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Apex

Hip-Hop/Rap

Apex was released on March 9, 2026 by Forged Records as a part of the album Fireproof

Song Details

Release DateMarch 9, 2026

LabelForged Records

LanguageEnglish

Melodicness

Acousticness

Valence

Danceability

Energy

BPM100

OVERVIEW

LYRICS

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

FP

Vocals

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

James R Ellis

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

FP

Producer

Lyrics

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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