My iphone 5 is only syncing music I have purchased on iTunes.

I have tried many things–resetting my phone, restoring it, checking and unchecking the "Sync Music" tab on iTunes..nothing has worked. For a minute, when I check my phone everything seems fine, but when I go to play my music it skips almost every song until it comes to a song I have bought on iTunes. All the other songs I have on my phone are from CDs or mp3s I have downloaded. Any solutions?? I am so tired of listening to the same 50 something songs over and over again.. I could really use the help as son as possible!!
-A

I forgot to add that my phone displays the music like this:
so I figured it might be icloud, but I tried turning iCloud on and off and nothing seems to change.

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