Eddie Valoy

I’m an artist because art is the only place we can experience perfection.

"Street Light"

“This little light of mine/ I’m trying to let it shine/ this little light of mine/ I’m trying to let it shine/ Let me shine X3

I simply be/ simply me

Sipping sweet tea/ with a dash of Bacardi

I’m under age/ don’t judge me

I’m from a fatherless family 

Raised by street philosophy 

Where fear is the only currency

That’s why homies on the corner trying to make quota

Commission makes us look like chicken/ with a side and a soda

Cannibalism is how the system, mold us/ we lie and say we’re soldiers , when we know we’re really vultures/ just trying to survive like the roaches

I’m from the block where the hustlers be

A crackheads shopping spree 

Where cops kill for free/ when your skin looks like we

My hood is like a Bermuda Triangle/

Circles come up missing/ find some rectangled 

Cats working them angles like a modern day DJango 

Chicks stay running game like Jenga

Pull out the wood too reckless/ game changer

9 months later child support strangler 

I simply be/ simply me

Eating rice and beans/ three days a week 

I’m from where life is grime and you reap when you sleep 

Where the only time you see your father is on a milk carton, penitentiary/ or the cemetery

 Where mamas working around the clock/ while you’re key latching and the block is the lock

I simply be/ simply me

I got caught doing the devils bid

I stand with Jesus / now I’m gonna win

I simply be/ simply me

I got sympathy /for the mothers raising babies individually

Having to break babies piggy bank to feed the family/ putting babies name on your utility / school is the only time your babies eat

Trust me Queen I got sympathy 

I know y’all sleep/ head to feet on a mattress smelling like pee

I know y’all one Ramen noodle away from living on the street 

I got sympathy for the Goons and the shooters who kill our people easily 

I got sympathy for the cowards who leave or beat their babies to the third degree

I even got sympathy for the kids getting molested and women getting raped/ I hate you're carrying the weight / not your fault/ this is all a mistake

You see/ we are born with a love deficiency 

We inherited a hate cycle/ and a scoreless FICO 

Only way out /is to ball like Michael/ but too many away games/ makes a man go psycho 

We’ve adopted a poverty mentality/ I know now that’s a fallacy/ no one ever became poor from giving too much/ God always blesses the generous/ with abundance/ trust 

So When I kill you/ I kill me/ that’s why now I have sympathy 

I simply be/ simply me

I’m a Street Light now

I found my hidden kingdom 

I know now where my sins came from/ an ugly  birth defects is the root of our predisposition / a taste for violence/ a disdain for kindness/ we do dirt in silence/ we’re depressed ventriloquist/ our guns speak for the dummy inside us

Every test becomes a testimony/ let us join in matrimony

All your mess becomes your message/ spread the message becomes the blessing

That’s how we stay connected

In order to truly live/ we got to forgive (x2)

Peep your reflection and pray for peace/ see your reflection/ it starts with me

Now you see/ to be simply me/ takes complexity 

( come on y’all/ shine with me)

“My Jesus says shine your light on the world/ shine your light for the world to see/ I want my people to be free X2”