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Challenge Accepted

from AM Grinding by Focused

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Focused doses out the album with his greatest tale of adversity in the song 'Challenge Accepted' where he tells the story of overcoming a harrowing
near death experience from childhood; hospitalized with a build up of liquid on the back of the skull from a severe mastoid infection.

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Challenge Accepted

Focused
Verse #1

Move on the Grove vibrations displaced
Am I in the right galaxy?
Or the right place?
Running at the speed of sound
Embracing Escape
light weight
float galaxies fragments to space
Mastoid disease ran in my family
great uncles died age 8 and 18
fast foward 7 year old me
almost casualty tragedy
So much pressure on my brain
That I could have been dececied
Ear swelled to double its size
Dodged a bullet lucky to be alive
The music was in sight
As I look the sky to see who survived


Hook #1

Death and Birth
Build and Destruction
Always on the move
Music is motion
Steady flowing stay Focused
Heavy on the Dosage
Not too far from the light
I’m carrying luggage
Had to blow in the sky
my shows interupting


Challenge Accepted

Verse #2

watching Challenger Space Shuttle explode
on Tv in a downtown Toronto Hospital
Family and friends conjuring hope
7 years old Ear Ruptured
about to explode
Pressurizing liquid on the skull
Two weeks wearing medical gowns
Iv needles keeping me from running around
Temperature rising waking up far from home


Tubes in my ear to prevent the disease spreading
After that I had trouble listening hearing
Headaces blockage attention lost
Fell into trouble as I driftd off
School was like a bubble
Shock waves from the space shuttle

Hook #2

Death and Birth
Build and Destruction
Always on the move
Music is motion
Steady flowing stay Focused
Heavy on Dosage
Not too far from the light
I’m carrying luggage
Had to blow in the sky
my shows interupting


Challenge Accepted

Verse #3

Living life cut off from progression of struggle
Without pushes limits man was dust puddles

Fighting for a push passion for the gain
Approximation of wins can't be determin by claims
Must be tested tried driven insane
Loss of investment arrested living in vain
Exploited and annotated hoisted fame
I’ll kill you Mcbain
Bring the pain
Go reckless on Mcbain

cures for the sedatives
worse for the weathers
insinerated astronausts
death dancers of the challengers

Challenge Accepted

credits

from AM Grinding, track released December 4, 2020
Written by: Alexander Malacarne
Focused Vocal recorded and edited by: Dave Vanderploog
Drums and vocals recorded by: Dave Vanderploog at Naturally Digital Studios.
Edited, Mixed and Mastered by: Ashton Price and Alexander Malacarne at Morph studios.
Keyboard and Guitar recorded by: Alexander Malacarne

Drums: Brian Fontez
Bass: Ashton Price
Keyboard/Guitar: Roger Angus

Vocals: Alexander Malacarne

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Focused Toronto, Ontario

Toronto alternative hip-hop artist
Focused ak.a Alex Malacarne releases his 3rd full
length stud o album titled 'AM Grinding'
Embracing his Italian immigrant roots; Focused's
'AM Grinding' is t tled as a double entendre that
pays homage to the legacy of his Great
Grandfather's knife grinding business, AM.
Grinding, and his own unrelenting blue collar work
ethic with his art. ... more

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