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Apex
Hip-Hop/Rap
Apex è stato pubblicato il 9 marzo 2026 da Forged Records come parte dell'album Fireproof
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Data di uscita9 marzo 2026
EtichettaForged Records
LinguaEnglish
Melodicità
Acousticità
Valence
Ballabilità
Energia
BPM100

Crediti

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

Testi

APEX
Started at the bottom with a broken frame
Two surgeries deep, they said I'd never be the same
But I took every doubt and I used it as the flame
Now I'm standing at the top and they can't mispronounce my name
I didn't crawl back just to settle for the middle
I didn't rebuild this frame to solve somebody else's riddle
Every plate I ever pressed was a promise to myself
That the man who hit the bottom wouldn't stay upon that shelf
Year one they called it foolish — year two they called it brave
Year three they stopped talking 'cause the results spoke in my place
Now I don't need an audience, I just need the weight
And a mirror to remind me what I built from my mistakes
They said it's over, close the book
They said the comeback's not a real look
But I kept climbing through the dark
Now look up — I'm the apex, not the spark
Apex — top of the mountain
Apex — no more doubtin'
Apex — I built this throne
Blood, sweat, and iron — I did this on my own
You see the summit but you didn't see the avalanche
The nights I couldn't sleep because my neck was in a brace again
The mornings where the mirror showed a stranger looking back at him
And I still got up and trained because I knew what I was crafting then
This ain't genetics, this is archaeology
I dug myself out of my own wreckage methodically
Every rep a resurrection, every set apostrophe
To a sentence that the doctors left unfinished — watch me author it
I didn't want the easy route — I wanted the impossible
I didn't want the participation trophy, I want the chronicle
Written in the gym with chalk and blood — that's how it's documented
Every scar a chapter heading and I haven't found the period
They said it's over, close the book
They said the comeback's not a real look
But I kept climbing through the dark
Now look up — I'm the apex, not the spark
Apex — top of the mountain
Apex — no more doubtin'
Apex — I built this throne
Blood, sweat, and iron — I did this on my own
You know what the peak looks like from the bottom?
It looks impossible
It looks like something that happens to other people
But I stopped looking up at the mountain
And started looking down at my feet
One step, one rep, one day, one decision at a time
Until the summit wasn't above me anymore
It was beneath me
I'm not the underdog anymore — I'm the standard
The blueprint for the broken who refused to be abandoned
I took the L, I took the loss, I took the damage
And I turned it into leverage that they couldn't understand yet
Twenty years away but I came back with more
More muscle, more purpose, more reasons to go to war
The stage ain't ready for this resurrection encore
'Cause what I'm bringing ain't a comeback — it's a reckoning they asked for
So plant the flag, sound the horn, let 'em know I'm here
Every rep was a prayer, every set was a spear
Thrown at every doubt that tried to keep me in fear
I'm at the apex — and I ain't coming down this year
They said it's over, close the book
They said the comeback's not a real look
But I kept climbing through the dark
Now look up — I'm the apex, not the spark
Apex — top of the mountain
Apex — no more doubtin'
Apex — I built this throne
Blood, sweat, and iron — I did this on my own
They said close the book
I wrote a whole new chapter
Apex
Written by: James R Ellis
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