2024 Freestyle

[Verse 1]

Yeah

Conversations in the mirror had to tell myself congratulations

Upon reflection

Even though you stopped selling class A and never got to graduation

You became world class

Good thing you studied the greats

In that great school of hard knocks

Where every day's a new exam so you examinated yourself

Put yourself to the test and detested the old you

That was overdue due diligence

Yeah, grew up around division but now we do dividends

More money, more problems gotta laugh Mo Gilligan

Been broke as a joke, I just made a killing I'm innocent

[Verse 2]

My guilty pleasure is pain

I worked out that's the only way to get gains

I could've move a muscle all my issues outweighed the solutions

I got a grip and I pushed through it, I rep for the set

From you set targets you're a target in the ends

Started going blind, all I'd ever hear about was death

Chose to rehearse when I saw that casket in a Benz

Yeah, I bent the rules and now I'm on the straight and narrow

Please don't ever rule me out again

I wear my heart on my sleeve I'm just tryna start a trend

I wish that man would follow suit

But they think I'm overdressed

Stress just made me stronger

I remember leaving the label and labelling myself as a flop

I'm my own worst critic but I was critically wrong

Yeah, God save the streets, really saved me

Saviour complex had me sacrificing it all

Lion of the tribe of Judah 'cause I'm prideful

Kept the faith even when they prayed on my downfall

I saw this second coming coming and I put that on the Bible

[Interlude]

Yeah

There really weren't no church in the wild

So, I chose to do this shit religiously

And last year we dropped the album of the year

And it was a decade in the making, but I just hope it lasts a lifetime

[Verse 3]

Yeah

Have you ever seen your life on the life, hanging by a thread?

We were puppets in real life

How can I get up on my brudda when that's one of mine?

(My brudda)

Yeah, I got sick and tired of being ill-advised

Flew straight now I'm migrating for the winter time

Bro was on the wing for flying birds now he can't even fly

Shit, his license conditions are killing his drive

I'm tryna steer him in the right direction he drifts at times

He said, "Av, I just need a break I'm broken inside."

God gave you a break from the moment you opened your eyes

For heaven's sake

How the hell are you not pumped when I just checked your pulse and it's fine?

I've been on job putting work in over time

Yeah

[Verse 4]

Over time I've realised

When you look at everything through real eyes

You notice all the real lies

Lies like my dreams won't materialise, um

2024, I'm on 2020 and more

The vision's clear, and it's even clearer than before

Last time I said this me and my collective went and collected awards

Yeah, oh, shit, another nomination

Saying that sky is the limit is a limitation

Love seeing my name amongst a group of stars, constellation

Yeah, and if it's any consolation

Me, myself and I's a trinity that got lost in the matrix

But I flipped the script from the minute I started narrating

They were tryna end me for their entertainment

Yeah