24's – English Lyrics

• By: T.I.
• Album: Trap Muzik

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the world of Atlanta trap music with T.I.'s iconic track, '24's.' This song offers a vivid journey into early 2000s Southern hip-hop culture, providing a rich vocabulary of slang related to cars, street life, and success. Understanding the lyrics of '24's' will not only enhance your grasp of colloquial English and hip-hop terminology but also offer a glimpse into the confidence and aspiration that defined T.I.'s breakthrough, making it an engaging and culturally significant piece to learn from.

[English]

Money, hoes, cars and clothes, that's how all my niggas know

Blowin dro, 24, that's how all my niggas roll

Money, hoes, cars and clothes, that's how all my niggas know

Blowin dro, 24, that's how all my niggas roll

In a drop top Chevy with the roof wide open

My partners lookin at me to see if my eyes open

Cause I've been drank, and I've been smoke

Flying down 285 but I'm focused

Its a four fifty four, where it says I raise comotion

White leather seats, as fresh as air forces

Doing bout a hundred but the track still bumping

Number 8 on nwa straight out of compton

Pull up at your apartment sitting on 24s

and the ****ing boys, saying the kids running in

The clicks start dealing and the broads start choosing

and the cars been parked but the rims keep moving

Sign pictures by the hundred, to the youngins in the hood

Cause I ain't hollywood, I come from the hood

I'm use to it, if your rear view shaking and your seats vibrating

24 inch jays got the chevrolet shaking

Money, hoes, cars and clothes, that's how all my niggas know

Blowin dro, 24s, thats how all my mother****ers roll

Money, hoes, cars and clothes, that's how all my niggas know

Blowin dro, 24, that's how all my niggas roll

I'll make a mill and I'm satisfied, I'll get the rest

at the age of seventeen, entertaing the rides, I want the best

I refuse to get a 9 to 5, I'm a flip my keys

been paying my dues since b*****s was babies, trying to get my cheese

diamonds gleam when I'm on the scene, they know its me

aint no dream or no fantasy its T I P

brought busting, like a baby do a blanket

5 karats on my mother****ing pinkie,

half of hennessy and belevedere what we drinking,

pimps send for broads what the hell you mother****ers thinking,

yall mother****ers spend a weekend in the islands in the fall,

24 inch rim mother****ers shining when I'm riding cause I'm ballin

I'm calling out shots like a pool shark

my tools spark, when I fool yall,

yall fools hard in the wrong place

and the wrong time, I got a strong mind to grab my dro nine,

and shoot at your ass for a longtime

but I'm a get that ass, all dog, mother****ing around with the click

get shot like a mother****er with a stick, cause yall lost

cause I'm a ball at all costs, spit game at a dame,

look around at this thang til she falls off

Money, hoes, cars and clothes, that's how all my niggas know

Blowin dro, 24, that's how all my niggas roll

Money, hoes, cars and clothes, that's how all my niggas know

Blowin dro, 24, that's how all my niggas roll

Money, hoes, cars and clothes, that's how all my niggas know

Blowin dro, 24, that's how all my niggas roll

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
money /ˈmʌni/ A1	noun - a current medium of exchange in the form of coins and banknotes
car /kɑːr/ A1	noun - a road vehicle, typically with four wheels, powered by an internal combustion engine
clothes /kloʊz/ A1	noun - items worn to cover the body
roll /roʊl/ A1	verb - move forward on wheels
blowin /ˈbloʊɪn/ A2	verb - exhaling smoke or vapor
open /ˈoʊpən/ A1	adjective - not closed or blocked
focused /ˈfoʊkəst/ B1	adjective - concentrating on something
fresh /frɛʃ/ A2	adjective - newly made or obtained
bump /bʌmp/ A2	verb - to knock against something
park /pɑːrk/ A1	verb - to leave a vehicle in a certain place
shaking /ˈʃeɪkɪŋ/ A2	verb - to move or cause to move rapidly back and forth
vibrating /ˈvaɪbreɪtɪŋ/ B1	verb - to move or cause to move to and fro rapidly
shining /ˈʃaɪnɪŋ/ A2	verb - to emit light
ballin /ˈbɔːlɪn/ B1	verb - living lavishly or extravagantly
spark /spɑːrk/ A2	verb - to emit sparks
shoot /ʃuːt/ A2	verb - to fire a gun
flip /flɪp/ A2	verb - to turn over
gleam /ɡliːm/ B1	verb - to shine brightly
dame /deɪm/ B2	noun - a woman, especially one who is sophisticated or elegant

Key Grammar Structures

• That's how all my niggas know

  ➔ Present Simple with 's' for 3rd person singular

  ➔ The verb 'know' ends with 's' to agree with 'all my niggas' (third person plural, but the verb is singular due to the subject being a group acting as one).

• Cause I've been drank, and I've been smoke

  ➔ Present Perfect with 'have/has + past participle'

  ➔ The use of 'I've been drank' and 'I've been smoke' shows actions that started in the past and have relevance to the present.

• Its a four fifty four, where it says I raise comotion

  ➔ Contraction 'it's' (it is) and present tense

  ➔ The contraction 'it's' is used instead of 'it is', and 'says' is in the present tense to indicate a habitual action.

• Doing bout a hundred but the track still bumping

  ➔ Present Continuous for ongoing action

  ➔ 'Doing bout a hundred' and 'the track still bumping' use the present continuous to describe actions happening now.

• I refuse to get a 9 to 5, I'm a flip my keys

  ➔ Present Simple for habitual refusal and future intention

  ➔ 'I refuse' indicates a habitual stance, while 'I'm a flip my keys' expresses a future intention using a colloquial form.

• Half of hennessy and belevedere what we drinking

  ➔ Present Continuous for current action

  ➔ 'What we drinking' uses the present continuous to describe an action happening at the moment of speaking.

• Yall mother****ers spend a weekend in the islands in the fall

  ➔ Future Simple with 'will' implied

  ➔ The sentence implies a future action without explicitly using 'will', common in informal speech.

• I'm calling out shots like a pool shark

  ➔ Present Continuous for comparison

  ➔ The present continuous is used to compare the speaker's actions to those of a 'pool shark'.