From Nothing To A Name

[Intro]
Started out empty
Quiet room, loud doubt
Hand-me-down hoodie
Whole life blacked out
[Verse 1]
Cracks in the ceiling
Cold floor, thin walls
Mama said “keep going”
When the bills came, calls
Shoes had holes
But the hunger had teeth
Writing names in the fog
Just to see me believe
I was my own rumor
Nothing but a flicker in the dark
Only thing that I owned
Was this beat in my heart
Every setback, stone in the backpack
Weight on my spine, learned to bend, never snap back
Talking to the mirror like
“Who you ‘bout to be?”
Answer came quiet
“Everything they can’t see”
[Chorus]
From nothing to a name
From ashes to a flame (yeah)
They’ll say it overnight
But I bled for every day
I carved it in the pain
I wrote it in the rain
I started as a shadow
Now I’m walking in the frame
From nothing to a legend
Nothing to a legend
They’ll study all the glory
I remember every second
From nothing to a name
From ashes to a flame
I started as a whisper
Now they gotta say my name
[Verse 2]
Friends turned weather
Gone when the storm came
I was in the staircase
Praying for a door change
Pocket full of “later”
Heart full of right now
Fear in the throat
But I still learned to bite down
Every “no” was a note in the anthem
Every loss, blueprint for the mansion
Dreams on layaway
Pride on the pavement
Turned my rock bottom
To a rooftop statement (hey!)
Told my future, “hold on
I’m crawling up slow”
Stitches on my story
But it still gotta glow
They see the highlight reel
I see the hallway sleeps
They hear the chorus
I remember learning how to breathe
[Chorus]
From nothing to a name
From ashes to a flame
They’ll say it overnight
But I bled for every day
I carved it in the pain
I wrote it in the rain
I started as a shadow
Now I’m walking in the frame
From nothing to a legend
Nothing to a legend
They’ll study all the glory
I remember every second
From nothing to a name
From ashes to a flame
I started as a whisper
Now they gotta say my name
[Bridge]
Tell the kids with the broke hearts
“Every crack is a map, that’s your road chart”
Every tear, every scar, every bad year
That’s the price for the crown they’ll call “magic” later (oh yeah)
When they doubt you
Let the doubt be fuel
They don’t see the roots
They just praise the bloom
I was once like you
Hands cold, hope thin
Then I bet on the voice
Buried deep within
[Chorus]
From nothing to a name
From ashes to a flame
They’ll say it overnight
But I bled for every day
I carved it in the pain
I wrote it in the rain
I started as a shadow
Now I’m walking in the frame
From nothing to a legend
Nothing to a legend
They’ll study all the glory
I remember every second
From nothing to a name
From ashes to a flame
I started as a whisper
Now they gotta say my name

rap, Dark cinematic hip-hop with sparse, echoing piano over brooding drums and deep sub-bass; verses are tight, double-time capable rap with crisp male vocals, roomy reverb, and occasional stacked ad-libs; hook swells with choir-like harmonies, widened stereo piano chords, and a lifting string pad for an epic, haunting rise from grit to legend., hip hop, inspiring