go) 
 Don’t wanna give up now! 


 Chorus [2x]: 
 Flashback, twisted up 
 I’m so close to giving up, 
 Don’t Cry 


 Verse 3: 
 Dear M.I. it’s a week since we last spoke 
 Miss our crazy plans, I miss our stupid jokes 
 I heard you’re feeling lonely, I heard you’re going crazy 
 Maybe we need to talk so you feel motivation 
 I heard you feel depressive, I heard you’re taking medicine, 
 Stop it, you don’t need that shit to find happiness 
 Every song I hear, reminds me of you 
 I heard the Blower’s Daughter and tears came through 
 My eyes, but I didn’t realize, I miss everything about you 
 Even all of those fights, on phone or online 
 We were talking were the best (best) 
 We would stay for hours, from sunrise to sunset 
 It’s crazy just to see how much we’ve seen each other grow 
 I know so much about you, but I’ve never been close 
 I’ll always consider you more than a friend 
 Meanwhile I just dream, and settle for the webcam (webcam) 


 Bridge: 
 (I should just let go) 
 Don’t wanna let go from you 
 (I should just let go) 
 Don’t wanna give up now! 


 Chorus [2x]: 
 Flashback, twisted up 
 I’m so close to giving up, 
 Don’t Cry 

 I don't have anything else to say, sorry for the pain

Don't Cry (prod. by e.d.u.)

The introduction of the mixtape "The Reflection" by e.d.u. 
download the whole thing at http://www.somstudios.com/projects/mixtapes/19342266

feel free to follow along with the lyrics:

Consider this the intro, 
This is for the love, this is for the people. 
This is vinyl, and this is for the needle 
This is all that we know. 
Consider this the intro... 

Verse: 
Back in the day when I was a younger kid 
I was still struggling, I was so underfed 
Hard to understand, 
Now these girls they love my accent 
and every one that knew probably got some questions. 
I'm the picture of controversy, but my frame is picture perfect 
I may act like I am Hercules, but damn these haters hurt me 
But fuck it man, I know that I am better then that 
Got a country on my back and a city to match 
I'm talking about BRAZIL 
where we speak Portugues and not Spanish! 
So don't speak it cause we wouldn't understand it. 
Brick city, Jersey is where we are hanging out 
But I come from Ironbound where no rapper ever made it out. 

Hook (2x): 
Consider this the intro, 
This is for the love, this is for the people. 
This is vinyl, and this is for the needle 
This is all that we know. 
Consider this the intro... 

Verse: 
This is us, this is me, in just a few bars 
Second mixtape, but i consider it the start 
22 years old with decisions I need to make 
Like, should I keep on rapping, or should I graduate? 
Should I marry my girl? Or throw the ring away? 
Should I quit my job? 
Cause I'm still not getting paid 
Why can't I chill out, enjoy my life and smoke my weed 
Watch some Breaking Bad and porno, and then I beat my meat. 
Instead I'm paying rent, and electricity. 
Got a studio in a room that I cant put my people in 
And I cant go out at night, cause my water's shut off 
They're coming for my heat, it means I'll freeze my butt off 
Deadlines to make, that means more all nighters 
I rather roll a blunt and spark my lighter, getting higher 
Take me where the birdies be. 
I swear the God the weed did that shit purposely, 
Now burn with me. 

Final Hook: 
Consider this the sequel, 
This is for the love, this is for the people. 
This is vinyl, and this is for the needle 
This is all that we know. 
Consider this the sequel (uh-huh)


Consider This... (prod. by e.d.u.)

Verse 1: 
 It was Sunday morning, 8AM and I’m still yawning 
 She yells at me, while I’m ignoring 
 Everything she says, and her soul is pouring 
 Gotta take a shower, go and eat your breakfast 
 Put some nice clothes on, she’s so obsessive 
 Keeping up appearances can seem so desperate 
 Since when did the service get involved with fashion? 
 I’m Gone, (gone, gone) 
 But I don’t have the heart, to tell it to her face 
 My brother in the room, shit faced 
 While I’m at home reading verses from the book of James 
 A man is righteous, by what they do and not faith alone 
 I wanna do right, but I don’t have the faith and my soul is gone 
 This can’t be me, this is not what I do 
 This isn’t what I learned, And it doesn’t feel true 
 Let me sin a little 
 LET ME SIN A LITTLE! 
 Protect me from temptation, 
 Protect me from Satan! 

 Chorus [2x]: 
 When I look up in the mirror, this isn’t who I am 
 But then I look up in the mirror, and see the person that I am 

 Verse 2: 
 So I take a shower, take a shower in the holy water 
 Ask forgiveness, ask for the father 
 We are all sinners, nothing left to believe in 
 Buddhists, Jewish, Atheists, and of course all of the Christians 
 Yeah, we still at war, but we all believe in peace 
 But nobody likes to lose, why do we act like this? 
 Yeah, we’re still at war, but we all believe in peace 
 But nobody likes to lose, why are we like this man? 

 Chorus [2x]: 
 When I look up in the mirror, this isn’t who I am 
 But then I look up in the mirror, and see the person that I am 

 Verse 3: 
 And I could be like every rapper, pop a molly and go off 
 I’ll feel good for a while, grab a dutch and I roll up 
 Then I take a shot, 
 Then I take another, 
 Then I smoke that weed, 
 Then I record it 
 Sell some records and sound like everybody else 
 Praise the drugs that put us here, praise the way the pain is dealt 
 Guess that’s what I’ll do. 
 Spend $300 bucks on some pills that will put me through... 

 Till the end of another, to drown all the memories 
 And I’ll keep this viscous cycle going till I rest in peace 
 Will mom remember me, will my brother speak of me 
 Will I be the example for my family what you shouldn’t be, Man 

 I guess I became the villain! 
 I turned out so insane 
 Harvey Dent I know the feeling 
 Got me feeling like a two face 
 But it’s too late for me, it’s too great for me 
 This pressure that I put on myself, collapsed on my knees 
 And I got no choice but to kneel, and if don’t then who will? 
 This metaphor just feels too real (too real) 

 This whole thing has been, a cry for help 
 This whole things has been, a cry for help 
 This whole thing has been, a cry for help, hmm 
 This whole thing has been 

 I’m looking in the mirror, don’t know what I see 
 I see a dude with a fitted, looks like me 
 Don’t know who it is, it's not who I used to be 
 It’s the result of all the scoldings that never got through to me 
 But now I feel the power, running through my veins 
 I’m gonna unleash it all, like I was Kurt Cobain 
 Know that my life, will never be the same 
 But it’s the price that I pay in order to play in this game 
 So I grab the controller turn it on and grab a mic 
 And wit a touch of a button, I’ll give you all my life 
 I’ll give you all my might in the lyrics I recite 
 And the console is on, so I “control” what I write 
 I’m going up and down like it was a cheat code 
 The only cheat that I used is when I went and jacked you flow 
 But please man, please man, I never jacked shit 
 I just go in all these songs in the way that I see fit 
 And you can blame me for everything 
 I do this shit so differently 


 Chorus [2x]: 
 When I look up in the mirror, this isn’t who I am 
 But then I look up in the mirror, and see the person that I am

Sunday prod. by e.d.u.

Keep Marching feat Self D. prod. RoughStar (t)

Somewhat old song from "The Reflection"

Feel free to follow along with the lyrics.

Verse 1:
All my life I wanted to make something so beautiful
Then it changed I swear the God, this shit became spiritual
I feel it in blood, I feel it in my veins
I know that thing won't be the same,
Now that I got money in my name
I've been working hard and all, hitting up the studio
Putting so much work in, you would think this was my cubicle
I just took some tylenol, adderall, and percoset
Still sick as I ever was, I swear this shit is permanent
I'll admit there are times, that I forget what I do this for
Think about the money, and the awards
Then I hit the studio and do some more
Make more damage (Yeah)
Make more money (Uh)
Work hard to get it.
But I'm feeling nothing
It's unbelievable how numb I have become
Thinking bout makin this money and forgetting to have fun
I just want to do this right,
I grind so hard you can hear my teeth
And I pray to God that I stay grounded
And never forget why I do this shit

[Instrumental break down]

Verse 2:
My dad called me, I let it ring
He said he missed me, I said I changed
He's been away and lately I've been blaming him him
Know that they are separated,
Know he loves both of his kids.
I see that you try your best, I understand where you're coming from
Know that these times are tough, and you couldn't stick it with mom
If you could only see how much I am like you,
Then you would be amazed
Work hard, and he works hard too
Got discipline, but we love the praise
Worship money, think so selfish
Wanna be good, wanna be like Elvis
Try to be the best it don't matter what they think
So we don't fuck around when it comes to that green
When it comes to that money we go for that ring
Live for the hate,
Die to be king
We can't take a break and we can't give up yet, we can't even listen all we do is think.
We out here, so faded
Don't think that we're the best, but we think that we're the greatest
So why is it that I feel sorry for him and his stuff
Regardless of the money it won't matter with no love,
Man

[Instrumental]

Regardless (prod. Clams Casino & Edu)

sample from "my number" by foals 

Lyrics below:

Verse 1:
Uh, Damn I lost my mind
Shorty got me working like it's over time
She look so good, and she look so fine
And I know it's wrong, but it feels so right!
She tried to play it off, but I see her across the room
Straight up eyeing me
Wish I could be upfront to you
and ask you to spend the whole night with me
But I know the game and I know these lames
and see them trying to get at you
You smile at me and you play it off like if you don't want me to let you
If I were to have you, it'd be for one night
And the next I'll probably forget you
So let's exchange the names, and forget the numbers,
And I promise I'll never regret you. Nah.

Chorus:
You don’t have my number, (Don't have my number now)
we don’t need each other now (Don't need ya, Don't need ya)
We don’t need the city, (forget the city baby)
the creed or the culture now

Don't Play with me, seriously baby don't play with me
Make this night a memory when I play the game i don't play for (keeps)
Don't Play with me, seriously baby don't play with me
Make this night a memory when I play the game i don't play for (keeps)

Verse 2:
Finally got the courage to walk up to you
And Tell you look great, and you're beautiful
But she smiles at me, and she says thank you
and I smile to her and she says I'm cute.
But that's not what I'm here for!
That's not what I need now!
And I know you want to hear more.
But I just want us to leave now. (Ooh)
But I'll take it slow, tell you all the things that you need hear
Almost to the point that you tell your girls,
that you want to get out of here
(But I'll keep it to myself)
Then I'll make a move
Grab a few drinks, then I'll give you the scoop!
Don't shoot me down, that would be a bummer
Just want you for tonight, don't even need my number

Break:
So people of the city I don’t need your counsel now
And I don’t need your good advice, you don’t have my lover’s touch

Chorus:
You don’t have my number, (Don't have my number now)
we don’t need each other now (Don't need ya, Don't need ya)
We don’t need the city, (forget the city baby)
the creed or the culture now

Don't Play with me, seriously baby don't play with me
Make this night a memory when I play the game i don't play for (keeps)
Don't Play with me, seriously baby don't play with me
Make this night a memory when I play the game i don't play for (keeps)

Bridge:
(Do you even hear me?) Tell me what you need from me!
(Do you even know my name?) Make this night a memory!
(Can you see the ocean now?) Tell me what you need from me!
(You don’t have my lover’s touch) Make a memory for me!

Morning came, and so did you
In a few hours I'll leave you
Your sex was so, unforgettable
Just know that it happened I don't regret you
Last night was so great!
You were like the eighth wonder
And I wish we could see each other again
But you don't have my number!

Chorus:
You don’t have my number, (Don't have my number baby)
we don’t need each other now (Don't need ya, Don't need ya)
You can't steal my thunder 'cause you don’t have my lover’s touch

You don’t have my number, (Don't have my number baby)
and I don’t need no one else (Don't need ya, Don't need ya)
And I don’t need these city streets, (Don't have my number baby)
the creed or the culture now.

Number (prod. by edu)

Download my debut mixtape The Reflection: 
www.edumusic.bandcamp.com

Follow me as I struggles to find a balance within myself and the expectations of being a MC. Take a deep personal look into the battles of being an immigrant, a rapper, and an artist as well as the need to be an example to other people in a negative environment.

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