^ "HipHopDX Rising Star Morray Plots 'Street Sermons' Project".^ "Morray Pays Homage to His Hometown in 'Trenches' Video".^ "Morray Signs to Interscope in Partnership With Pick Six Records"."North Carolina Rapper Morray Shines Light on Life in the Hood With 'Quicksand': Emerging Artists Spotlight". ^ "MORRAY'S 'QUICKSAND' CRACKS BILLBOARD 100, CEMENTING THE 'OUT THE MUD' NARRATIVE".^ "Switched Up: Morray's Life Changed With One Phone Call".^ a b c " "I Thought I Was Supposed to Be a Pastor:" An Interview with Morray".^ "NORTH CAROLINA LYRICIST MORRAY CALLS HIS MUSIC 'THAT LIGHT IN THE GHETTO' FOLLOWING JAY-Z TIDAL PLAYLIST LOVE".Guest appearances List of non-single guest appearances, with other performing artists, showing year released and album name Singles As lead artist List of singles, with selected chart positionsĪs featured artist List of singles, with selected chart positions Discography Mixtapes List of mixtapes, with selected chart positions His style has been compared to CeeLo Green, and described as combining "the soulfulness of Big K.R.I.T. Morray grew up listening to artists like Usher and took inspiration from Drake's rapping and singing fluidity. On July 30, Morray released a remix of his song "Trenches" featuring Polo G. Cole and 21 Savage on their co-headlining The Off-Season Tour as their opener. On June 22, it was announced he would be joining J. Also in 2021, he was featured on the 2021 XXL Freshman Class. The song debuted at number two on the Hot 100, becoming his highest charting and best performing song. Cole's album The Off-Season, on the song " My Life" with 21 Savage. On May 14, Morray was a guest feature on J. The mixtape debuted on the US Billboard 200 at number 41. His mixtape Street Sermons was released on April 28, 2021.
He released the single "Trenches" ahead of his debut project in April. On April 16, Morray announced that he had signed to Interscope Records in a joint venture with Pick Six. In 2021, Morray released the singles "Big Decisions" and "Kingdom". I appreciate where I came from and I know that the ghetto can bring both positive and negative memories." He released three more singles in 2020: "Switched Up", "Low Key", and "Dreamland". In an interview with Billboard, he said "I want to be that light in the ghetto, I want be the person that makes you smile and shows you the hood ain't all bad. The single amassed millions of streams, and he was featured as part of Billboard's Emerging Artists Spotlight. Following the single, he received co-signs from fellow North Carolina rappers J. On October 30, Morray and Shalizi re-released "Quicksand" as a single it later charted on the Billboard Hot 100. Morray also featured two more songs with Mo Chedda in 2020, "Snitch On Ya Man's" and "In Da Trap". He became Morray's manager and launched a record label called Pick Six Records. In March 2020, Morray released his first music video " Quicksand", which led to his being discovered by media manager Moe Shalizi. In 2020, he lost his job at a call center and chose to pursue his music career to support his three children. In 2014, he released his first song, which he recorded for his wife's birthday, and started taking music seriously. While raising a child, he worked construction and recorded music on the side. With stints in juvenile detention at age 19, he served jail time in his early 20s. While in Pennsylvania, he met a rap collective called SGS which inspired him to start making music. He moved to Lebanon, Pennsylvania at age 12 and lived there for six years before moving back to North Carolina. Growing up in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Morae Ruffin was raised on R&B and gospel music, singing in his local church by the age of four.
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