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The Grind
Hip-Hop/Rap
The Grind was released on April 21, 2026 by Forged Records as a part of the album Old Skool
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AlbumOld Skool
Release DateApril 21, 2026
LabelForged Records
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM96

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Credits

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

Lyrics

Nobody's watching when the alarm goes off
Nobody's counting when you push through the cost
Nobody's clapping in the 5am dark
Nobody needs to be - that's not why you start
The grind doesn't care about your feelings or your state
Doesn't care if you're motivated - doesn't care if you're great
Today - it only asks the same thing every single time
Are you showing up or not - that's the bottom line
I been here before the cameras and the credit
Before the outcome made it easy to remember it
In the version nobody documents or shares
Just the work and the silence and the person who cares
The grind don't stop
The grind don't wait
The grind don't care - just show up - that's the mandate
It's not one big moment - it's a thousand small ones
The ones that don't make stories - don't make anyone's highlights
The Tuesday that you showed up when you had every reason not to
The standard that you held when holding it was harder than it ought to
Be - for someone in the middle of a season with no end
No visible progress - no sign around the bend
Just the faith that what you're building underneath the surface
Is accumulating quietly and serving its purpose
I don't need the validation at the end of it
I need the discipline of someone who committed
To the process before the outcome had a face
To the work before the work had found its place
The grind don't stop
The grind don't wait
The grind don't care - just show up - that's the mandate
It costs you comfort - costs you the easy version
Costs you the nights when everyone else is dispersing
Into something that resembles rest and recreation
While you're still at it - locked into the station
It costs you explanation - nobody really gets it
The ones who haven't done it haven't felt it
The isolation of a standard that the room doesn't share
The silence of a sacrifice that nobody else is there
To witness - but you do it anyway - because you know
That the cost of not doing it is higher than the cost of the show
Of discipline and daily reps and choosing the hard thing
Every single day regardless of what tomorrow might bring
The grind don't stop
The grind don't wait
The grind don't care - just show up - that's the mandate
And here's the part they never put in the story
The payoff isn't recognition - isn't glory
The payoff is the person standing at the end of it
The one who knows exactly what they're made of - every bit
Tested - proven - built from the inside out
Not assembled for an audience - no performance and no doubt
Just the solid certain knowledge of someone who showed up
Every single day until the showing up filled the cup
Of everything they were becoming without knowing it
The grind was never just the work - it was the growing of it
Into someone that the easy road could never have produced
The grind is not the means to the end - the grind is the juice
The grind don't stop
The grind don't wait
The grind don't care - just show up - that's the mandate
The grind don't stop
The grind don't wait
The grind don't care - just show up - that's the mandate
Every single day
Written by: James Ellis

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