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Built Different
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Hip-Hop/Rap
Built Different dirilis pada 9 Maret 2026 oleh Forged Records sebagai bagian dari album Fireproof
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Tanggal Rilis9 Maret 2026
LabelForged Records
BahasaEnglish
Melodiksi
Level Akustik
Valence
Kemampuan untuk menari
Energi
BPM93

Dari

PERFORMING ARTISTS
FP
FP
Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
James R Ellis
James R Ellis
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
FP
FP
Producer

Lirik

BUILT DIFFERENT
I walk in the room and the temperature shifts
Something in the air, something heavy in my wrists
I don't talk about it — body speaks in dialects
That your comfort zone could never learn to detect
I was carved from a cloth they don't manufacture
Built from a blueprint they lost after the last one
You can try to duplicate but you'll malfunction
I'm a prototype — there ain't no mass production
Five AM, lights on, nobody watching
Six AM, still there, nobody clocking
Seven AM, drenched, while you're still yawning
I already won the day before your day started dawning
They can't figure out the formula
Can't decode the DNA
Look all you want
You ain't built this way
Built different — can't you tell?
Built different — forged in hell
Built different — head to toe
I'm cut from something that you'll never know
See the difference between me and you is architectural
Your foundation's theoretical, mine's structural and perpetual
You built on motivation — that's seasonal, ineffectual
I built on discipline — that's surgical and methodical
I don't chase results, results chase me — reciprocal
Every sacrifice I made was intentional, not accidental
You skipped the hard part, took the shortcut, grabbed the pedestal
I became the pedestal — the standard and the spectacle
I don't compete with you — that ain't disrespect
It's just math — you can't equal what you haven't earned yet
I paid in decades, paid in iron, paid in sweat
And I'm still paying — that's the difference, don't forget
They can't figure out the formula
Can't decode the DNA
Look all you want
You ain't built this way
Built different — can't you tell?
Built different — forged in hell
Built different — head to toe
I'm cut from something that you'll never know
You want to know the secret?
There is no secret
It's just me, in that room, every single day
When nobody's filming, when nobody's clapping
When the only audience is the iron
And the iron don't lie
The iron don't lie
I'm not gifted, I'm committed — there's a difference, learn it
Every pound on that bar was deliberately earned, kid
Talent's rented, discipline is permanently furnished
I don't burn out — I'm the fire, I'm the furnace
You see the physique and assume it's genetics
Nah — it's pathetic how you'd rather be skeptic than recognize the ethic
I'm not aesthetic for the 'gram, I'm authentic to the standard
I'm the answer to the question that your mirror never answered
So go ahead and stare — I'll wait, take a picture
Study the frame, memorize the scripture
'Cause you're looking at the product of a thousand lonely hours
A million reps in silence — that's the source of all this power
They can't figure out the formula
Can't decode the DNA
Look all you want
You ain't built this way
Built different — can't you tell?
Built different — forged in hell
Built different — head to toe
I'm cut from something that you'll never know
Built different
And I got the receipts to prove it
Written by: James R Ellis
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