Lapit (Filipino, "Closer") is the third studio album by Filipina singer-composer Yeng Constantino. The album was released on October 9, 2009 via Star Records through digital distribution from the record label's website and later in music stores in the Philippines. After a week, it was pulled out of display shelves due to some technical errors in the album and is expected to be released again in the week before the album's grand launch on Nov. 1, 2009. The album contains ten OPM tracks, all composed by Constantino, with the collaboration of Morning Glory.Raimund Marasigan is the producer of this album. Its carrier single is "Lapit", a rock-inspirational song.

Constantino suffered writer's block for almost nine months, delaying the release of this album. In an interview she stated that she felt pressured after the hit singles from her first album, "Hawak Kamay" and "Salamat", and was apprehensive that her third album would not be as successful after reading negative reviews about her second album Journey. These articles criticized her compositions as "just a cycle of tunes" and labeled her as an "overnight sensation". The inspirational advice of Raimund Marasigan, the former drummer of the now defunct band The Eraserheads, who promised to co-produce her third album, restored her spirit and motivation for songwriting and resulted in the ten tracks she wrote for Lapit.

Lapit was released digitally via Star Records' official website on October 9, 2009 then in physical formats in music stores nationwide. A week later the album was pulled due to technical errors in the album track listing and was re-released before its grand album launch on November 1, 2009. Lapit would receive platinum status.

"Lapit" was the lead single from the album, and Constantino's 14th top ten hit. The lyrics of the song had a resemblance with her first single which was "Hawak Kamay", an inspirational rock vibe. As of July 2013^[update] the music video of the song scored 2.87 million views on YouTube and became her second most viewed video, after "Jeepney Love Story", until August 2013 when it was surpassed by her single "Chinito". "Lapit" was used on the soundtrack for the ABS-CBN TV series Kung Tayo'y Magkakalayo and Minsan Lang Kita Iibigin. The song reached the top of I FM Chart in the last week of 2009. In 2010 it won the Awit Awards "Texters' Choice Song of the Year".

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