Raw. Honest. Unapologetic.Hip-hop from Waterford, Ireland.
The most important song of the year.
Out now · released 9 October 2026Released on the eve of World Mental Health Day. A personal record about resilience, vulnerability and the weight we all carry, and about pushing forward anyway. Flexx wrote it through the most turbulent stretch of his life, then brought in two artists he admired to finish it.
"I'm stronger now than I was before all of that."Flexx Carter, speaking to Hot Press
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Cork poet and writer Daragh Fleming sets the scene with a reflective spoken-word passage, giving the song its literary weight before the beat arrives.
If this song finds you in a hard place, you don't have to carry it alone.
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From the first announcement to VIP and the Echo, here is how HOPE travelled.
The release story runs on four stations' sites at once: Flexx teaming up with Daragh Fleming and Patrick Dowling, timed to World Mental Health Day.
Read the storyHot Press features HOPE on release day, describing how the three artists each bring their own strength: spoken word, rap and a sung hook.
Read Hot PressHOPE lands as conversations about mental health fill Irish airwaves and feeds, carrying its message of keeping going to a new audience.
Flexx and Patrick sit down together on SPIN South West to talk about making HOPE. The interview is up as an episode of the SPIN Now podcast.
Listen to the interviewVIP's Bronwyn O'Neill talks to Flexx and Patrick about how HOPE came together, their influences, and Patrick's road from busking in Cobh to Nashville.
Read the interviewCork DJ and columnist Stevie G includes Flexx among the new Irish rappers to know, singling out HOPE as "the powerful Hope".
Read the EchoWith "Get Down" featuring Joyce Zacks, which also hit No.4 on the overall Irish chart.
Whelan's in Dublin, then the hometown EP launch at The Vic, Tramore.
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Showcased at sold-out shows in Whelan's, Dublin and The Vic, Tramore. Home to the singles "No Discussion", "WORK" and "My Pace", the track Hot Press compared to Eminem's glory days.
Flexx Carter is a genre-bending Irish hip-hop artist whose music blends sharp lyricism with a fearless creative vision. Raised in Waterford, he approaches hip-hop through a perspective shaped by Biggie and 2Pac as much as Tyler, The Creator and Mac Miller. He refuses to be boxed in, pulling textures from multiple genres and pushing boundaries few others will touch.
I'm not too cool for anything. If you're too cool, you'll freeze to death.Flexx Carter
On stage he takes his cue from rock frontmen like Jim Morrison, Axl Rose, Kurt Cobain and Steven Tyler. 2025 was his breakout year, with airplay on RTÉ 2FM, Today FM, Newstalk, FM104, SPIN 1038, SPIN South West, Beat 102 103, Red FM, Galway Bay FM, Tipp FM and WLR, and features on Hot Press's New Irish Songs, RTÉ's Behind the Music and Today FM's All Irish.
His debut project, The Freedom Tapes, showed off an intricate writing style built on raw honesty: struggle, resilience, happiness, love and growth, told in a way that offers hope and motivation. In 2026 he took Get Down to No.1 on Apple Music's Irish hip-hop chart and released HOPE, his most personal record yet.
NEXTUP.ie presents a night of independent Irish hip-hop. Flexx Carter joins rap duo Clueless as a special guest.
"This guy knows how to put on a show."
Alan Robinson, McGig Music
The first official Flexx Carter drop is in the works.
"The powerful Hope."
"Very reminiscent of Eminem's glory days."
"The rhyme schemes on My Pace are just ridiculous in their intricacy."
"One of Ireland's fresh new voices in rap."
"Flexx isn't just a performer. He's a full-on entertainer."
