The 27 Club Lyrics

[Hook]

[XV - Verse 3]
The meme generation where everybody is famous
Blue check next to ya name or remain nameless
When friends get jaded cause all you do is get faded
Play Gears of War and hit Vegas with all my niggas who made it
Maximum drive but only minimum wages
You close ya eyes as soon as you get on stages
Got homies who died at 27, not in those pages
Thats when I realized life is what you make it

Kids want my career and I tell ‘em “love it or hate it”
Put fame on a scale and you’ll be glad that you weighed it
When miracles get credited to elitists and sadists
Hit 27 just praying, you here, happy belated
Middle fingers whenever you take pictures
When life gives you lemons, use it to chase liquor
Consumption’s our destruction if you figure
Theres a whole generation full of wild little niggas sayin’


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Another one of XV’s free releases. He goes hard in every single one. This song is about XV recently turning 27.

This song is about turning 27 indeed in the context of infamous Club 27 — an informal “club” of showbusiness personalities who died, often in suspicious circumstances at the age of 27. Among most prominent members of the club are such artists as Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, JM Basquiat, Kurt Cobain and most recently Amy Winehouse.

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December 15, 2011
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