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Houston rapper, singer, and producer. Every record written, produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Ray himself. 100K+ streams. Recognized by TDE\u2019s Punch, Slim Thug, and Paul Wall. Founder of From The Soil, LLC.
Ray Jones started making beats in 2008 on a demo copy of FL Studio from his neighbor. When nobody bought them, he started rapping over them himself. His debut, Somas and Salem 100\u2019s (2014), took its name from the muscle relaxers and cigarettes his late grandmother kept close \u2014 grief pressed into wax. Chasing a deal, he dropped out of a Houston engineering program for Chicago, where the label promises went quiet but an extra\u2019s role in Spike Lee\u2019s Chi-Raq bought the bus ticket home \u2014 with Vol. 2 recorded along the way.
Back in Houston, working at a country club, a Chase banker\u2019s standing refrain \u2014 \u201cYou can be in my position one day, only time will tell\u201d \u2014 became Only Time Will Tell (2016), whose viral single \u201cI\u2019m On\u201d drew nods from TDE president Punch and Houston legends Slim Thug and Paul Wall. Labels called; Ray chose himself. He spent the next year learning guitar and taking vocal lessons to deliver Sophia\u2019s Beach House (2017) \u2014 ten tracks of rap, R&B, pop, and neo-soul in the lineage of Prince, Michael Jackson, and Anita Baker. Acres Homes (2019) brought it all back to the Houston neighborhood that raised him.
Now Ray is building his sixth album: Nobody Loves a Genius Child \u2014 a play on the Langston Hughes poem \u201cGenius Child\u201d \u2014 reflecting everything the come-up has cost and taught. From the soil, still rising.
\u201cRay Jones wants you to know he didn\u2019t give up. Ray Jones wants you to know he did it all by himself. Ray Jones wants you to know it\u2019s possible.\u201d\u2014 Ray Jones, on the release of Sophia\u2019s Beach House
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