My 24th Birthday - Dave

I spent my twenty-fourth birthday with the people I love

For the diamonds, gotta see through the dust

God, I know I ain't easy to love

I just wish that Abdullah could've seen what we done

I retired my mum, moved out with my friends

That's where the problems start, that it ain't where it ends

How many single mums sacrifice it all for their kids?

Stop workin', feel they haven't got a reason to live

I believe that God fed the five thousand with the bread and the fish

Cah I seen mummy do some similar things

It can help you or harm you, depends on how you usin' the rope

How are we in the wrong for supplyin' drugs?

The government's the reason that we use 'em to cope

I made friends with a flame, and I'm used to the smoke, yeah

When we never had a thing, we still split in half

It's the people with the least that got the biggest hearts

One of a kind, true love, it ain't just somethin' you find

A good girl ain't just somethin' you find

I get along with gold diggers, and that's somethin' I fight

But it's probably cah now I got more money than time

My friends say they worry 'bout me, I just tell 'em, "I'm fine"

I took a look in the mirror, and now I wish I was blind

Is she the love of my life, or in love with the life?

Backstabber, see the blood on your knife

My mum covered me in blood, but it was comin' from Christ

Disaronno on the rocks, I pour a double with ice

I take trips to wind down, I ain't readin' at night

The only time I touch books when I'm seekin' a flight

Can you hear me? Let me speak in the mic

God, I know I ain't easy to like, but still I'm seekin' the light

I spent a quarter million on renovatin' my house

And couldn't even live in it 'cause they was stakin' it out

Tracker in my car, felt like double-oh-seven

Whipped the Aston out of park, I knew his energy was dark

Livin' out the Corinthia, didn't even have a yard

But that's where I met my teacher, and I learned to play guitar

Guess it's written in the stars, life comes at you fast

Squeeze the Urus in a convoy of cars

We got it on us, you ain't even gotta ask

Don't trouble us, fame comes quicker than money does

Salmon pink suit, I'm like De Niro in Casino

Life gave me lemons, I gave you a branzino, and I seasoned it

Me and Drake, we're in a private room reasonin'

And he's always been there when I needed him

Listen, I'm the reason why your dream girls all wiggle their arses

Drink wine, but don't finish their glasses, snap pics in Bahamas

Sniper, do it in silence, I ain't in all the drama

In this town, I got the crown, but I ain't been in the plaza

Fuckin' crasiss, team's on conspiracy charges

Gardens laid out in astro', I ain't dealin' with grasses

Fuck a snitch, got my guys remanded

Life of an artist, pretty women, triple-A passes

Slim thick, skin slick, I mean, it's comin' like it's oil she bath in

See the harvest, see the seeds I planted

There's a drought in the ends, I'm in Cali' with a ting

I'll end up postin' a pack like I was snappin' in the gym

Jam my records, you can bang it on the wing

I lost friends, but it's my innocence I miss, I guess ignorance is bliss

I ain't braggin', only rap about a fraction of my sins

My young G's don't count a stabbin' if it happened in his limbs

The world is my fuckin' office, book her a trip to the tropics

I'm feelin' philanthropic, nigga, that's a different topic

The GMT and EST, they're gonna think I'm foreign

Different timezones, and that's the way I gotta pick my watches

Streatham Vale, but you could say I live in Gotham

Way I take the Birkin and I Killer Croc it, you could see the little locket

Bro, it ain't no wonder why she finna top it

Look, I ain't a striker, I'm a CAM becah it's in the pockets

Tell 'em to miss me, never signed a deal

You niggas hatin' on history, and I took the ends with me

That eight-figure check wasn't enough to convince me

But that's the only time I turned my back on a sixteen

Life is a game, you can't play it in split-screen

Mm-mm

God hasn't given me a test I couldn't handle yet

I don't even bother tryna match it when the scammers flex

Give her somethin' money can't buy, and that's the challenge next

Ambidex', problems comin' at me from the right and left

Love is dead, enough gyal are doin' the most

If you're talkin' engagement, it's probably to do with a post

I'm at that age where everybody's gettin' married or havin' kids

Feel like it happened quick

Commitments, hella pressure, there's enough of that as it is

Can't make the same mistakes that my daddy did cah I know what the damage did

How you raise a life, and you haven't lived? But what's livin'?

Is it clubbin' and bangin' chicks or plannin' trips

Or some sort of pleasure I haven't managed to factor in?

I guess I'll let you know when the stats are in

Your friends get busy, the cracks start showin'

And that's when the distance in between us start growin'

We all want it, I just wanted it more

I think this money's exposin' my flaws, the clean-hearted find it harder for sure

See, most people that are wealthy, they ain't good in their core

You either rich off of talent or exploitin' the poor

I'm twenty-four and an adult in the eyes of the law

But still a baby in the eyes of the Lord

You see, the Bible's my sword, and the word is my shield

Stormz' prayed for me, I cried, it sharpened my steel, but that's my brother for real

Me and mummy saw the world, man, she couldn't believe it

And to this day, that's my biggest achievement

Did twenty-seven countries in under nine months

So when the Most High says my time's up, just tell Him that I tried

And I ain't never switched sides

I did it for you and I, 16 till I die, it's