XXIV

[Verse 1]:

Know who you are
Reach for a star
Find a trajectory
Close, no cigar

Always a has been
They tell me these bars
In them, I kill my partners too much
While that maybe is passing

So is my people on touch
Up close and personal
Don't stand between
Me and my progress

Lost a few friends
Lost a few colleagues
Not having no family
No, but my mama shout out

To her for giving me drama
Enough to fill up a bible study
Worth of troubling discoveries
Buddy... you don’t know what comes after

Twenty four times
I've wanted to finish myself
Twenty four years
It took me to really hear myself

Twenty four times
I did want to start
My twenty four rhymes
It took me to finish it

Rhymed twenty four bars
Like two times twelve
That's why I’m killing shit
That's what connecting those dots

Means

Whole world is my texture
And I will be building my blocks
I've been waiting too long
Maybe I'm next now

Texture

Sitting all benched
Filling those GAPs
Got outta dug out
To dig myself out

Hit my balls running
Right outta the park
Nothing self-harms me
Nothing to stop

Nothing to kill for

Got
People I live for
And they say
I've been thinking too much
You're not thinking enough

[Verse 2]:
24 cycles
Twenty four times
I've been high up
24 downers

To kill all my hope
Prescription be filled
Rip it to shreds
Switch it with dope

3 6 5 days making a record
24/7 and not wasting a second

Twenty four joints like a Spike Lee
Production
Can't say I had my
Motivation reduction

They’ve said I’m lazy
They've said I’m stupid
They've said I'm angry
Then how am I doing this

See me in love
See me imbue it
Our brain is too powerful
Now I will use it

The collective can wait
For the hive mind's not set
And I will be filling this gap, too
Because she said that her

Dreams were just plans

And I’m not planning to die, yet
Even in dreams, I'll be walking alive now, bet
I got home safe, home base
Killed God dead, Xander showed his face

Started to know who I was
Twenty four years
So many tears
Nights inside like a jail cell

Now pay my bail
Walk my walk
Fill your insides up with chalk
And talk my talk

Like

"Man in the mirror"
Mirror, I'm here
Twenty four reflections
Redirecting me forward

And getting more near
Uh

Twelve
Plus
Twelve

One
Plus
Two

One
Plus
One

Twenty four
Textures

Text
Yours
And mention them

You might just save a life

Accepting these cards that I've been dealt
More than anything that you ever felt